(37)自由色彩

I am a freelance interpreter. - 我是一名自由职业口译员。 作为一名自由职业翻译,我享有很多自由。当然,工作也有很多不稳定因素。事情总是没有完美的。 目前还是顶享受这种自由自在的生活。

"自由职业"英文说"freelance"

可以用作副词:

freelance:working independently for different companies rather than being employed by one particular company:
She works freelance from home.

也可以用作形容词:freelance journalist/writer/photographer etc - 自由职业记者/撰稿人/摄影师


freelance 也可以用作动词:verb [intransitive]
He's freelancing for several translation agencies.
也可以用作名词: freelance also freelancer noun [countable]

提起自由,我想起了美国的罗斯福总统的“四大自由”演讲:

The Four Freedoms: the four things that US President Franklin Roosevelt said were worth fighting for in a speech he made in 1941, before the US entered World War II. They are Freedom of Speech and Expression, Freedom of worship (=practising your religion), Freedom from want (=not having enough food, money, etc), and Freedom from Fear.

- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Dictionary

以下是罗斯福演讲的节选:

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look
forward to a world founded upon four essential human
freedoms.


The first is freedom of speech and expression --everywhere
in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his
own way-- everywhere in the world.


The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world
terms, means economic understandings which will secure to
every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants
--everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into
world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to
such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation
will be in a position to commit an act of physical
aggression against any neighbor --anywhere in the wold.

第一是在全世界任何地方发表言论和表达意见的自由。

第二是在全世界任何地方,人人有以自己的方式来崇拜上帝的自由。

第三是不虞匮乏的自由--这种自由,就世界范围来讲,就是一种经济上的融洽关系,它将保证全世界每一个国家的居民都过健全的、和平时期的生活。

第四是免除恐惧的自由--这种自由,就世界范围来讲,就是世界性的裁减军备,要以一种彻底的方法把它裁减到这样的程度:务使世界上没有一个国家有能力向全世界任何地区的任何邻国进行武力侵略。

free spirit: someone who lives as they want to rather than in the way that society considers normal - 指那种喜欢特立独行,做自己喜欢做的事情的人。

I'm a free spirit.

Give me liberty or give me death. - Patrick Henry - 不自由,毋宁死!

Statue of Liberty - 自由神像 美国的自由女神像其实是法国人送给美国人的礼物。

生命诚可贵,爱情价更高,若为自由故,两者皆可抛。- 匈牙利爱国诗人裴多菲

单身的人虽然每逢佳节倍凄凉,但是和已婚的人比起来,拥有可贵的自由。明天永远都是未知数,生活还有很多可能。

So enjoy being single if you are still single.

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