The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

  • -- Marcel Proust 马塞尔·普鲁斯特

我们每天支配的时间是有弹性的;我们所感受到的激情使它膨胀,那些激励我们的激情使它收缩,习惯使它充满。

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The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

亚撒其馀的事,凡他所行的,和他的勇力,并他所建造的城邑,都写在犹大列王记上。然而年老的时候,他的脚生了病。

The unexpected thing, the miraculous thing, is when a car that's been shattered in a crash, that's been left in the rain to rust for years at a time, can be coaxed to growl to a start and slowly begin rolling down the hill.

令人意想不到的是,不可思议的是,当一辆车在车祸中被撞得粉碎,在雨中生锈多年,可以被哄着咆哮着开始慢慢地滚下山坡。