But in this life, in this world, butterflies are in really serious trouble.

今生，这个世界上，蝴蝶正面临着很严峻的危机。

There has been a tension between seeking perfection in life or in the afterlife.

一直来就存着是今生寻求完美还是寄希望于来世的对立观念。

What is to be ended must be ended in this life—there is no other way out.

要结束的必须今生结束——没有别的出路。

If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

我们若靠基督只今生有指望，就算比众人更怜。

Virtue, and pleasure are not, in fact, so nearly allied in this life as some eloquent writers have laboured to prove.

事实上，美德和享乐今生并不像一些雄辩的作家努力证明的那样密切相关。

At that moment of taking no more thought for this life, something disturbed the outline of the bank above him.

就他不再考虑今生的那一刻， 有什么东西扰乱了他头顶银行的轮廓。

And theprice we paid was the price men have always paid forachieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, welost our edge.

我们付出的代价是人们为今生获得天堂而一直付出的代价——我们变得软弱，我们失去了优势。

In theory, anyone who follows the Eightfold Path and renounces desire can be freed from suffering and achieve nirvana, maybe even in THIS life.

理论上讲，任何遵循八正道并放弃欲望的人都痛苦中解脱并实现涅盘， 甚至能今生。

Following this is the concept that the " point of power" is in the present, not in the past of this life or any other.

随之而来的是“力量点”当下的概念，而不是今生或任何其他生命的过去。

Thou mak'st me humbly wishfo' to be more like thee, and fearfo' to lose thee when this life is ower, and a' the muddle cleared awa'.

你让我谦卑地希望我更像你， 并且害怕今生结束、混乱一扫而空时失去你。

If I had no children I would let myself drift on the wretched current of this life; but if I lose my courage, what will become of them?

如果我没有孩子， 我会让自己漂流今生的悲惨洪流中； 如果我失去勇气， 他们会怎样？

Aged and bent he looked, and quite bowed down; and yet he looked a wiser man, and a better man, than in the days when in this life he wanted nothing—but Facts.

他看上去苍老而弯腰，而且完全弯下了腰；然而，他看起来比今生他什么都不想要——只想要事实——的日子里更聪明、更好了。

In Past Lives, the concept of In-Yun is not used to reach some kind of definitive judgement, to either celebrate the achievement of destiny, or to mourn having missed out on it.

《前世今生》中，In-Yun 的概念并没有被用来做出某种明确的判断，既没有被用来庆祝命运的成就，也没有被用来哀悼错过命运的人。

If it be true that our thoughts and mental images are perfectly tangible things, like our books and pictures, to the inhabitants of the next world, then I am making for myself a better reputation there than I am in this place.

如果，我们的思想和主观意象对于来世的人来说真的就像我们的书本和图片一样是有形的、摸得着的，那么我来世会比今生获得更高的声誉。