When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  • -- Muriel Spark 穆丽尔·斯帕克

当一个高尚的生命已经准备好步入老年,它所揭示的并不是衰微,而是不朽的最初日子。

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The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

协会提倡的是一种生活方式,而不是事业;和谐的生活,而不是政治信仰;一种双边的忠诚,而不是商业或社会项目。然而,它是一个有着崇高目标的协会,就像任何先前的决定一样。

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

做好准备…这句话的意思是:一个侦察员必须事先想清楚并练习如何在任何意外或紧急情况下采取行动,这样他就不会感到意外。

After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

在你做完所有的工作,做了尽可能多的准备之后,管他呢,你还是出去玩吧。

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

如果一个人能在生与死之间架起一座桥梁,如果他能在死后继续活下去,那么他也许是一个伟大的人。

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

自从我们有了历史以来,人类一直在追求不朽的理想。

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

在艺术中,人表现的是他自己,而不是他的对象。

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

小说揭示了现实所掩盖的真相。