Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

  • -- Sinclair Lewis 辛克莱·刘易斯

无论诗人、演说家或圣人怎么说,老年依然是老年。

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The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.

大提琴是一个英雄,因为它的音域-它的男高音。它是一种男性乐器,而小提琴由于其女高音而具有女性特征。当大提琴进入德沃夏克协奏曲,它就像一个伟大的演说家。

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样,我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人,身体可能会变老,但思想永远不会变老。

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

我仍然对青年反叛感兴趣,但我仍然不再是一个受害者。不要试图攻击公司,因为它会占用你太多的精力。

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

太多诗人的地狱不是一座山顶上洒满阳光,缪斯女神和优雅女神造访过的小山,而是一座破败的老房子,充满阴郁,鬼魂出没。

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

我想我还是宁愿带着野餐篮坐在树下,也不愿坐在油泵下,但是标语和连环画作为主题还是很有趣的。

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

很少有人在谈话中令人愉快的原因是,每个人都在想自己要说什么,而不是别人在说什么。

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

死亡最像一个先知,他在自己的土地上没有荣誉,或者一个诗人,他在自己的人民中是一个陌生人。

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

我只是去看了太多的电影,坐在太多的日场里看那些老连续剧。

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

我不认为自己是时尚或风格的伟大圣人,不管人们怎么想。

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

也许没有人可以成为一个诗人,甚至享受诗歌,没有一定的不健全的头脑。

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

神喜欢惩罚任何比其他更大的东西。

I never know how much of what I say is true.

我从来不知道我所说的有多少是真的。

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

不管你犹豫做什么,都不要做。