I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.

  • -- Mark Helprin 普林

我见过孤独的人,年纪渐长,却如天使般恒常,对他们所爱的人守信。看到他们在石板和十字架之间犹豫地移动,足以让你心碎。

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

没有什么比音乐更能把两代人分开了。当一个孩子八九岁的时候,他对自己的音乐产生了一种热情,这种热情甚至超过了他对拖延症和古怪衣服的热情。

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

人类的本性必须比现在或未来许多代人更接近完美,才能排除这种控制偏见、自私、野心和不公。

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

我喜欢特拉沃尔塔坐在孩子的秋千上,思念着他的女朋友。

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

我不仅喜欢被爱,而且喜欢被人说我被爱。