珠玑集
2010-04-29
If you want a guarantee, buy atoaster.
如果事事求稳妥，去买台烤面包机吧。
——美国演员克林·伊斯威特
A healthy male adult boreconsumes each year one and a halftimes his own weight in other people'spatience.
一位无趣的健康成年男性会大量耗损他人耐性。平均一年消耗量约是他本人体重的一倍半。
——美国作家顾普代克
Don't just stand there; make somethinghappen.
不要只是袖手旁观，做就对了。
——美国企业家李·艾科卡
On your way to Wonderful, you're goingto have to pass through All Right. And whenyou get to All Right, take a good look aroundand get used to it, "cause that may be as faras you're going to go.
在你到达“好极了”之前，必须先经历“尚可”。当你到了“尚可”阶段，最好先环顾四周让自己习惯；因为你最远可能就只能到这里了。
——美国创作歌手比尔·威德斯
There is a plan to this universe.There is a high intelligence, maybeeven a purpose, but it's given to uson the installment plan.
有个比人类还高的智慧，他对宇宙有个计划，甚至或许还有目的，但他不会一次告诉我们。
——1978年诺贝尔奖得主以撒·辛格
Grief is the price we pay for love.
悲伤是我们为爱付出的代价。
——伊丽莎白女王二世
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves,that we should take seriously.
我们应该看重的不是自己，而是自己的责任。
——英国演员彼得·尤斯汀诺夫
Happiness is nothing more than goodhealth and a bad memory.
快乐不过就是身体好，记性差。
——德国思想家史怀哲
编辑王克峰
