You know, to broaden my horizons and to experience something new.

你知道，去开阔开阔视野，体验体验新事物吧。

Genius is not about making complicated things. It's about making complicated things very simple.

天才不在于把事物复杂化，而在于把复杂事物简单。

Look for the rough spots, the problems that seem too big, the complexities that other people are content to work around.

去解决看似艰深的问题，去征服大的难题，去直面其他人不愿面对的复杂事物。

In addition to creating things, science creates ideas.

除了创造事物，科学也创造思想。

Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

记住，瑞德。希望是件好事，也许是世间最好的事。而美好的事物永不消逝。

Let's see the world while we still can and cherish those while they're still here.

让我们在还有能力时好好看世，并在那些人事物还存在这时好好珍惜他们。

A paradox is a situation or thing that has seemingly opposite or contradictory qualities.

悖论是看起来具有相反或矛盾性质的一种情况或事物。

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

她要求事物投她所好；凡是不能立刻满足她心灵需要的，她都认为没有用处；她多愁善感，而不倾心艺术，她寻求的是主观的情，而不是客观的景。

The word antebellum means existing before a war and is often used to describe things before the Civil War.

单词" antebellum" 指的是存在于战争前的，通常用来描述美国内战前的事物。

Today, certain algorithms pull toward you the things you already know, believe, or like, and they push away everything else.

今天，一些算法将你们诱导到你们已然知道、相信或喜欢的事物上，同时又令你们与余下的世渐行渐远。

For me, the driving force is that there's always something new to try a new problem, a new subject, a new shape that I didn't think I was able to create before but now I think I know how to realize it.

对我来说，我最大的驱动力就是，总能有新的问题，新的事物，和新的折纸形状。这些新的想法是我以前费尽脑汁都想不出来的，现在确实信手拈来。

Instead, it is through the process of active inspiration — the act of creating things, applying new ideas to our goals, and making mistakes — that we discover who we are and what is important to us.

相反，正是通过主动获取灵感的过程——创造事物、将新想法应用于我们的目标，以及不断试错——我们才发现我们是谁以及什么对我们来说是重要的。

Always use the proper name for things.

对事物永远使用正确的称呼。

Anything that helps streamline our lives is a growth market.

任能帮助我们提高生活效率的事物都有越做越大的市场。

As a Conservative——I have never had any doubt about what I believe in: security, freedom and opportunity, decency, moderation, patriotism.

作为保守党人，我从未怀疑过自己的信仰、安全、自由、机遇、正派、中庸、爱国、保存有价值的事物。

I found comfort in those around me.

我从周遭的人事物中找到安慰。

Loose dry, slab and cornice are all types of what?

松型、板状以及雪檐状说的是下面哪种事物的类型？

Perhaps willfully, it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

不过很有意思的是推测一万年后的事物往往比推测明天要发生什么容易得多。

Indeed, people always take many things for granted in their daily life.

的确，人们总是把他们日常生活中的许多事物视为理所当然。

The aim of Boring 2011 was to celebrate the mundane, the obvious and the overlooked.

2011年的“无聊大会”是一场庆祝平凡普通、显而易见却又容易被忽略的事物的活动。