The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

  • -- John Millington Synge 辛格

敏锐的人的悲痛并不是对一个女人八十多年的死亡的个人抱怨,而是包含了潜藏在岛上每一个本地人身上的全部激情的愤怒。

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

二十岁时是孔雀,三十岁时是狮子,四十岁时是骆驼,五十岁时是蛇,六十岁时是狗,七十岁时是猿,八十岁时什么都不是。

A man as he manages himself may die old at thirty, or young at eighty.

一个人如他所管理自己,可能在三十岁时老去,也可能在八十岁时年轻。