1、练习范文请参照附录二第九章 常用谚语、名言、格言精选I quote others in order to express myself better.Proverb is the salt in the language.谚语、名言和格言是智者的语言，是人生真谛的高度概括，又是生活体验的结晶。它反映了各民族优秀的文化传统、高尚的道德情操和深刻的人生哲理。所以记忆一些谚语、名言和格言，把它们恰如其分地用在适当的说理和议论中，可以极大地增强语言的说服性，在文章中起到画龙点睛的作用。主题 1 学习与工作1. One is never too old to learn.人有老的时候, 没有老得不能学的
2、时候。2. Cleverness does not take the place of knowledge.聪明不能代替知识。3. A wise man is never less alone than when alone.智者独处不寂寞。4. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.好书乃积累智慧之长明灯。-G. W. Curties 寇第斯5. That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.好书使人开卷有所求, 闭
3、卷有所获。-L. W. Alcott 奥尔科特6. No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.没有比读书更便宜的娱乐, 也没有比读书更持久的欢乐。7. A man who knows two languages is worth two men.懂得两种语言的人抵得上两个人。8. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.智慧之于头脑, 犹如健康之于躯体。9. Reading makes a full man, conference a read
4、y man, and writing an exact man.阅读使人渊博, 会谈使人机敏, 写作使人严谨。10. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep;moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.读史使人明智, 读诗使人灵秀, 数学使人周密, 科学使人深刻, 伦理学使人庄重, 逻辑修辞学使人善辩。-F. Bacon 培根11. Bread nourishes the body, and books enri
5、ch the mind.面包滋养身体, 书本充实头脑。12. The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.读书越多, 越感到学识不足。13. A book that is shut is but a block.有书不读如藏木14. All readers can be divided into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.所有的读者都可以分为两类: 有人为了记住而读 , 有人为了忘却而读。15. There is a g
6、reat deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.一个渴望读书的人和一个累了想找本书看的人是大不相同的.-G. K. Chesterton 切斯特顿 (英国作家)16. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.阅读好书, 就好比是同过去多少世纪最杰出的人们交谈。-R. Descar
7、tes 笛卡尔17. Laziness in youth spells regret in old age.少壮不努力, 老大徒伤悲。18. Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.知识使人谦虚， 无知使人骄傲。19. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.同时追二兔， 全都抓不住。20. One must draw back in order to leap better.退后才能跳得更远。主题 2 时间与青春1. Time is the father of truth.时间是
8、真理之父。 -英语谚语2. Time and tide wait for no man.时光如逝水,岁月不待人。3. As every thread of gold is valuable, so every moment of time.一寸光阴一寸金。4. An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening.一日之计在于晨。-英语谚语5. Time dresses the greatest wounds.时间能愈合最大的创伤。6. To save time is to lengthen life.节省时间就是延长生命。7. If you w
9、ant your dreams to come true, dont sleep.要想梦成真, 少睡多用心。- 犹太谚语8. Punctuality is the politeness of kings.守时是最大的礼貌。- 英语谚语9. Make hay while the sun shines.趁着大晴天, 赶紧晒饲草。10. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.今日事今日毕./勿将今事待明日。11. No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are pas
10、sed.光阴如流水, 一去不复返。12. Seize the day, for fleeting youth never returns.光阴勿虚度, 青春不再来。13. I cannot afford to waste my time making money.我浪费不起时间去赚钱。-L. Agassiz 阿加西斯 (瑞士博物学家)14. Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.充分利用时间的人不会有余暇。15. What I do today is important because I am exchan
