时间越走越快的那种感觉——童年的一年是一生的五分之一，如今的一年只是几十分之一；分母在长，分子不动。 The sense that time keeps going faster — each year a smaller fraction of the life it joins.
The sense that time keeps going faster — each year a smaller fraction of the life it joins. 时间越走越快的那种感觉——童年的一年是一生的五分之一，如今的一年只是几十分之一；分母在长，分子不动。
词源etymology
芝诺（Zeno，二分悖论：走向终点前得先走完一半，再一半，步子越切越碎） 嫁给了记忆女神（Mnemosyne）。悖论出步伐，女神出账本： 年岁越长，新的一年在记忆总量里占比越小——时间不是变快了，是变薄了。
Zeno (of the dichotomy paradox: before the end you must reach the half, then half again, the steps forever shrinking) married to Mnemosyne, memory herself. The paradox supplies the gait, the goddess the ledger: the older you get, the thinner each new year’s share of the total — time isn’t speeding up, it’s thinning out.
背景the story
《晦涩悲伤词典》最出圈的短片之一（2015）。那句结束语（见引文） 后来独立流传，常被当成谚语引用——一句造出来的词条文案， 活成了格言：先漫长，后短暂，顺序不可调换。
孩子的暑假是一个纪元，中年的暑假是一个带薪长周末—— 这条曲线人人都在坐，它只是给曲线起了名。
One of the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ most-traveled short films (2015). Its closing line (quoted) escaped into circulation and is now quoted like a proverb — copy written for an invented word, living as an aphorism: long first, short after, order non-negotiable.
A child’s summer is an era; a middle-aged summer is a long weekend with better light. Everyone rides this curve; the word merely names it.
中文里的邻居neighbors in chinese
「白驹过隙」是快，但那是匀速的快；zenosyne 的要害是加速。 「岁月不饶人」是结果验收，「越过越快」是口头账。 最准的对位藏在俗话里：「小时候盼过年，长大了怕过年」—— 盼与怕之间，藏着同一条加速度。
白驹过隙 — the white colt glimpsed through a crack — is speed, but constant speed; zenosyne’s point is acceleration. 岁月不饶人 is the final inspection, 越过越快 the spoken tally. The truest counterpart hides in the folk line: 小时候盼过年，长大了怕过年 — “as a child you longed for New Year, grown you dread it” — the acceleration lives between the longing and the dread.
Life is short and life is long, but not in that order.人生短暂，人生也漫长——只是顺序不是这样。（中译） John Koenig John Koenig · The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows（Zenosyne 短片） The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (the Zenosyne film)
Summer vacation used to be an era; now it's a long weekend with better light — zenosyne, doing its arithmetic. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation Every December the year-end reviews get easier to write and harder to believe; zenosyne files them thinner and thinner. 自拟例句 our own example, not a quotation 不在词典中。 非正式与创意写作；写生日、写年终总结、写孩子长得太快， 它是那条曲线的名字。
Not in any dictionary. Informal and creative writing; for birthdays, year-end reviews and children growing too fast — it is the curve’s name.