这里本来是很平衡的,因为上次我们提到保罗·里克尔的时候,大意是说这些作者都是大师。
It would have been a perfect symmetry here, because last time we quoted Paul Ricoeur, the main point was that these authors were masters.
这时,伟大的钢琴大师出现了,他迅速走到钢琴旁,在男孩的耳边低声说:“不要停下来。继续弹。”
At the moment, the great piano master appeared, moved to the piano quickly, and whispered in the boy's ear, "Don't stop. Keep playing."
“克诺斯四重奏”乐队的戴维·哈林顿说,他起初听她演奏时的感觉就像头一次听小提琴大师雅沙•海飞兹演奏一样。
David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet said that the first time he heard her play was like the first time he heard Jascha Heifetz, a master violinist.
徒弟说“大师是一个鞋匠,虽然可以无限量的提供皮革,不过是要依据你脚的尺码来剪裁缝合的。”
Said the disciple, "the Master is a shoemaker with an infinite supply of leather. But he does the cutting and stitching in accordance with the dimension of your foot".
大师对一个不切实际的弟子说:“如果你总把我当作权威,那样会害了你。”
"If you make me your authority", said the Master to a starry-eyed disciple, "you harm yourself because you refuse to see things for yourself".
超级自信的人(比方说电影里少言寡语的功夫大师)也有可以跟完全不自信的人一样安静。
A completely overconfident person (the silent kung fu master in movies) can be just as silent as an extremely under-confident one.
另一位大师司汤达在他的自传《自我中心回忆录》中说,“没有一定程度的无耻、甚至是不折不扣的江湖游医的骗术,要想取得巨大的成功是不可能的。”
As another master, Stendhal, remarked in his autobiography "Memoirs of an Egotist," "Great success is not possible without a certain degree of shamelessness, and even of out-and-out charlatanism."
大师感觉到我们对财务方面的轻微不满,他抬起头悲伤的说,“这对家庭的悲痛和接受孩子的死亡有帮助。”
Sensing we were slightly disapproving toward the financial aspect, the Master looked up and said gravely, “It helps the family grieve and come to terms with the death of a child.”
风水大师罗雷蒙(Raymond Lo)说,“首先要有个风水先生到办公室评估能量流。”
Feng shui Master Raymond Lo says that first, a feng shui expert needs to come to your workplace to evaulate the energy flow.
从头设计一个飞船,这个24岁的兼职工程师这么说,他是地球上唯一培养空间建筑大师的学位课程的5个本科生中的一个。
Designing a spacecraft from scratch, says the 24-year-old part-time engineer, one of five grad students attending what's billed as the only space-architecture master's degree program on Earth.
“我一直想上大学”,史密斯说,“我曾经梦想过上剑桥大学,我的想法和赫尔曼 黑赛一样,我觉得大学就象”游戏大师“一样,但是大学里有那么多学科,学习也是靠死记硬背,而我却是随心所欲之辈。
“I always wanted to go to college, ” Smith said. “I used to dream of going to Cambridge.
大师说:“没有人能够被说成达到了真实的顶峰,只有当数以千计的真诚的人们指责他亵渎上帝的时候。”
"Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy".
大师对老是问他关于言语智慧的弟子说:“智慧不是表现在言语上的,而是体现在行动中的。”
To the disciples who were always asking for words of wisdom the Master said, "wisdom is not expressed in words. It reveals itself in action".
大师一直教诲说,内疚是一种邪恶的情绪,要像躲避罪恶一般地躲避它——都是罪。
The Master was always teaching that guilt is an evil emotion to be avoided like the very devil — all guilt.
一会儿之后大师轻叹说:“如今的圣洁只是一个概念而没有实质。当它有了实质而没有概念时它才是真正的圣洁。”
Later the Master said with a sigh: "Holiness today is a name without a reality." It is only genuine when it is a reality without a name.
一个拜访者对大师的弟子说:“我长途跋涉来听大师的讲学,可是我发现他说讲的话都很普通。”
Said a traveler to one of the disciples, "I have traveled a great distance to listen to the Master, but I find his words quite ordinary".
当他看到他们盲目轻率地去活动时,大师大声笑着说:“那不是行动,那只是动作。”
But when he saw them plunge headlong into activity, he laughed aloud and said, "That isn't action. That's motion".
建筑大师赖特说过:“年轻时,我要在诚实的自大和虚伪的谦逊之间抉择。”
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright said, "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility."
伟大的比较学派神学大师约瑟夫.坎贝尔曾经说过,“人类不想了解生活本身的意义,他们只要生活的经历。”
The great comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell once said, "People don't want the meaning of life, they want the experience of life.
比如说,亚历山大•福勒出版于2002年的作品《不要在今夜沉沦》便是一部确实的大师级回忆录,忧愁而又微妙。
For instance, Alexandra Fuller's "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight", published in 2002, was rightly hailed as a masterpiece of nostalgic yet subtle reminiscence.
大师笑了“告诉我,孩子,”他说,“你是像一颗星星来自天空一样出生的,还是像一片树叶脱离树木一样离去的呢?”
The Master smiled. "Tell me, my dear", he said, "when you were born, did you come into the world like a star from the sky or out of it like a leaf from a tree"?
另一位管理学大师唐-塔普·斯科特说过,随着年轻人进入劳动市场,他们会要求非常不一样的工作环境。
As younger people enter the Labour market they will demand a very different workplace, says Don Tapscott, another management guru.
营销大师塞思·戈丁建议说:要创造你的部落必须通过帮助别人来实现他们的梦想。
Marketing guru Seth Godin advices that you create your tribe by helping others to achieve their goals.
声明中说:“大师与病魔进行了长期、艰苦的斗争,但最终被病魔夺去了生命。
The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life.
化妆大师鲍比·布朗说:“‘自然真脸庞'才是最美,这是我的叫法。
"It's about the 'natural nude face' -- that's what I call it, " says makeup artist Bobbi Brown.
然而像伊格纳茨-巴岱莱夫斯基,帕瓦罗蒂·卢西亚诺这样世界级的音乐大师也说过同样的话。
He was certainly a demon practicer, but the same quote has been attributed to world-class musicians like Ignace Paderewski and Luciano Pavarotti.
波士顿名律师乔治·艾布拉姆斯说过“绘画大师的素描能够反映作品同作者以及他们的思想的特殊和内在的关系,而这种关系是油画所不能反映的。”
“Old Master drawings offer a special and intimate relationship with artists and their thoughts that paintings cannot provide, ” says George Abrams, a prominent Boston-based lawyer.
这不是说要你打进他们的小圈子,但是你不应该羞于接近自己仰慕的IT大师,让他们知道你是如何深受其鼓舞的。
I don't mean you should push your way into the inner circle, but you shouldn't be shy about approaching the IT gurus you admire and letting them know how they've inspired you.
大师安慰说:”如果你从未领略到生命的本相和生命的含意是什么 考究这个不如去吃点心.
Said the Master soothingly, "Of what is it to comprehend life's nature and life's meaning if you have never tasted it? I'd rather you ate your pudding than speculated on it.
国学大师钱穆曾说过:“民族的不幸是哲人的财富”。
"Misfortunes of a nation may turn out to be fortunes of a philosopher," noted Qian Mu, a renowned expert in Chinese cultural studies.
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