In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

  • -- Rowan D. Williams 罗文·D·威廉姆斯

与人生这个阶段令人羡慕的想法形成鲜明对比的是,我们听到人们对变老感到高度焦虑,对健康、机动性、设施的可及性、简单的日常护理和关注感到焦虑。

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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

我母亲说我的脚步声是她终生痛苦的源泉,是活生生的死亡,等等。在同一岗位上,我收到了几封焦急的亲戚的来信,他们告诉我,我有责任回家,这样就能减轻母亲的焦虑。

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.

要真正被一首歌所折磨,它需要的不仅仅是你不喜欢或得不到的东西;它必须钻到你的皮肤下面,让你起鸡皮疙瘩。奇怪的是,最后这句话也可以用来形容挑衅或大胆的音乐。

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

当我完全确定一个结果值得得到时,我就会走在它前面,不断地尝试,直到它到来。

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

有人说,我们的焦虑不会清空明天的悲伤,只会清空今天的力量。

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

当你以一种不寻常的方式做生活中平凡的事情时,你就会赢得全世界的关注。

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

老实说,我并没有很好地应对所有的关注。