A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
老
Old
I've gotten crankier in my old age.
我老了,脾气越来越暴躁了。
We get too soon old and too late smart.
我们老得太早,聪明得太晚。
I am not old but mellow like good wine.
我不老了,但像好酒一样醇厚。
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
和我一起变老!最好的还在后头。
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
随着年龄的增长,内在的美悄然而至。
No man is ever old enough to know better.
再老的人也不会懂得更多。
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
我们年老时为青春的挥霍付出代价。
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
结交一位老朋友,需要漫长的岁月。
Education is the best provision for old age.
教育是老年最好的保障。
The trick is growing up without growing old.
诀窍是在不变老的情况下成长。
A buckle is a great addition to an old shoe.
皮带扣是旧鞋的一个很好的补充。
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
老年只是一个人一生的记录。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
当优雅和皱纹结合在一起时,它是可爱的。幸福的晚年有一个说不出的黎明。
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
应对衰老的方法是让自己的大脑忙碌起来,继续过着永无止境的生活。我一直很钦佩契诃夫,因为他在死于肺结核的时候盖了一栋新房子。
When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.
当我听到这个消息时,我意识到时间过得真快,每个人都在自己的旅途中,他们总是令人难以置信,他们从不去你认为他们会带你去的地方,坦白地说,这也让我觉得自己有点老了。
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
相信我,老年是一件美好而愉快的事情。诚然,你被轻轻地推下了舞台,但随后你作为观众得到了一个如此舒适的前排座位。
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
当你的黑名册上所有的名字后面都有医学博士的名字时,你就知道你老了。
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
老年本身就有足够的畸形。这决不应该给他们增添罪恶的丑恶。