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年龄与成长 [Age and Aging]
只有在人们越来越年长时，你才能从他们身上感觉到真正的美
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
阿努克·艾梅 Anouk Aimee
年老的最明确迹象是孤独
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
阿莫斯·布朗森·奥尔科特 Amos Bronson Alcott
要想战胜衰老，就要使自己老有少心，就要充满希望，善待他人，心情收愉快，内心虔诚
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent, that is to triumph over old age.
托马斯·B·奥尔德里奇 Thomas B. Aldrich
30岁至60岁是你活得真正充实的时间。年轻人是梦幻的奴隶；老年人是遗憾的仆人。只有中年人才拥有保持理智的五种感官
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants or regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
赫维·艾伦 Hervey Allen
知道如何长大是智慧的杰作，也是伟大的生活艺术中最困难的章节之一
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
亨利·弗雷德里克·埃米尔 Henri Frederic Amiel
我对年龄没有兴趣。把自己的年龄告诉我的人是傻瓜。你感觉自己多大就有多大
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feet.
伊丽莎白·雅顿 Elizabeth Arden
也许生活中最幸福的时期往往是中年，这时，青春的热情已经冷却，老年的弱点尚未显现；就像我们看到的影子，早晚很大，正午时分则几乎完全消失
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
托马斯·阿诺德 Thomas Arnold
年老如同其他一切事情。要想取得成功，必须从年轻开始
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’re got to start young.
弗雷德·阿斯泰尔 Fred Astaire
变老似乎是长寿的唯一可行之路
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life
达尼埃尔·弗朗索瓦·埃斯普瑞·奥贝尔 Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
老年人抗议太多，磋商太久，冒险太少，悔改太快，很少将事情进行到底，只尔于满足平庸的成就
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
费朗西斯·培根 Francis Bacon
我永远不会老，对我来说，老年总是比我大15岁
I will never be and old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
伯纳德·M·巴鲁克 Bernard M. Baruch
我们衰老时既不会变好也不会变坏，而是更像我们自己
We grow neither better of worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
梅·L·贝克特 May L. Becker
在我们不再年轻但尚未变老时，想一想自己已不再年轻但尚未变老，也许有点意思
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
塞缪尔·贝克特 Samuel Beckett
我希望自己永远不会老到信教的程度
I hope I never get so old I get religious
英格玛·伯格曼 Ingmar Bergman
因此，我们没有丧失勇气。即使我们的外形令人讨厌，但内心仍在天天更新
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
《圣经》 Bible
年轻时我们撞上困难。年老时困难撞上我们
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
乔希·比林斯 Josh Billings
我认为，当50岁的所有恐怖向你袭来时，你应该待在家里，大哭一场
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
艾伦·布利斯代尔 Alan Bleasdale
要抵抗老年的性冷淡，必须将身体、思想和心灵结合在一起。要让它们保持同等的活力，人们必须锻炼、学习和恋爱
To resist the Frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
邦斯泰廷 Bonstettin
老人更应关心的是善终，不是延年益寿
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
J·布朗上尉 Captain J. Brown
再老也可以树立一个新的目标，或再做一场梦
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
莱斯·布朗 Les Brown
我认为年龄的真正功能是记忆。我一直在速记
I believe the true function of age is memory. I’m recording as fast as I can.
丽塔·梅·布朗 Rita Mae brown
也许，人们只有在长大之后才能学会开心，而不是震惊
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
赛珍珠 Pearl S. Buck
医生以伪君子的名义，发明了人人皆知、极其高雅的折磨形式：生存。
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever know to man: survival.
路易斯·布努艾尔 Luis Bunuel
年龄是无关紧要的事情，除非你是重要人物
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
比利·伯克 Billie Burke
到80岁时，你将学到所有的东西。所要做的只是记住它们
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
乔治·伯恩斯 George Burns
树叶在长大时是多么绚丽多姿啊！它们最后的日子是多么光芒四射、五彩缤纷啊！
How beautiful leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
约翰·伯勒斯 John Burroughs
感到自己已不再是孩子，是我一生中最致命、最沉重的感觉之一。从那时起，我的自我评价就开始变老——而按照我的观点，年龄是无法估算的
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of may life to feel that I was o longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable.
拜伦勋爵 Lord Byron
在一切野蛮的中年里，人的中年是最野蛮的！它是——我几乎真的不知道是什么，只知道这时我们在愚昧和明智之间徘徊，但不知道我们将会怎样——这样一个阶段，在这晨，我们的头发开始斑白，有点像印好的版面，白纸黑字；我们不再是从前的我们
Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! It is ---I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don’t know justly what we would be at –a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.
