A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
一年
Year
Each year is a new year.
每年都是新的一年。
The days are long, but the years are short.
白天很长,但岁月很短。
Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
人生太短了,二十年都不可能是一个精力充沛的人。
A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year.
牛年,悲伤的一年;牛年,快乐的一年。
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
棒球多年来一直在变化。它变得温和。
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
对我来说,老年总是比我大十岁。
For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
一年来,我遇到了各种各样的怪人。
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
我祈求上帝保佑你健康长寿。
Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.
不管有没有选举,国会都不能休假一年。
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
我们可以每年选举市长和官员,但不能选举学者。
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
我已经活得够久了,无论是年岁还是成就。
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.
大约一年前,我突然写了一堆歌。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。
I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.
我和哥哥或朋友去打高尔夫球。我们通常去卵石或班登沙丘。有一年我们去了夏威夷。
The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.
未来四年,没有一周不讨论气候变化的。这是一个自然保守的问题。
And In the end, its not the years in your life its the life in your years.
最后,重要的不是你活了多少岁,而是你活了多少岁。
It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.
这是最令人惊讶的一年,因为我经历了一次奇妙的冒险,但我也有点同情那些被迫流亡的人,因为我太想念英格兰了。
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
总有某个特定的时刻,我们会意识到自己的青春已经逝去;但是,多年以后,我们知道那是很久以后的事了。