A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

  • -- Norman MacCaig 麦凯格

变老的可怕之处在于你的朋友开始死去,在过去的十年里,我失去了七八个最亲密的朋友。

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Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

苦难把他们从温文尔雅的生活中唤醒,每天都使他们陶醉其中。他们现在已经超越了他们自己;我们所爱的只是快乐的影子。

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

滑翔机,驾驶飞机,它们是很棒的飞行机器。这是你最接近鸟类的方式。

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

我是个糟糕的演员。我头脑中分析的部分从未完全放松。

Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.

游艇是平民最接近主权的地方。