It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

  • -- Colley Cibber 西伯

缺席者需要时间才能在我们的思想中呈现出他们真实的形象。死后,他们有一个更坚定的轮廓,然后停止改变。

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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

我向所有因我们过去的不幸而遭受痛苦的人表示诚挚的慰问和深切的同情。借助历史的后见之明,我们都可以看到我们希望以不同的方式或根本不这样做的事情。

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

由于长命百岁,我经历过许多这样的事例:由于获得了更好的信息或更充分的考虑,我不得不改变自己的观点,甚至在一些重要的问题上也是如此。我曾经认为这些观点是正确的,但后来发现事实并非如此。

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

创造的过程一直在进行。当我完成时,我觉得我知道这个角色在任何情况下都会做什么。但这部分的构建既不是机械的,也不是刻意的。它来自于文本。

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

在每一个时代,诗人和社会改革家都试图通过讲述古代英雄的美德来激励他们那个时代的人们过上更高尚的生活。

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

爱是完全没有恐惧。爱情不问问题。它的自然状态是一种延伸和扩张,而不是比较和测量。

You never forget your first true love. Either the scars they left behind stay there forever, or your heart never beats the same way again.

你永远不会忘记你的初恋。要么他们留下的伤疤永远留在那里,要么你的心脏再也不会以同样的方式跳动。

Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow.

没有什么是一成不变的。今天的旧,明天的会是新的。今天的新东西明天就会被遗忘。

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

在良心上,先思而后行。在谨慎的问题上,最后的想法是最好的。

Of all the forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

在所有谨慎的形式中,谨慎的爱情可能是对真正的幸福最致命的。

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

离别使两颗心靠得更近。