A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
—–Oscar wild(1854—-1900)
一個憤世嫉俗的人知道所有東西的價格,卻不知道他們的價值。
A fantic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
—–Winston Churchill(1871—–1947)
上帖漢譯(以後同)狂熱分子就是一個既無法改變心意,又不肯改變話題的人。
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor.
—–Ausonius(310?—–395?)
延遲施予人的好處就不能算是恩惠了。
A man never disclose his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.
—-Jean Paul Richter(1763–1825) 一個人在描述他人的個性時,最容易將自己的性格明白地顯露出來。
A place for everything,and everything in its place.
Samuel Smiles(1812—1904) 凡事包容則萬物各得其所
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wound green.
—Francis Bacon(1561–1626)
一個處心積慮要報復的人,使自己的創口永遠鮮明。
A proverb is much matter decocted into few words.
—Thomas Fuller(1608–1661)
格言就是許多事熬成少許幾個字。
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
—-Petrarch(1304–1374)
致富的捷徑之一是寡慾
A small debt makes a man your debtor,a large one makes him your enemy.
————Seneca(B.C.4?–65A.D.)
借人小錢你不過多了一位債務人;借人大錢卻反替自己製造了一個敵人。
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
——William Hazlitt(1778–1830)
事物不因常見就粗鄙。
Absence extinguishes small passions and increase great ones,as the wind will blow out a candle,and blow in a fire.
—-La Rochefoucauld(1613–1680)
如風吹燭則熄,吹火則旺,分離吹熄小感情,吹旺大感情。
Action is eloquence.
—-Shakespeare(1564–1616)
行動就是雄辯
All cruelty springs from weakness.
——Seneca(4?B.C.—65A.D.)
所有的殘酷生自軟弱
All for one,one for all
—-Alexandre Dumas(1802–1870)
萬有歸于一,道一以貫之。
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
—Edmund Burke(1729–1797)
野心能匍匐亦能升騰(野心家能屈能伸)。
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.
G.B.Shaw(1856–1950)
只要我還有欲望,就有活下去的理由。
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
William Shakespeare(1564–1616)
既然你年长而受到尊敬,就该放聪明点。
Be it ever so humble,there’s no place like home.
John Howard Payne(1791–1852)
沒有地方比傢更好。
Character is destiny.
Heraclitus(a.B.C.500) 個性即命運。
Come back either with yourshield or upon it.
—–Plutarch(46?—120?) 带着你的盾牌,否则躺在上面回来(不成功便成仁)。
Coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
—Ambrose Bierce(1842–1914?)
懦夫即在危机时用脚来思考的人
Death tugs at my ears and says:”Live,I am coming.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes,Sr.(1809–1894)
死神扯著我的耳朵說:“好好活吧,我就要來了!”
Education is the transmission of civilization.
—-Will Durant(1885– )
教育傳播文明
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;easy to govern,but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter,Lord Brougham(1778–1868)
教育使一個民族易于領導而難以驅策;易于統治而不能奴役。
Epigram:A platitude with vine-leaves in its hair.
H. L. Mencken(1880–1956) 所謂名言雋語,也不過是經過刻意修飾的陳腔濫調罷了。
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Wendell Phillips(1811–1884)
自由的代價廼是永恆的警戒。
Every man is a peot when he is in love.
—-Plato(427?B.C.–347?
每個戀愛中的人都是詩人
Fact do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley(1894–1963) 事實並不因受到忽眎就消失。
Fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
Shakespeare(1564–1616) 穿破的衣服少,过时的时装多。
Fools rush in where engels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope(1688–1744) 天使不敢行走処,傻子一步沖進去。
Good fences make good neighbours.
——Robert Frost(1874–1963) 籬笆筑得牢,鄰居処得好
Happinesss lies in the consciousness we have of it.
—–George Sand(1804–1876)
幸福在於自知擁有幸福。
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to his who can give it.
—Kalvon Knebel(1744–1834)
能接納忠告者,有時勝於給予忠告者
He who injured you was either stronger or weaker. If he was weaker, spare him;if he was stronger,spare yourself.
