老爵爺弗格森宣布退休，“生姜頭”斯科爾斯與“萬(wàn)人迷”貝克漢姆也要掛靴退役，球迷感嘆眼看偶像扎堆 “退休”，逼著我們告別青春。英語(yǔ)里“退休”、“退役”都可以用“retire”表示。今天我們就一起聊聊名人眼中“退休”這件事。
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
退休的麻煩就是你再?zèng)]休息日可言了。
——Abe Lemons
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
一個(gè)男人退休了，他的妻子將會(huì)得到雙倍的丈夫和減半的收入。
——Chi Chi Rodriguez
Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning.
退休或許是一種結(jié)束，但它也是一次全新的開(kāi)始。
——Catherine Pulsifer
Retirement means doing whatever I want to do. It means choice.
退休意味著你可以做自己想做的事。 它給了我們選擇?！?nbsp;
——Dianne Nahirny
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
音樂(lè)家不會(huì)退休，只有在譜不出音樂(lè)時(shí)，他們才會(huì)罷手。
——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.
我曾經(jīng)害怕變老，感到那時(shí)自己想做的事都無(wú)力去做了?？涩F(xiàn)在我老了，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)那些已經(jīng)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.
不要等到退休后才開(kāi)始生活，尋找幸福。有這樣想法的人總會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己花了太長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間去等待。
——Life's Secret Guide to Happiness