(342) 年をとると・・・

年とった女優の話、
She hated that moment and the knowledge that she had reached the point where face-lifts and beauty treatments could do nothing. But she remembered thinking that maybe this was part of the scheme of things; perhaps nature ruined the body so death would be more acceptable.
―A New York Sketchbook, Pete Hamill, p132
face-lifts：美容整形（を施すこと）、顔のしわ取り
beauty treatments:美容術、美容法

ニューヨーク・スケッチブック―A New York sketchbook 【講談社英語文庫】

• 作者: ピート・ハミル
• 出版社/メーカー: 講談社インターナショナル
• 発売日: 1990/08
• メディア: 文庫

男は年取ると・・・ 

"Sure I love her. But It wasn't that I wanted to touch her." And he added, without smiling; "Not that I don't think about that side of things. Even at my age, and I'll be sixty-seven January ten. It's a peculiar fact ― but, the older I grow, that side of things seems to be on my mind more and more. I don't remember thinking about it so much even when I was a youngster and it's every other minute. Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes burden. Whenever I read in the paper about an old man disgracing himself, I know it's because of this burden.

― Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote, p12
disgrace:～の面目を失わせる、（人）の顔に泥を塗る

ティファニーで朝食を―Breakfast at Tiffany’s 【講談社英語文庫】

• 作者: トルーマン・カポーティ
• 出版社/メーカー: 講談社インターナショナル
• 発売日: 1997/04/01
• メディア: 文庫
  
  

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