新概念4的好句子
生命和青春话题：
L5：非常好的文章，值得背
There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him.
老年人和青年人只有一个区别：年轻人有光辉灿烂的前景，老年人的辉煌已经成为过去。
I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It’s as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.
我觉得年轻人令人振奋，无拘无束。他们既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不贪图生活的舒适。他们不热衷于向上爬，也不一味追求物质享受，在我看来，所有这些使他们和生命与万物之源联系了起来。从某种意义上讲，他们似乎是宇宙人，同我们这些凡夫俗子形成了鲜明的对照。
L11：非常好的文章，值得背
The best way to overcome the fear of death is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes is increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river—— small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the bank recede, the water flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
克服惧怕死亡的最好方法就是，逐渐使自己的兴趣更加广泛，逐渐摆脱个人消息的圈子，直到自我的围墙一点点的倒塌下来，自己的生活慢慢和整个宇宙的生活融合在一起。个人的存在应该像一条河流，开始很窄，被紧紧的夹在两岸中间。接着热情奔放的冲过巨石，飞下瀑布。然后河面渐宽，两岸后撤，河水流的平缓起来，最后连绵不断的汇入大海，毫无痛苦的失去了自我的存在。
I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.
有长眠的愿望未尝不是一件好事，我希望工作到死为止，明白了有人会继续我未尽的事业，想到能做的事情都做了，也就坦然了。
性格兴趣培养话题：
L3：
But they did not go out of to court such excitement, they had a single aim, a solitary goal—— the top! 但是他们并非故意寻找刺激，他们只有一个目的，唯一的目标——顶峰！
L21：
Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found it pleasant to escape to a time when life, though hard, was relatively simple. We still do; living in a world in which undeclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.
生活在20世纪20年代的观众认为，逃到一个即使艰苦但比较简朴的时代是件愉快的事情，我们今天仍然有这样的感觉。如今，不宣而战的侵略、战争、虚伪、诈骗、无政府状态以及即将临头的毁灭成了我们日常生活的一部分，我们都希望有一个赖以生存的行为准则。
L33:
Education is one of the key words of our time. A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. 教育是我们这个时代的关键词之一。我们许多人都相信：一个没有受过教育的人，是逆境的牺牲品，被剥夺了20世纪最优越的机会之一。
A large group of the enlightened young man and women who are potential leaders.
那些可能成为未来栋梁的一大批有知识的男女青年
L45：
Competition between ourselves, person against person, community against community, still persists, however, and it is as fierce as it ever was.
然而人类之间的竞争，人与人，团体与团体，依然在进行着，而且和以前一样激烈。
A gifted American psychologist has said:“Worry is a spasm of the emotion; the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go.”
一个天才的美国心理学家曾经说：“烦恼是感情的发作，此时脑子纠缠住了某种东西又不肯放手。”
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of the first importance to a public man. But this is not business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process. The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground; they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.
因此，对于一个从事社会活动的人来说，培养一种业余爱好和各种新的兴趣是头等重要的做法。但这不是一日之工，也不是单凭意志一蹴而就的事情，精神上多种情趣的培养一个长期的过程。要想在需要的时候可随手摘取充满生计的果实，那积聚必须从精选良种开始，然后将其植入肥沃的土地，还需要勤勉的护理。
竞争、科技发展和生活环境类话题：
L6:
Nearly all the sports practiced nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.
现在开展的体育运动几乎都是竞争性的。参加比赛就是为了取胜，如果不拼命去赢，比赛就毫无意义。
L10：
Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.
技术的发展趋势可能可以把硅谷重新推向未来。（换个地名，适于用技术类做文的开头）
L16:非常适合背诵
In the organization industrial life the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely.
在现代生活的组织中，工厂对工人的生理和精神状态的影响完全被忽视了。
The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds. Obviously, it has not been planned for the good of its inhabitants.
街道上充斥着汽油味和有毒气体，出租车、卡车、公共汽车得当噪音刺耳难忍，络绎不绝的人群挤来挤去。显然，现代化的城市不是为居民的利益而规划的。
L38：
Contamination of water supplies is usually due to poor sanitation close to water sources, sewage disposal into the sources themselves, leakage of sewage into distributions systems or contamination with industrial or farm waste.
水源的污染通常是由于接近水源的地方卫生条件太差而造成的：污水排入水管，污水渗入给水的系统或工农业污水造成污染。
文化、艺术、思想类话题：
L24：非常好的文章，值得背
A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond.