—Seneca(4?B.C.–65A.D)
傷害你的人非弱即強,如果是弱者,饒了他;如果是強者,饒了自己。
It is a luxury to be understood.
——Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803–1882)
獲得了解是一項奢侈。
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
—-Mark Twain(1835–1910)
擁有自己不配得到的榮譽到不如應得而沒有得到的好。
It is not enough to do good;one must do it the right way.
—-John Morley(1838–1923)
行善不夠,還得以正儅的方式去行。
Knowledge is power.
—-Francis Bacon(1561–1626) 知識就是力量。
Liberty means responsibility,That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw(1856–1950) 自由即責任,因此有許多人懼怕它。
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusion from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler(1612–1680) 生命是從缺憾中獲取完滿的一種藝術。
Love conquers all things.
—-Vergil(70B.C.–19) 愛心征服一切。
Love,friendship,respect,do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Chekhov(1860–1904)
愛,友誼,尊敬尚不如共同的仇恨能使人團結一致。
Love is blind.
Chaucer(1340–1400)
愛情是盲目的。
Love is love’s reward.
—-Dryden(1631–1700)
愛的本身就是報償
Men learn while they teach
—Seneca(4B.C.–65A.D.)
教學相長。
Men may be convinced,but they cannot be pleased,against their will.
–Samuel Johnson(1709–1784)
你可以使人相信一件違背他心意的事,但無法使他欣然接受。
Nature is the art of God.
—-Dante(1256–1321) 自然是上帝的傑作。
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
_Shakespeare(1564–1616)勿借勿貸
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal(60?–140?) 天道與人智總是相符。
No one is free who is a slave to the body.
Seneca(4.BC?–65A.D.)
役於物欲者,没有精神上的自由。
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Maccaulay(1800–1859)
空泛的格言一無用處
Nothing great was ever achieved whthout enthusiasm.
—-Emerson(1803–1882) 凡大事都要靠热心来达成。
Nothing to excess.(Inscription in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi)
凡事皆不宜过度(凡事應合乎中庸之道)。
Of all our faults,the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
—La Rochefoucauld(1613–1680) 懶惰是我們最容易寬恕的缺點。
Powerty is the mother of crime.
___Marcus Aurelius(121–180)
貧困乃罪惡之母。
Punning—to torture onr poor word ten thousand ways.
—Dryden(1631–1700)
雙關語—-用一万种方法去折磨一個可憐的字。
Self–defense is nature’s eldest law.
——Dryden(1631–1700)
自衛是自然界最古老的法則。
Signs are the natural language of the heart.
—-Thomas Shadwell(1642?–1692) 嘆息是心靈的自然語言。
Silence is one of the hardest things to refuse.
——Josh Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)(1818–1885)
沉默是最難反駁的利器之一。
So near and yet so far.
——-Martial(40–102?)
咫尺天涯。
Stability is not immobility.
___Prince Klemens von Metternich(1773–1859)
穩定不是靜止。
Suspense in news is torture.
____John Milton(1608–1674) 難辨消息的真假,對人是種折嚰
Tell me what company you keep,and I’ll tell you what you are.
——Cervantes(1574–1616) 告訴我你結交什麽樣的人,我就會告訴你,你是什麽樣的人。
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember
—–Thomas Fuller(1608–1661) 難忍的痛苦會帶來甜蜜的回憶。
The accent of one’s country remains in the mind and in the heart as much as in one’s speech.
—-La Rochefoucauld(1613–1680) 祖國的風味不但留存在一個人的口音中,亦存在于其思想與心靈中。
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
William Hazlitt(1778–1830) 生活的藝術就是要知道如何少享受,多忍耐。
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
__________________William Hazlitt(1778–1830) 最好的會話就是自言自語。
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson(1709–1784) 習慣的枷鎖開始時總是微弱的不易覺察,最後卻強大的無法打破。
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
—–Shakespeare(1564–1616) 魔鬼爲了自身的目的也會引用聖經。
The dwarf sees farther than the giant,when he has the giant’s shoulders to mount on.
