1. There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong...or useless pain...The sort of pain that's only suffering. I have no patience for useless things. Moments like this require someone who will act...or do the unpleasant thing, or the necessary thing. There...No more pain.
痛苦分两种,一种会让你变得更强,另一种则毫无价值,只徒添折磨。我对没有价值的东西没有耐心,这种时刻,需要有人采取行动...或做一些不好的事...也是必要的事。好了,痛苦结束了。
(主人公Frank看到一只被车撞过后躺在地上奄奄一息的狗,与常人不同的是,他选择走上前结束了它的痛苦。生活中我们总是会限于痛苦不能自拔,与其做无谓的挣扎,不如早些结束折磨做更有意义的事情。)
▲语言点:耐心:have (no) patience for sth/to do sth=be (im)patient with doing sth对...(没)有耐心,表达有耐心的还可以用:staminal, stick-to-itive.
2. And a person's character isn't determined by how he or she enjoys victory, but rather how he or she endures defeat.
一个人的品行,不在于他如何享受胜利,而在他如何承受失败。
(人总是在失败中才能看到自己缺少些什么,只有修正了失败,补全了不足,才能在失败后确保未来长足的成功。)
▲语言点:be determined by:由...决定,在于。
近义词:depend on
▲语言点:endure:作动词,表容忍,忍耐,经得起,经受住
近义词:resist,abide
词组搭配:at endure终于
3. Nothing can help us endure dark times better than our faith.
没什么比信仰更能支撑我们度过艰难时光了。
4. It's not respect but fear that motivates a man; that's how empires are built and revolutions begin.
激励一个人前进的动力是恐惧,而不是尊敬。同样,帝国诞于惶恐,革命起于不安。
(每个人都会害怕未知的前方,但正是因为害怕给了你勇气,它将前方的未知变成光明。)
▲语言点:常用重点句型强调句:it is...that...,强调it is后面的部分
5. There is but one rule: Hunt or be hunted.
有且只有一条规则:吃,或被吃。
(社会如同一个狩猎场,唯有强大才能存活)
6. What are we supposed to do in the face of so much senseless pain? And he said to me,what else can we do but take what seems meaningless and try to make something meaningful from it.
在这些无意义的痛苦面前,我们该怎么做?他告诉我:除了从无意义的事情中,尽力去挖掘出一些有意义的东西,我们还能做什么呢?
(Like what you do, do what you like唯有当你Like what you do之后才能do what you like.)
▲语言点:be supposed to do 应当做某事
近似用法:should have done sth 本应做某事却没做 could have done sth本可以做某事却没做
▲语言点:in the face of面对。面对还可以用face up to, confront with
词语辨析:face, encounter, meet, contact, confront
这组词都有遇见,会见,碰见的意思,其区别是:
face 侧重双方静止地面对面,或指指充满勇气、信心和决心正视人或事。
encounter 通常指遇到困难或挫折,也指偶然或意外地相遇。
meet 普通用词,本义指双方或多方从不同方向或相反方向作向对运动,最终相碰(遇)。
contact 多指通过书信、电话或直接会面和别人联系。口语用词。
confront 不可避免的,面对面的相遇。也指敢于正视困难或问题的决心和信心。