A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
年老时候
Old Age
Old age ain't no place for sissies.
年老可不是娘娘腔的地方。
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
五十岁的人都有一张他应得的脸。
We can study until old age and still not finish.
我们可以学习到老，但仍然没有完成。
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
当你考虑另一种选择时，老年并不是那么糟糕。
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
青年冒失莽撞;男子气概的斗争;年老是一种遗憾。
You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
如果他们停止使用你的血型，你就知道你老了。
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
老年是发生在一个人身上最意想不到的事情。
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
那些没有希望的人带着内心的忧郁度过晚年。
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
优雅而快乐地变老是一种罕见而又困难的成就。
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
关于老年最大的问题是害怕它会持续太久。
Growing old is more like a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
变老更像是一个忙碌的人没有时间养成的坏习惯。
I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
我一向看不起老年人。当我父亲开始显出衰老的迹象时，我很生他的气。
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He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.
在他的一生中(每个人的情况都不一样)，他来到了这样一个时代:根据一条神秘的法则，一个人要么把自己交给他的魔鬼，要么交给他的天才，这条法则命令他要么毁灭自己，要么超越自己。
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
但是，一个安祥、光明、可爱得像拉普兰的夜晚的老年，将把你领到你的坟墓里去。
When I was younger crying always seemed to be the answer. Now that I'm older crying seems to be the only option.
当我年轻的时候，哭似乎总是答案。现在我长大了，哭似乎是唯一的选择。
I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
我真的相信，执著于自己的影响力的老年人所造成的伤害，要比预料到这种影响力的年轻人所造成的伤害更大。
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
成年期是童年和老年之间不断缩小的时期。现代工业社会的明显目标是把这段时期减少到最低限度。
Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?
不知何故，当你想到自己年老时，你会觉得自己会变成一个完全不同的人，你甚至认不出来——因为你无法想象，你知道吗?