2008年4月21日星期一

If I were a Boy Again 假如我又回到了童年

If I were a boy again, I would practice perseverance more often, and never give up a thing because it was or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. “There are only two creatures,” says a proverb, “who can surmount the pyramids—the eagle and the snail.”

  If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention; I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once.

  The habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we begin early enough. I often hear grown up people say “ I could not fix my attention on the sermon or book, although I wished to do so” , and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth.

  If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory. I would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and on every possible occasion. It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately; but memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become a power.

  假如我又回到了童年,我做事要更有毅力,决不因为事情艰难或者麻烦而撒手不干,我们要光明,就得征服黑暗。

  毅力在效果上有时能同天才相比。俗话说:“能登上金字塔的生物,只有两种——鹰和蜗牛。”

  假如我又回到了童年,我就要养成专心致志的习惯;有事在手,就决不让任何东西让我分心。我要牢记:优秀的滑冰手从不试图同时滑向两个不同的方向。

  如果及早养成这种专心致志的习惯,它将成为我们生命的一部分。我常听成年人说:“虽然我希望能集中注意听牧师讲道或读书,但往往做不到。”而原因就是年轻时没有养成这种习惯。

  假如我现在能重新开始我的生命,我就要更注意记忆力的培养。我要采取一切可能的办法,并且在一切可能的场合,增强记忆力。要正确无误地记住一些东西,在开始阶段的确要作出一番小小的努力;但要不了多久,记忆力本身就会起作用,使记忆成为轻而易举的事,只需及早培养,记忆自会成为一种才能。

Appreciation of love peom

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. By G.W. Leibnitz
去爱便意味着将我们自身的幸福置于他人的幸福之中。----冯 莱布尼茨

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. By Jean Anouilh
爱首先是一个人给予自己的礼物。 ----让 阿诺尔

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. By Sophocles
有一个词,它能化解生活中的一切烦忧和痛苦。那就是爱。 ----索福克勒斯

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. By Sir Arthur Wing pinero
那些深深相爱的人永远不会老;他们也许会因为衰老而去世,然而他们的心却永远年轻。----阿瑟 温 皮内罗爵士

If you must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
假若你一定爱我,就请给予我你最纯真的爱。 -----伊莉莎白 芭雷特 勃郎宁夫人

Love commands us to step out into nothingness - and bears us up. By Pam Brown
爱情令我们一无所有,又使我们不失信心。-----帕姆 布朗

Love is a grave mental disease. By Plato
爱是一种害得不轻的"精神病"。------柏拉图

名人名言

Knowledge is the food of the soul.
-----Plato
知识是精神食粮。
-柏拉图(<427--347 B.C.> 希腊哲学家)

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
----Mortimer J. Adler
就好书而言,关键不是看你能读多少,而是看你能理解多少。
-M. J. 阿德勒(<1902-- >美国哲学家、教育家)



To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is ture knowledge.
----Henry David Thoreau
知之为知之,不知为不知,是为真知。
-H.D. 梭罗(<1817--1862>美国作家)


Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

--Thomas Henry Huxley

在事实面前要像小孩子那样老老实实地坐下来,准备放弃一切先入之见,谦卑地追随大自然引向的任何地方和任何深渊,否则,你什么也学不到。

--T. H. 赫胥黎(1825-1895),英国生物学家、作家




Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

--Thomas Addison

读书之于头脑,好比运动之于身体。

--T. 艾迪生


In this world there are only two ways of getting on---either by one's own industry or by the imbecility of others.

--Jean de la Bruyere

在这个世界上,只有两条成功的途径:或者依靠自己的勤劳,或者通过他人的愚笨。

--拉布吕耶尔

英文爱情经典箴言

1) I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

  我爱你,不是因为你是一个怎样的人,而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。

  2) No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t make you cry.

  没有人值得你流泪,值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。

  3) The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can‘t have them.

  失去某人,最糟糕的莫过于,他近在身旁,却犹如远在天边。

  4) Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

  纵然伤心,也不要愁眉不展,因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。

  5) To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

  对于世界而言,你是一个人;但是对于某个人,你是他的整个世界。

  6) Don‘t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn‘t willing to waste their time on you.

  不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。

  7) Just because someone doesn‘t love you the way you want them to, doesn‘t mean they don‘t love you with all they have.

  爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式来爱你,那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。

  8) Don‘t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.

  不要着急,最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。

  9) Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.

  在遇到梦中人之前,上天也许会安排我们先遇到别的人;在我们终于遇见心仪的人时,便应当心存感激。

  10) Don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

  不要因为结束而哭泣,微笑吧,为你的曾经拥有。

名言警句-爱情篇

  Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great. (Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, French writer)
  离别之于爱情好比风之于火,它能将小火熄灭,使大火熊熊燃烧。(法国作家 比西-拉比旦.R.)

  Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Plato ancient Creek philosopher)
  每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

  First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw)
  初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳.G)

  Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. (Josh Billings. American humorist)
  友谊就像陶器,破了可以修补;爱情好比镜子,一旦打破就难重圆。(美国幽默作家 比林斯 .J.)

  Friendship is love without his wings. (George Gordon Byron, Bdritish poet)
  友谊是没有羽翼的爱。(英国诗人 拜伦.G,G)

  Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Albert Einstein, American scientist)
  并非地球引力使人坠入爱河。(美国科学家)

  The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. (Burke Edmund, British statesman)
  权力越大,滥用职权的危险就越大。(英国政治家 埃德蒙.B.)

  The greatest of evils and the worst of crims is poverty. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)
  最大的恶和最凶的罪是贫穷。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳.G.)

  The paramount duty of Congress is to stop deficiencies by the restoration of that protective legislation which has always been the firmst prop of the Treasury. (William Mckinley, American president)
  国会的最高职责是恢复始终是国家财政最坚实支柱的保护性立法,以制止财政赤字。(美国总统 科金利.W.)

  The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment. Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)
  人民是完全可以信赖的,应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西,然后作出正确的判断。倘使让我来决定,我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢,还是应该有报纸而不要政府,我会毫不犹豫选择后者。(美国总统 杰斐逊.T.)

  The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule be-gins. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish religious philowopher)
  暴君死了,他统治也就结束;烈士死了,他的统治刚开始。(丹麦宗教哲学家 基尔克戈德.S.)

  There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self. (William Pitt, British statesman)
  在王座的后面还有比国王本人更伟大东西。(英国政治家 皮特.W.)

  To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. (Junius, Unidentified letter writer)
  要了解政府的政绩只需要观察民情。(国籍不明书信代理人 朱尼厄斯)

  To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must go to those who are seeking it :the pains of power is real, its pleasures imaginary. (C.Colton Charles, British churchman)
  欲知权力带来的痛苦,去问那些当权者;欲知权力带来的乐趣,去问那些追逐权势者:权力带来的痛苦是真实的,而权力带来的乐趣只不过是凭空想象的。(英国牧师 查尔斯.C.C.)

  Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. (Oliver Goldsimith, British poet)
  过分喜欢权力就会不择手段。(英国诗人 哥尔德斯密斯.O.)

  We need in politics man who have something to give, not men who have something to get. (Bernard Baruch, Averican economist)
  在政治中我们需要能有所奉献的人,而不是想有所收获的人。(美国经济学家 巴鲁克.B.)

  When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. (Thomas Jefferson, American President)
  当一个人受到公众信任时,他就应该把自己看作公众的财产。(美国总统 杰斐逊.T.)

  When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. (John Stuart Mill, BAritish economist)
  当社会需要重建时,试图墨守旧的蓝图重建它是徒劳无益的。(英国经济学家 穆勒.J.S.)

名言警句-悲伤篇

A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times .A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight. (Arthur Schopenhauer. Geman philosopher)
  一定的忧愁、痛苦或烦恼,对每个人都是时时必需的。一艘船如果没有压舱物,便不会稳定,不能朝着目的地一直前进。(德国哲学家 叔本华 A)

  A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. (Michel Eyquem Montaigne, French essayist)
  害怕痛苦的人已经在承受他所害怕 的痛苦了。(法国散文家 蒙田 M E)

  As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers. (Plato , Ancient Greek  Philosopher)
  正像空容器发出的声音最大,智力最低者最善于唠叨不休。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)

  Better one suffer, than a nation grieve. (John Drydon, British poet)
  宁可一人受苦,不使民族悲伤。(英国诗人 德莱顿 J)

  Between grief and nothing I will take grief. (William Faulkner, American writer)
  在悲痛与虚无之间,我愿意选择悲痛。(美国作家 福克纳 W)

  Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. (Thomas Fuller, American inventor)
  使人高兴的或者沮丧的,与其说是事实,还不如说是攀比。(美国发明家 富勒 T)

  For evil news rides fast, while good news baits later. (John Milton, Britsh poet)
  好事不出门,坏事传千里。(英国诗人 弥尔顿 J)

  Grief is itself a medicine. (William Cowper, British poet)
  悲痛本身也是一种药。(英国诗人 考伯 W)

  Happiness is beneficial for the body , but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. (Marcel Proust, French writer)
  愉快有益于人的身体,但只有悲伤才能培养心灵力量。(法国作家 普鲁斯 M)

  Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomtited
  你虽然在困苦中也不惴惴不安

  for the water of life's fountain springeth from a gloom bed
  从暗处往往流出生命之泉

  Sit not sad because that time a fitful aspect weareth
  不要因为时运不济而郁郁寡欢,忍耐虽然最痛苦

  Patience is most bitter , yet most sweet the fruit it bearth
  其果实也最香甜

  Sadi , Perisian poet
  波斯诗人 萨迪

  He best can pity who has felt the worse. (John Gay, British dramstist and poet)
  感受过悲伤的人最富有同情心。(英国剧作家、诗人 盖伊 J)

  He who in adversity would have succor, let him be generous while he rests secure. (Saki, British writer)
  谁想在逆境中得到援助,就应在身处顺境时待人宽厚。(英国作家 萨基)

  I tell you hopeless grief is passionless. (E.B.Browning, British poetess)
  我告诉你,没有希望的悲伤是没有激情的。(英国女诗人 布朗宁 E B)

  It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of en-during blindness. (John Milton, British poet)
  失明本身并非是悲惨的,不能忍受失明才是悲惨的。(英国诗人 弥尔顿 J)

  Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles with sniffes predomi-nating. (O.Henry, American writer)
  人生是由呜咽、抽泣和微笑组成的,而在三者之中,抽泣处于支配地位。(美国作家 欧 享利)

  No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate , who regards pleasure as the highest good. (Cicero, ancient Roman statsman)
  把痛苦视为生活中最大的祸害的人不可能勇敢;把欢乐视为生活中最美妙的人不会自我节制。(古罗马政治家 西塞罗)

  One must mourn not the death of men but their birth. (Charles Scondat Montesquieu, French thinker and Philosopher)
  人所悲伤的并不是人类的死亡而是他们的诞生。(法国思想家、哲学家 孟德斯鸠)

  Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. (LeoTolstoy ,Russian writer)
  纯粹的、完全的哀愁和纯粹的、完全的欢乐一样都是不可能的。(俄国文学家 托尔斯泰 L)

  handicaps a man's pow Sadness diminishes or er of action. (Benedict de Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher)
  忧伤会减少或者妨害一个人行动的力量。(荷兰哲学家 斯宾诺莎 B)

  Sorrow and trouble either soften the heart or harden it. (James Mackintosh, British writer)
  悲哀和烦恼不是使人心软,就是使人心狠。(英国作家 麦金托什 J)

  Tears are the silent language of grief. (Voltaire, French philosopher)
  眼泪是无声的、悲伤的语言。(法国哲学家 伏尔泰)

  The fiercest agonies have shorest reign. (William Crllen Bryant, American poet)
  最猛烈的痛苦持续的时间也最短。(美国诗人 布莱恩特 W C)

  The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. (Gustave Flaubert, French writer)
  的一生中,最为辉煌的一天并不是功成名就的那些天,而是从悲叹与绝望中产生对人生的挑战和对未来辉煌的期盼的那些日子。(法国作家 福楼拜 G)

  He pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. (Publius Syrus, Syrian Latin writer)
  心理疾病比身体疾病更糟。(叙利亚拉丁语作家 西拉士 P)

  The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)
  痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。(英国剧作家肖伯纳.G.)

  To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on. (William Shkespeare, British dramatist)
  为了一去不复返的灾祸而悲伤将会抬致新的灾祸。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W)

  What's the use of worrying
  担忧又有什么用

  It never was worthwhile
  不值得为它浪费时间

  So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
  把烦恼塞进行囊去

  And smile, smile, smile
  让微笑永远充满你的心田

  George Asaf, British poet
  英国诗人 阿萨夫 G

名言警句-道德篇

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. (John Locke, British Philosopher)
  人都会犯错误,在许多情况下,大多数仍是由于欲望或兴趣的引诱而犯错误的。(英国哲学家 洛克.J.)

  Character is what you are in the dark. (D. L Moody. USA churchman)
  暗处最能反映一个人真正品格。(美国教士 穆迪.D.L)

  Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce, RSA dramatist)
  勇气是一架梯子,其他美德全靠它爬上去。(美国剧作家 卢斯.C.B.)

  Despite all the life danger, with one selfless act from one common person, someone is saved, A hero is made. (Norman Stephens, USA writer)
  不管一切危险,由于一个普通人的无私行动,有人得救了,英雄就应运而生。(美国作家 斯蒂芬斯.N.)

  Distrust can be contagious. But, so can trust. (Robbins Stacia, British writer)
  不信任有传染性。但是信任也如此。(英国作家 斯达卡.R.)

  Fame is the chastisement of meit and the punishment of talent. (Nicolas Chamfort, French writer)
  盛名殊誉是德才之忌。(法国作家 尚福尔.N.)

   God was constructed out of mankind's need for hope, for purpose, for meaning:an invisible protector and conscientious father. (Howards Mel. USA writer)
  人类出于对希望、目标意义的需要而造出了神:一位冥冥之中的保护者和尽责的养育者。(美国作家 梅尔.H.)

