A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

-- Norman MacCaig 麦凯格

变老的可怕之处在于你的朋友开始死去，在过去的十年里，我失去了七八个最亲密的朋友。

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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

在一个以生产为导向的社会里，人们通常认为什么都不做，什么都不做很难。最好的办法是把它伪装成在做某件事，而最接近无所事事的事情就是走路。

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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

接球手必须想接球。他必须下定决心，这并不是一份糟糕的工作，他也不会每天都说，‘为什么，哦，为什么我要在棒球界担任这么多其他的职位。’

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One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

一个人在可怕的每日最后期限的铁砧上锻造自己的风格。

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Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.

游艇是平民最接近主权的地方。

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