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永恒
Eternal
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
我有时认为,自由的代价与其说是永远的警惕,不如说是永远的肮脏。
The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.
目标是一个幸福的生活,一个有成就的生活,不是以死亡结束,而是以永生结束。
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
二十不能期望六十能容忍所有的事情,六十对二十的永恒的爱情感到厌烦。
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
我们生活在一个信仰和意识形态变化和冲突的时代。但是,人类同情的福音是普遍的、永恒的。
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
现代性是短暂的,稍纵即逝的,偶然的;它是艺术的一半,另一半是永恒的、不可改变的。
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
现代性意味着短暂的、瞬息万变的、偶然的,艺术的一半是永恒的,另一半是不可改变的。
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
地狱和永恒的惩罚是人类头脑中最荒谬、最令人不快的想法。
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
一个舒适的晚年是一个度过美好青春的奖赏。它不会给我们带来衰败的凄凉前景,而会给我们带来在更美好的世界里永葆青春的希望。
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
第三个在现代世界中流行的理想是对理性的依赖,尤其是由现代科学训练和丰富的理性。人类交往的永恒基础是理性。
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
我认为,通过把事物想象成从一个永恒的外部世界进入时间的洪流,而不是把时间看作是吞噬一切的暴君,才能获得一个更真实的世界形象。
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
你不想去爱——你那永恒而不正常的渴望就是被爱。你不是积极的,你是消极的。你吸收,吸收,好像你必须用爱来填满自己,因为你在某个地方缺少爱。
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
没有将来,也没有过去,只有永恒的现在,永存。
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
恨不能因恨而止息,只能因爱而止息;这是永恒的法则。
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
艺术不可能是现代的。艺术最初是永恒的。
I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.
我认为热爱生活是永葆青春的关键。
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
无论你如何努力,你都无法消灭人类心灵永恒的遗产——爱。