A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (J. Barrymore)只要壹個人還有追求,他就沒有老。直到後悔取代了夢想,壹個人才算老。(巴裏摩爾)
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. (C. M. Schwab)只要有無限的熱情,壹個人幾乎可以在任何事情上取得成功。(施瓦布)
One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (A. Schweizer)有壹點我是知道的:在妳們之中,只有那些願意尋求發現如何為別人服務的人,才是真正幸福的。(施韋策)
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. (Goethe)人生重要的在於確立壹個偉大的目標,並有決心使其實現。(歌德)
To live is to function. That is all there is in living. (Holmes)活著就要發揮作用,這就是生活的全部內容。(霍姆斯)
Man can only be free through mastery of himself. ( S. E. Morison)只有通過掌握自己,才能使自己得到解放。(莫裏森)
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. (J. H. Newman)不要害怕妳的生活將要結束,應該擔心妳的生活永遠不曾真正開始。(紐曼)
Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation. ( C. Nepos)要選擇行動的壹生,而不是炫耀的壹生。(內波斯)
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ( R. Browning)當壹個人內心開始鬥爭時,他就有了價值。(布郎寧)
There is only one success --- to be able to spend your life in your own way. (C. Morley )只有壹種成功,那就是能夠用自己的方式度過自己的壹生。(莫利)
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ( Martin Luther King, Jr.)我們必須接受失望,因為它是有限的,但千萬不可失去希望,因為它是無窮的。(馬丁。路德。金)
We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old but more like ourselves. ( M. L. Becker )隨著年齡的增長,我們並不變得更好也不變得更壞,而是變得更象我們自己。(貝克爾)
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered. ( AL Jaber )寶石即使落在泥潭裏,仍是壹樣可貴;塵土縱然揚到天上,還是沒有價值。(賈比爾)
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. ( Strong)與其詛咒黑暗,不如燃起蠟燭。(斯特郎)
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ( J. Burroughs )壹個人可以失敗許多次,但是只要他沒有開始責怪別人,他還不是壹個失敗者。(巴勒斯)
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. ( Carlyle )工作是醫治人間壹切病痛和疾苦的萬應良藥。(卡萊爾)
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ( B. Franklin) 二十歲時起支配作用的是意誌,三十歲時是機智,四十歲時是判斷。(富蘭克林)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. ( T. Carlyle )生活的悲劇不在於人們受到多少苦,而在於人們錯過了什麽。(卡萊爾)
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ( J. W. Gardner )對聰明人來說,每壹天的時間都是要精打細算的。(加德納)
Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life. (Goethe )天才形成於平靜中,性格來自於生活的激流。(歌德)
Wherever valour true is found, true modesty will there abound. ( W. S. Gilbert )真正的勇敢,都包含謙虛。(吉爾伯特)
We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (W. Roger )我們不可能都成為英雄。總得有人在英雄走過的時候坐在路邊鼓掌。(羅傑)
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. (Euripides )上帝要誰滅亡,必先讓他瘋狂。(歐裏比德斯)
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Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two. ( A. Lowell )生活是壹張白紙,每個人都在上面寫上自己的壹兩句話。(洛威爾)
On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind. ( A. Hamilton )地球上唯壹偉大的是人,人身上唯壹偉大的是心靈。(哈密爾頓)
Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas. ( Chekhov )人的壹切——面貌、衣著、心靈和思想,都應該是美好的。(契訶夫)
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ( T. Fuller )生活只是由壹系列下決心的努力所構成的。(富勒)
Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less. ( S. Bernhardt )要這樣生活,仿佛妳壽命永恒;要這樣工作,仿佛妳精力無窮。(波恩哈特)
Other man live to eat, while I eat to live. ( Socrates )別人為食而生存,我為生存而食。(蘇格拉底)
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ( S. Butler )生活是壹種藝術,要在不充足的前提下得出充足的結論。(巴特勒)
Life is not all beer and skittles. ( T. Hughes )人生並非只是吃喝玩樂。(休斯)
For man is man and master of his fate. ( A. Tennyson )人就是人,是自己命運的主人。(丁尼生)
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. |( V. Hugo )生活中最大的幸福是堅信有人愛我們。(雨果)
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. ( R. Peters )人生應該樹立目標,否則妳的精力會白白浪費。(彼得斯)
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.( Erasmus )只有每天再度戰勝生活並奪取自由的人,才配享受生活或自由。(伊拉斯漠)
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. (George Eliot )沒有了目的,生活便郁悶無光。(艾略特)
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win? ( Lane Kirkland )不要認為取勝就是壹切,更重要的是要有信念。倘若妳沒有信念,那勝利又有什麽意義呢?(柯克蘭)
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ( Lincoln )卓越的天才不屑走旁人走過的路,他尋找迄今未開拓的地區。(林肯)
