双语：大咖们的“退休”寄语

2013-05-22 00:00:00来源：可可英语

　　老爵爷弗格森宣布退休，“生姜头”斯科尔斯与“万人迷”贝克汉姆也要挂靴退役，球迷感叹眼看偶像扎堆 “退休”，逼着我们告别青春。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