The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.
The meaning of a sentence is not just in the words themselves, but also in the illocutionary act it performs.
每当有人逝去,总有少数的人们会想到:许多事情被忽略了,许多事情还未来得及去做;多少事情给遗忘了,而更多事情已无法弥救——足可见,平素对待周围的人们需用心才是;没有什么是比追悔莫及更令人懊丧的了;请让我们趁早记住这个理吧,以免受那样的痛苦。
How weary, stale,flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!