It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

我通常要花三个多星期来准备一篇好的即席演讲。

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I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that.

我现在的职业生涯需要一个稳定的环境。我的意思是,在那里我可以打球,没有太多的压力,我可以发展。摩纳哥想要我,他们做了他们能做的一切来得到我,所以我感觉非常非常好。

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.

你若知道每种谷种你种了多少亩,就可以问那地的土产有多少亩可以种,也可以数一数四分之一种的子粒,便知道子粒的结果,和应当怎样了结。

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

我现在不愿意结婚。我确实偶尔会想到,如果我跌倒撞到头,就没有人打电话了。但谁愿意去想那场灾难,我宁愿不去想。

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

我不仅失去了我在船上所拥有的一切,而且船长和他的伙伴们也把我所拥有的一切都带走了。这一切都是皇帝所不知道的。

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

阿蒂是个歌手,我是个作家、演员和歌手。我们没有在创作层面上合作,也没有准备歌曲。我这么做。

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

总会有一些傻瓜——他们通常以“制作人”的名义出现——他们必须证明自己的存在,并加以干涉。

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

没有双重解放,任何奴隶制都不可能被废除,而主人从自由中得到的益处将超过自由人。

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...

随着年龄的增长,会发生三件事。第一个是你的记忆消失了,另外两个我记不起来了……

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

我试着每周去三次健身房。我必须注意我吃的东西。我是个正常人。

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

教育的目的是使青年人作好终生自学的准备。

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

我不想让三百万人在他们的玉米片上消化我的私人生活。

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

当你生气的时候说出来,你会做出你会后悔的最好的演讲。

If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.

如果我们想要得分,我们需要每周跑进前五名。

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

最好的即席演讲是事先写好的。

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

我喜欢写作,但我更喜欢写作的经历。

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

向别人展示你的梦想需要很大的勇气。

I know you have felt much more love than you've shown.

我知道你感受到了比你表现出来的更多的爱。

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

没有什么比一个年轻的悲观主义者更悲哀的了。

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

爱情会把大象从钥匙孔里拉出来。

Usually we praise only to be praised.

通常我们表扬别人,别人也表扬我们。

A fool's speech is a bubble of air.

蠢人的讲话是空话。