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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Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

嗯,任何人第一次尝试乘气球环游世界的可能性都不大。我们所有试图乘坐气球环游世界的人都是乘坐实验飞行器,因为这些飞行器无法进行测试。

A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

音乐家不能感动别人,除非他自己也被感动。他必须感受到他希望在听众中引起的所有影响,因为他自己的幽默的流露将会在听众中激起同样的幽默。

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

当我嫁给琼并生了几个儿子后,我获得了人生中最重要的东西。在琼和男孩们之间做出选择,当一名作家,我毫不犹豫地放弃了写作。

When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

刚开始的时候,我们就知道这部剧会成功或失败,我们需要找到一个核心观众来让我们生存下去。我认为我们已经做到了。

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

在世界各地的主要乐团都深陷各种危机和动荡之际,我们需要确保我们正在培养这一代新人。

I don't mind if my girl is big or small. If she's skinny i would be able to pick her up, if she's big i would just have kenny pick her up.

我不介意我的女儿是大是小。如果她很瘦,我就能把她抱起来,如果她很胖,我就让肯尼把她抱起来。

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

你的朋友会在你遇见的第一分钟就更了解你,而你的熟人在一千年后也不会了解你。

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

二十不能期望六十能容忍所有的事情,六十对二十的永恒的爱情感到厌烦。

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 came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

当你来的时候,你哭了,每个人都高兴地笑了;当你微笑着离开,让世界为你哭泣。

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

没有比这更好的结局了。当然,如果我们赢了,那就更好了。

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

我有时认为,自由的代价与其说是永远的警惕,不如说是永远的肮脏。

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

我觉得自己很性感。如果你对它感到舒服,它可以是非常优雅和吸引人的。

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

对一个人辛勤劳动的最高奖赏不是他得到了什么,而是他通过劳动变成了什么。

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

我是一个有点忧郁的孩子,我认为电影是我逃避的一种方式。

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

你老了,不能再输了。当你年轻的时候,你会从失败中振作起来。

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。

I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.

我更倾向于做下一章的人,而不是做最后一章的人。

I'm tired of getting my hopes up for things that i know will never happen.

我厌倦了对那些我知道永远不会发生的事情抱有希望。

One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.

有一件事你不能对婴儿做,你不能给他们牛排。

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。

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

中年是无邪的青春,老年是无朽的老年。

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

这台电脑可以做任何你编程让它做的事情。

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。

Old age is no place for sissies.

年老不是娘娘腔的地方。

Melancholy is no bad thing.

忧郁不是坏事。

Love is its own reward.

爱本身就是奖赏。