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| 作者：佚名 文章来源：本站原创 点击数： 更新时间：2007-4-2 |
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The proper function of man is to live, but not to exist.
人应该生活，而非单纯生存。
——Jack London
Conquer fear of death and you are put into possession of your life.
战胜对死亡的恐惧才能真正享受生命。
——G.Meredith
He that is once born, once must die.
有生必有死。——Herbert
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
该说话时说话，该沉默时沉默。
——Caxton
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
如果你独自一人时笑了，那是真心的笑。
——Andy Rooney
The worst bankrupt is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。
——H.W.Arnold
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
江山易改，本性难移。——Suetonius
People with tact have less to retract.
智者悔少。——Arnold Glasgow
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
从不犯错的人将一事无成。
——G.B.Shaw
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
一个骗子即使在说真话时，旁人也不会相信。——Aesop
What is a man's first duty? the answer is brief: To be himself.
一个人的首要职责是什么？很简单：做自己。——Henrik Ibsen
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
如果人们敢于互相推心置腹地讲出心里话，一百年后世界将会减少许多痛苦。
——Samuel Butler
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
激情虽难以驾驭，却是种强大的动力。
——Emerson
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
人人都希望长寿，但没人愿意变老。
——Jonathan Swift
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
最严重的错误莫过于不觉得自己有任何错误。——Thomas Carlyle
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
美丽的外形胜于美丽的脸蛋，美丽的举止胜于美丽的外形。——Emerson
People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.
人们首先想知道你在乎多少，然后才在乎你知道多少。——James Hind
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
有许多人错将他们的想象当做记忆。
——Josh Billings
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
人皆犯错，你能原谅别人，你就是圣人。
——Pope
What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
在别人身上我们抱怨最多的东西往往也是我们自身中自己也不喜欢的东西。
——William Wharton
The miracle is this-the more we share, the more we have.
神奇的是我们分享的越多，我们拥有的也越多。——Leonard Nimoy
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
一无所求的人是幸福的，因为他永远也不会失望。 ——Pope
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
忍耐超过了一定的限度便不再是美德了。
——Edmund Burke
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all.
失去财产的人损失很大，失去朋友的人损失更多，而失去勇气的人则失去一切。
——Cervantes
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
最严重的错误莫过于不觉得自己有任何错误。——Thomas Carlyle
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess it becomes foolishness.
乐观是种优秀品质，但如过分乐观就是愚蠢了。——Theodore Roosevelt
It's the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own.
愚蠢的人之所以蠢在于他们只看到别人的缺点而对自己的视而不见。——Cicero
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
傻瓜才仰慕别人，而有见识的人赞赏别人。
——Pope
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
知足使贫穷的人富有；而贪婪使富足的人贫穷。——Benjamin Franklin
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
美丽的外形胜于美丽的脸蛋，美丽的举止胜于美丽的外形。——Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
信任别人，别人才会对你忠诚；尊敬别人，别人才显示其可敬之处。——Emerson
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
做一件好事并不难，难的是养成一种做好事的习惯。——Aristotle
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