When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

  • -- John Donne 约翰·唐恩

当一个人死了,书中的一章没有被撕掉,而是被翻译成更好的语言。

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

在我看来,如果你或我必须在两种思想或行动之间做出选择,我们应该记住我们的死亡,并努力活着,使我们的死亡不会给世界带来快乐。

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

他们在葬礼上对人说了那么多好听的话,这让我很难过,因为我只差几天就要错过我的葬礼了。

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

我们遇见霍尔博士时,他沉浸在深深的悲痛之中,不是他的母亲,就是他的妻子,或者他自己一定已经去世了。

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

老年:我在朋友的葬礼上睡着了。