When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

当你老了,头发花白,睡意朦胧,在炉火旁打盹时,请取下这本书,慢慢地读,梦见你曾经眼神柔和,阴影深沉。

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The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

一个地方——一个房间、一座建筑或一座城镇——的生活模式越多,它作为一个整体就越有生命力,它发出的光芒越多,它就越有自我维持的火焰,这是一种没有名字的品质。

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

不管你是谁,不管你住在哪里,不管有多少人追着你,你不读的东西往往和你读的东西一样重要。

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

消防车出动了,街上有成千上万的人。你有一个选择。你可以吃这个,或者让黑人在午餐柜台吃饭。

Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.

男人们觉得很难,因为我精力充沛,晚上很少睡觉,只有四五个小时。我大清早就醒了,到处闲逛。

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

她博览众书的名声就像史诗中那位多云的女神的信封一样笼罩着她。

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

治疗失眠的最好方法是多睡觉。