Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

  • -- Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生

有些事情没有按照你的计划去做并不意味着它毫无用处。

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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

就像奴隶主要求奴隶们模仿他对她们的形象一样,生活在政治和经济上相对弱势地位的女性,也感到有一种内在的力量迫使她们按照文化中女性的形象生活。

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

我一直打算画一幅早春的巨幅画,当第一片叶子在树的底部,它们似乎以一种奇妙的方式漂浮在空中。但春天的到来不可能一蹴而就。

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

我觉得再抱希望也没用了。今天的情况是,我们生活在一个需要笑声的世界,我决定如果我能让人们笑,我将做出更重要的贡献。

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

有些女孩喜欢说一套做一套。我就是我,我很直率。对我来说,一切都是黑白分明的。我不太喜欢玩心理游戏。

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

我想,当我最终决定放手,让上帝允许这一切发生的时候,我变得比我自己计划的要成功得多。

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

杰作就是一劳永逸地说出来,陈述出来,完成了,这样它就完整地存在于你的脑海中,即使只是在后面。

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

所以我必须工作,你知道,我尽可能多地找到电影和电视节目,否则我就没有收入了。

A jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

玉石在加工前是无用的;一个人不受教育就一无是处。

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

你将学到的最伟大的事情就是去爱和被爱。

Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.

在某个地方,一些不可思议的事情正等待着被发现。

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

策略就是用你所拥有的做你能做的。