Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

虽然大家都知道，我想是时候宣布我很早就出生了。

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

无论一个时代有多么残酷，它的风格总是只传达它的音乐。

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to.

在这个年龄，许多人并不十分平凡——他们对成就充满希望，坚决地回避，认为财富永远不会进入他们的嘴里，永远不会骑在他们的背上，而应该是财富，如果他们有什么需要的话。

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

一个不能写诗的时代，除了颓废者的聪明才智之外，什么文学也不能写。

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

考古学家是女人能拥有的最好的丈夫。她年纪越大，他对她越感兴趣。

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

艺术家必须是反动分子。他必须站出来反对这个时代的男高音，而不是随波逐流。

An old wrinkle never wears out.

老皱纹永远不会消失。

And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

约阿施的儿子基甸年纪老迈，死在亚比以谢族的俄弗拉，葬在他父亲约阿施的坟墓里。

And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

耶罗波安的妻就这样行，起身往示罗去，到了亚希雅的家。亚希雅不能看见。因为他年纪老迈，眼目发直。

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

几乎每一个人，当年老、疾病或悲伤袭击他时，都倾向于认为有一个上帝，或有一些非常像他的东西。

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

为了活着而愤怒地死去。

And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

他年纪老迈，日子满足，富有尊荣而死。他儿子所罗门接续他作王。

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

他必使你痊愈，作你年老的养料。因为你的儿妇爱你，比生了七个儿子还好。

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

最后，你生命中的岁月并不重要。这就是你这些年来的生活。

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

在这里，我们的责任不仅是思考一个时期，或几个人的生命，或世界上一个正在逝去的时代。