SAT_写作必背格言.doc

1、sat 备考资料 格言 In the eyes of youth we see a flame, but in the eyes of the aged we see light. Victor Hugo 在年轻人的眼中我们看到火焰，不过在老年人的眼中我们看到光。 Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Douglas MacArthur 没有谁仅 仅由于生活了若干年变老。人们变老只是由于放弃了自己的理想。 There is no c

2、ure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana 对于出生和死亡都无计可施，惟有享受二者之间的间歇。 Truth is the daughter of time. Leonardo da Vinci 真理是时间的女儿。 Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. H. Surine 真理犹如外科手术。手术可能很疼，但很有效。 Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to

3、 be on the side of truth. Richard Whately 人人都希望真理在自己一边，但不是每个人都希望自己在真理一边。 The moment you step into the world of facts, you step into the world of limits. G. K. Chesterton 一旦踏入事实的世界，立即踏入限度的世界。 No rule so general, which admits not some exception. Borton 没有一条规律普遍到不容许某种例外。 There is no mistake so great as

4、 that of being always right. Samuel Butler 没有什么错误比永远正确更错。 It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau 说真话需要两个人一个说，另一个听。 Truth is the bottom of a bottomless well. T. William 真理是无底之井的井底。 As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the deman

5、d. Josh Billings 尽管真理相当罕见， 但它永远供过于求。 Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isnt. Mark Twain 事实比小说还离奇。小说不得不忠实于种种可能，事实则不必。 A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. Rabindranath Tagore 只有逻辑的头脑犹如全是刀刃的刀，会导致使用刀的手流血。 Jud

6、ge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Voltaire 要判断一个人，看他的回答不如看他所提出的问题 Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner 教育是学过的东西被忘掉后尚存的东西。 Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light. Thomas Carlyle 热爱永远是知识 的开端，犹如火是光的开端。 He that has a

7、cquired learning and not practiced what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed. Said 学到了知识而不运用犹如耕地而不播种。 The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Robertson Davies 眼睛只看到头脑准备了解的东西 Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them i

8、n reading valueless books. John Ruskin 人生非常短暂，安静时分又极少，我们不应该把他们浪费在读无价值的书上。 Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite t rue. Samuel Johnson 字典犹如钟表，再糟也比没有强，再好也别指望完全准确。 The truly great book does not find its readers, it creates them. Dagobe

9、rt D. Runes 真正伟大的书不寻求读者，它制造读者。 Perhaps they were right in putting love into books Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. William Faulkner 也许把爱情写在书里是对的。也许它在别的地方都无法存在 Genius learns from nature, talent from books. Josh Billings 天才向自然学习，才能出众者向书本学习。 And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will b

10、e but a walking dictionary. George Chapman 一个学者即使记住世上所有的书籍的内容，也不过是走动的字典。 Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it. William Hazlitt 书籍本身便是一个世界，这话没错；不过它们不是唯一的世界。世界本身又是一卷书，它比世间所有藏书的规模还要大。 Good boys who

11、 to their books apply, will all be great men by and by. Abraham Lincoln 凡少年好学者终将成大器。 Character is what you are in the dark. Dwight L. Moody 品格就是你在黑暗中的为人。 If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. Ralph Waldo Emerson 倘若遇到才智非凡的人，就应该询问他读的是哪些书。 In one way books giv

12、e us an even more vivid idea than the actual reality, just as reflections are often more beautiful than real nature. John Macaulay 在一定意义上，书籍给予我们的观念比真切的现实更生动，正如映象往往比真正的风景更美丽。 The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests. Oliver Wendell Holmes 书的精华不是它容纳的思想

13、，而是它启发的思想。 Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 美德是一种战争状态，要生活于美德之中就得不断与自我作战 The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Samuel Johnson 习惯的锁链在牢固得无法挣断之前，通常轻微到不可察觉。 Those who make th

14、eir dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. William Hazlitt 把衣着视为自身主要部分的人，价值一般不会超过其衣着。 Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Anonymous 品德就像树，名声就像树的影子。影子是我们对树的看

15、法，树才是真实的东西。 To be angry is to punish oneself with others mistake. Immanuel Kant 生气是拿别人的错误惩罚自己 Property has its duties as well as its rights. Thomas Drummond 财产既包括权利也包括义务。 The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the

16、 self. Albert Einstein 人的真正价值，首先取决于他在多大的程度和怎样的意思上获得自我解放。 A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. William Shenstone 撒谎者一开始弄假成真，最后却总是弄真成假。 The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. La Ro

17、chefoucauld 对于伟 人的名声，应该永远以他们获得声誉的途径来加以衡量 Plain living and high thinking. W. Wordsworth 朴素的生活，高尚的思想。 Be sure always that your head be not higher than your hat. John Lyly 时刻切记别把脑袋抬得比帽子高。 What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Benjamin Franklin 维持一种恶习的开支能够扶养两个孩子。 No honest man can argue b

18、oth sides well. Sophocles 诚实的人无法两面讨好。 The value of a man is decided by what he has contributed, not by what he has obtained. Albert 人的价值取决于他所贡献的，而非他所获得的 A great man is always willing to be little. Ralph Waldo Emerson 伟大的人总是甘当小人物。 We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden 首先是

