1、Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie) 生活中没有什么可怕的东西，只有需要理解的东西。（居里夫人） 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) 只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。（巴里摩尔） A man can succeed at almost a
2、nything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. (C. M. Schwab) 只要有无限的热情，一个人几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) 有一点我是知道的：在你们之中，只有那些愿意寻求发现如何为别人服务的人，才是真正幸福的。（施韦策） The important thing
3、 in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. (Goethe) 人生重要的在于确立一个伟大的目标，并有决心使其实现。（歌德） To live is to function. That is all there is in living. (Holmes) 活着就要发挥作用，这就是生活的全部内容。（霍姆斯） Man can only be free through mastery of himself. ( S. E. Morison) 只有通过掌握自己，才能使自己得到解放。（莫里森） Fear not
4、that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. (J. H. Newman) 不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远不曾真正开始。（纽曼） Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation. ( C. Nepos) 要选择行动的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。（内波斯） When the fight begins within himself, a mans worth something. ( R. Browning
5、) 当一个人内心开始斗争时，他就有了价值。（布郎宁） There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. (C. Morley ) 只有一种成功，那就是能够用自己的方式度过自己的一生。（莫利） We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ( Martin Luther King, Jr.) 我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无穷的。（马丁。路德。金）We grow
6、 neither better nor worse as we grow old but more like ourselves. ( M. L. Becker ) 随着年龄的增长，我们并不变得更好也不变得更坏，而是变得更象我们自己。（贝克尔） 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 ) 宝石即使落在泥潭里，仍
7、是一样可贵；尘土纵然扬到天上，还是没有价值。（贾比尔） Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. ( Strong) 与其诅咒黑暗，不如燃起蜡烛。（斯特郎） A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ( J. Burroughs ) 一个人可以失败许多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪别人，他还不是一个失败者。（巴勒斯） Work is the grand cure of all the maladi
8、es and miseries that ever beset mankind. ( Carlyle ) 工作是医治人间一切病痛和疾苦的万应良药。（卡莱尔） At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ( B. Franklin) 二十岁时起支配作用的是意志，三十岁时是机智，四十岁时是判断。（富兰克林） The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. ( T. Car
9、lyle ) 生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦，而在于人们错过了什么。（卡莱尔） To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ( J. W. Gardner ) 对聪明人来说，每一天的时间都是要精打细算的。（加德纳） Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life. (Goethe ) 天才形成于平静中，性格来自于生活的激流。（歌德） Wherever valour true is found, true modesty will there abound. ( W. S
10、. Gilbert ) 真正的勇敢，都包含谦虚。（吉尔伯特） We cant all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (W. Roger ) 我们不可能都成为英雄。总得有人在英雄走过的时候坐在路边鼓掌。（罗杰） Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. (Euripides ) 上帝要谁灭亡，必先让他疯狂。（欧里比德斯) Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his
11、word or two. ( A. Lowell ) 生活是一张白纸，每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话。（洛威尔） On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind. ( A. Hamilton ) 地球上唯一伟大的是人，人身上唯一伟大的是心灵。（哈密尔顿） Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas. ( Chekhov ) 人的一切面貌、衣着、
12、心灵和思想，都应该是美好的。（契诃夫） Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.( T. Fuller ) 生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成的。（富勒） Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less. ( S. Bernhardt ) 要这样生活，仿佛你寿命永恒；要这样工作，仿佛你精力无穷。（波恩哈特） Other man live to eat, while I eat to live.