——–Coleridge(1772–1834) 侏儒騎在巨人肩上能比巨人看得更遠。
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
——-Shakespeare(1564–1616) 裏面空虛的聲響最大。
The first method for estimating the intelltgence of a ruler is ti look at the men he has around him.
——————————————————–Machiavelli(1469–1527)
估計一個統治者的智慧,第一個方法就是就是看看他身旁的人。
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Diderot(1713–1784)
邁向哲學的第一步是懷疑。
The heart has its reasons which reasons does not understand.
Blaise Pascal(1623–1662)
心靈有獨特的邏輯,是一般理性所無法了解的。
THE MAN WHO DOES NOT READ GOOD BOOKS HAS NO ADVANTAGGE OVER THE MAN
WHO CAN’T READ THEM.
————————————————— Mark Twain(1875–1910)
不读好书的人并不必不能吟的人高明。
The most savage controversiesare those about matters
as to which there is no good evidence either.
—————————Bertrand Russell(1872–1970)
最激烈的爭論乃關於正反兩方都無充分證據的事物。
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate thenselves throughtout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins(1899– )
教育的目標就是是年輕人能在生活中教育自我。
The only thing we have to fear is fear first.
————-Franklin Delano Roosevelt(1882–1945)
唯一值得我們恐懼的事就是“害怕”本身。(心無所懼必能成功)
The true art of memory is the the art of attention.
—————-Samuel Johnson(1709–1784)
記憶之精義在於全神貫注。
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
———————–Hesiod(800?B.C.)
天視自我民視,天聼自我民聼。
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases
to be a virtue.
———————Edmund Burke(1729–1797)
忍耐自有其限度,超过限度就就不是美德。
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
——————–Elbert Hubbard(1856–1915)
除了放弃尝试以外没有失败。
There is nothing permanent except change.
——————————————-Heraclitus(B.C.500)
唯有改变才是永恒。
Think like a man of action,act like a man of thought.
—————-Henri Bergson(1889–1941)
思考要像實行家,行動要像思想家。
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
————Abraham Lincoln(1809–1865)
否認他人自由者,本身已不應擁有自由。
‘Tis better to have loved and lost,than never to have loved at all.
——Tennyson(1809–1892)
愛了又失去縂比從來沒有愛過好些。
‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up,but to support him after.
Shakespeare(1564–1616)
扶持弱者仍不夠,還要繼續支持他。
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life
.———Samuel Johnson(1709–1784)
培養仁慈之心是人生一大要務
To find a friend one must close one eye–to keep him, two.
—————Norman Douglas(1868–1952)
找朋友時該睜一只眼,閉一只眼;維持交誼就需要兩眼大睜。
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
—————————–Montaigne(1533–1592)
“禁止“往往反生“提醒“的效果
To rule is easy,to govern difficult.
Johann W von Goethe(1749–1832)
統治是易事,管理則很難。
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
————Lewis Mumford(1895– 傳統主義者是對未來的悲觀主義譯者,對過去的樂觀主義者。
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
—————-Francis Bacon(1561–1626)
在錯誤中求真理比在混亂中尋求要來得快。
Whatever advice you give,be short.
—————-Horace(65–8B.C.)
任何劝告,简明第一。
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
——————Lucretius(B.C.96?–55)
一個人的食物可能是另一個人的毒藥。
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
————————H.L.Mencken(1880–1965)
世人重視特權而非權力。
What makes life dreary is the want of of motive.
—————George Eliot(1819–1880)
生活乏味乃因目的之丧失,哀莫大于心死。
Wherever I found a living creature,there I found the will to power.
——————–Nietzsche(1844–1900)
在我發現生物的地方,我就發現權利的欲望。
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Marcus Tullius Cicero(B.C.106–43)
不誠實便不可能有尊嚴。
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
—————-Booker T. Washington(1856–1915)
你貶低別人的同時也貶低了自己。
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