亚历克斯弗格森宣布退休,“姜头”斯科尔斯和“万人球迷”贝克汉姆也挂靴退休,球迷们看到偶像堆积的“退休”,迫使我们告别青春。
英语里“退休”、“退役”都可以用“retire”表示。今天我们就一起聊聊名人眼中“退休”这件事。The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
退休的麻烦就是你再没休息日可言了。——Abe Lemons
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
一个男人退休了,他的妻子将会得到双倍的丈夫和减半的收入。——Chi Chi Rodriguez
Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.
退休或许是一种结束,但它也是一次全新的开始。——Catherine Pulsifer
Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.
退休意味着你可以做自己想做的事。 它给了我们选择。——Dianne Nahirny
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
音乐家不会退休,只有在谱不出音乐时,他们才会罢手。——Louis Armstrong
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
有些人在停止工作前就早已“退休”了。——Robert Half
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older, I find that I don't want to do them.
我曾经害怕变老,感到那时自己想做的事都无力去做了。可现在我老了,却发现那些已经不是我想做的事了。——Lady Nancy Astor
Don't wait for retirement to be happy and really start living. Invariably, people who try this find out that they have waited much too long.不要等到退休后才开始生活,寻找幸福。有这样想法的人总会发现自己花了太长的时间去等待。——Life's Secret Guide to Happiness
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