值得一看的名句 (中英文对照)
作者：玉阁清影 提交日期：2005-2-6 13:04:00
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
知识总是从爱好开始，犹如光总是从火开始一样。
－Thomas Carlyle（英国历史学家卡莱尔）
People need to know one another to be at their honest best.
人们需要相互了解才能达到最诚实的境界。
－(Robbins Staca（英国作家斯达卡）
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
要私下告诫朋友，但是要公开夸奖朋友。
－Publius Syrus（叙利亚作家西拉丁）
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
所有幸福的家庭都相似，而每个不幸的家庭各不同。
－Leo Tolstoy（俄国文学家托尔斯泰）
Friendship is both a source of pleasure and a component of good health.
友谊既是快乐之源泉，又是健康之要素。
－Ralph Waldo Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
If you don’t learn to think when you are young, you may never learn.
如果你年轻时没有学会思考，那就永远学不会思考。
－Thomas Edison（美国发明家爱迪生）
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
不管是谁，匆匆忙忙只能说明他不能从事他所从事的工作。
－Philip Dormer Chesterfield（英国政治家切斯特菲尔德）
It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable.
要做到与人融洽相处，需要仔细地思考，认真地努力和痛下决心。
－Ralph Waldo Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.
工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受！工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。
－Maxim Gorky（俄国作家高尔基）
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。
－Winston Churchill（英国首相，丘吉尔）
A man is called selfish, not pursuing his own good, but neglecting his neighbour’s.
追求自身的利益，不是自私；只有忽视他人的利益，才是自私。
－Richard Whately (美国牧师惠特利)
People need to know one another to be at their honest best.
人们需要相互了解才能达到最诚实的境界。
－(Robbins Staca（英国作家斯达卡）
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
－James Russell Lowell（英国诗人洛威尔）
Throughout life, we rely on small groups of people for love, admiration, respect, moral support and help.
整个一生， 我们都有赖于从一些人群中获得友爱、赏识、尊重、道义支持和帮助。
－Ralph Waldo Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
He that will not allow his friend to share the prize must not expect him to share the danger.
不肯让朋友共享果实的人，不要指望朋友与他共患难。
－Aesop（古希腊寓言作家伊索）
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
任何人自己都不是完整的；他的朋友是他的其余部分。
－Harry Emerson Fosdick（美国牧师福斯迪克）
Treat other people as you hope they will treat you.
你希望别人如何对待你，你就如何对待别人。
－Aesop（古希腊寓言家伊索）
Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficult than their tongues.
经验给了我们太多的教训，告诉我们人类最难管制的东西，莫过于自己的舌头。
－Bendict de Spinoza（荷兰哲学家斯宾诺沙）
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
人生最大的教训是要知道即使傻瓜有时候也是对的。
－Winston Churchill（英国政治家丘吉尔）
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
权力越大，滥用职权的危险就越大。
－Burke Edmund（英国政治家埃德蒙）
If you fight for yourself, only you can win; when you fight for your marriage, you both win.
如果你只为自己奋斗，只有你一个人是赢家；若为婚姻奋斗，夫妻两人都是赢家。
－Pearsall Paul（美国哲学家保罗）
When you want knowledge like you want air under water then you will get it.
当你需要知识就像你在水底需要空气时，你准能得到它。
－Socrates（古希腊哲学家苏格拉底）
Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.
行为是一面镜子，每个人都把自己的形象显现于其中。
－Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德国诗人歌德）
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize.
有的东西比才能稀罕得多，珍贵得多，这就是识别的能力。
－Robert Half（英国作家哈夫）
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
事越做越能，人越忙越有空。
－William Hazlitt（英国评论家哈滋里特）
A man, like a watch, is to be valued by this manner of going.
一个人，正如一个时钟，是以他的行动来定其价值的。
－William Penn（英国海军上将佩恩）
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imagination.
世界的悲剧就在于有想象力的人缺乏经验，而有经验的人缺乏想象力。
－Alfred North Whitehead（英国哲学家怀特海）
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
赢得核战争的方法是确保它永远不会发生。
－Bradley Omar（美国上将奥马尔）
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
经验是当你没得到想得到之物时所得到的东西。
－Dan Stanfort（美国实业家斯坦福）
To make a lasting marriage we have to overcome self-centeredness.
要使婚姻长久，就需克服自我中心意识。
－George Gordon Byron（英国诗人，拜伦）
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
我之所有，我之所能，都归功于我天使般的母亲。
－Abraham Lincoln（美国总统林肯）
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。
－Bertrand Russell（英国哲学家罗素）
Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
经验始终是收费高的学校，然而，笨汉非进此学校不可。
－Benjamin Franklin（美国总统富兰克林）
Follow your own course, and let people talk.
走自己的路，让人家去说吧。
－Alghieri Dante（意大利诗人但丁）
If you would have a thing well done, you must do it yourself.
如果要将事情做好，就得亲自动手。
－Henry Wadsworth Longfellow（美国诗人朗费罗）
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
最可怕的事莫过于行动中的无知。
－Desiderius Eramus（荷兰人文主义者伊拉莫斯）
Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds.
什么样的人便决定了干什么样的事；同样，干什么样的事也决定了是什么样的人。
－George Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty little package.
一个只顾自己的人不足以成大器。
－John Ruskin（英国作家罗斯金）
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。
－George Bernard Shaw（英国剧作家肖伯纳）
Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals.
乐观主义者总是想象自己实现了目标的情景。
－Lucius Annaeus Seneca（古罗马哲学家，西尼加）
Almost any situation ---good or bad--- is affected by the attitude we bring to.
差不多任何一种处境-----无论是好是坏-----都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。
－Lucius Annaeus Seneca（古罗马哲学家西尼加）
Perhaps you can’t control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life.
或许你不能支配自己的工作，但你能够使生活发生转变。
－Alan Loy Mcginnis（英国作家麦金尼斯）
The Chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity.
中文的“危机“分为两个字，一个意味着危险，另外一个意味着机会。
－Burejer（英国作家布瑞杰）
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
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。（英国散文家、历史学家，卡莱尔）
－Thomas Carlyle（英国散文家卡莱尔）
I find life an exciting business ------ and most exciting when it is lived for others.
我发现生活是令人激动的事情，尤其是为别人活着时。
－Helen Keller（美国作家，海伦•凯勒）
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
年轻人一生中常犯大错误，其中之一就是把爱情太理想化了。
－John Ray（美国科学家雷伊）
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got down to work.
我从不等待情绪的来临。如果你一味等待，就将一事无成。你必须牢记，只有动手才能有所得。
－Pearl Buck（美国作家赛珍珠）
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
经验是思想之子，思想是行动之子，了解他人不可以书本为据。
－Benjamin Disraeli（英国政治家狄斯雷利）
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
衡量一个人真正的品质，要看他在知道永远也不会被人发现的情况下做些什么。
－Thomas Bobington Macaulay（英国历史学家麦考莱）
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
考虑是不要匆忙，但是一旦行动的时刻来到，就要毫不犹豫地投身行动。
－John Albion Andrew（美国废奴运动领导人安德鲁）
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
要私下告诫朋友，但是要公开夸奖朋友。
－Publius Syrus（叙利亚作家西拉丁）
A man is called selfish, not pursuing his own good, but neglecting his neighbour’s.
追求自身的利益，不是自私；只有忽视他人的利益，才是自私。
－Richard Whately (美国牧师惠特利)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
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。（英国散文家、历史学家，卡莱尔）
－Thomas Carlyle（英国散文家卡莱尔）