The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

-- Derek Walcott 沃尔科特

历史的叹息从废墟中升起，而不是从风景中升起。在安的列斯群岛，除了糖园和废弃堡垒的废墟外，几乎没有什么废墟值得叹息。

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

不再有用的旧书和不再给人带来快乐的老朋友，都不应该被抛弃。

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No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

没有人能在一月份下定决心后，在二月份就放弃了，从而在经济上保持健康。

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

一首诗永远写不完，只会被遗弃。

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God afflicts, but does not abandon.

神是苦炼人，却不丢弃人。

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