A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悲伤
Grief
Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; Nothing to shake the laughing heart’s long peace there But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
除了这具躯壳,没有别的破碎,只有呼吸;没有什么能动摇那颗笑着的心的长久的平静,只有痛苦,而痛苦已经结束了;最坏的朋友和敌人不过是死亡。
I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.
我情绪低落,想要退出。我吃了一堆安眠药。至少他们会让我睡着,也许我不会醒来,这很好。
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
悲伤不存在于事物之中;它不是从世界而来,也不是仅仅通过对世界的沉思而达到我们的。它是我们自己思想的产物。我们用整块布做的。
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
不要自己估量你的损失;如果你这样做了,就会显得不可容忍;但是,如果你把所有人的事情都考虑进去,你就会发现从中会得到一些安慰。
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
我喜欢的生活。我有时疯狂、绝望、痛苦、悲伤,但经历了这一切,我仍然十分肯定地知道,活着是一件伟大的事情。
The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.
过去四年没有冲淡我们公民的记忆,也没有削弱他们的决心。四年后的今天,我们的心仍然为那些在那天失去亲人的家庭感到心痛。
And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.
就在那时,我想我们都意识到这是一件非常悲惨的事情,可能是一次恐怖袭击,下一步就是去我们的指挥中心,把事情做好。
One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.
我们有三分之一的人病得很重,每小时都在恶化,我们肯定也会遇到同样的命运,只有死亡是我们唯一的希望,而在这样一个国家,情况更糟。
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.
作为一个孩子,我经历了很多失去和悲伤。我不断地失去我的父母,失去我的家,不断地搬来搬去,和这个陌生人,那个继父住在一起,或者别的什么。
If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.
如果某些歌曲变得足够流行,以至于我的余生都要演奏它们,我不想让它们都停留在我不得不不断重温的那一刻。
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
阿富汗人民希望和平,包括塔利班。他们也是和我们一样的人。他们有家庭,有亲戚,有孩子,他们正在经历一段艰难的时期。
So have I heard the cuckoo’s parting cry, From the wet field, through the vext garden trees, Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze: ‘The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.’
我也曾听见杜鹃的离别的啼声,从潮湿的田野里,穿过田野的林间,带着倾盆的雨和翻腾的微风,飞来了:“花儿已经谢了,我也跟着花儿走了。”
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We must walk the path of sadness in order to appreciate truly the path of happiness.
我们必须走悲伤的道路,才能真正欣赏幸福的道路。
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
失去朋友就像失去了一条腿;时间可以治愈伤口的痛苦,但失去的却无法弥补。
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
希望的突然破灭会留下一道伤疤,而这道伤疤永远无法被希望的最终实现彻底抹去。
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
当你受苦的时候,你会对自己有更多的了解,也会对别人的痛苦有更多的了解。了解一个人的第一步就是了解他们的痛苦。于是爱随之而来。
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
父母的快乐是秘密,他们的悲伤和恐惧也是秘密。