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永生
Immortality
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Heaven is so far of the Mind That were the Mind dissolved— The Site—of it—by Architect Could not again be proved— 'Tis vast—as our Capacity— As fair—as our idea— To Him of adequate desire No further 'tis, than Here—
心有多远,天就有多远 那是心灵的溶解 由建筑师设计的场地 不能再被证明—— 这是广大的-作为我们的能力- 和我们的想法一样公平 给他足够的渴望 没有比这儿更远的地方了
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
正是数学本身的永葆青春,使它与其他科学令人不安的不朽性相区别。
Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.
不要试图永远活着。你不会成功的。
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
灵魂的不朽对我们是如此重要,如此深刻地影响着我们,以至于我们一定失去了对它漠不关心的所有感觉。
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
诗人说过,有孩子的原因是为了让自己长生不老。永生?现在我有五个孩子了,我唯一的希望就是在我死之前他们都离开家。
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。