【Chinese to English Translation】
1. 生活沒有目標, 猶如航海沒有羅盤。
Life without a goal is like sailing without a compass.
2. 冬天來了, 春天還會遠嗎?
Winter is here, could Spring be far behind?
3. 幽默被人正確地解釋為“以誠摯表達感受，寓深思於嬉笑”。
Humor is accurately considered as "Expressing feelings with sincerity, and implying deep thoughts in laughters".
4.世界猶如一麵鏡子：朝它皺眉它就朝你皺眉，朝它微笑它也朝你微笑。
The world is like a mirror: you frown at it, it frowns back at you, and if you smile at it, it too smiles back at you.
【English to Chinese Translation】
1. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有時候我們花最大的代價在無意義的東西上
2. The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better. No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes. He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new; and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them.
人們的努力可以改變世界，並且這種努力能帶來嶄新的更好的事務。沒有人能夠簡單地裝作沒看見而遊離於這個社會之外。我們必須能敏銳地發覺和感受新事物; 並有足夠的勇氣和技能去發掘和麵對真相。
【English Idioms】
Please create a sentence using the idioms.
1. Once in a blue moon
Example: We work on different schedules. I only see him once in a blue moon.
Once in a blue moon, he would call upon her just to say Hi.
2. Bite off more than you can chew
Example: Nancy started to repair her car by herself, but she realized that she had bitten off more than she could chew.
I thought I could fix that combination oven myself, after I took it off the wall, I realized that I bit off more than I could chew.
【Reading Comprehension】(Optional)
In a calm sea every man is pilot.
But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest – it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.
In the affairs of life or business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.
I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.
To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
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