(承叶二十七背末)她说:这事有可虑的——只怕他们也把你撤了,像撤 拉班迦玛列 一样。他借一句俗谚答她说:人尽可今日用那贵重的杯,明日让它碎去。她说:你没有白发,这样年轻,作众贤哲之首不合体统。革玛拉 述说:那一日他十八岁;有神迹为他行了,十八行头发变白了。革玛拉 说:这就见得 拉比以利亚撒·本·亚撒利雅 何以说「我像是七十岁的人」,而不说「我七十岁」——因为他看着比实在的年岁老。
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这事是有可虑的。
There is room for concern.
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只怕他们也要把你从位上撤下来,像撤 拉班迦玛列 一样。
Perhaps they will remove you from office just as they removed Rabban Gamliel.
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他借一句俗谚答她说:人尽可今日用那贵重的杯,明日让它碎去。
He said to her, based on the folk saying: Let a person use an expensive goblet one day and let it break tomorrow.
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意思是:机会既到眼前,就当趁着用,不必挂虑它长久不长久。
In other words, one should take advantage of an opportunity that presents itself and he need not concern himself whether or not it will last.
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她说:你没有白发;这样年轻,作众贤哲之首是不合体统的。
She said to him: You have no white hair, and it is inappropriate for one so young to head the Sages.
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革玛拉 述说:那一日他十八岁;有神迹为他行了,十八行头发变白了。
The Gemara relates: That day, he was eighteen years old, a miracle transpired for him and eighteen rows of hair turned white.
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革玛拉 说:这就见得 拉比以利亚撒·本·亚撒利雅 何以说「我像是七十岁的人」,而不说「我七十岁」——因为他看着比实在的年岁老。
The Gemara comments: That explains that which Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya said: I am as one who is seventy years old and he did not say: I am seventy years old, because he looked older than he actually was.