第一部分：名人名言
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore. I have amused myself now and then finding a smooth pebble or a pretty shell, but the great ocean of truth still lies before me unknown and unexpected.
--- Issac Newton (1642 --- 1727, English physicist )
我只是像一个在海边玩耍的孩子，偶尔拣到一块光滑的鹅卵石或一枚美丽的贝壳自娱，但我面前的真理的海洋，却有待于发现和探索。（牛顿）
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion is humility.
--- Charles Colton ( English writer )
真理最伟大的朋友是时间，最大的敌人是偏见，永远的伴侣是是谦逊。（科尔顿）
Such is beauty ever, --- never in Rome nor in Athens, but whenever there is a soul to admire.
--- Henry David Thoreau (1817 --- 1862, American essayist and poet )
美既不在罗马，也不在雅典，而是深藏于每一颗欣赏美的心灵，这才是永恒的美。（索罗）
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. --- John Ruskin (1819 ---1900, English art and social critic)
爱美是一切健康人性的本质。（罗斯金）
Ideals are like stars --- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.
--- Charles Schulz (1922 --- , American cartoonist )
理想就像星星 --- 我们永远无法达到，但是我们像水手一样，用他们指引航程。（舒尔茨）
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.
--- Leo Tolstoy (1828 --- 1910, Russian writer )
理想是指路明灯。 没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。（托尔斯泰）
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth. --- Albert Einstein (1877 ---1955, American physicist )
照亮我道路并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生的那些理想就是真、善、美。
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--- Albert Einstein
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想象力比知识更为重要。
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
--- John Barrymore (1882 ---1942, American actor)
只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。知道后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。（巴里穆尔）
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 --- 1832, German poet)
人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。（歌德）
When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensible means to it are also lawful and obligatory.
--- Abraham Lincoln (1809 --- 1865, the 16th president of the USA)
如果一个目标是正当而必须做的，则达到这个目标的必要手段也是正当和必须采取的。
Keep your face always towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.
--- Walt Whitman (1819 --- 1892, American poet)
永远面对阳光，阴影自然会抛在后面。（惠特曼）
You have to believe in yourself. That’s the secret of success.
--- Charlie Chaplin (1889 --- 1977, English film actor and director) 你必须相信自己。这是成功的秘诀。（查理〃卓别林）
A light heart lives long.
--- William Shakespeare (1563 --- 1616, English dramatist)
豁达者长寿。
Sound health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness, the greatest of riches, trust, the greatest of qualities.
--- Buddha
健康为最好的天赋，知足是最大的财富，信任为最佳品德。佛陀
Money is not the root of all evils as is usually claimed. What is the root of all evils is the lust for money, that is the excessive, selfish and greedy pursuit of money.
--- Nathaniel Hawthorn (1804 --- 1864, American novelist)
金钱并非像平常所说的那样是万恶之源。而对金钱的贪图，即对金钱过分的、自私的追求，才是一切邪恶的根源。（霍桑）
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands 2
us, we are poor indeed.
--- Edmund Burks (1729 --- 1797, English statesman )
如果我们能支配财富，我们就会变得富有而自由；如果财富支配了我们，我们就会变得贫穷。
Money is a good servant and a bad master.
--- Francis Bacon (1561 ---1626, English philosopher)
金钱是善仆，也是恶主。
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. --- Franklin Roosevelt (1882 --- 1945, the 32nd president of the USA ) 任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensible part of happiness.
--- Bertrand Russell (1872 --- 1970, British philosopher)
有些东西你想要而没有，这是幸福不可缺少的一部分。（罗素）
One is never unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as he hopes.
--- Francis La Rochefoucauld
一个人永远不像他所想象的那样不幸，也不会想他所希望的那样幸福。 (拉罗什富科)
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
--- N. Hawthorn
幸福是一只蝴蝶，你要追逐它的时候，总是追不到；但是当你悄悄地坐下来，它也许会飞落到你身上。（霍桑）
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
--- Victor Hugo (1802 --- 1885, French novelist)
人生最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。（雨果）
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
--- George Sand (1804 --- 1876, French novelist)
生活中唯一的幸福就是：爱和被爱。（桑德）
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
--- George Bernard Shaw (1856 --- 1950, Irish dramatist)
正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样，我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。（萧伯纳）
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find 3
time for illness.
--- John Wanamaker (1838 --- 1922, American businessman )
腾不出时间娱乐的人，早晚会被迫腾出时间生病。（沃纳梅克）
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess it becomes foolishness.
--- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 --- 1919, the 26th president of the USA) 乐观是一种优秀品质，但如果过分乐观，那就是愚蠢了。（罗斯福）
Remember time is life. Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
--- Benjamin Franklin (1706 --- 90, American statesman)
记住：时间就是生命。你热爱生命吗？那就不要浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。
Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
--- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 --- 1860, German philosopher)
普通人只想到如何度过时间。有才能的人设法利用时间。（叔本华）
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
---Thomas Carlyle (1795 --- 1881, Scottish historian )
工作是医治人间一切病痛和疾苦的良药。（卡莱尔）
It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. --- George Eliot (1819 --- 80, English novelist)
天上永远不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。（艾略特）
My philosophy of life is work.