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.( Kierkergaard )只有向後才能理解生活;但要生活好,則必須向前看。(克爾凱郭爾)
While there is one untrodden tractFor intellect or will.And men are free to think and act,Life is worth living. ( A. Austin )只要還有壹塊知識和意誌尚未征服的領域,只要人們能自由思考和行動,生活就是值得的。(奧斯汀)
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.( I. Berlin )生活有百分之十在於妳如何塑造它,有百分之九十在於妳如何對待它。(柏林)
The great use of life is to spend it for something that overlasts it.( W. James )生命的最大用處是將它用於能比生命更長久的事物上。(詹姆斯)
No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else. ( C. Dickens )在這個世界上能為別人減輕負擔的人都是有用的。(狄更斯)
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time. ( J. Lubbock )衡量生命的尺度是思想和行為,而不是時間。(盧伯克)
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. ( Montaigne )生命的價值不在於能活多少天,而在於我們如何使用這些日子。(蒙田)
Ideas are like the stars --- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them. ( C. Schurz )理想就象是星星——我們永遠無法到達,但是我們象水手壹樣,用它們指引航程。(舒爾茨)
I tell you hopeless grief is passionless. ( E. B. Browning )我告訴妳,沒有希望的悲傷是沒有感情的。(勃郎寧夫人)
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He who has never hoped can never despair. ( Bernard Shaw )從來沒有抱什麽希望的人也永遠不會失望。(蕭伯納)
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ( A. Einstein )不要為成功而努力,要為作壹個有價值的人而努力。(愛因斯坦)
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ( O. Goldsmith )我們最值得自豪的不在於從不跌倒,而在於每次跌倒之後都爬起來。(哥德斯密斯)
It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ( H. D. Thoreau )光勤勞是不夠的,螞蟻也是勤勞的。要看妳為什麽而勤勞。(梭羅)
You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of sucess. ( Charles Chaplin )人必須相信自己,這是成功的秘訣。(卓別林)
A wise man never loses anything if he has himself. ( Nietzche )聰明的人只要能掌握自己,便什麽也不會失去。(尼采)
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ( Russell )有些東西妳想要而沒有,這是幸福不可缺少的壹部分。(羅素)
Something attempted, something done. ( Longfellow )有所嘗試,就等於有所作為。(朗費羅)
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. ( M. Moore )勝利是不會向我們走來的,我必須自己走向勝利。(穆爾)
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. ( Bernard Shaw )在這個世界上取得成功的人,都努力去尋找他們想要的機會,如果找不到時,他們就自己創造機會。(蕭伯納)
A great man is always willing to be little. ( R. W. Emerson )偉大的人物總是願意當小人物的。(愛默生)
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. ( D. H. Lawrence )死是偉大的激情的唯壹的純潔、美麗的終結。(勞倫斯)
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are summits of ranges. ( T. W. Higginson )偉人很少是突兀的山峰;它們是眾山中的最高峰。(希金森)
The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.( T. Carlyle )即使整個太陽系和星系崩潰,妳也只死壹次。(卡萊爾)
Many people's tombstones should read: " Died at 30, buried at 60." ( N. M. Butler )許多人的墓碑上應該刻上:“三十而死,六旬而葬。”(巴特勒)
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of content. ( G. Woodberry )如果感覺到自己在生活中有了壹個位置,滿足的問題就解決了壹半。(伍德貝利)
We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.( H. W. Beecher )我們壹生應該這樣地生活和勞動,使給予我們的種子能在下壹代開花,使給予我們的花朵能在下壹代結果,這就是我們所說的進步的意義。(比徹)
What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: To be himself. ( Ibsen )人的第壹天職是什麽?答案很簡單:不偽飾自己。(易蔔生)
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of great whole of life dawn on you. ( P. Brooks )在妳耐心地操勞於生活的瑣事的過程中,妳才能領悟整個生活的偉大意義和形象。
(布魯克斯)
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb. ( W. M. Thackeray )大膽挑戰,世界總會讓步。如果有時候妳被它打敗了,不斷地挑戰,它總會屈服的。(薩克雷)
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure. ( A. Bierce )命運是暴君施虐的權威,傻瓜失敗的借口。(比爾斯)
Have no fear of perfection ---- you'll never reach it. ( S. Dali )不要為十全十美擔心——妳永遠作不到十全十美。(達裏)
The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others. ( F. Bacon )人的行為準則是,維護自己的尊嚴,不妨礙他人的自由。(培根)
One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor. ( Nehru )壹個人能在戰場上制勝千軍,但只有戰勝自己才是最偉大的勝利者。(尼赫魯)
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The greater the man, the more restrained his anger. ( Ovid )人越偉大,越能克制怒火。(奧維德)
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. ( A. E. Stevenson )為原則而鬥爭容易,按原則的要求活著難。(史蒂文森)
