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忧郁
Melancholy
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
我喜欢一种忧郁,喜欢成为爱情的牺牲品。
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
我是一个有点忧郁的孩子,我认为电影是我逃避的一种方式。
We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.
我们面临着一个悲哀的两难境地,既不能缔造和平,也不能发动战争。
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
毕业典礼是欢乐的时刻。这也是一个忧郁的时刻。但话说回来,生活也是如此。
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
许多忧郁已降临到人类身上,我憎恶强权终将胜利。
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
悲伤面前低头是愚蠢的;忧郁无益;⊙、思之痛苦不如饮之觉之陡峭。
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
所有的变化,即使是最渴望的变化,都有其忧郁之处;因为我们留下的是我们自身的一部分;我们必须先死一种生命,才能进入另一种生命。
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
这个忧郁的伦敦——我有时想象,亡者的灵魂被迫永远在街上游荡。人们感到它们像一股空气一样飘过。
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。
I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.
我不知道我射过多少狮子和豹子。我已经射杀了两头大象,这就够了——再也不会了。猎象是一件令人伤感和感动的事。这就像射杀一个老人。
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I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities.
我总是被忧郁的性格所吸引。
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
永远不要给忧郁让路;要坚决抵制,因为习惯会侵蚀你。
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
我感到我呼吸着一种悲伤的气氛。
I'm so involved in melancholy.
我沉浸在忧郁中。
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
的确,除了喝酒,忧郁应该用任何方法来转移。