Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  • -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 西塞罗

年老时的忠告是愚蠢的;因为,有什么比我们越接近旅程的终点,就为道路增加给养更荒唐的事呢?

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I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

我很惊讶为什么每个人都想知道我的爱情生活。他们低声对我说:‘跟我说实话?是真的吗?“谁在乎呢?因为我们有这份工作,我们就得告诉每个人我们在做什么,或者和谁睡觉?这有点荒谬,但这就是为什么每个人都爱说谎。

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

我不反对设计一个新的养恤金制度,其中一个部分是以集体规定为基础的,但也鼓励人们采取额外的个人计划。

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

如果我有两块蛋糕,我的体验会不会是第一块蛋糕的两倍?我在生活中发现的一件事是,第一块蛋糕是最好的。

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.

偶尔这条路又长又颠簸——我仍在旅途中——但我总觉得家乡就在我身后,我既感激又自豪。

We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.

我们在旅途中,在我们停留的地方,都发现他们对我们很有信心,也很友好,就像他们认识我们一辈子一样。

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

我们买威士忌的钱比我们买酒的钱还多;毕竟,这是一项非常有利可图的投资。

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

人是多么荒谬啊!他们从不使用他们拥有的自由,他们要求他们没有的自由。他们有思想自由,他们要求言论自由。

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

不惜一切代价去夺取胜利,不惧一切恐怖去夺取胜利,不论前路再长再苦也要去夺取胜利;因为没有胜利,就没有生存。

We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all the new shops.

我们对老城区发生的事情感到非常自豪。我们看到那里的新商店大大增加了交通流量。

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

我相信自然有稳定的美和效用法则。春天要播种,秋天要收获,直到时间的尽头。

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

愚蠢的一致性是小人物的妖怪,为小政治家、哲学家和神祗所崇拜。

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

一个甜蜜庄严的念头,一次又一次地向我走来;我今天比以往任何时候都离家更近了。

Sometimes it's not that two people aren't right for eachother. It's more like the timing wasn't right.

有时候并不是两个人不适合彼此。更像是时机不对。

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

在花园门口总是有道德的土狼,在街道的尽头总是有真正的狼。

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

没有公式。写每首歌都是一个小小的旅程。第一个音符要把你举起来。

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

每隔一段时间,你必须增加你的个人资料,这样你就可以让它再次降低,就像气球一样。

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

很少有人会否认诗歌的一个优点:它比散文言简意赅。

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

爱恨我们的人比爱我们的人更接近我们。

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

我的想象中没有比继续为艺术而活更美好的幸福了。

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

我有我妈的病,黄斑变性,你老了就会得。

Pass down the good that I do unto you when you are done with it.

你们享福的时候,要将我所赐给你们的福分传下去。

I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

我有一些我表演的老视频。

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

对爱要比对任何事都谨慎一点。

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

不聪明的人总是找替罪羊。

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

这个世界只是我们想象的一块画布。