1. 世界上只有被追求者和追求者，忙碌者和疲憊者。
there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
2.all the bright precious things fade so fast...and they don't come back.
所有的光鮮亮麗都敵不過時間，並且一去不復返。
3.每個人都認為他自己至少具有一種主要的美德，我的美德是：我是我所結識過的少有的幾個誠實人中間的一個。
everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues and this
4.there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
世界上只有被追求者和追求者，忙碌者和疲憊者。
5.人們的品行有的好像建築在堅硬的岩石上，有的好像建築在泥沼里，不過超過一定的限度，我就不在乎它建在什麼之上了。
conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point i don’t care what it’s founded on.
6.everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: i am one of the few honest people i have ever known.
每個人都認為他自己至少具有一種主要的美德，我的美德是：我是我所結識過的少有的幾個誠實人中間的一個
7.這時，天色已經暗了下來，我們這排高高地俯瞰著城市的燈火通明的窗戶，一定讓街頭偶爾抬頭眺望的人感到了，人類的秘密也有其一份在這裡吧，我也是這樣的一個過路人，舉頭望著詫異著。我既在事內又在事外，幾杯永無枯竭的五彩紛呈的生活所吸引，同時又被其排斥著。
yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and i was him too, looking up and wondering. i was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
8.他懷著一種創造性的情感將自己全身心地投入到它的中間，不斷地為它增添內容，用飄浮到他路上的每一根漂亮羽毛去裝扮它。有誰知道在一個人的波詭雲譎的心裡，能蓄下多少火一樣的激情和新鮮的念頭。
he had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. no amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
9..so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
於是我們奮力向前劃，逆流向上的小舟，不停地倒退，進入過去。
10.人們的善惡感一生下來就有差異。
a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
11.每當你覺得想要批評什麼人的時候，你切要記著，這個世界上的人並非都具備你稟有的條件。
whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.