A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  • -- Maurice Chevalier 墨利斯·雪佛莱

一个舒适的晚年是一个度过美好青春的奖赏。它不会给我们带来衰败的凄凉前景,而会给我们带来在更美好的世界里永葆青春的希望。

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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

母亲应该给孩子们极大的热情;他们在与世界交往中必然会失去一切,但即使失去了一切,仍有足够的力量促使命运注定要用伟大的行动来支持他们。

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

我可以很舒服地站在我的角度唱歌,因为很多音乐都是关于失去纯真的,你身上有纯真,但在失去的过程中也有纯真。

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话,缺点是,如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上,那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.

我不在乎别人怎么说。坚持戏剧的精神,你就做对了。它是关于拥抱文本的精神,而不是思考一些事情。

When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

刚开始的时候,我们就知道这部剧会成功或失败,我们需要找到一个核心观众来让我们生存下去。我认为我们已经做到了。

We're very excited that Downs is bringing this forward. We've been waiting for it for some time. It's filling a need ... in the region.

我们很高兴唐斯能把这个想法提出来。我们已经等了一段时间了。它在满足一种需求……在该地区。

I got a problem and I don't know what to do about it. Even if I did, I don't know if I would quit but I doubt it.

我遇到了一个问题,我不知道该怎么办。即使我辞职了,我也不知道自己是否会辞职,但我对此表示怀疑。

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

一切讽刺都无视于腐朽解放出来的力量。这就是为什么完全的腐朽吸收了讽刺的力量。

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

几乎所有的人都能忍受逆境,但如果你想测试一个人的性格,给他力量。

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

我有时认为,自由的代价与其说是永远的警惕,不如说是永远的肮脏。

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

无论你如何努力,你都无法消灭人类心灵永恒的遗产——爱。

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

即使你开始时的希望破灭了,希望也必须保持。

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

先生,请您好看一点……那边的东西不是巨人,而是风车。

Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.

在爱的关系中抚养孩子是最重要的。

When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.

当你和一个人在一起很舒服的时候,你就不会去寻找其他人。

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

的确,除了喝酒,忧郁应该用任何方法来转移。

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

如果我们不约束自己,世界就会替我们约束自己。

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

写得好的人生几乎和过得好的人生一样罕见。

Sometimes it lasts in love but sometimes it hurts instead.

有时候爱能持久,但有时候爱又如此伤人。

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

生命-保存身体免于腐烂的精神腌黄瓜。

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

这台电脑可以做任何你编程让它做的事情。

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

与其干坐着做个讨厌的老家伙,还不如去。

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

没有人比那些失去热情的人更老了。

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

只有罪犯和吸血者才会奖励不良行为。

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

如果没有希望,我的心会碎的。

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

我们年老时为青春的挥霍付出代价。

Lying can never save us from another lie.

谎言永远不能把我们从另一个谎言中拯救出来。

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

忧郁和狂喜一样诱人。

I didn't have any great job prospects.

我没有什么好的工作前景。