Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

岁月不待人。这是一句浮夸而自满的谚语,在过去的十亿年里一直适用;但在我们有电线和压载水的日子里,我们使它回转:人不等待时间,也不等待潮汐。

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Here we were, Father and I, shut up in a plain little room, and for the first time in my life having something that might pass for a conversation.

我和父亲被关在一间简朴的小屋里,生平第一次有了可以当作谈话的东西。

Take the merest trifle from the vile and abuse him (at the same time).

从卑鄙的人身上拿走最微不足道的东西,然后(同时)虐待他。