实用口语:聊聊退休这件事

 　　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 retirement¹ 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 dread² 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. Invariably³, 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

1 retirement   

n.退休，退职

参考例句：

• She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
• I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。

2 dread   

vt.担忧，忧虑；惧怕，不敢；n.担忧，畏惧

参考例句：

• We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes.我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。
• Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread.她极度恐惧的心理消除了。

3 invariably   

adv.不变地，始终如一地，总是

参考例句：

• A unity invariably tends to break up into different parts.统一体总要分解为不同部分的。
• We always invariably support him.我们一直始终不变地支持他。