The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

  • -- Christopher Gadsden 克里斯托弗·加兹登

当今时代需要壮年时期的活力和活动;但我感到年事已高,体弱多病,我知道我不能为你效劳。

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Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.

当我们有两个选择,一是用一美元来对抗那些将推进水平集成的企业,二是那些将维持现有能力的企业时,我们宁愿用它们来对抗水平集成活动。

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

随着时间的推移,她学会了形成自己对为之工作的人的看法,她变得更加坚强。我想她现在强壮多了。起初,她想相信自己很坚强,但有时她会动摇。

But the struggles make you stronger, the changes make you wiser, and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always beautiful but it's a beautiful ride.

但是奋斗使你更坚强,变化使你更明智,幸福有它自己的方式来享受它的甜蜜时光。生活并不总是美好的,但它是一段美好的旅程。

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

我总是说我不想多愁善感,照片不应该是多愁善感的,但是,我知道我多愁善感。

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.

从一开始就要意识到,每一项包含旅程的活动都是有价值的,并且能够教会你一些东西。

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

当误解把别人当作一种优势时,一个人是无法使别人理解自己的。

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

直到你使无意识有意识,它将指导你的生活,你将称之为命运。

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

我们试图创造优势。我们从不自满。