What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

使人难以忍受老年之苦的不是一个人智力和身体的衰退,而是一个人记忆的负担。

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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

当你的孩子都很健康、相对正常的时候,工作和养家就已经够辛苦的了,但当你加上某种残疾或疾病时,这就会成为一种负担。

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

人类的未来是有星星的,这个未来太重要了,不能被幼稚的愚蠢和无知的迷信所蒙蔽。

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

那些最不拿自己开玩笑的人,会被别人的笑话逗乐。

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

打起精神来,我的孩子,打起精神来;掌管和指挥一切的宙斯在天上仍然是强大的。