And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

  • -- Keith Douglas 基思·道格拉斯

我所有的努力都是不幸的探险者放弃探险回来;标本,野心的百合花还在生长,还没有采摘;但是,时间,时间是我所缺少的一切来找到他们,作为伟大的收藏家在我之前。

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Well-founded fear, which takes one through the valley of the shadow of death without abandoning one there, is what makes the worst of worse journeys; the situation is made all the more intense when the fear is somehow mingled with delight.

有充分根据的恐惧,它带你穿过死亡阴影的山谷而不把你抛弃在那里,这是最糟糕的旅程中最糟糕的部分;当恐惧与喜悦交织在一起时,情况就更加紧张了。

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

如果他们希望减轻被剥削阶级的痛苦,就让他们不辜负自己的虚荣心,让他们放弃学业,到外面去,在政治、经济和人道主义精神下工作。

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

似乎永远不抛弃自己比常常为之痴狂更疯狂;受了伤,作了俘虏,作了奴仆,强如常带着兵器行走。

You either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive.

你要么原谅一个抛弃你的爱人,要么原谅上帝带走了他们——无论哪种方式,你都必须原谅。

No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.

当你拥有了真正的东西,就没有必要用虚假的虚荣心来浪费时间。

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

生命太短暂,我们浪费在打呵欠上的时间是无法弥补的。