A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
知识
Knowledge
知识从好奇开始,在阅读、思考和实践中积累。这里的语句围绕求知与理解展开,适合结合英文关键词和中文译文一起阅读。
We do not write as we want, but as we can.
我们不是想写什么就写什么,而是能写什么就写什么。
A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.
博览群书的女人是危险的动物。
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
阅读需要独处,需要专注。
No definite science without trial & error.
没有不经过反复试验的明确科学。
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
学习本身就是极大的奖赏。
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.
写作开阔了心灵的视野。
Art was made to disturb, science reassures.
艺术是用来扰乱的,科学让我们放心。
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
最聪明的头脑也有东西要学。
A learned man has always riches in himself.
有学问的人总是富有的。
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
什么都不懂需要很长时间。
She consumed books like a whale eats krill.
她读书就像鲸鱼吃磷虾一样。
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
思想是风,知识是帆。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
阅读、思考和交谈有不同的规则。写作融合了这三者。
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
阅读。一直阅读。读书要有原则,要有自尊。阅读是生活的营养主食。
One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
一个人不应该在必要的范围之外增加解释任何事情所需要的实体的数量。
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
一个人应该把他的大脑小阁楼装满所有他可能用到的家具,其余的可以放在他图书馆的木材间里,如果他想要的话可以在那里找到。
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
文学能够也应该做的是改变那些教那些不读书的人的人。
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
我们的知识只能是有限的,而我们的无知必然是无限的。