--- Thomas Edison (1847 --- 1931, American inventor)
我的人生哲学就是工作。
When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is duty, life is slavery. --- Maxim Gorky (1868 --- 1936, Russian writer)
工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受！工作室一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。（高尔基）
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.
--- Voltaire (1694 --- 1778, French writer)
工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊，堕落和贫穷。（伏尔泰）
Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
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--- Francis Bacon
历史使人明智；诗词使人灵修；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞使人善辩。（培根）
A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable and should be secured, because they seldom return.
--- Francis Bacon
最好口袋里带着一支铅笔，把自己的思想随时记下来。那些不经思索而自来的念头，往往是最宝贵的念头，应该加以保存，因为它们一去很少复返。
The root of education is bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
--- Aristotle (384 --- 322 BC, Greek philosopher)
求知的道路千辛万苦，知识的果实却芬芳甘甜。（亚里士多德）
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
--- Francis Bacon
一些书可以浅尝辄止，一些书可以狼吞虎咽，而有些书则需要细嚼慢咽，好好消化。
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. --- Benjamin Franklin
阅读培养学问丰富的人，思考培养见识深刻的人，演讲培养思路清晰的人。
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
--- Thomas Carlyle
知识总是从爱好开始，犹如光总是从火开始一样。（卡莱尔）
The empty vessels make the greatest sound.
--- William Shakespeare
满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
--- William Butler Yeats (1865 --- 1939, Irish dramatist)
教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。（叶芝）
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself.
--- Edward Gibbon (1737 --- 94, English historian)
每个人都接受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的来自自己。
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
--- Joseph Addison (1672 --- 1719, English dramatist)
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教育之于心灵，犹如雕刻之于大理石。（艾狄生）
In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
--- William Allen White (1868 --- 1944, American writer)
教育不是为了教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们创造生活。（怀特）
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.
--- James Angell (1869 --- 1949, American educator)
教育的主要目的，不是你挣得面包，而是使每一口面包都更香甜。（安吉尔）
There is nothing permanent except change.
--- Heraclitus (500 BC, Greek philosopher)
唯有变化才是永恒的。（赫拉克利特）
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
--- Mark Twain (1835 --- 1910, American novelist )
具有新想法的人在其思想被接受之前是个怪人。
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）
No men is an island, entire of oneself; every man is a piece of the continent. --- John Donne (1572 --- 1631, English poet)
没有人完全孤立的岛屿，每个人都是构成大陆的一小块。
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. --- Leo Tolstoy
幸福的家庭都是相似的；不幸的家庭却各有各的不幸。（托尔斯泰）
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
--- John Donne
建立在美貌基础上的爱情，会与美貌一样很快消失。（多恩）
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
--- Victor Hugo
人生是花朵，爱情是花蜜。
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
--- Benjamin Franklin
想被人爱，就去爱别人，并让自己可爱。（富兰克林）
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
--- Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 --- 1934, English dramatist)
深爱的人是永远不会老的。尽管他们会因为身体衰老而死去，但他们的心永远年轻。（皮内罗）
It is impossible to love and wise.
--- Francis Bacon
爱令智昏。（培根）
Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
--- Montaigne (1533 --- 92, French essayist)
婚姻像个鸟笼；外面的鸟儿想飞进去，里面的鸟儿想飞出来。（蒙田）
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. --- Cyril Connolly (1903 --- 74, English writer)
对寂寞的恐惧胜过对束缚的害怕，因此人们结婚了。（康诺利）
What is in a name? That which you call a rose by any name would smell as sweet.
--- William Shakespeare
名字有什么关系？把玫瑰叫做别的名称，它还是照样芳香。
He who has never hoped can never despair.
--- Bernard Shaw
从来不抱希望的人永远不会失望。（肖·伯纳）
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. --- Erich Fromm (1900 --- 80, American psychoanalyst )
只有对自己有信心的人才会对别人守信。（弗洛姆）
Morality is the custom of one’s country: Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.
道德是一个人所在国家的风俗习惯：在食人国，吃人是合乎道德的。
It is strange that all great men should have some little grain of madness mingled with whatever genius they possess.
--- Moliere
很奇怪，大凡伟人在他们所拥有的天分中都混杂着某种疯狂的成分。（莫里哀）
Politeness is like an air cushion: there may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully.
--- Samuel Johnson (1709 --- 84, English lexicographer)
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礼貌就像一只气垫，里面可以什么也没有，却能奇妙的减轻颠簸。（约翰逊）
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly.
--- Benjamin Franklin
沉默不一定是智慧的标志，但唠叨永远是一项蠢行。
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. --- Voltaire
我不同意你说的话，但我愿意誓死捍卫拟说话的权利。（伏尔泰）
Treat other people as you hope they will treat you.
