Thus it is that firmness and strength are the concomitants of death; softness and weakness, the concomitants of life.

故坚强者死之徒，柔弱者生之徒。

She told him of Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.

苏艾把琼珊胡思乱想告诉了他，还说她害怕琼珊自各儿瘦小柔弱得像一片叶子一样，对这个世界留恋越来越微弱，恐怕真会离世飘走了。

They make you sound like a weak candidate.

它们会让你看上去像一个柔弱应聘者。

First lesson, there is nothing more compelling to a man than a vulnerable woman. Observe.

第一课，对于一个男人而言，有什么比一个柔弱无骨女人更加吸引人了。注意观察。

This wizard of theater cast her in the stage comedy The Weaker Sex.

这位戏剧大师让她出演舞台剧《柔弱》。

In her sorrow, Ember's most vulnerable light cast rainbows on the wall.

小焰陷入悲痛之中，她最柔弱光芒在墙上投出丽色彩。

My mother is old and infirm. You couldn't make her leave?

我母亲是个柔弱老人。你们难法叫她走？

No wonder you have the look of another world about you.

难怪你外表柔弱，内里却坚强。

As Lao Tzu wrote in the Tao Te Ching, and I quote: The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff.

正如老子在《德经》中所写，我引用一下：人之生也柔弱，其死也坚强。

" They say they'll come and pick him up this week, and that I can't manage to take care of him myself, " she says, in a voice so fragile that it hardly manages to get past her lips.

“他们说这周就来接他，说我自己照顾不了他。”她说，嗓音柔弱得几乎难以翻越嘴唇。

But if cell wall strengthening begins too late, the wall won't be sturdy enough — producing fibers that are too weak to hold fabrics together well.

但如果细胞壁强化阶段开始得过晚，那层细胞壁就会不够坚固，生成纤维会过为柔弱，难以很好地将布料合成。

In favorable weather, the tender blades push through the ground in ten days or two weeks; then the stalks mount up rapidly, and the long, streamer-like leaves unfold gracefully from day to day.

只要天气适宜，十天到两周之后，柔弱种子就会扎根在土壤里，很快枝茎破土而出，越长越高。一天一天过去，丝带一样叶子也优雅地舒展开来。

And he was a shy, sickly, effeminate child of working-class immigrants, who transformed himself into the most famous and most controversial artist of his generation.

他是一个腼腆、体弱多病、柔弱工人阶级移民孩子，他把自己变成了他那一代最著名、最具争议艺术家。

Brienne could have told him more about the perils of the roads than he might have cared to know. " I thank you, ser, but I have no need of your protection" .

" 我坚持意见。真正骑士会保护柔弱女生。"

Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

苏立文小姐教我学会了发现之美——在芬芳林木拥抱中，在每一片草叶上，在我小妹妹蜷曲柔弱、像长了酒窝小手上，我确找到了美。

In the brief period of the courtship, he thought he had never known a woman more attractively feminine in her reactions to life, ignorant, timid and helpless.

在向她求婚短短一段时间里，他曾经认为从她对生活种种反应、无知、羞怯和柔弱来看，他还从未见过一个女人比她更富有女魅力了。

The shell protects the soft body of the snail, and provides a shelter into which it can retreat in time of danger, and in which it sleeps.

这个外壳能够保护蜗牛柔弱身体, 在危险时作为避风港, 在休息时作为它温暖家。

So if we look at the lines, " unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty. "

我们继续看这句话：“解除我女柔弱，用最凶恶残忍自顶至踵贯注在我全身。”

" Because you are strong and I am weak; because you are a Great Wizard and I am only a little girl."

“因为你是强者，我是弱者；因为你是一个伟大魔术家，我只是一个柔弱小女孩子。”

They said that plays taught people how to sin, that they made men effeminate-remember all of those boy actors dressed as spunky heroines in pants?

他们说 戏剧教会人们如何犯罪 戏剧让男人变得柔弱——还记得那些穿着裤子、打扮成勇敢女英雄男演员吗？