A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
子孙后代
Posterity
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
后代的功能是照顾自己。
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
如果征服不能约束子孙后代，那么契约也不能约束子孙后代。
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
智慧人的著作是我们后代唯一不能挥霍的财富。
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
在被众多出版商拒绝后，他决定为子孙后代写作。
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
当我们为后代做打算时，我们应该记住美德不是遗传的。
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
我们总是在为后代做一些事情，但我希望看到后代为我们做一些事情。
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
既然我们不能活得长久，那就让我们把至少还活过的一些纪念留给后代吧。
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
这是子孙后代的特权，使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
我想人们不会因为什么而记住我。但我不会用这些术语来思考我的工作。为子孙后代而工作和为金钱而工作一样庸俗。
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
我希望后代对我的评价是仁慈的，不仅对我所解释的事情，而且对那些我故意省略的事情，以便留给别人去发现的乐趣。
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
后代不太可能爱上我们，但也不是不可能尊重或同情我们;所以一个人宁愿留下他的精神画像，也不愿留下他的脸画像。