19、我们造就习惯，然后是习惯造就我们。 Reason deceives us often, conscience never. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 理性常常欺骗我们， 良心则绝对不会。 A brave man risks his life, but not his conscience. Schiller 勇敢的人用生命冒险，但不以良心冒险。 Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. T. L. Mance 生活就是当我们正在作另外的安排时发生在我们身上的事 To have become a de

20、eper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. Oscar Wilde 变得更加深谋远虑是受过磨难的人的特权。 Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized. G. K. Chesterton 幸福犹如宗教，是一种神秘的东西， 永远不要对它加以理性的阐释。 Our enemies come nearer the truth in their opinions of us than we do in our opinion of oursel

21、ves. La Rochefoucauld 敌人对我们的看法比我们对自己的看法更接近事实。 We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. Minander 生活并非随我们所欲，而是按我们所能 There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter F. Drucker 高效率地做那些本来就不应该做的事，再没有什么比这更无益的了。 Life isnt choice. Something comes up or it doesnt

22、. a lot of choices choose you. C. Rits 人生不是选择。有些事情也许发生，也许不发生。有许多选择在选择你。 There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other two to live. James Truslow Adams 教育显然分为两种。一种应当教人如何谋生，另一种应当教人如何生活。 I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I

23、 dare a little more, as I grow older. Michel De Montaigne 我说真话，并非如我该说的那样多，而是如我敢说的那样多。随着年龄增长，我也敢于多说一点儿了 Eat at pleasure, drink with measure. English proverb 随意吃菜，适量喝酒。 The world is like a mirror: Frown at it and it frowns at you; smile, and it smiles too. Herbert Louis Samuel 世界犹如一面镜子：朝它皱眉它就朝你皱眉，朝它微笑

24、它也朝你微笑。 The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. Jack London 人的正确功能是生活而非生存。 What you get is a living. What you give is a life. L. Kies 你得到的是生活。你付出的是生命 Eat to live, and not live to eat. Benjamin Franklin 吃是为了活着，但活着不是为了吃。 We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from

25、 past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bo ught experience. George Washington 如果不是为了从过去的错误中吸取有用的教训，不是为了得益于昔日代价高昂的经验，就不应回 首往事。 The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort 所有的日子中最白白浪费的，就是一个人不曾笑的日子。 One cannot always be a hero, but on

26、e can always be a man. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 人不可能总是当英雄，但可以失始终做一个人 The most precious of all possessions, is power over ourselves. John Locke 我们所拥有的一切中，最宝贵的是对自己能力的控制。 Plato said “to understand yourself and do your own thing”, this contains all the duties of man. Michel de Montaigne 帕拉图说过 “认识自己，做自

27、己的事 ”，这概括了人的全部义务。 To know oneself thoroughly, in any case, is the most important thing in the world. Michel de Montaigne 无论如何，彻底了解自己都是世上最重要的事。 Suffering is the teacher of life. Honore de Balzac 苦难是人生的老师 Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to underst

28、and and be understood by all. Mad. Swetchine 历尽磨难的人犹如掌握多种语言的人，他们学会了理解所有的人和使所有的人理解他们。 Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. Ella Wheeler Wilcox 笑，全世界都和你一起笑；哭，只有你一个人自己哭。 A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway 男 子汉可以被摧毁而不可被击败。 What is defeat? Nothing but edu

29、cation, nothing but the first step to something better. Wendell Phillips 失败是什么？不过是教育，不过是趋于改善的第一步 It is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties, that make men. Mathews 造就人才的不是帮助而是障碍，不是便利而是困 难。 Difficulties show men what they are. Epictetus 困难显现人的本色。 What does not destroy me, makes

30、me strong. Fredrich Nietzsche 没有摧毁我的事物使变坚强。 Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. William Hazlitt 我们的能力与遇到的阻力成比例 Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. Oliver Goldsmith 我们最大的光荣不在于从不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒后都会爬起来。 The better work men do is always done u

31、nder stress and at great personal cost. W. C. Williams 更好的工作总是在压力下以极大的个人付出为代价完成的。 To conquer without risk is triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille 没有风险的征服是没有光荣的胜利 Doubt isnt the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. Paul Tillich 怀疑不是信仰的对立面，而是信仰的组成部分。 Thinking isnt to agree or disagree that

32、s voting. Robert Frost 思考并非同意或不同意 那是表决。 Know something of everything and everything of something. Henry Peter Brougham 事事略知一二，一事无所不知。 To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Henry David Thoreau 知之为知之，不知为不知，是为真知 An investment in knowledg

33、e always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin 对知识的投资总会取得最好的收益。 To build one more school can afford building one less prison. Victor Hugo 多建一所学校就可以少建一座监狱。 A bad teacher tells you the truth, while a good teacher teaches you how to find it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 拙劣的 教师告诉你真理，优秀的教师则教你如何发现真理。 zEvery child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso 每个孩子都是艺术家。问题在于他长大后如何依旧是个艺术家