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。
When it comes to books, I am a sensuous woman.
说到书,我是个感性的女人。
You're never alone when you're reading a book.
当你读书的时候,你从不孤单。
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
文学是陈词滥调的编曲。
You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
你知道很多,但你并不知道所有的事情。
Without literature my life would be miserable.
没有文学,我的生活将是悲惨的。
Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
书籍对我来说是具有挑战性和启发性的。
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
所有的思想都不过是柏拉图的一个脚注。
Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
甚至坏书也是书,因此是神圣的。
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
在我成为作家之前,我是个十足的读者。
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
我们是不懂的东西的奴隶。
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.
我耳朵灵敏,能学会各种语言。
To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
要知道一件事,你必须知道相反的事情。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
的确,一知半解是件危险的事,但它仍然胜过完全的无知。
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
如果你从来没有问过自己关于一篇文章的意义的任何问题,你就不能指望这本书能给你任何你尚未拥有的洞察力。
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
科学是事实;正如房子是石头做的一样,科学也是由事实组成的;但是一堆石头并不是一座房子,收集的事实也不一定是科学。
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
你可以通过练习来获得知识,但你不能通过练习来获得智慧。
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
只有通过不止一种方法,你才能理解任何事情。
The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.
研究难以捉摸的被称为创造过程的现象的最好方法,很可能是针对所有的误解,来解释什么不是创造过程。