A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
永生
Immortality
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
孩子是我们唯一可以肯定的永生形式。
Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
我承认永生是不可能的。但总得有人做第一。
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
不为任何物质所扰的人已达到不朽。
Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
自从我们有了历史以来，人类一直在追求不朽的理想。
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
永生唯一的错误在于它倾向于永远存在。
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
灵魂不朽的学说与其说是安慰不如说是威胁。
The photograph, for all its promised immortality, always hinted at death.
尽管这张照片被认为是不朽的，但它总是暗示着死亡。
Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.
衡量生命的尺度不是你呼吸的次数，而是生命中那些激动人心的时刻。
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
我不想通过我的工作获得不朽。我想通过不死来实现它。
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
如果某样东西因为你而活在别人身上，那么你就接近了不朽。
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
在艺术上著名的人分享了王子的不朽，并与他们建立了基础。
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
数百万渴望长生不老的人，却不知道在一个下着雨的星期天下午做些什么。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
我不相信人能长生不老;我唯一想要的就是通过我的书来了解这种事情。
The only greatness for man is immortality.
人类唯一的伟大是不朽。
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
有些人把散文家的部分写得很好，因而在这一过程中获得了不朽的成就;但是我们没有很多这样的书，它们在我们的书架上只占一个可怜的数字。遗憾的是，事情竟如此发展，因为一位优秀的散文家是你能想象到的最愉快的伴侣。
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
当一个高尚的生命已经准备好步入老年，它所揭示的并不是衰微，而是不朽的最初日子。
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
不朽:一个人们为之哭泣，为之跪拜，为之争辩，为之争辩，为之说谎的玩具，如果允许的话，它将是值得永远为之骄傲的东西。
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
每个生命都有自己不朽的见证。