A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  • -- Maurice Chevalier 墨利斯·雪佛莱

一个舒适的晚年是一个度过美好青春的奖赏。它不会给我们带来衰败的凄凉前景,而会给我们带来在更美好的世界里永葆青春的希望。

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I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

我知道生命中最重要的是什么。我知道,仅仅因为我在银幕上假扮了两个小时的别人,并不能让我成为比别人更好的人。所以,我介意这些。简单的事情。

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

几个世纪以来,世界各地的许多机构都在尝试这种方法。他们强迫人们参加只有一个目的的考试,那就是消灭异议。

I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

我喜欢带来其他文化的色彩和纹理。如果我在红毯上穿一件从巴厘岛街头小贩那里买来的裙子,这是我带着旅行的一种方式。

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

到了下午,他们进入了一片土地——但是这片土地!一片笼罩在哀悼之中的土地,被巨大的柏树遮蔽,淹没了;爬行动物的土地,寂静,阴影,腐朽。

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

所有的变化,即使是最渴望的变化,都有其忧郁之处;因为我们留下的是我们自身的一部分;我们必须先死一种生命,才能进入另一种生命。

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

奖励一个多年来拥有如此多快乐的人,让玉米植株解决特定的问题,然后观察它的反应,似乎是不公平的。

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

当我即将获得经济学学位时,我接受了这样一个事实:我将是一个糟糕的商人。如果我不尝试一下演戏,我将后悔一辈子。

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

很少有战士会考虑到赛马的问题,当他们没有马的时候,就会被放到牧场上,带着尊严和舒适地老去。

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

我已经长成一只了不起的天鹅了。随着年龄的增长,我可能会变得越来越漂亮,直到死于美貌。

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

我年轻的时候觉得老,现在觉得年轻。也许这是我的想法,但我更有弹性,更轻盈。

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

我是一个浪漫;一个多愁善感的人认为事情会长久,一个浪漫的人对事情不会长久充满希望。

I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

我更愿意知道,我很有可能会失败。我已经习惯了。

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

当你开始使用你忽略了的感官时,你的回报就是用全新的视角看世界。

Instead of asking "what do I want from life?" a more powerful question is "what does life want from me?

与其问“我想从生活中得到什么?”,不如问“生活想从我身上得到什么?”

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us.

教育的目的是使我们能够最大限度地发展我们内在的东西。

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

我从没想过有一天女孩们会在她们现在的地方被晒伤。

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

预算告诉我们什么是我们负担不起的,但它不会阻止我们购买它。

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

歌剧是一个人被背后捅了一刀,他没有死,而是唱歌。

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

写得好的人生几乎和过得好的人生一样罕见。

I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.

我认为热爱生活是永葆青春的关键。

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.

一个人所希望的总是比他所拥有的要好。

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams.

因为月亮的光芒总会带给我梦想。

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

艺术不可能是现代的。艺术最初是永恒的。

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

我唱歌比说话舒服多了。

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

我们只是说给和平一个机会。

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

忧郁是悲伤的快乐。

Without music life would be a mistake.

没有音乐,生活将是一个错误。

I didn't have any great job prospects.

我没有什么好的工作前景。

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

进步,这一伟大的腐朽异端。

This world's a bubble.

这个世界是个泡沫。