Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  • -- Robert Browning 罗伯特·布朗宁

也许一个人要到很老的时候才能学会被逗乐而不是被震惊。

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It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.

其实很有趣,因为那还是我们约会的时候。他会接到所有这些电话,因为据说在我们分手之前,我们已经在交易中分手了,在破衣烂衫中分手了。

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

就像干燥的树叶在狂风肆虐前飞舞,当它们遇到障碍物时,就会飞上天空。于是他们带着装满玩具的雪橇,还有圣尼古拉,飞上了屋顶。

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

我宁愿让他认为太阳绕着地球转,星星在明亮的蓝色天空中闪烁着那么多的光芒,也不愿让他把这件事放在心上。

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

我只是去看了太多的电影,坐在太多的日场里看那些老连续剧。

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

我真的宁愿在车管所排很长的队也不愿意和不认识的人一起吃饭。

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

变老只不过是一个忙碌的人没有时间养成的坏习惯。