A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
命运
Fate
But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.
但我不认为我注定要成为一个大明星。
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
爱只是降临在你身上的，是命运为你编织的。
Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
命运决定许多事情，无论我们如何奋斗。
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
上帝把最大的砝码挂在最小的电线上。
A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
一种稳定、不变的状态，确实令人哭泣。
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
决定你命运的是选择，而不是机会。
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
凡地都是一样，凡地都适于埋葬。
And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
所以沙子建造的城堡最终落入大海。
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
作为凡人，我们受条件的支配，而不是我们自己。
Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
每个人都应该是自己命运的创造者。
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
诸神想要毁灭的人，他们首先称其为有希望之人。
No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
除了你自己，没有人的命运与你有任何关系。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
命运选择我们的亲戚，我们选择我们的朋友。
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
一切都将会改变。唯一的问题是成长还是衰退。
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
大自然在起作用。性格和命运是她的杰作。她给予我们爱与恨、嫉妒与崇敬。我们所拥有的一切就是选择我们将追随哪一种冲动的力量。
There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.
有一种无法逃避的依恋。如果你出生在某个地方，而环境并没有把你带离它，那么你就会在其中成长并停留。
No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
据说，没有一棵树能长到天堂，除非它的根能深入地狱。
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
除了我们自己，没有人能拯救我们。没有人可以，也没有人可以。我们自己必须走这条路。