拜伦勋爵 Lord Byron
也许，一个80岁的老人可以活过三代绘画、两代建筑、两代诗歌、一百代服装等的新流派
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, tow of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
乔伊斯·凯里 Joyce Carey
成熟与衰老并非全是坏事。水果成熟后应该出汗、甘美。上帝不让我活得太久，不使我因而发酵，腐烂，“啪”地一声摔在地上
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash
埃米莉·卡尔 Emily Carr
人到中年意味着一个人在关灯时是出于经济上的考虑，而并非因为浪漫
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
伊莱·卡斯 Eli Cass
老年自身的缺陷已经够多的人，千万不能再为其加上恶习
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice
老加图 Cato the Elder
考虑选择时，老年并不太坏
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternatives.
莫里斯·舍瓦利耶 Maurice Chevalier
舒适的老年时光是青年时代顺利度过的奖赏。它不但没有带来悲伤忧郁的衰亡前景，反而给予我们在更好的世界里永远年轻的希望
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.
莉迪亚·M·蔡尔德 Lydia M. Child
没有人老到自认为不能再活一年的地步
No one is so old as to think he cannot live more year.
马库斯·T·西塞罗 Marcus T. Cicero
如果你希望长期成为一个老人的话，就必须迅速变老
You must become and old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
马库斯·T·西塞罗 Marcus T. Cicero
所有我认识的70多岁女人可以分成三类：1.亲爱的老人；2.老太太；3.老巫婆。
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided:1.That dear old soul; 2.That old woman; 3.that old witch.
塞缪尔·泰勒·科尔里奇 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
男人感觉有多老就有多老。女人外表有多老就有多老
A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman’s as old as she looks.
莫蒂默·科林科 Mortimer Collins
青春无度是不利于年龄的支票，30年后你得连本带息地一道偿还
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
查尔斯·凯莱布·科尔顿 Charles Caleb Colton
我的目标是在50岁结束青春期
I’m aiming by the time I’m fifty to stop being and adolescent.
温迪·科普 Wendy Cope
年龄是感觉的问题，不是岁月的问题
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
乔治·威廉·柯蒂斯 George William Courtis
我已经活动用食物代替性生活的年龄
I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life.
罗德尼·丹杰菲尔德 Rodney Dangerfield
20岁的小伙子充满斗志和希望。他想改变世界。70岁时，他仍想改变世界，但他已经知道这是不可能的
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world. But he knows he can’t.
克拉伦斯·达罗 Clarence Darrow
中年最令人可怕的事情是，知道自己将走出这个年龄！
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it!
多丽丝·戴 Doris Day
中年是没有轻浮的青年，也是没有腐朽的老年
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
丹尼尔·笛福 Daniel Defoe
继续发怒——可以遏制衰老
Keep on raging ---to stop the aging.
德尔通夫妇 The Delltones
20岁时，你有许多希望，它们掩盖了真相；40岁以后，你只有真实而脆弱的真想——你的能力和失败
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths –your abilities and your failings.
杰勒德·德帕迪厄 Gerard Depardieu
30岁对我来说非常奇怪。我真的不得不接受这样的事实：我已成为边走边说的成年人[回顾以前作为少年偶像的地位]
Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]
马特·狄龙 Matt Dillon
不是你有多老，而是怎么个老法
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
玛丽·杜丝勒 Marie Dressler
我一直在保存摇椅，留到感觉自己真正老的时候用
I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feet as old as I really am.
德怀特·D·艾森豪威尔 Dwight D. Eisenhower
女人恐怕很少像我这样有理由认为，为了中年，令人忧伤的漫漫青春是值得度过的
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.
乔治·艾略特 George Eliot
50至70的年纪最是尴尬。别人总是请你做事，而你却没有老到拒绝他们的地步
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things,and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
T·S·艾略特 T. S. Eliot
直到没有其他事情可以计算时，我们才计算一个人的年龄
We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生 Ralph Waldo Emerson
女人的年龄并不重要。再旧的小提琴也能奏出最美丽的曲子
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played no the oldest fiddles.
西格蒙德·Z·恩格尔 Sigmund Z. Engel
生命从40岁开始，但弓腰驼背、风湿病、眼疾及一件事情要向一个人说上三四遍的倾向，也从此时开始
Life begins at 40, but so to fallen arches, rheumatism, fault eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, there of four times.