There is nothing permanent except change. ( Heracleitus )惟有變化才是永恒的。(赫拉克利特)
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ( T. Paine )想要收獲自由之果的人,必須承受維護自由的勞苦。(潘恩)
No road of flowers lead to glory. ( La Fontaine )沒有壹條通向光榮的道路是鋪滿鮮花的。(拉封丹)
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort. ( Shakespeare )不要只因壹次挫敗,就放棄妳原來決心想達到的目的。(莎士比亞)
The man who has made up his mind to win will never say " Impossible".( Napoleon )凡是決心取得勝利的人是從來不說“不可能”的。(拿破侖)
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. ( C. Weizmann )奇跡有時候是會發生的,但是妳得為之拼命蒂努力。(魏茨曼)
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. ( Muggeridge )沒有黑暗這種東西,只有看不見而已。(馬格裏奇)
It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. ( G. Eliot )天上永遠不會掉下玫瑰來,如果想要更多的玫瑰,必須自己種植。(艾略特)
Time is a bird for ever on the wing. ( T. W. Robertson )時間是壹只永遠在飛翔的鳥。(羅伯遜)
If you do not learn to think when you are young, you may never learn. ( Edison )如果妳年輕時不學會思考,那就永遠不會。(愛迪生)
A day is a miniature of eternity. ( Emerson )壹天是永恒的縮影。(愛默生)
The course of true love never did run smooth. ( Shakespeare )真誠的愛情之路永不會是平坦的。(莎士比亞)
Love is stronger than death.愛的力量大於死亡。(《聖經》)
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ( A. J. Heschel )少時喜歡聰明人,老來喜歡仁厚人。(赫歇爾)
All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear. ( H. D. Thoreau )壹切好的東西都是便宜的,所有壞的東西都是非常貴的。(梭羅)
Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind. ( Andy J. Sklivis )耐心等待!風車從不跑去找風。(斯克利維斯)
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ( L. Blum )品德可能僅僅在於有勇氣作出抉擇。(布魯斯)
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking something else. ( O. W. Holmes )通常是沒想到成名的人反而成了名。(霍姆斯)
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. ( W. Penn)妒忌者對別人是煩惱,對他們自己卻是折磨。(佩恩)
If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ( O. Wilde )如果世界上少壹些同情,世界上也就會少壹些麻煩。(王爾德)
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ( E. Hubbard )許多人的名聲如果在街上遇到自己的品德會互相不認識。(哈伯德)
Don't waste life in doubts and fears. ( Emerson )不要把生命浪費於懷疑與恐懼中。(愛默生)
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ( A. M. Lindbergh )生活中最使人筋疲力盡的事是弄虛作假。(林德伯格)
It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ( N. Coward )令人沮喪的是,有那麽多人對誠實感到吃驚,而對欺騙感到吃驚的人卻那麽的少。(科沃德)
The worst bankrupt is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
--H.W. Arnold
最慘的破產就是喪失自己的熱情。
--H.W. 阿諾德
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
--Issac Asimoy
如果勇敢的正視困難, 困難就會消失, 這壹直是我的人生哲學。
--艾薩克·阿西莫艾
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
—— Aristotle
學問在成功時是裝飾品,在失意時是庇護所,在年老時是供應品。
? —— 亞裏士多德
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
--Francis Bacon
旅行對青年人而言是壹種教育;對老年人來說則是壹種經歷。
--培根Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. —— F. Bacon壹些書可以淺嘗輒止;壹些書可以狼吞虎咽;而有些書則需要細嚼慢咽,好好消化。
—— F.培根
The best proof of love is trust.
--Joyce Brothers
愛的最好的證明就是信任。
-- 喬伊斯·布拉澤斯
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
--Confucius
己所不欲,勿施於人。
-- 孔子 You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. —— Joseph Conrad 妳可以通過壹個人的朋友,也可以通過壹個人的敵人來判斷他的為人。
—— 約瑟夫·康拉德
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much. —— Catherall 求學的三個基本條件是:多觀察,多吃苦,多研究。
—— 加塞羅爾
1.Great hopes make great men.
偉大的理想造就偉大的人。
2.Judge aman by his questions rather than his answers.
要判斷壹個人,看他的回答不如看他的提問。
3.Cleverness does not take place of knowledge.
聰明代替不了知識。
4.The strong man and the waterfall channel out their own path.
堅強的人像瀑布壹樣自己開辟道路。
5.A little of everything at all. --Montaigne
凡是淺嘗止,終將壹事無成。-蒙田
6.Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back.
學習如逆水行舟,不進則退。
7.Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
無知很糟,不能求知更糟。
8.With hope, no one shall fail.
只要懷有希望,誰也不會失敗。
9.The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
只有在字典裏,成功才出現在工作之前。
10.A misty morning may have a fine day. --Kelly
壹個多霧的早晨仍可能有壹個明朗的白天。-寄裏