-- Aesop
你希望别人如何对待你，你就如何对待别人。（伊索）
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
--- Joseph Conrad (1857 --- 1924, British novelist )
你可以通过一个人的朋友，也可以通过一个人的敌人来判断他的为人。（康拉德）
A truthful friend is the medicine of life.
--- Bible
忠实的朋友是生活中的良药。
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。
Every man is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. --- Mark Twain
每个人都是一个月亮，都有黑暗的、从不示人的一面。
A strong man will struggle with the storms of life.
强者能同命运的风暴抗争。
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
--- Elbert Hubbard (1856 --- 1915, American publisher)
失败与成功的界线如此微妙，我们跨过它是极少觉察，以至于我们往往意识不到自己就处在这条线上。（哈伯德）
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
P. B. Shelly (1792 --- 1822, English poet)
冬天来了，春天还会远吗？（雪莱）
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Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. --- Oliver Goldsmith (1728 --- 74, Irish novelist )
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）
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
--- Pope (1688 --- 1744, English poet )
人孰无过？心存宽恕，就是圣洁。（蒲柏）
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
--- Arthur Schopenhauer
假装是女人的天性，不论是聪明的还是愚蠢的都是如此。（叔本华）
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
--- Abraham Lincoln
你可以在一时蒙骗所有的人，也可以在长时间内蒙骗一些人，但拟无法在长时间内蒙骗所有的人。
If life cheats you, neither be worried nor anxious. Believe that happy days will yet arrive.
--- Alexander Pushkin (1799 --- 1837, Russian poet)
假如生活欺骗了你，不要忧虑，不要心急。相信吧，快乐的日子将会来临。（普希金
Envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anybody’s nature.
--- Oscar Wilde (1854 --- 1900, Irish dramatist )
嫉妒是极可怕的东西，它会毁掉人的天性。
Love your neighbor --- but don’t pull down your hedge.
--- Benjamin Franklin
爱你的邻居 --- 但不要拆掉你的篱笆。
In this world, there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
--- Oscar Wilde
世界上只有两种悲剧：一种是得不到自己想要的东西，另一种是得到了。（王尔德）
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
--- Arthur Schopenhauer
一定的忧愁、痛苦或烦恼，对每个人都是必须的。一艘船如果没有压舱物，便不 9
会稳定，不能朝着目的地一直前进。（叔本华）
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. --- Thomas Jefferson (1743 --- 1826, the 3rd president of the USA)
不要因为便宜就买自己不需要的东西；它不会便宜。
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
--- Mark Twain
银行家就是这样一个家伙：当阳光普照时，他就借给你雨伞，而当开始下雨时，他就会把雨伞要回去。
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold. --- J. Billings
人生不在于掌握一手好牌，而在于把你手中的牌打好。
Happy is the man who is living by his hobby. --- Bernard Shaw British dramatist
凭着自己的某种嗜好谋生的人是幸福的。
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
对于大多数人来说，他们决定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。Abraham Lincoln The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。Victor Hugo French novelist
To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.
要真正了解一个人，需要再不幸中考察他。 --- Bonaparte Napoleon French emperor
Genius is one percent of inspiration and ninety-nine percent of perspiration. --- Thomas Edison, the famous American inventor
When I walk in company of three men, there must be a teacher of mine. --- Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
--- Benjamin Franklin
As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it.
水果不仅需要阳光，也需要寒夜冷雨使其成熟，人的性格陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和困难。
No road of flowers leads to glory.
没有一条通向光荣的道路是铺满鲜花的。
Better light one candle than to curse the darkness.
与其诅咒黑暗，不如燃气蜡烛。
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A strong man will struggle with the storms of life.
强者能同命运的风暴抗争。
The hopeful men see success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
在别人看到失败的地方，充满希望的人却看到了成功；在别人看到阴云暴雨的地方，他们却看到了明媚的阳光。
A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.
一桩美满的婚姻并不像礼物那样有人赐予，它是两人共同努力的杰作。
Love is a sweet torment.
爱情是一种甜蜜的痛苦。
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
家境虽然贫寒，天涯无处似家园。
Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
社会是个假面舞会，人人都掩饰着自己的真实身份，而又是因为这种伪装暴露了真面目。
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
科学无道德尺度：好比一把刀，你把它给一个外科医生或一个凶手，他们使用它的方法各不相同。
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to slave.
教育使一个民族易于领导， 但难于驱使；易于管理，却不可奴役。
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. 傻瓜聪明人所学甚少，而聪明人却从傻瓜那里所学甚多。
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇迹有时候是会发生，但是你得为之拼命地努力。
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
年纪只是个感觉问题，而不是岁月问题。
Time is a bird for ever on the wing.
时间是一只永远在飞翔的鸟。
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
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笑是一把扫尽心中蜘蛛网的刷子。
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