They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

  • -- William Congreve 康格里夫

它们在走廊的尽头;按照他们古老的习俗,退休后他们喝茶,谈情说爱。

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

我不反对从头到尾都过同样的生活:只要求作者有优势,在第二版中改正第一版的错误。

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

你得到了你应得的。在年老时,你必须忍受你所赢得的面子、朋友、健康和孩子。

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

有些人非常好学古人所做的事,他们不知道如何与现代人相处。

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

如果把这位老水手叫做“老水手”,他就不会有这么好的成绩了。