To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

  • -- John Burroughs 美国博物学家巴勒斯

对我来说,老年总是比我大十岁。

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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我,我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

是啊,我们一出校门就搬起石头砸了自己的脚。一开始经营这家公司的人在我们有多少资本的问题上误导了几乎所有人。他说我们有足够的钱过三年不赚钱的日子,也有足够的钱过三个星期。

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情,而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

我不确定你是否幸福是最重要的。许多不幸的人对自己和世界都有很大的贡献。

Something always brings me back to you. It never takes too long. No matter what I say or do. I still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone.

总有东西让我想起你。永远不会太久。无论我说什么或做什么。我仍然感觉到你在这里,直到我离开的那一刻。

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

十有八九,在艺术和生活中,确实有无真相有待发现;只有错误才会暴露出来。

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

我想指出的是,生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

我年轻的时候很害羞。当我第一次去利物浦的时候,我有一年没有说一句话。

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

要保持自己的优势,每十年就要改变一次策略。

As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

随着年龄的增长,我意识到我所做的一切就是唱歌、表演和磨练这些技能。

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

比起出名,我更喜欢做普通人。

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

老朋友的成长需要很长时间。

The older we get the better we used to be.

随着年龄的增长,我们变得越来越好。

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

我老了,脾气越来越暴躁了。