All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

  • -- Anatole France 阿纳托尔·法朗士

所有的变化,即使是最渴望的变化,都有其忧郁之处;因为我们留下的是我们自身的一部分;我们必须先死一种生命,才能进入另一种生命。

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We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

我们不应该把自己想象成地球的统治者,而应该想象成高度强大、有意识的管家:地球是托付给我们的,我们可以把它搞砸,或者让它运转良好、可持续。

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

因为,什么都不期待的人不会失望,但期待太多的人——如果他日复一日地生活和使用手中的东西——将会被压垮。

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

我们的欲望总是使我们失望;因为虽然我们遇到了一些让我们满意的事情,但它从来没有完全满足我们的期望。

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

悲伤面前低头是愚蠢的;忧郁无益;⊙、思之痛苦不如饮之觉之陡峭。

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

我们是如此习惯于掩饰与他人,以致于假以时日,我们来欺骗和掩饰与我们自己。

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

毕业典礼是欢乐的时刻。这也是一个忧郁的时刻。但话说回来,生活也是如此。

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.

我们面临着一个悲哀的两难境地,既不能缔造和平,也不能发动战争。

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

因此,年少轻狂的我爱上了忧郁。