The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

  • -- Leon Edel 艾德尔

应对衰老的方法是让自己的大脑忙碌起来,继续过着永无止境的生活。我一直很钦佩契诃夫,因为他在死于肺结核的时候盖了一栋新房子。

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I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.

当我遇到超现实主义者和达达主义者时,我还是个小男孩。我钦佩他们,这就是他们教给我的:要钦佩。赞赏是非常重要的。不能欣赏别人的人失去了灵魂的重要部分。我的灵魂在很小的时候就通过与受人尊敬的人的接触而发展起来。

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

这意味着思想或精神存在于任何地方,因为它不依附于任何特定的地方。它之所以能保持存在,是因为即使当它与这个或那个物体相联系时,它也不会因为反射而依附于它,从而失去它最初的灵活性。

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

我很小的时候就自学了音乐,所以当我开始在学校上课的时候,老师经常给我其他乐器让我忙碌,因为我比其他孩子更先进。

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

我对这个问题的开玩笑的回答是,我每天晚上都会在后院的门廊上放一碗牛奶给“点子仙女”喝。早上,牛奶不见了,碗边出现了一个崭新的闪亮想法。

So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing... And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.

所以,是的,如果可以的话,我确实想继续努力。我有几件事要做……如果没有发生,我不久前确实买了一辆冰淇淋车。所以我总是要依靠它。

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

当你结婚的时候,问自己这个问题:你相信在你年老的时候你能和这个人很好地交谈吗?婚姻中的其他一切都是短暂的。

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

当你初来乍到的时候,你会想,如果你的表现真的很差,他们就会把它印出来。你将受到审判。你只需要勇敢。

The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

布里斯托尔海峡一直是我的向导,我总能从我的床上画一条想象的线到我们在威尔士的家。这是极大的安慰。

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

在一些无辜人民正在死亡的国家,领导人是在追随他们的鲜血,而不是他们的头脑。

I knew the answer, and of course so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

我知道答案,拉美西斯当然也知道。他有极好的呼吸控制能力,总是走在我前面。

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

改变的秘诀是把你所有的精力都集中在建设新事物上,而不是与旧事物作斗争。

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

失去理智是多么可怕的事啊。或者根本没有头脑。这是多么正确啊。

Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It's nothing to be admired.

信仰意味着有目的地中止批判性思维。没什么好羡慕的。

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

我想到了死亡。我开始意识到我们都会以这样或那样的方式孤独地死去。

Always remember: you were born because you're going to be important to someone.

永远记住:你的出生是因为你对别人很重要。

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

作为一个社会,我们没有花那么多时间来建设公民互联网。

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

魅力是一种不用问清楚问题就能得到肯定答案的方法。

Looking back Shorty always mention said me not giving her much attention.

回头看小矮子总是说我没怎么注意她。

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

新思想常常被研究和分析,直到它们被扼杀。

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

最近的过去似乎总是被灾难摧毁。

I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

我忙着玩,无暇顾及动作和指板。

The house roof fights the rain, but he who is sheltered ignores it.

房顶防雨,避雨的人却不避雨。

If drama follows you wherever you go, maybe you are the drama.

如果你走到哪里,戏剧就跟到哪里,也许你就是戏剧。

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

去看看,自己去看看为什么你不应该去看看。

Things could have been different. I wish they were.

事情本可以有所不同。但愿如此。

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.

当我和平地掌权时,我也将保持它。

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

我喜欢契诃夫。我可以整天围着他转。

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

他植树是为了造福下一代。

The trick is growing up without growing old.

诀窍是在不变老的情况下成长。

No one has developed active tuberculosis.

目前还没有人患上活动性结核病。