11、ging a day of my life for it.我今天做的事情很重要, 因为我为它付了一天的代价。16. Every flow has its ebb.潮有涨落日, 人有盛衰时。17. A day is a miniature of eternity.一天是永恒的缩影。-Emerson 爱默生18. Youth and white paper take any impression.青年犹如白纸, 可以打上任何印记。19. Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.年纪只是感觉如何的问题, 而不是年岁的问题。-G. W. Curtis 柯蒂斯2
12、0. Write it on your heart that every day is the best of the year.把这铭记在你心里: 每天都是一年中最好的日子。-Emerson 爱默生主题 3 品德与修养1. Virtue never grows old.美德不会衰老。2. Nurture passes nature.教养胜过天性。3. Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower.人的品格, 犹如花的香味。-C. C. Schwab 施瓦布 (美国实业家)4. He who would climb the ladder m
13、ust begin at the bottom.欲登高梯必自平地始。5. He is only bright that shines by himself.真正的漂亮靠自身的光彩。6. Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.抱负是一切高尚操行的萌芽。7. Honesty is the best policy.诚实为上策。-G. Sandys 桑迪斯8. Correct the mistakes if you have committed them, and avoid them if you have
14、not.有则改之, 无则加勉。9. Speech is silver, silence is gold.雄辩如银, 沉默如金。10. They are fools who adulate every decision of their leaders.对领导的每个决定一味奉承的人是蠢材。11. An optimist sees the rose; a pessimist the thorn.乐观的人看到玫瑰，悲观的人只看到它的刺。12. Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.己所不欲, 勿施于人。- 中国谚语13.
15、 To err is human. To forgive, divine.有过失是人之常情。 能原谅别人, 才是超越常人。14. Modesty helps one progress; conceit makes one lag behind.谦虚使人进步, 骄傲使人落后。15. Let bygones be bygones.既往不咎。- 英语谚语16. Every medal has two sides.每个勋章都有两面。/ 每个问题都有正反两面。17. Call a spade a spade.是啥说啥, 难听不怕。18. It is the careless man that will
16、suffer; never will the prudent man fall into a trap.只有大意吃亏, 没有小心上当。- 中国谚语19. The overturned cart ahead is a warning to the carts behind.前车之覆, 后车之鉴。- 中国谚语20. Without modesty beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.没有谦虚, 美丽就不端庄, 机智也讨人嫌。主题 4 友谊与团结1. To find friendship offer friendship.以友谊换友谊。2. True fr
17、iendship lasts forever.真正的友谊恒久不变。3. Friendship is like wine-the older the better.友谊像美酒, 越陈越醇厚。4. Fire is the test of gold, adversity of friendship.烈火试真金, 苦难试友情。5. Life without a friend is death without a witness.没有朋友的生活等于孤独一人死去。6. A man is known by the company he keeps.从其交友知其为人。7. Write down the adv
18、ice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.忠言虽难听, 必须记在心。8. All are not friends that speak us fair.当面说好话的并不都是朋友。9. The man who agrees with everybody is not worth having anybody agree with him.同意所有人的意见的人,不配得到任何人的同意。- H. J. Palmerston 帕默斯顿 10. Friends that desert us in the hour of need
19、 are friends in name, not in reality.在困难时刻背弃我们的是有名无实的朋友。11. Friendship is to be strengthened by truth and devotion.友谊要以真实和忠诚来巩固。12. A little help is worth a deal of pity.一点帮助胜于一车同情。13. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.选择朋友要慢, 换朋友更要慢。-Franklin 富兰克林14. A real friend never gets in your
20、way, unless you happen to be on the way down.真正的朋友决不会挡住你的去路, 除非你在走下坡路时。15. Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.与众同乐, 其乐更乐。16. Its good to have money to buy things that money can buy, but its better not to lose things money cannot buy.有钱去买能买得到的东西当然不错, 但不丢失用钱买不到的东西更好。-G. H. Lorimer 洛里默(美国记者) 17.
