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。
Reading is not optional.
阅读不是可选的。
I'm obsessed with books.
我痴迷于书籍。
The doer alone learneth.
只有实干家才有学问。
Art is I; science is we.
艺术是我;科学是我们。
Books are absent teachers
书没有老师
Philosophy is for the few.
哲学是为少数人准备的。
Reading maketh a full man.
读书使人充实。
Schooling is so important.
学校教育是如此重要。
I take refuge in my books.
我在书中寻求慰藉。
Knowledge is true opinion.
知识是真知灼见。
Books are dead men talking.
书是死人在说话。
Ignorance is the real evil.
无知才是真正的罪恶。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.
对思想的兴趣是人类生活的标志。人们被未来所吸引,而未来将是思想的积累。
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯,把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
我们深入阅读的原因多种多样,其中大多数都是我们所熟悉的:我们无法足够深刻地了解足够多的人;我们需要更好地了解自己;我们不仅需要了解自己和他人,还需要了解事物的本质。
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
每个人都应该从头到尾至少了解一位诗人:如果不是作为世界的向导,那么就是作为语言的标准。
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
写歌本身就是一门艺术,不要和表演混为一谈。