威廉·费瑟 William Feather
关于中年，不会有人告诉你的许多事情之一是，它是青年的美好转变
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
多萝西·坎菲尔德·费希尔 Dorothy Canfield Fisher
深爱的人是永远不会老的，尽管他们会因身体的衰老而死去，但他们的心永远年轻
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
阿瑟·温·皮内罗 Arthur Wing Pinero
如果额头必须刻上皱纹，就让它们不要刻在心上。精神永远不该衰老
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
詹姆斯·A加菲尔德 James A. Garfield
正如有些人所言，年龄不会让我们变成孩子；它发现我们是真正的孩子
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
你只能年轻一次，但可以永远不成熟
You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever
约翰·格雷尔 John Greier
相信我，老年是令人高兴的好事。的确，你被轻轻地挤出舞台，但作为观众，你却被安排在十分舒适的前排就从
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
简·哈里森 Jane Harrison
达到和超过45岁的男人，看上去好像在等待另一个世界的秘密，好像他们完全肯定已经发现了这个世界的秘密
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
本杰明·海登 Benjamin Haydon
每天早上，我通常在9点钟醒来，拿起晨报，查看报上的讣告。如果上面没有我的名字，我就起床
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
哈里·赫什菲尔德 Harry Hershfield
每个活过50年的人都已经埋藏了整个世界，甚至两个世界；他已经逐渐习惯于它的消失，习惯于另一种行为的新景象：但突然之间，消失已久的名字和面孔越来越频繁地出现在自己的道路上，唤起一系列隐藏地某个地方的阴影和画面，“恰到好处”地无边无际的记忆陵墓里，使他微笑或叹息，有时几乎潸然泪下
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, “just in case,” in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.
亚力山大·赫曾 Alexander Herzen
成年，就像距离一样，提供双重的魅力
Age, like distance, lends a double charm.
奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯 Oliver Wendell Holmes
40岁是青春的老年，50岁是老年的青春
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
维克多·雨果 Victor Hugo
无论何时，只要一个人的朋友开始恭维他长得年轻，他就可以肯定，他们认为他正在衰老
Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
华盛顿·欧文 Washington Irving
我唯一的担心就是可能活得太久。对我来说，这将是一个可怕的问题
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me
托马斯·杰斐逊 Thomas Jefferson
我在20岁的时候，快乐往往是物质的；30岁的时候，快乐往往是精神的。我不能说哪一种更加高雅
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can’t say which was more exquisite.
史蒂夫·坎加斯 Steve Kangas
青春是自然的礼物，老年是艺术的作品
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is work of art.
加森·卡宁 Garson Kanin
有人问一位90岁的老人长寿的秘诀是什么。他的眼里闪着光芒说，我想，是因为太多数晚上，本该坐着发愁的时候，我却上床睡觉了
A man of ninety years old was asked to that he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
多萝西娅·肯特 Dorothea Kent
我喜欢春天，可它太年轻。我喜欢夏天，可它太骄傲。所以我最喜欢秋天，因为它的音质更加成熟，色彩更加丰富，略带一点忧伤。它浓艳的金色并不说明春天的无知，也不说明夏天的力量，而是说明未来老年的成熟、温和与智慧。它了解生命及其内容的有限性
I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.
林语堂 Lin Yutang
年龄并不是一个特别有趣的问题。任何人都会变老。你所要做的是活足，活够
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
格劳乔·马克斯 Groucho Marx
大自然应该感到高兴的是，它只是使这个年纪可怜，而没有使它可笑
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
米歇尔·德·蒙田 Michel de Montaigne
有一天，你会在报纸上看到穆迪死了。你一个字也别相信。那时，我将比现在还有活力。我于1837年诞生肉体，1855年诞生精神。诞生肉体的我也许会死。诞生精神的我将永生人间
Someday you will read in the papers that Moddy is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837. I was born of the spirit in 1855. that which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
德怀特·L·穆迪 Dwight L. Moody
在我们年轻时，人们总是频繁地纠正我们，总是告诉我们应该克服如此这般的坏习气。然而，大多数坏习气正是帮助我们走完一生的利器
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
弗里德里希·尼采 Friedrich Nietzsche
在宗教信仰和生存绝望之间成长起来的我这一代人，过去只好选择大麻。现在，我们已处在红葡萄酒阶段
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Gabernet stage.
佩吉·努南 Peggy Noonan
你可以根据自己接触思想时感到的痛苦程度判断自己的年龄
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
约翰·纽文 John Nuveen
最重要的成熟阶段之一是，从自我为中心成长到相处时体谅他人。当一个既有能力又愿意将自己视为他人的一员，用他希望别人对待他的方式对待别人时，他就成熟了
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
哈里·A·奥弗斯特里特 Harry A. Overstreet
温文尔雅、高高兴兴地变老是很少也很难达到的境界
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
R·帕尔默 R. Palmer
如果不开口，灰白头发就是智慧的象征；如果开口，它们只不过是灰白头发，就像年轻人头上的头发一样
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
菲洛 Philo
在生命即将结束的几年里，就像化装舞会终场时一样，人们都要摘下面具
The dosing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped
亚瑟·叔本华 Arthur Schopenhauer
年过70就像被卷入战争一样。所有的朋友都将要死去或已经死去，我们则在战场中的死者与垂死者中苟活着
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone an we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield
缪里尔·斯帕克 Muriel Spark
健康的老人，如果不是傻瓜，就是最快乐的生命
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
理查德·斯蒂尔爵 Sir Richard Steele
赶快聪明起来吧，40岁的傻瓜就是真正的傻瓜
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
爱德华·扬 Edward Young
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发表于 2014-1-31 18:36:29
