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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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

睡眠是我们在死亡时必须支付的资本利息;利率越高,支付的频率越高,赎回日期就推迟得越久。

All we have to say is thank you Lord! When you are grateful for what he's done for you, he lifts you to a higher altitudes.

我们所要说的就是感谢主!当你感激他为你所做的一切时,他会把你提升到更高的高度。

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

如果你不能吃它,不能睡在它下面,不能穿它,不能用它做东西,它就一文不值。

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

当一个人烧了自己的桥,这是多么好的火啊。

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

当我们读书的时候,我们都是堂吉诃德。

Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

火在黑暗中烧得更旺。