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Absence
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
我的工作就是问问题——过去总是这样——并尽可能无情地问问题。并以某种谦卑的态度面对缺乏精确答案的情况。
How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have i felt, what dark days seen, what old december's bareness everywhere!
我的离去多么像一个冬天。从你,流年的快乐!我感到了怎样的寒冷,看见了怎样的黑暗的日子,到处是多么古老的十二月的空旷!
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.
人们认为责任很难承担。它不是。我认为有时候是缺乏责任感更让人难以忍受。你有一种强烈的无力感。
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
让我告诉你,久别重逢使我对你更加了解,就像人们在长期的痛苦中对自己更加了解一样。
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of
分手的恋人用一千种幻想欺骗分离,这些幻想都有它们自己的现实。他们不能相见,也不能写作;然而,他们找到了无数神秘的通信方式,通过发送对方的歌曲
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A short absence is safest
短暂的离开是最安全的
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
离开我们所爱的人就是离开自我——一种致命的放逐。
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.
离别会减弱平庸的情感,却会增强伟大的情感,就像风吹灭蜡烛,点燃火焰一样。
I dote on his very absence.
我特别喜欢他不在。
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.
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。
Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.
有时候,我需要的只有你能提供——你的缺席。