13、( Socrates ) 别人为食而生存，我为生存而食。（苏格拉底） Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ( S. Butler ) 生活是一种艺术，要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论。（巴特勒） Life is not all beer and skittles. ( T. Hughes ) 人生并非只是吃喝玩乐。（休斯） For man is man and master of his fate. ( A. Tennyson ) 人就是人，是自己命运的主人。（丁尼生） Th
14、e supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. |( V. Hugo ) 生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。（雨果） Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. ( R. Peters ) 人生应该树立目标，否则你的精力会白白浪费。（彼得斯） None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.( Erasmus ) 只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的
15、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 ) 没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。（艾略特） Dont believe that winning is really everything. Its more important to stand for something. If you dont stand for something, what do you win? ( Lane Kirkland ) 不要认为取胜就是一切，更重要的是要有信念。倘若你没有信念，那胜利又有什么意义呢？
16、（柯克兰） Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ( Lincoln ) 卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路，他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。（林肯） Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.( Kierkergaard ) 只有向后才能理解生活；但要生活好，则必须向前看。（克尔凯郭尔） While there is one untrodden tractFor intellect or wil
17、l.And men are free to think and act,Life is worth living. ( A. Austin ) 只要还有一块知识和意志尚未征服的领域，只要人们能自由思考和行动，生活就是值得的。（奥斯汀） Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.( I. Berlin ) 生活有百分之十在于你如何塑造它，有百分之九十在于你如何对待它。（柏林） The great use of life is to spend it for something that over
18、lasts it.( W. James ) 生命的最大用处是将它用于能比生命更长久的事物上。（詹姆斯） No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else. ( C. Dickens ) 在这个世界上能为别人减轻负担的人都是有用的。（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为，而不是时间。（卢伯克） The value of life lies not in the leng
19、th of days, but in the use we make of them. ( Montaigne ) 生命的价值不在于能活多少天，而在于我们如何使用这些日子。（蒙田） Ideas are like the stars - we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them. ( C. Schurz ) 理想就象是星星我们永远无法到达，但是我们象水手一样，用它们指引航程。（舒尔茨） I tell you hopeless grief is passionless. ( E. B. Browning
20、) 我告诉你，没有希望的悲伤是没有感情的。（勃郎宁夫人） He who has never hoped can never despair. ( Bernard Shaw ) 从来没有抱什么希望的人也永远不会失望。（萧伯纳）Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ( A. Einstein ) 不要为成功而努力，要为作一个有价值的人而努力。（爱因斯坦） Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising eve
21、ry time we fall. ( O. Goldsmith ) 我们最值得自豪的不在于从不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来。（哥德斯密斯） It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?( H.D. Thoreau) 光勤劳是不够的，蚂蚁也是勤劳的。要看你为什么而勤劳。（梭罗） You have to believe in yourself. Thats the secret of sucess. ( Charles Chaplin ) 人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。
22、（卓别林） A wise man never loses anything if he has himself. ( Nietzche ) 聪明的人只要能掌握自己，便什么也不会失去。（尼采） To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ( Russell ) 有些东西你想要而没有，这是幸福不可缺少的一部分。（罗素） Something attempted, something done. ( Longfellow ) 有所尝试，就等于有所作为。（朗费罗） Victory won
23、t come to me unless I go to it. ( M. Moore ) 胜利是不会向我们走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。（穆尔）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 ) 在这个世界上取得成功的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到时，他们就自己创造机会。（萧伯纳） A great man is always
24、 willing to be little. ( R. W. Emerson ) 伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的。（爱默生） Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. ( D. H. Lawrence ) 死是伟大的激情的唯一的纯洁、美丽的终结。（劳伦斯） Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are summits of ranges. ( T. W. Higginson )伟人很少是突兀的山峰；它们是众山中的最高峰。（希金森） The cra
25、sh of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.( T. Carlyle ) 即使整个太阳系和星系崩溃，你也只死一次。（卡莱尔）Many peoples tombstones should read: “ Died at 30, buried at 60.“ ( N. M. Butler ) 许多人的墓碑上应该刻上：“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. Wo
26、odberry ) 如果感觉到自己在生活中有了一个位置，满足的问题就解决了一半。（伍德贝利） 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 ) 我们一生应该这样地生活和劳动，使给予我们的种子能在下一代开花，使给予我
