The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

这个世界，这个满头灰白胡须、满脸皱纹的浪荡子，年事已高，却不值得尊敬。

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳撒尼尔·霍桑