Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

我担心，很少有女人有这样的理由，让我不得不认为，为了中年而活在漫长而悲伤的青春岁月里是值得的。

Fight shy of the medicine which thy mother and thy father, thy sister and thy brother let out against thee, I shall cause thee to live unto old age!

你母亲、你父亲、你妹妹、你哥哥向你开出的药，我要使你活到老年。

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

污秽和年老，我相信你会同意的，是贞操的强有力的看守。

First women subtract from their age, then they divide it, and then they extract its square root.

首先女性从她们的年龄中减去，然后除以，然后再取平方根。

First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.

首先你忘记了名字，然后你忘记了面孔，然后你忘记拉上拉链，然后你忘记拉下拉链。

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

亚伯拉罕年老的时候，撒拉怀了孕，到了神所说的日期，给亚伯拉罕生了一个儿子。

For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.

对于年老和匮乏，要及时储蓄，朝阳难照一整天。

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

因为年龄和青春本身一样，都是机会，只不过是换了一件衣服罢了。随着暮色的消逝，天空布满了星星，白天是看不见的。

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?

因为老年是人生中最远离婴儿期的时期，谁不知道，在这个普遍的人身上，老年不应该在离他出生最近的时候去寻找，而应该在离他出生最遥远的时候去寻找呢?

For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.

因为每一个时代都是一个即将死去的梦想，或者一个即将诞生的梦想。

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.

因为每一个时代都以幻想为食，惟恐人们过早地放弃生命，人类就会走向灭亡。

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

因为说到底，自由是个人的、孤独的战斗;一个人要放下今天的恐惧，这样明天的恐惧才会被激发起来。

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

对无学问的人来说，老年是冬天;对有学问的人来说，这是收获的季节。

For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

那时，你必仰起脸来，毫无瑕疵。你必坚定不惧怕，因为你必忘记你的苦楚，记念如流过去的水。你的年岁必比正午更明，你必发光如早晨。

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage.

感谢上帝，我们生活在这样一个时代，没有人为爱而死，只有在舞台上。