  He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; general good is the plea of the scoundrel , hypocrite and flatterer. (William Black, British poet)
  行善总是具体的、特定的;抽象的、笼统的行善是恶棍、伪君子和献媚者的托辞。(英国诗人 布莱克.W.)

  I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. (Ernest Hemingway, USA writer)
  我只知道所谓道德是指你事后觉得好的东西,所谓不道德是指你事后觉得不好的东西。(美国作家 海明威.E.)

  If you would convince others ,you seem open to conviction yourself. (Philip Dormer Chesterfield, British statesman)
  要说服别人,先得说服自己。(英国政治家 切斯特菲尔德.P.D.)

  If your morals make you dreary. depend upon it, they are wrong. (Robert Louis Stevenson, British novelist)
  如果你的品行使你郁郁寡欢,那么,这些品行无疑是错误的。(英国小说家 斯蒂文森.R.L.)

  It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (Magaret Mead, USA humanist)
  一个有待解决的问题是:基于是害怕无休止的惩罚而产生的行为是被视作有道德的呢,还是应该被视作懦弱的?(美国人文学家 米德.M.)

  It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. (John Morley, British statesman)
  人不仅要做好事,更要以正确的方式做好事。(英国政治家 莫利.J.)

  Lying disguises our mortality, our inadequacies, our fears and anxieties, our loneliness in the midst of the crowd. We yearn for the comfort of familiar lies to create a more amenable reality. (Howards Mel, USAwriter)
  说谎掩盖了人死的必然性、缺陷、恐惧、焦虑和在熙熙攘攘的人群中所感到的孤独。耳熟能详的谎言会创造一个较易应付的现实。 人渴望从这些谎言中得到安慰。(美国作家 梅尔.H.)

  Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness. (Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher)
  道德确实不是指导人们如何使自己幸福的教条,而是指导人们如何配享有幸福的学说。(德国哲学家 康德.I.)

  Morality is the custom of one's country ;cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. (Samuel Brttler, British writer)
  道德是一个人所在国家的风俗习惯:在吃人的国家里,吃人是合乎道德的。(英国作家 勃特勒.S.)

  Morality is the herd instinct in the individual. (German Philosopher)
  道德是个人心目中的群居本能。(德国哲学家 尼采.F.)

  Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (Leon Nlum, French statesman)
  道德可能仅仅在于有勇气作出抉择。(法国政治家 布鲁姆.L.)

  Mutual forgiveness of each vice, such are the gates of Paradise. (William Black, British poet)
  相互宽容对方的缺点,乃是通向天堂之门。(英国诗人 布莱克.W.)

  No mourality can be founded on authority, even if the authouity were divine. (A. J. Ayer. USA writer)
  道德不可能建立在权威的基础上,即使这种权威是至高无上的。(美国作家 艾尔.A.J.)

  Nothing is easier than to deceive one's self. (Demothenes, Ancient Greek statesman)
  再没有什么比欺骗自己更容易的了。(古然希腊政治家 德摩西尼)

  Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower. (C C Schwab. US A Businessman)
  品格之于人,犹如芳香之于花。(美国实业家 施瓦布 C .C.)

  Plain living and high thinking. (william Wordsworth, British poet)
  生活要朴素,情操要高尚。(英国诗人 德莱顿., J)

  Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. (william shakewspeare British dramalist)
  如果送礼的人不是出于真心,再贵重的礼物也会失去它的价值。(英国剧作家 莎 士比亚. W)

  There is , however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. (E Burke, British statesman)
  克制也有个限度,超过了限度就不再是美德。(美国政治家 伯克 . E.)

  Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. (William shakespeare, British dramatist)
  美德是勇敢的,善良从来无所畏惧。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)

  We all tell lies——little lies, big lies, necessity lies in order to insure social and psychological peace and comfort. (Howard Mel, USA writer)
  所有的人说 的谎——小谎、大谎、善意的谎——都是为确保社会安宁、心理舒适采取的必要手段。(美国作家 梅尔, H.)

  We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. (Euripides , ancient Creek dramatist.)
  我们懂得善,我们理解善,但是我们无法实现善。人的勇气就是坚信自己的希望能够实现,并为之进行不屈不挠的努力。(法国作家 赖奇特 J. P)

  Wherever true valor is found, true modesty will there abound. (William Gillbert, British dramatist and poet)
  真正的勇敢,都包含谦虚。(英国剧作家、诗人 吉尔伯特.W.)

  Words may be false and full of arts ,sighs are the natural language of the heart. (Thomas Shadwell, British dramatist)
  言语可以是谎言并带有技巧;叹息才是心灵的自然流露。(英国剧作家 沙德韦尔.T.)