Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

  • -- St. Jerome 圣杰罗姆

年过七十就像打仗一样。我们所有的朋友都去了或走了,我们在死亡和垂死的人之间生存,就像在战场上一样。

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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

我真的知道我想成为亚当,因为亚当是第一个男人。我选择蚂蚁是因为,如果发生核爆炸,蚂蚁会生存下来。

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

要么灵魂能在死亡中存活,要么不能,而且没有科学证据表明它能。

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

仅仅赢得一场战争是不够的;组织和平更为重要。

In war it is best to tie your horse to a strange manger.

在战争中,最好把你的马拴在一个陌生的马槽上。