Absence
Absence diminishes [降低] small passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
離別減弱微弱的熱情,增強熾熱的激情,就象風吹滅蠟燭,旺盛篝火一樣。
I was court-martialed [軍事法庭] in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence. So I said, right, you can shoot me in my absence as well.
軍事法庭缺席審判我,缺席判我死刑。我說,好吧,你們也可以缺席處死我。
注:他好象生氣了。
What is better than the presence of mind in a railway accident? The absence of body.
火車發生事故時什么比鎮定自若還好?人不在現場。
注:presence of mind鎮定自若;absence of body人不在現場