Everyday English

October 2020

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦,而在于人们错过了什么。

We must each find our starfish. And if we throw our stars wisely and well, the world will be blessed.
我们必须找到我们的海星,如果我们明智而恰当地把我们的海星扔进了海里,那么这个世界就得到了祝福。

Though the heart be still as loving, and the moon be still as bright.
尽管这颗心仍旧迷恋,尽管月光还那么灿烂。

Her gesture, motion, and her smells, her wit, her voice, my heart beguiles, beguiles my heart.
她的姿态,她的微笑,她的聪慧,她的声音俘获了我的心,俘获了我的心。

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly.
我们行事公允,不是因为我们有德或优秀,而是因为我们行事公允,才有了这些特质。
– Will Durant

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.
在关系里,你想怎么被对待,就这样待人。
– Bradley Cooper

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
每座山都有道路,虽然从山谷不一定看得到。
– Theodore Roethke

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
领导的资格不是从天而降,它是挣来的。
– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.
人生是用来享受的,不是忍受的。
– Gordon B. Hinckley

I can not and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
我不能也不会为了顺应今年的风气,而违背自己的良知。
– Lillian Hellman

The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
一座山的顶峰,永远是另一座的山底。
– Marianne Willianmson

As long as you know that you’re doing the right thing, do not care about what other people think about you.
只要你知道你做的事是对的,不用在意别人怎么看你。
– Whitney Wolfe Herd

Procrastination is the thief of time.
拖延是时间的小偷。
– Edward Young

The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.
压抑他人的自由应该都不会是合理的。
– John Rawls

There is no man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.
再坏的人都会暗自敬重好人。
– Benjamin Franklin

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
让自己安静地被你真正喜爱的事所拉去。
– Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
每一次相爱,就深爱到仿佛能到永远。
– Audre Lorde

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
蠢人会纳闷,智者会提问。
– Benjamin Disraeli

Personality begins where comparison ends.
个性是在没有比较时开始出现的。
– Kari Lagerfeld

Throughout history, people have never before expected to be as comfortable as people do today.
在整个历史里,人类从没想过可以像今天的人这般舒服。
– Jens Risom

Ideas don’t come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started.
好的构想不是一开始就成型,它是在你实现的过程中变得更加清晰,你只需要开始。
– Mark Zuckerberg

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
在人生的路上,你会发现如果不靠自己,你不会前进。
– Katharine Hepburn

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
无法改变想法的人,无法改变任何事。
– George Bernard Shaw

I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
我的智力使我成为悲观者,但意志力使我成为乐观者。
– Antonio Gramsci

Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading and inspiring them to do what’s right.
指出一个人的错,有别于引导并激发他去做对的事。
– Andy Stanley

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
没有行动的代价,远超过犯错的代价。
– Meister Eckhart

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
愚者在未来寻找快乐,智者在自己的脚下种植快乐。
– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Learning to fly is not pretty but fling is.
学习如何飞翔不怎么好看,但飞翔很好看。
– Satya Nadella

Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.
领导是激励杰出的人站出来为他们的国家服务。
– Justin Trudeau

I think it’s important that we don’t all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything’s fine.
我觉得很重要的是,我们不必总是头抬得高高的,然后说一切都很好。
– Nicole Kidman

It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
我花了17年114天的时间才在一夕间成功。
– Lionel Messi