When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  • -- Edward Howe Forbush 爱德华·豪·福布斯

当朋友遇到麻烦时,不要问他你能帮什么忙,以免惹恼他。想一些合适的事情,然后去做。

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It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.

获得权力很容易。你可以做出承诺,试着成为所有人的一切。但当你不得不做出决定的时候,你会惹恼至少一半的人。无论你做什么,最终你几乎肯定会被你自己的性格特点打倒。

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

我可以原谅,但我不能忘记,只是另一种说法,我不会原谅。宽恕应该像一张作废的便条——撕成两半,烧掉,这样它就永远不会对一个人显现出来。

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.

当她因为心脏病病重时,我意识到我的父母不可能供我读书,于是我得到了他们的许可,去海上谋生。

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

可再生能源与我们期望主办这些能源的社区之间的关系必须是适当和可持续的,而且最重要的是当地人民能够接受。

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

我觉得这很合适,因为我不是世界上最好的程序员,我觉得我不碰代码是件好事。

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

爱情歌曲比什么都多。如果歌曲能让你有所作为,我们都会彼此相爱。

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

对一个领导者的最后考验是,他把信念和意志留给其他人。

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

当我还是个孩子遇到麻烦的时候,我总是说,妈妈,我有麻烦了。妈妈,我有麻烦了。

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

阴影之所以存在,是因为你对隐藏在阴影里的东西有自己的判断。

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

我想我浪费了很多青春,爱上了比我大几岁的女孩。

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

我想没有人能下定决心说,现在我要当导演了。

I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.

我不知道为什么,但我很容易成为靶子。我不会做任何事来消除它。

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

得着工价的,这人便为有福。让他别无所求。

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

你不得不花钱买的朋友不值得你为他付出。

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

如果你问我任何我不知道的事情,我不会回答。

No matter where you are, you always need a best friend.

无论你在哪里,你总是需要一个最好的朋友。

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

我想让普通人成为我的超级政治行动委员会。

I just don't know anything about fashion.

我对时尚一窍不通。