A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
年龄
Age
He who has not God in himself cannot feel his absence.
没有神在自己里面的人,不能感觉到他的缺席。
You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.
当你失去所有的奇迹时,你就知道你老了。
Our real home is not in this world and never has been.
我们真正的家不在这个世界上,也从来没有去过。
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
一时的疯狂能弥补一个同意的年龄吗?
There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
有一种葡萄酒是随着年龄和经验而来的。
Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.
常识在年轻人和老年人之间各不相同。
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
没有人比那些失去热情的人更老了。
A lady of a 'certain age', which means Certainly aged.
“一定年龄”的女士,意思是一定老了。
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
灵魂部分存在于永恒,部分存在于时间。
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
没有比失败的婚姻更孤独的了。
I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
我总是说我出生得太晚,太老了。
I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.
我正处在你为一件小事而惊慌失措的年龄。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
四十岁的男人学会轻轻地关上他们再也不会回来的门。
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
青春是自然的馈赠,而年龄是艺术的杰作。
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
我们从未真正长大,我们只是学会了如何在公众面前表现。
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
变老是强制性的;成长是可以选择的。
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
和我一起变老!最好的还在后头。
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
随着年龄的增长,一大堆令人不快的小变化堆积在一起,而与老朋友分手是其中最痛苦的变化之一。