27、们的花朵能在下一代结果，这就是我们所说的进步的意义。（比彻） Whats a mans first duty? The answers brief: To be himself. ( Ibsen ) 人的第一天职是什么？答案很简单：不伪饰自己。（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 ) 在你耐心地操劳于生活的琐事的过程中，你才能领悟整个生活的伟
28、大意义和形象。 （布鲁克斯） Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb. ( W. M. Thackeray ) 大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服的。（萨克雷） Destiny: A tyrants authority for crime, and a fools excuse for failure. ( A. Bierce ) 命运是暴君施虐的权威，傻瓜失败的借口。（比尔斯）Have n
29、o fear of perfection - youll never reach it. ( S. Dali ) 不要为十全十美担心你永远作不到十全十美。（达里） The sum of behaviour is to retain a mans own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others. ( F. Bacon ) 人的行为准则是，维护自己的尊严，不妨碍他人的自由。（培根）One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is th
30、e greatest victor. ( Nehru ) 一个人能在战场上制胜千军，但只有战胜自己才是最伟大的胜利者。（尼赫鲁） Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ( George Eliot ) 我从不怜惜自负的人们，因为我觉得他们无处不能自我安慰。（艾略特） Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long. ( Bernard Shaw )
31、人可以爬到最高峰，但他不能在那儿久住。（萧伯纳） The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. (Kierkegaard) 暴君死了，他的统治就结束了；烈士死了，他的统治刚开始。（克尔凯郭尔） Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ( T. S. Eliot ) 世界上大部分的麻烦都是要想成为伟大人物的人搞出来的。（艾略特） The main dangers in this lif
32、e are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. ( Lady Astor ) 生活中的主要危险来自那些想要改变一切或什么也不想改变的人。（阿斯特子爵夫人）Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step a time. ( Mark Twain ) 习惯就是习惯，谁也不能将其扔出窗外，只能一步一步地引它下楼。（马克吐温） Bigotry may be roughly defined
33、as the anger of men who have no opinions. ( C. K. Chesterton ) 可以给偏执下一个粗略的定义：没有观点的人的愤怒。（切斯特顿） Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ( W. Winchell ) 乐观主义者：被狮子逼上了树但仍能欣赏风景的人。（温切尔） You know what charm is : A way of getting the answer “yes“ without having asked any clear questi
34、on. ( A. Camus ) 你知道什么是魅力：一种不用明白地提出问题而能得到肯定答复的办法。（加谬） The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ( J. Cocteau ) 对于诗人来说，最大的悲剧莫过于由于误解而受到钦佩。（科克托） The essence of language is human activity. ( O. Jesperson ) 语言的本质是人类活动。（耶斯佩森） Animals are such agreeable friends -they ask no
35、 questions, they pass no criticisms. ( George Eliot ) 动物是极容易相处的，它们从不提问，也从不会批评。（艾略特）Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ( W. Durant ) 教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。（杜兰特） In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.( W. A. White ) 教育不是为了教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们
36、创造生活。（怀特） I would rather see a young man blush than turn pale. ( M. P. Cato ) 我宁可看到青年人脸红，也不愿看到它脸色变得苍白。（加图） It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ( W. G. McAdoo ) 在争论中是无法击败无知者的。（麦卡杜） A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. ( Voltaire ) 持久的争论意味着双方都是错的。（伏尔泰） People generally
37、 quarrel because they cannot argue. ( Chesterton ) 通常人们是因为不会辩理才吵架的。（切斯特顿） The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ( Bernard Shaw ) 明白事理的人使自己适应世界；不明事理的人想使世界适应自己。（萧伯钠）Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the na
38、rcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ( C. G. Jung ) 任何形式的瘾都是不好的，不管上瘾的是酒精、吗啡还是唯心主义。（荣格） As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ( C. Darrow ) 只要世界还存在，就会有错误，如果没有人反叛，这些错误将永远存在下去。（达罗） I disapprove of what you say, but I will de
39、fend to the death your right to say it. ( Voltaire )我不同意你说的话，但我愿意誓死捍卫你说话的权利。（伏尔泰） The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse. ( J. Renard ) 唯一真正自由的人是能够拒绝宴会的邀请而不用提出理由的人。（勒纳尔） The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds
40、.( Mark Twain ) 具有新想法的人在其想法被接受之前是怪人。（马克吐温） The greater the man, the more restrained his anger. ( Ovid ) 人越伟大，越能克制怒火。（奥维德） It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. ( A. E. Stevenson ) 为原则而斗争容易，按原则的要求活着难。（史蒂文森） There is nothing permanent except change. ( Heracleitus ) 惟有变化才是永恒的。（赫拉克利特） Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ( T. Paine ) 想要收获自由之果的人，必须承受维护自由的劳苦。（潘恩） No road of flowers lead to glory. ( La Fontaine ) 没有一条通向光荣的道路是铺满鲜花的。（拉封丹）
