But, alas, by planting a stake at the top of flood, you can neither prevent nor delay the inevitable ebb.
然而,唉,在涨潮最高处插下一根木桩,既不能阻止,也不能推迟那必然到来的退潮。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Virginibus Puerisque II —
But, alas, by planting a stake at the top of flood, you can neither prevent nor delay the inevitable ebb.
然而,唉,在涨潮最高处插下一根木桩,既不能阻止,也不能推迟那必然到来的退潮。