文档介绍：Graceful Hands
Interesting Epitaph
Benjamin Franklin
Printer Benjamin Franklin
印刷工人本杰明·富兰克林
Shakespeare
Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here
Belest be the men that spares these bones
And curst be he that moves my bones
朋友,看在上帝的情分上,
千万别掘此墓,
动土者将受灾,
保护者会得福。
Earnest Hemingway
Pardon me for not getting up.
请原谅我,我不起来了。
Thomas Jefferson
Here was burned Thomas Jefferson, author of the
Declaration of Independence, of the statute of Virginia for
religious freedom and father of the University of Virginia.
这里安葬着托马斯·杰弗逊。他是《独立宣言》的起草人
《弗吉尼亚宗教自由法案》的起草人和弗吉尼亚大学的创始人。
Dwight Wallance (founder of Reader’s Digest)
The most perfect contraction.
最完美的压缩。
A Mule
Here lies Maggie, the mule who in her time kicked a general, two colonels, four majors, ten captains, twenty-four lieutenants, forty sergeants, two hundred and twenty privates, and a bomb.
军骡马吉葬在这里。在她的一生中,她踢过一个上将,两个上校,四个少校,十个上尉,二十四个士官,二百二十个士兵和一枚炸弹。
Think
If you are allowed to choose one word to describe your whole life on your epitaph, which word would you choose? Why?
diligent, beautiful, graceful, intelligent, wise,
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References
Proverbs on Death
Death frees us from ills.
Death pays all debts.
Death mon to all.
Death is inevitable.
Human beings are mortal.
Every one has the right to die with dignity.