[分享]经典名人名言—中英文对照(推荐收藏)
On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind. (A. Hamilton)
地球上唯一伟大的是人,人身上唯一伟大的是心灵。(哈密尔顿)
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie)
生活中没有什么可怕的东西,只有需要理解的东西。(居里夫人)
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. (C. M. Schwab)
只要有无限的热情,一个人几乎可以在任何事情上取得成功。(施瓦布)
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. (Goethe)
人生重要的在于确立一个伟大的目标,并有决心使其实现。(歌德)
Man can only be free through mastery of himself. (S. E. Morison)
只有通过掌握自己,才能使自己得到解放。(莫里森)
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. (Albert Einstein)
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。(爱因斯坦)
Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation. (C. Nepos)
要选择行动的一生,而不是炫耀的一生。(内波斯)
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way. (C. Morley)
只有一种成功,那就是能够用自己的方式度过自己的一生。(莫利)
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King.Jr.)
我们必须接受失望,因为它是有限的,但千万不可失去希望,因为它是无穷的。(马丁·路德·金)
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven,
it`s former worth lessness will not be altered. (AL Jaber)
宝石即使落在泥潭里,仍是一样可贵;尘土纵然扬到天上,还是没有价值。(贾比尔)
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. (Strong)
与其诅咒黑暗,不如燃起蜡烛。(斯特郎)
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. (J. Burroughs)
一个人可以失败许多次,但只要他没有开始责怪别人,他还不是一个失败者。(巴勒斯)
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. (Carlyle)
工作是医治人间一切病痛和疾苦的万应良药。(卡莱尔)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. (T. Carlyle)
生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦,而在于人们错过了什么。(卡莱尔)
人生之中最美的时刻就是——现在(当下)。不要浪费生命!
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. (T. Fuller)
生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成的。(富勒)
Wherever valour true is found, true modesty will there abound. (W. S. Gilbert)
真正的勇敢,都包含谦虚。(吉尔伯特)
Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two. (A. Lowell)
生活是一张白纸,每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话。(洛威尔)
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. (B. Franklin)
二十岁时起支配作用的是意志,三十岁时是机智,四十岁时是判断。(富兰克林)
Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas. (Chekhov)
人的一切:面貌、衣着、心灵和思想,都应该是美好的。(契诃夫)
Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less. (S. Bernhardt)
要这样生活,仿佛你寿命永恒;要这样工作,仿佛你精力无穷。(波恩哈特)
Other man live to eat, while I eat to live. ( Socrates )
别人为食而生存,我为生存而食。(苏格拉底)
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. (S. Butler)
生活是一种艺术,要在不充足的前提下得出充足的结论。(巴特勒)
Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distress. (William Cowper)
无所事事不是休息,十分空虚的心灵是痛苦的心灵。美国社会学家萨姆纳.W.G.
All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, and self-denial, and study.
我们得到的一切幸福都是劳动、辛苦、自我克制和学习的成果。(英国诗人蒲伯).
For man is man and master of his fate. (A. Tennyson)
人就是人,是自己命运的主人。(丁尼生)
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. (Jules Verne)
但凡人能想象到的事物,必定有人能将它实现。(凡尔纳)
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. (R. Peters)
人生应该树立目标,否则你的精力会白白浪费。(彼得斯)
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. (Erasmus)
只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人,才配享受生活或自由。(伊拉斯漠)
把握生命,积极向上,人生总有不期而至的温暖和生生不息的希望!
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. (George Eliot )
没有了目的,生活便郁闷无光。(艾略特)
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something.
If you don't stand for something, what do you win? (Lane Kirkland)
不要认为取胜就是一切,更重要的是要有信念。倘若你没有信念,那胜利又有什么意义呢?(柯克兰)
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. (Lincoln)
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路,他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。(林肯)
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. (Kierkergaard)
只有向后才能理解生活;但要生活好,则必须向前看。(克尔凯郭尔)
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it. (I. Berlin)
生活有百分之十在于你如何塑造它,有百分之九十在于你如何对待它。(柏林)
The great use of life is to spend it for something that over lasts it. (W. James)
生命的最大用处是将它用于比生命更长久的事物上。(詹姆斯)
No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else. (C. Dickens)
在这个世界上能为别人减轻负担的人都是有用的。(狄更斯)
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time. (J. Lubbock)
衡量生命的尺度是思想和行为,而不是时间。(卢伯克)
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. (Montaigne)
生命的价值不在于能活多少天,而在于我们如何使用这些日子。(蒙田)
Ideas are like the stars --- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them. (C. Schurz)
理想就像是星星,我们永远无法到达,但是我们像水手一样,用它们指引航程。(舒尔茨)
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. (O. