繪◎秋林夕
I knew if I stayed around long enough, something like this would happen.
——George Bernard Shaw
我早就知道無論我活多久,這種事情還是一定會(huì)發(fā)生。
——蕭伯納
Pardon me for not getting up!
——Ernest Miller Hemingway
恕我不起來了!
——海明威
Here lies one whose name was written in water.
——John Keats
此地長眠者,聲名水上書。
——濟(jì)慈
Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-change,Into something rich and strange.
——Percy Bysshe Shelley
他并沒有消失什么,
不過感受了一次海水的變幻,他成了富麗珍奇的瑰寶。
——雪萊(雪萊的墓志銘取自莎士比亞的喜劇《暴風(fēng)雨》)
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.
——Isaacus Newton
自然與自然的法則在黑夜隱藏,上帝說,讓牛頓出世吧!世界一片光。
——牛頓
Under the wide and starry①① starry 英 ['stɑ?r?] 美 ['stɑri]adj. 布滿星星的;閃閃發(fā)光的;星光照耀的;星形的sky Dig the grave and let me lie Glad did I live and gladly die And I laid me down with a will
——Robert Louis Stevenson
群星璀璨映蒼天
造一墓室供我眠
生而快樂死亦歡
尚懷一念赴九泉
——史蒂文森(《金銀島》作者)
He lived, he loved, he wrote.
——Stendhal
活過,愛過,寫過。
——司湯達(dá)(《紅與黑》作者)