英語拾零: 名人雋語 (5)
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Title: 名人雋語(5)
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 )
在這個世界上取得成功的人,都努力去尋找他們想要的機會,如果找不到時,他們就自己創造機會。(蕭伯納)
A great man is always willing to be little. ( R W Emerson )
偉大的人物總是願意當小人物的。(愛默生)
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are summits of ranges. (T W Higginson)
偉人很少是突兀的山峰;它們是眾山中的最高峰。(希金森)
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of content.( G Woodberry )
如果感覺到自己在生活中有了一個位置,滿足的問題就解決了一半。(伍德貝利)
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 )
我們一生應該這樣地生活和勞動,使給予我們的種子能在下一代開花,使給予我們的花朵能在下一代結果,這就是我們所說的進步的意義。(比徹)
What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: To be himself. (Ibsen )
人的第一天職是什麽?答案很簡單:不偽飾自己。(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)
在你耐心地操勞於生活的瑣事的過程中,你才能領悟整個生活的偉大意義和形象。 (布魯克斯)
Dare and the world always yields If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb. ( W M Thackeray )
大膽挑戰,世界總會讓步。如果有時候你被它打敗了,不斷地挑戰,它總會屈服的。(薩克雷)
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure. ( A Bierce )
命運是暴君施虐的權威,傻瓜失敗的借口。(比爾斯)
Have no fear of perfection ---- you'll never reach it. ( S Dali)
不要為十全十美擔心——你永遠作不到十全十美。(達裏)
One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor . (Nehru )
一個人能在戰場上製勝千軍,但隻有戰勝自己才是最偉大的勝利者。(尼赫魯)
The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.
( F Bacon )
人的行為準則是,維護自己的尊嚴,不妨礙他人的自由。(培根)