名言集粹,值得一看(英漢對照) —— (三)

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,但是我們象水手一樣,用它們指引航程。(舒爾茨)

I tell you hopeless grief is passionless. ( E. B. Browning ) 我告訴你,沒有希望的悲傷是沒有感情的。(勃郎寧夫人)

He who has never hoped can never despair. ( Bernard Shaw ) 從來沒有抱什麼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,要為作一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。要看你為什麼而勤勞。(梭羅)  

You have to believe in yourself. Thats 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,便什麼也不會失去。(尼采)   

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ( Russell ) 有些東西你想要而沒有,這是幸福不可缺少的一部分。(羅素)   

Something attempted, something done. ( Longfellow ) 有所嘗試,就等於有所作為。(朗費羅)  

Victory wont 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一的純潔、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,你也只死一次。(卡萊爾)   

Many peoples 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一個位置,滿足的問題就解決了一半。(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 ) 我們一生應該這樣地生活和勞動,使給予我們的種子能在下一代開花,使給予我們的花朵能在下一代結果,這就是我們所說的進步的意義。(比徹)   

Whats a mans first duty? The answers brief: To be himself. ( Ibsen ) 人的第一天職是什麼?答案很簡單:不偽飾自己。(易卜生)  

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 ) 在你耐心地操勞於生活的瑣事的過程中,你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。如果有時候你被它打敗了,不斷地挑戰,它總會屈服的。(薩克雷)   

Destiny: A tyrants authority for crime, and a fools 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 ---- youll never reach it. ( S. Dali ) 不要為十全十美擔心——你永遠作不到十全十美。(達里)   

The sum of behaviour is to retain a mans 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 ) 一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)

Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ( George Eliot ) 我從不憐惜自負的人們,因為我覺得他們無處不能自我安慰。(艾略特)

Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long. ( Bernard Shaw ) 人可以爬到最高峰,但他不能在那兒久住。(蕭伯納)   

The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. (Kierkegaard) 暴君死了,他的統治就結束了;烈士死了,他的統治剛開始。(克爾凱郭爾)


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