A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
命运
Fate
You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.
你不能活在过去,对此你无能为力。
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
每个人,无论早晚,都要坐下来吃一顿有后果的大餐。
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
迟早每个人都会坐下来吃一顿后果严重的大餐。
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
对人来说,没有什么比财富的束缚更大的罪恶了。
I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.
我离开了很长时间,但我将离开很长时间。
What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.
该发生的总会发生,我不会浪费时间担心。
Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.
事物之所以成为现在的样子,是因为它们曾经是现在的样子。
We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.
我们抱最好的希望,做最坏的打算。
I went to sleep, thinking about you and I woke up just the same.
我睡着了,想着你,醒来时还是一样。
And I wish on a star that somewhere you are, thinking of me too.
我对着星星许愿,希望你在某个地方,也想着我。
I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
我倾向于相信这是上帝给该隐的土地。
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
我满怀感激地盼望着被遗忘,但我必须确信这一点。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
行动是命运的种子,行动孕育命运。
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。
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
凡是发生的事都是应该发生的,如果你仔细观察,你会发现事情是这样的。
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。
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
如果一个人不知道他是受必然性支配的,他就不能自由,因为他的自由总是在他从不完全成功地把自己从必然性中解放出来的努力中获得的。
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
未来有两种,一种是欲望的未来,另一种是命运的未来,而人类的理性从来没有学会把它们分开。