Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

岁月不待人。这是一句浮夸而自满的谚语,在过去的十亿年里一直适用;但在我们有电线和压载水的日子里,我们使它回转:人不等待时间,也不等待潮汐。

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We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

我们没有看到真正做事情的人得到足够的支持。我们经常看到政客们在同一时间无处不在。你认识这样的人:你在电视上到处都能看到他们,但却看不到他们出现在你面前。

I can be inappropriate at times..

我有时会不合适。