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一
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else" s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
——Oscar Wilde
译文:大多数人都是别人的翻版。他们的想法只是别人的意见,他们的生活只是模仿,他们的热情则是拾人牙慧。
——奥斯卡·王尔德
二
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
——Charlie Chaplin
译文:独裁者给自己自由,却奴役他人。—— 查理·卓别林
三
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
——George Burns
译文:我真心地认为,在你所热爱的事业中失败,也好过在你所厌恶的事业上取得成功。
——乔治·伯恩斯
四
I"ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
——Michael Jordan
译文:
我经历了无数次失败,这就是我成功的原因。——迈克尔·乔丹
五
Your present circumstances don"t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
——Nido Qubein
译文:
你现在的处境并不能决定你要去的方向,它只决定了你的起点。——尼多·库伯
六
You must be master and win, or serve and lose, grieve or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
——Goethe, Der Gross-Cophta
译文:
你如果不能胜利并且成为主人,就要失败然后成为奴仆,要么悲痛,要么成功,一个人不是铁锤,就是砧板。——歌德,《大科夫塔》
七
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ——John F. Kennedy
译文:如果一个自由的社会无法帮助许许多多的穷人,那么这个社会也无法拯救少数的富人。——约翰·F·肯尼迪
八
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
——Socrates
译文:荒废生命的人为了吃喝而生活,而精神充实的人为了生活而吃喝。
——苏格拉底
九
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
——C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
译文:思想的钟摆总是在理智与荒谬之间而不是在对错之间游移。
——卡尔·荣格
十
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
——Alexis de Tocqueville
译文:历史是一座美术馆,里面的画很少是原作,许多都是旧画的临摹作品。——亚力西斯·托克维尔
十一
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
——Thomas Gray
译文:
有多少花朵终其一生都没有被人欣赏,而是把她们的美丽鲜艳耗尽在了荒野之上。
——托马斯·格雷
十二
The old believe everything;the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.——Oscar Wilde
译文:老人们什么都相信,中年人什么都怀疑,年轻人什么都懂。
——奥斯卡·王尔德
十三
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
——Charlie Chaplin
译文:
人生用特写镜头看来是悲剧;用长镜头来看则是喜剧。——查理·卓别林
十四
When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me preparation for something that never happens.
——W. B. Yeats
译文:
当我回顾我曾经读过的书,曾经听过的箴言警句,曾经给长辈带来的烦恼,曾经有过的希冀,以我的整个生命衡量起来,仿佛是在为什么从未发生的事情做准备。——威廉·巴特勒·叶芝
十五
But be not afraid of greatness:some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
——William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
译文:不要害怕伟大:有些人生来就伟大,有些人通过努力达到伟大,有些人则不得不变得伟大。
——莎士比亚
十六
Life is the greatest bargain;we get it for nothing.——Yiddish Proverbs
译文:
生命是一笔再划算不过的交易;我们什么也没有付出就得到了它。
——意第绪谚语
十七
How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man? The answer, my friend, is blow in" in the wind, the answer is blow in" in the wind.
——Bob Dylan
译文:一个人要经历多少旅途,才能成为是真正的男人?这答案,我的朋友,正飘动在风中,这答案正飘动在风中。——鲍勃·迪伦
十八
Life is a gamble at terrible odds - if it was a bet, you wouldn"t take it.
——Tom Stoppard
译文:生命是一场没什么胜算的赌注,如果可以的话,不要下赌。
——汤姆·斯托帕德
十九
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.——H. R. Haldeman
译文:牙膏一旦被挤出来,就很难再把它塞回去了。——H. R.霍尔德曼
二十
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.——George Orwell, Animal Farm
译文:
所有的动物都是平等的,但有些动物更为平等。——乔治·奥威尔,《动物农场》
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