It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

  • -- Tom Lehrer 汤姆·莱勒

想想莫扎特在我这个年纪时就已经去世一年了,真是发人深省。

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

我们可以把每一代人看作是一个独特的民族,他们有权利,按照大多数人的意愿,约束自己,但没有人比另一个国家的居民更能约束后代。

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

我在你们那里所听见的,比这更美。我与你们所擘开的,比这更美。我既没有你,一切都是荒凉的。曾经那么美丽的一切都已不复存在。

The future started yesterday and we're already late.

未来从昨天开始,我们已经迟到了。

People have already dirtied my name too much.

人们已经把我的名字弄得太脏了。

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

浪漫主义者认为常识是庸俗的。

Music helps me be not dead.

音乐帮助我不死。