A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
劳动
Work
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
正确的事情和困难的事情通常是一样的。
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
自然不是寺庙,而是作坊,人是其中的工人。
I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.
我认为我是一个非常真实的人,这在我的工作中得到了体现。
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
人们只考虑他们的需要,从不考虑他们的能力。
I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.
我不相信有一份棒球工作是我不能胜任的。
When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?
当你在职业生涯中赢得了一切,还剩下什么?为什么去?
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
这不是真正的工作,除非你想做别的事情。
All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee.
所有的设备都是开箱即用的,无需任何订阅费。
You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.
你知道,和别人一起工作很难。
I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.
我很感激能做我想做的免费的事情来维持我的生活。
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
公共教师的职位是不值得羡慕和感激的。
My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
我的感觉是,除了努力工作,我什么都没做。
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
如果一个社会因为铅管是一项卑贱的活动而蔑视铅管的卓越,又因为哲学是一项崇高的活动而容忍哲学的粗鄙,那么这个社会既不会有好的铅管,也不会有好的哲学。它的管道和理论都站不住脚。
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
毫无疑问,生活所能提供的最好的奖赏就是为值得做的事情而努力工作的机会。
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
最好的雄辩是把事情做好。
It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.
分开很容易;婚姻需要工作。
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
劳动的报酬是生命。这还不够吗?
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
当爱是经线,工作是纬线时,织出的是一件多么鲜艳、坚固、温暖的外套啊!