会老问自己矮个人应该会是什么样子的。

You wonder what it is like to be a short person.

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你曾经对邻座那个老问为什么的小子烦过吗？

Ever sat next to one of those annoying kids that asked "Why?" to everything you said?

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不要老问那样的问题。

Don't keep (on) asking such questions.

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So we have to assume that the occasion for this poem is some kind of question posed by John Milton, Sr., a question like, "To what end am I supporting you, Son?

我们可以假定这个诗的起因是,老约翰弥尔顿问小弥尔顿，“我到底为什么要资助你，儿子？“

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And it turns out that if you actually ask dying people, or really old people basically, "What do you regret from your life?"

结果发现，如果你问临终的人，或者很老的人，“你生命中有什么让你很后悔的？”

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