Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

我们的晚年在某些方面是一生中最幸福的时期。

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

我们的科学时代要求我们提供定义、测量和统计数据，以便被认真对待。然而，生活中大多数重要的事情都无法精确定义或衡量。例如，我们能定义或衡量爱、美、友谊或体面吗?

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

我们的社会必须使老年人不惧怕年轻人或不被年轻人抛弃成为可能，这是正确的，因为对一个文明的考验是它如何照顾其无助的成员。

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

我们的时代是一个过度自觉的时代。我们知道的太多，感觉的太少。

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

我们的时代本质上是一个悲剧的时代，所以我们拒绝悲剧地对待它。

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

我们的时代是一个替代品的时代:没有语言，我们有行话;没有原则，我们有口号;没有真正的想法，我们有光明的想法。

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

我们的时代是一个以思考的机器为荣，对试图思考的人持怀疑态度的时代。

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

只拥有你可以随身携带的东西:了解语言，了解国家，了解人民。让回忆成为你的旅行袋。

Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

牛津城在她的塔楼上低语着中世纪最后的魅力……这里充满了失败的事业、被抛弃的信仰、不受欢迎的名字和不可能的忠诚!

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

在任何年龄，养育孩子都是一项不可能完成的任务。

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

耐心使中年妇女美丽。

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

人们在很小的时候就用审美来定义自己。

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

我这个年纪的人并不总是知道他们的音乐来自哪里。

People say that age is just a state of mind. I say it's more about the state of your body.

人们说年龄只是一种心态。我认为这更多的是关于你身体的状态。

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

随着年龄的增长和成熟，人们往往会变得更加情商高。