We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  • -- Frank Howard Clark 弗兰克·霍华德·克拉克

我们把更多的精力放在帮助人们进入老年,而不是帮助他们享受老年生活。

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When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

当我老了,我要去老人院。我不想成为那种成天在屋子里骚扰孩子们的人。但不是普通的养老院。我要整个顶层。

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

每天我们每个人醒来,把手伸进抽屉和壁橱里,拿出当天要穿的衣服,然后开始穿那种只能被称为荒谬的风格。

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我有点难对付,因为我非常活跃。即使在家里,我妈妈也会把我放在婴儿车里,因为我太投入了。

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

你永远不能正确地享受这个世界,除非你的血管里流淌着大海,除非你穿上天堂的衣服,戴上星星的王冠。

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

对我们的朋友来说,重要的是要相信我们对他们是毫无保留的坦诚,而对友谊来说,重要的是我们不是。

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

艺术比股市或国会辩论更能反映我们这个世界正在发生的事情。

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

利益不能把国家联系在一起;它有时会把它们分开。但是同情和理解确实使他们团结起来。

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors.

人类观点的历史不过是人类错误的历史。

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

当你的黑名册上所有的名字后面都有医学博士的名字时,你就知道你老了。

Whatever you may say will be both true and false. Words do not reach beyond the mind.

无论你说什么,都有真假之分。言语无法超越心灵。

Serve God, do good karmic work, let go of all neediness and the mind will settle.

事奉神,行善业,放下一切需要,心就安定了。

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

变老只不过是一个忙碌的人没有时间养成的坏习惯。

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

只有更粗犷的凡人才应该努力跟上当前的文学潮流。

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

所以我选择了工程学,尤其是产品设计,我很喜欢。

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

讲故事是将想法带入当今世界最有力的方式。

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

有些人看起来很忙,什么都不做,似乎是不可或缺的。

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

年轻时我们遇到困难。我们年老时遇到困难。

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

每天为别人做一些没有报酬的事情。

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

爱读书的人什么都能得到。