A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
生活
Life
从日常选择、人与人的相处,到面对变化时的态度,这些句子记录了不同的人对生活的理解。读英文原句,再对照中文,留意那些与你的经历相呼应的表达。
It's not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be.
重要的不是我们做什么,而是我们选择成为什么样的人。
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
只有当一个人的生命在繁荣中结束时,我们才敢说他幸福。
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
你永远不知道什么时候,一个瞬间和几句真诚的话语就能影响一个人的一生。
The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
我想要的生活是成为一个每天都会收到私人信件的人。
Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on
生活中总会发生一些你无法控制的事情。这很糟糕,你必须向前看
Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice.
当我们足够专心去注意的时候,生活的每一点都伴随着指示而来。
Own kin are the worst friends,"said the fox, when he saw the foxy dogs after him.”
“亲族是最坏的朋友,”狐狸说,当他看到狐狸后面的狗。
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
一个人靠相信某件事来生活,而不是靠对许多事情争论不休。
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
生活很少像逻辑上应该的那样难以忍受。
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
我有一种似曾相识的信念,那就是随着夏天的到来,生活又开始了。
Funny how when life was that simple, you never really realized how lucky you were.
有趣的是,当生活如此简单的时候,你从来没有意识到你是多么的幸运。
A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.
一个读过书的人活了一千辈子。不读书的人,只活一个人。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
如果个人要在当代秩序中感到幸福,他必须对新的价值观和新的安排持开放的态度。
If you want to raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving.
如果你想提高你的生活水平,提高你的付出水平。
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
生活的艺术不在于保持和执着于某种特定的幸福模式,而在于允许幸福改变其形式,而不因这种改变而失望;幸福,就像一个孩子,必须被允许长大。
The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
现在的时间比其他时间都有一个优势——那就是我们自己的时间。
Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
也许有一天,当时机成熟的时候,改变就会发生,而不是等到为时已晚的时候。总有一天,改变会被接受为生活本身。
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
宇宙在转变;我们的生活是我们的思想创造的。