A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
死亡和死亡
Death And Dying
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
死亡使我们成为天使，在我们肩膀光滑如乌鸦爪子的地方给了我们翅膀。
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
这么多人来参加他的葬礼，是因为他们想确认他已经死了。
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
我们遇见霍尔博士时，他沉浸在深深的悲痛之中，不是他的母亲，就是他的妻子，或者他自己一定已经去世了。
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
我通过谈话恢复了健康。死神插不上一句话，变得灰心丧气，继续往前走。
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
当一个人死了，书中的一章没有被撕掉，而是被翻译成更好的语言。
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
如果我比其他人更关心死亡，那可能是因为我比他们更热爱生活。
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
要想出名，就不要害怕别人的指责。对责难的恐惧等于天才的死亡。
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
阿公路，我说回来我不怕离开你，但我爱你，你表达我比我能表达自己。
Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
死亡和出生一样是偶然的，也常常是出人意料的。悲伤和快乐一样难以定义。都是有限的。每个会褪色。
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory.
一个垂死的民族容忍现在，拒绝未来，在过去的伟大和半记忆的荣耀中找到满足。
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
任何人的死亡都使我渺小，因为我与人类息息相关;因此，永远不要派人去打听丧钟为谁而鸣;它为你收费。
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
人的本性是如此倾向于那些处于有趣处境的人，因此，一个年轻人，不管他是结婚了还是去世了，肯定会被人亲切地谈论。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
我不睡觉。我讨厌那些死亡的碎片。
Death is terrible to Cicero, desirable to Cato, and indifferent to Socrates.
死亡对西塞罗是可怕的，对卡托是可取的，对苏格拉底却是漠不关心的。
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
电影的吸引力在于对死亡的恐惧。
The goal of all life is death.
所有生命的目标都是死亡。
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest.
如果崇高的死亡是美德的最主要部分，那么我们比所有人都更幸运，我们带着自由的皇冠为希腊而奋斗，我们死了，在无尽的荣耀中安息。
Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.
从来没有造成他人死亡的人，很少会去评价一座雕像。