21、We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.指望朋友没有缺点, 就永远不会有朋友。18. Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚, 人以群分。19. He that plants trees loves others besides himself.植树的人, 不但爱己, 而且爱人。20. United we stand, divided we fall.团结则存, 分裂则亡。主题 5 健康与幸福1. Happiness lies first of all in h
22、ealth.幸福首先在于健康。2. Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.欢乐就是健康, 忧郁就是病痛。3. It is not work that kills, but worry.工作不损寿, 忧郁才伤身。4. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.只工作, 不玩耍, 聪明小伙也变儍。5. People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time fo
23、r illness.没有时间娱乐的人, 迟早得有时间生病。- J. Wanamaker 沃纳梅克6. He is wise that knows when he is well enough.知足为智者。7. He who lives with his memories becomes old. He who lives with plans for the future remains young.终日怀旧催人老, 计划未来葆青春。8. A good conscience is a continual feast.问心无愧天天乐。9. An ounce of prevention is wo
24、rth a pound of cure.一分预防胜过十分治疗。10. Diet cures more than doctors.自己饮食有节, 胜过上门求医。11. He is happy that thinks himself so.自乐者常乐。12. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.每天一只苹果, 无需医生进门。- 英语谚语13. Better wear out shoes than sheets.宁愿把鞋子穿漏, 不愿把床单磨破。- 英语谚语14. Health is not valued till sickness comes.病时方知健康可贵
25、。15. Leave off with an appetite.吃得七分饱, 就该离餐桌。16. He who has good health is young, and he is rich who owes nothing.健康葆青春, 无债即富足。17. Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.欢笑, 则世界与你同乐; 哭泣, 则独自悲伤。18. Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to
26、worry at night.白天忙得没有时间发愁, 夜里困得来不及发愁的人是真正幸福的。19. Happy is he who only desires what he may and does what he ought.不作非分之想又能尽本分的人是快乐的。20. There is no greater grief than to recall a time of happiness when in misery.没有比在悲惨中回忆幸福的时刻更痛苦。-Dante 但丁 (意大利诗人)主题 6 爱情与家庭1. Love is the mother of love.情生情, 爱生爱。- 英语谚
27、语2. The heart that once truly loves never forgets.真正恋爱过的心永不遗忘。3. Without respect, love cannot go far.没有尊重的爱难以久存。4. The course of true love never did run smooth.真正的爱情之路永不会是平坦的。-Shakespeare 莎士比亚5. It is better to give than to take.施比受更有福。6. Complete sincerity can affect even metal and stone.精诚所致, 金石为开
28、。7. Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.情人不仅彼此相爱, 而且有许多共同爱好时, 爱才能持久。8. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.情人眼里出西施。9. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.越是不见越想念。- 英语谚语10. Between two stools you fall to the ground.欲坐双凳必坠地。11. Blood is thicker than w
29、ater.血比水浓。12. First thrive and then wive.先立业, 后成家。13. Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.匆促结婚必后悔。14. A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.男子的最大财富, 在于妻子贤惠, 自己健康。- 英语谚语15. Taking joy in living is a womans best cosmetic.对人生感到乐趣是女人最好的化妆品。16. He knows not what love is that has no children.没有子女
30、的人不知道什么是爱。17. Example is better than precept.身教胜于言教。18. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.结婚的好处并不在于成人可生养孩子, 而在于孩子可助人成熟。19. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.休嫌它寒微贫贱, 天涯无处似家园。-J. H. Payne 佩恩（美国作家）20. Home is home, be it never so
31、 homely.金窝银窝, 不如自家的草窝。主题 7 勤俭与节约1. Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.勤劳是事业的灵魂, 是成功的基石。2. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. 如果你很有天赋, 勤勉会使你完善; 如果你能力一般 , 勤勉能补足你的缺陷。3. Idleness i
32、s the root of all evils.懒惰是万恶之源。4. Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality her left.节俭和勤奋是幸运的左右手。-John. Ray 约翰.雷5. Only by working hard can we reap a bumper harvest.只有通过辛勤的劳动才能收获丰硕的成果。6. He that will thrive must rise at five.五点起床, 家业兴旺。7. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care o
