《麦田里的守望者》是美国作家杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格唯一的一部长篇小说，塞林格将故事的起止局限于16岁的中学生霍尔顿·考尔菲德从离开学校到纽约游荡的三天时间内，并借鉴了意识流天马行空的写作方法，充分探索了一个十几岁少年的内心世界。
1．Remember what should be remembered, and forget what should be forgotten.Alter what is changeable, and accept what is mutable.
记住该记住的，忘记该忘记的。改变能改变的，接受不能改变的。
2．Apart from tears, only time could wear everything away. While feeling is being processed by time, conflicts would be reconciled as time goes by, just like a cup of tea that is being continuously diluted.
能冲刷一切的除了眼泪，就是时间，以时间来推移感情，时间越长，冲突越淡，仿佛不断稀释的茶。
3．Wisdom appears in contradiction to itself, which is a trick life plays on philosophy of life.
智慧的代价是矛盾。这是人生对人生观开的玩笑。
4．It can be inferred that you lack confidence in a victory over your rivals from the fact that you’re irritable against them.
如果敌人让你生气，那说明你还没有胜他的把握。
5．From that you would get angry with your friends, we can conclude you still care about the friendship between you.
如果朋友让你生气，那说明你仍然在意他的友情。
6．Some may be wicked, and some may be despicable. Only when I put myself in their position did I know they are more miserable than I. So forgive all that you have met, no matter what kind of persons they are.
也许有些人很可恶，有些人很卑鄙。而当我设身为他想象的时候，我才知道：他比我还可怜。所以请原谅所有你见过的人，好人或者坏人。
7．"You couldn't see my tears cause I am in the water." Fish said to water. "But I could feel your tears cause you are in me." Answered water.
鱼对水说你看不到我的眼泪，因为我在水里。水说我能感觉到你的眼泪，因为你在我心里。
8．When you were born, you're crying but lookers-on were smiling. When you are passing away, you're smiling but lookers-on are crying.
你出生的时候，你哭着，周围的人笑着；你逝去的时候，你笑着，而周围的人在哭！
9．Among thousands of people, you meet those you've met. Through thousands of years, with the boundlessness of time, you happen to meet them, neither earlier nor a bit too late.
于千万人之中，遇见你所遇见的人；于千万年之中，时间的无涯荒野里，没有早一步，也没有晚一步，刚巧赶上了。
10．Everyone has his inherent ability( power or capacity?) which is easily concealed by habits, blurred by time, and eroded by laziness( or inertia).
每个人都有潜在的能量，只是很容易:被习惯所掩盖，被时间所迷离,被惰性所消磨。
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