But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: ‘O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.’

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

但城里所有的钟都开始嗡嗡作响,发出报时的声音:“哦,不要让时间欺骗你,你无法征服时间。”

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Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

同样地,许多年轻人第一次听到恒星光的折射,就认为天文学的整个领域都受到了怀疑,而要使一切恢复正常,除了一种容易实现的、不重要的纠正外,什么也不需要。

Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away.

爱情打发时间,时间打发爱情。