33、f themselves.小财注意, 大财自来。8. If each would sweep before his own door, we should have a clean city.若家家动手扫清门前, 整个城市就清洁了。9. National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness and vice.国家之前进源于个人的勤奋, 奋发, 正直, 正如国家之衰落由于个人的懒惰,
34、自私, 堕落。10. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.节约是一切美德的根源。11. Thrift is not only a great virtue, but also a great revenue.节俭不仅是一大美德, 而且是一大财源。12. Put your hand no further than your sleeve will reach.量入为出。13. Waste not, want not.不浪费, 不会穷。14. Who repairs not his gutters repairs his whole hous
35、e.今日不补沟, 他日必补屋。15. Money is a good servant but a bad master.金钱是个好仆人, 又是个坏主人。- 法国谚语16. Overeating will cause indigestion.贪多嚼不烂。17. Grasp all, lose all.什么都想要, 什么都失掉。18. Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have.少想自己欠缺的, 多想自己拥有的。19. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, an
36、d truth may be drowned.金钱是深不可测的海洋, 能淹没廉耻, 良心和是非感。20. Preparedness prevents calamity./Where there is precaution, there is no danger.有备无患。- 英语谚语主题 8 社会与文化1. A hero is nothing but a product of his time.时势造英雄。2. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.当一个人受到公众信任时
37、, 他就应该把自己看作公众的财产。-T. Jefferson 杰弗逊3. Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.进步是今天的活动, 明天的保证。- Emerson 爱默生4. Discontent is the first step in progress of a man or a nation.不满足是一个人或一个民族进步的第一步。- O. Wilde 王尔德5. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve
38、 change amid order.进步的艺术是在变革中保持秩序, 在秩序中保持变革。- A. N. Whitehead 怀特黑德6. A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.我认为, 一份好的报纸是一个民族在同自己谈话。- A. Miller 米勒 (美国作家)7. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.暴力是无能者的最后手段。8. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.我们受法律
39、约束, 为的是可以自由。9. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.我不同意你说的话, 但是我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。- Voltaire 伏尔泰10. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.只要好人不闻不问, 邪恶就能胜利。- E. Burke 伯克11. There is no rule without an exception.有规则必有例外。
40、12. What is bought is cheaper than a gift.自己花钱买的比别人送的便宜。13. Hardship disposes man to meet adversity.艰苦的生活使人能面对逆境。14. Nothing is a greater misfortune than not being able to bear misfortune.经不起不幸是最大的不幸。15. The cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice.巧妇难为无米之炊。- 中国谚语16. A man without a smili
41、ng face must not open a shop.没有笑脸的人不能开店。17. Forbidden fruit is sweet.禁果分外甜。18. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.世界是一本书, 没有旅行过的人只读了一页。- St. Augustine 圣.奥古斯丁19. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.用于教育之金钱决不虚掷。20. The object of education is to prepare the yo
42、ung to educate themselves throughout their lives.教育的目的在于让青年人作好毕生自我教育的准备。- R. Hutchins 哈钦斯 (美国教育家)主题 9 真理与奋斗1. The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant company is humility.真理最好的朋友是时间, 最大的敌人是偏见, 永恒的伴侣是谦逊。-Colton 科尔顿2. Craft must have clothes, but truth lo
43、ves to go naked.诡计定然披着外衣, 真理确不爱装饰。3. Actions speak louder than words.行动胜于言辞。 4. Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed.真理可能会被责难, 但决不会受羞辱。5. None so blind as they who will not see.不愿正视事实的人是瞎而又瞎的。6. It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.从崇高到荒谬只有一步之差。- Napoleon 拿破仑7. Two wrongs do
44、 not make a right.两个错误, 加不出一个正确./用错误改正不了错误。8. It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.为原则而斗争容易, 按原则的要求活着难。-A.E. Stevenson 史蒂文森9. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?难道生命是如此珍贵, 和平是如此甜美, 以致于不惜为此戴锁链, 当奴隶吗?-P. Henry 亨利10. There is nothing permanent except change.唯有变化才是永恒的。-Heracleitus 赫拉克利特11. All things are difficult before they are easy.