当一个年轻人看到日落，由于无法理解和表达日落在他新中国唤起的激情，便得出结论：日落处想必是通向遥远世界的大门。
That all great art has this power of suggesting a world beyond is undeniable.
不可否认，一切伟大的艺术都具有使人遐想到进入天外世界的魅力。
There is no sky in June so blue that is does not point forward to a bluer, no sunset so beautiful that it does not weaken the vision of a greater beauty, a vision which passes before it is fully glimpsed, and passing leaves an indefinable longing and regret.
六月蔚蓝的天空总使人遥想一个更加蔚蓝的苍穹；美丽的落日总会引起一个更加绚丽的景象，这景象未及饱览便一闪即逝，并在消逝中给人留下了不可名状的渴望和惆怅。
……这篇文章太好了，最好全文看一下吧。
L44：
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and ways of thinking.
没有一个人是用纯洁毫无偏见的眼光看待世界。人们所看到的是一个受特定的风俗习惯、制度和思想方式剪辑过的世界。
L45：
We cannot think outside the particular patterns that our brains are conditioned to, or, to be more accurate, we can think only a very little way outside, and then only if we are very original.
我们不能脱离我们大脑所限定的模式去思考问题，我们只能稍微离开一点，就这也需要我们有独创的思想。
父母与子女关系问题：
L34:
Disillusionment with the parents, however good and adequate they may be both as parents and as individuals, is to some degree inevitable.
不管家长的人品有多么好，作为父母多么合格，孩子们对家长幻想的破灭在某种程度上不可避免的。
The adolescent, with his passion for sincerity, always respects a parent who admits that he is wrong, or
ignorant, or even that he has been unfair or unjust. What the child cannot forgive is the parents’ refusal to admit these charges if the child know them to be true.
青少年酷爱真诚，对于能够承认错误或者无知，甚至承认自己做得不公平或不公正的父母，他们总是尊敬的。孩子们所不能原谅的是：父母错了，孩子们也看出来了，可是做父母的还不肯承认。
It’s always wiser and safer to face up to reality, however painful it may be at the moment.
遇事采取面对现实的态度总是比较明智和稳妥的，尽管会有暂时的痛苦。
引语集锦
常见的使用形式如下：
One of the greatest early writers said ...
"Knowledge is power", such is the remark of ...
"...". That is how sb comment (criticize/ praise...).
"...". How often we hear such words like there.
Useful quotations
逆境
by Robert Collier
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
努力与成功
by Ann Landers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
坚持
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.
Confucius 孔子
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
坚持
Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Winston Churchill
Never, never, never, never give up.
Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
努力与成功
by Crassus
Those who aim at great deeds must suffer greatly.
Thomas Edison
There is no substitute for hard work.
Leo Tolstoi
The strongest of all warriors are these two- Time and Patience.
Thomas Jefferson
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Robert Collier
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Ray A. Croc
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
实际经验与间接经验
You’ll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.
动机与结果
Vince Lombardi
Winning isn’t everything but wanting to win is.
John F. Kennedy
We choose to go to the moon and other things , oot because they are easy, but because they are hard. Thucydides
The strong do what they will. The weak do what they must.
为人态度：
John Wooden
Talent is God given--Be Humble.
Fame is man given-- Be Thankful.
Conceit is self given --Be Careful.
行动：
Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, with where you are.
Publilius Syrus Maxim
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Terence
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
Thomas Fuller
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
William Penn
No pains, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall , no glory; no cross, no crown.
Will Rogers
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over. if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
成功与失败
Vince Lombardi
It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again.
Winston Churchill
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
热情（年轻/年老）
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
信心
James Allen
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
Samuel Johnson
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Aughey
Lost time is never found again.
Voltaire
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
Napoleon
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
细心
Euipides
Leave no stone unturned.
计划与工作
Norman Vincent Peale
Plan your work for today and every day; then work your plan.
Henry Ford
Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Thomas Edison
I start where the last man left off.
理想与现实
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
勤奋
Benjamin Franklin
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
目标
Henry David Thoreau
In the lone run men hit only what they aim at.
幸运
Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance. It’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
勤奋
Thomas Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Useful Quotations
想象力
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
挑战：
Walter Begehot
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
机会与准备
Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
信心与事实
Henry Ford
Whether you think you can or think you can’t -- you are right.
English Proverb
Where there’s a will there’s a way.
There is no failure excepting no longer trying.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.