这些句子是我偶尔看到点书，看到点句子摘录下来的。我特别喜欢，适合反复朗读，因为简单，正能量，又值得琢磨～能写出这样句子的人，一定也是个很有趣的人～如果目前没什么练习口语的材料，不妨试试抄下这几个句子，每天抽点时间，找个没人的地方，一遍一遍地读呗。
SOME WORDS FROM SOME OF BOOKS
1. The powers of a man’s are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
—James Mackintosh
一个人的能力和他喝的咖啡成正比。
我喜欢咖啡，所以这句话很合我的胃口。哈哈哈哈。
2. Once the only source of light was the flame of fire in the forms torch, candle and oil lamp. It remains so right up until the 19th century when gas light made its first appearance around 1840. Almost 40 years later, Thomas Edison invented his famous incandescent light bulb. In 1909, the French man Georges Claude developed the fluorescent tube, a light remaining unaltered to this very day.
曾经唯一的光源是火焰，它以火炬、蜡烛和油灯的形式出现在我们的日常生活，一直延续到19世纪， 1840年左右首次出现煤气灯，将近40年后，托马斯·爱迪生发明了著名的白炽灯泡，1909年，法国人乔治斯·克劳德发明了荧光管，直到今天我们还在使用。
“灯，光”一直是灵感的代名词，所以我们对于这些使黑夜光明起来的发明者一直存在着敬畏。我觉得应当去了解灯的发明的基本历史。
3. People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
那些反复攻击你自信和自尊心的人很清楚你的潜力，即使你自知没有潜力。
这句话对于修复自己的玻璃心很有用。
4. When it is your turn to face the darkness, this is when you become your own sun. You are more powerful and brave than you realize.
当你面对黑暗的时候，也是成为自己的太阳的时候。你比自己意识到的更强大更勇敢。
5. She had learned to find peace in the calming voice of her own soul.
美好的声音可以抚慰人心。试着说话温和一点吧。
6. For me, light is the signal in the transaction. It‘s not being in the light, it’s being there before it arrives. It enables me, in some sense.
这一段把“光”写得非常的轻盈玄奥。
对于寻常的我们来说，光只是一颗星球在燃烧自己散发出来的热量，这样的热量可以在黎明穿透黑夜，照耀一切悲凉，但仔细来讲，它总是穿不过我们的影子，我在想什么呢？
7. As a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water.
水滴石穿的正确描述。学起来。
8. There was a pause while they reflected over my words.
让我想起来翻译《静》的时候。写字儿的人捕捉到这样一个“空白”的场景，很美。
9. Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist.
探索真谛的人不会平白无故地得到，过程中他饱受折磨。
同样，你也不会平白无故地得到。
这一段让我想起了看THE WORDS那部电影(刷了好多好多遍), 男主机缘巧合捡到了一本书占为己有并以自己的名字出版，后来一个老人(原作者)找到他，给他讲了一个故事，这个故事让男主慌然失措并决定把这本书还给那个老人，老人拒绝了，说着：“We all make choices in life. The hard thing is to live with them.”
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