Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

老年，特别是受人尊敬的老年，具有极大的权威，它比青年时代的一切乐趣更有价值。

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

老年:我在朋友的葬礼上睡着了。

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

老年:生命的皇冠，我们戏剧的最后一幕。

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

你知道，老年人就是这样。认为自己爱上了某人会让他们觉得自己很重要。

Old wine and friends improve with age.

陈酒味醇，老友情深。

Older, we must move, and stay, and move again, to keep our life-giving ties alive, for this movement is our fountain of age. And there's a freedom in realizing this, a new freedom to move or stay, new necessities and possibilities of choice.

随着年龄的增长，我们必须行动，停留，再行动，以保持我们赋予生命的纽带的活力，因为这一行动是我们年龄的源泉。意识到这一点是一种自由，一种迁移或停留的新自由，一种新的需要和选择的可能性。

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

总的来说，对于那些进入抽象世界——艺术、哲学或学问——的人来说，年龄来得更温柔一些。在这些领域里，岁月很少被注意到，年轻人和老年人可以在暗淡而真实的光线中相遇。

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

有一次，我打算写一本关于我口袋里所有东西的诗集。但我发现时间太长了;伟大史诗的时代已经过去。

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

一旦你得到了正确的图像，细节就不那么重要了。

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

对年老的一种补偿是，它使你不再去野餐。

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

光辉人生中忙碌的一个小时抵得上碌碌无为的一生。

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

毕竟，当一个人学习一个社会的语言时，他就承担了这个社会所赋予的许多东西。

One is always of his age and especially he who least appears so.

一个人总是和他的年龄相仿，尤其是他最不显老。

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

人总是忘记年老，直到生命的尽头。

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an "old" young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

一个人喜欢认为自己随着年龄的增长而成长，否则你得到的只是一个“老”的年轻作家。除此之外，还有不断变化的宇宙景观和我选择讲述的故事。