The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.

人们一位离了职的首相当年只不过是个大言不惭的演说家；一个解甲归田的将军无非是个平淡乏味的市井英雄。

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

但我当年年幼无知，而今热泪盈眶。

To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

在，如果读到这些集子，人们肯定会惊诧，当年这般渊博深奥的内容竟然被认为适合表在大众日报中。

Democritus did not have access to modern electronic apparatus.

德谟里特斯当年并没有代的电子设备可以利用。

You were engaged to be engaged!

你们当年可是订了要订婚！

That means I don't run wind sprints as fast as I used to, but my faculties are otherwise completely intact.

这意味着虽然我不能像当年那般健步如飞，但我的身体机能依然十分好。

Pop into Maison des Canuts where you'll learn about the invention by Joseph Marie Jacquard of using perforated cards to produce patterned fabrics.

走进纺织工人之家，你就会了解当年约瑟夫·玛丽·雅卡尔是如何使用穿了孔的卡片来制作出有图样的丝织品。

Unfortunately, the brilliance that Bathilda exhibited earlier in her life has now dimmed.

不幸的是，巴希达当年的风采在已不复存在。

Synthetic plastic, the kind made by people, has been around since 1907, and scientists estimate that almost every piece of it made since then still exists.

这种人造的塑料1907年开始生产，科学家估计当年产的塑料在可能还没消失。

It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.

对于年龄低于 40岁的普通读者来讲，让他们想象一下当年可以在许多大城市报纸上读到精品的文艺评论简直几乎是天方夜谭。

Today especially, I remember my mother, who watched me graduate from Duke. I wouldn’t have been there that day—or made it here today—without her support.

尤其今天，让我想起了我的母亲。她见证了我大学毕业的时刻。如果没有她的支持，我当年不会站在这里，今天更不会站在这里。

A word which was helpfully formulated by the philosopher Kierkegaard in 19th century, Copenhagen.

这个词是“忧虑”。多亏了19世纪哥本哈根哲学家尔凯郭尔当年创造了它。

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.

当年，我自己也是“荡桦树”的能手。

Promise you won't try to force me into a 'suitable' marriage, like you were forced.

答应我您不会试图逼我，像您当年被逼跟" 门当户对" 的人结婚一样。

People weren't just " roaming" around if you know what I'm saying and the artifacts discovered include hundreds of Roman coins, jewelry and fragments of pottery.

当年人们可不只是在这附近闲逛，你应该知道我的意思，这里出土的文物包括数百枚古罗马硬币，珠宝以及陶器碎片。

When we first enter the city of Edoras, we find a land in decline, that has lost its glory and spirit, and whose king is but a pale shadow of the man he once was.

我们第一次进入伊多拉斯城时，满目颓败，光荣已褪，神采不再，君王垂暮，不复当年。

Dogged by loneliness and guilt, and unable to resurrect his crusade for trust, hope and faith, he descended into the fetid swamps of Russian nationalism, wallowing in the paranoid anti-Semitism he had once eschewed.

孤独和罪恶感陪着他走完余生，其间他一直苦于不能重塑自己当年“为信任、希望和信念而战斗的形象”。他深陷散着“俄罗斯式爱国主义”恶臭的泥潭之中，沉浸在多疑好猜忌的反犹太主义之中，即使这是他曾经一度反对的。

Along its narrow lanes you can almost hear the echoes of the many people who toiled to gouge a city from this impenetrable mount of clay.

沿着它的窄巷行走，你几乎可以听见当年在这难以穿透的土山上艰苦地开凿城廓的人们的声音回响。

As we exit the auditorium, Robin won't disclose the budget for fear he says of distracting from the performances. The play includes archive video projections and revolving sets.

直到我们走出剧院，罗宾都不愿意透露制作成本，担心观众不把注意力放在表演上。舞台剧的设备包括当年的投影仪和一系列旋转设备，通过多媒体制作，来吸引年轻观众。

He also thinks you're a petulant, whiny, spoiled brat, just like I was, and that's gonna kill your career, just like it killed mine.

他也认为你爱使小性，脾气暴躁又自负，就像我当年一样，这会毁了你的事业，就像当年它毁了我的。