The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

  • -- John Millington Synge 辛格

敏锐的人的悲痛并不是对一个女人八十多年的死亡的个人抱怨,而是包含了潜藏在岛上每一个本地人身上的全部激情的愤怒。

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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

当我年轻的时候,我对普鲁塔克所说的老卡托在八十岁时开始学希腊语感到惊讶。我不再感到惊讶了。老年人愿意承担年轻人逃避的任务,因为这些任务耗时太长。

Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware.

在一百个从事精神生活的人当中,有八十人是江湖骗子,十五人是疯子,也许只有五个人能看到真正的真相。因此要小心。