老爵爺弗格森宣布退休，“生姜頭”斯科爾斯與“萬人迷”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沒休息日可言了。

——Abe Lemons

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

一個男人退休了，他的妻子將會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。

——Dianne Nahirny

Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.

音樂家不會退休，只有在譜不出音樂時，他們才會罷手。

——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，感到那時自己想做的事都無力去做了。可現(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始生活，尋找幸福。有這樣想法的人總會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己花了太長的時間去等待。

——Life’s Secret Guide to Happiness