Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

  • -- Golda Meir 梅尔夫人

老年就像在暴风雨中飞行的飞机。一旦你上了船,你就什么也做不了了。

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I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

我讨厌平板电视。我不想看到那么多像素。我不需要看到别人脸上的痘痘。我爱透过玻璃的世界。那块玻璃越旧,灰尘越多,越脏,对我来说就越漂亮,越有印象。我不需要把每件事都看得很清楚。我不喜欢它。

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

可食用的物质使人分泌浓稠的唾液。为什么?显然,答案是,这使得大量的食物能够顺利地通过从嘴到胃的管子。

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

应对衰老的方法是让自己的大脑忙碌起来,继续过着永无止境的生活。我一直很钦佩契诃夫,因为他在死于肺结核的时候盖了一栋新房子。

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

准备工作就是这样。我们在这里。暴风雨就要来了。当风暴眼接近时,我们已经做好了最好的准备。

I get really bad plane bloat. Your body and your face and everything swells. I could never get rid of it. It stays with you.

我的飞机气胀得很厉害。你的身体,你的脸,一切都膨胀起来。我永远无法摆脱它。它会伴随你。

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

当你无话可说时,保持安静;当真正的激情打动你时,说出你想说的话,而且要热情地说。

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

我已经和这个身体断绝了关系,将来它变成什么样子,对我也没有关系。

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

没有什么比自己创作然后聆听更快乐的了。

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

答案潦草地写在一份日报的空白页上,是在渡轮上构思出来的。

I feel as though I'm a storm inside and the waves of it can be seen in my eyes.

我感觉自己就像内心的风暴,它的波浪可以从我的眼睛里看到。

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

在我们的层面上,知识和无知是永恒的敌人。

Trust is like a paper, once it's crumbled it can't be perfect.

信任就像一张纸,一旦破碎就不可能是完美的。

I climb aboard my tricycle and pedal my heart to the stars.

我骑上三轮车,脚踏向星星。

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

我不怕坐飞机;我害怕崩溃。

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

除非我是一只鸟,否则我怎么可能同时出现在两个地方呢?

For a flying enemy make a silver bridge.

为飞行的敌人造一座银桥。