A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory.

  • -- John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克

一个垂死的民族容忍现在,拒绝未来,在过去的伟大和半记忆的荣耀中找到满足。

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

在我看来,如果你或我必须在两种思想或行动之间做出选择,我们应该记住我们的死亡,并努力活着,使我们的死亡不会给世界带来快乐。

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

从好的方面来说,死亡是少数几件躺下就能轻松完成的事情之一。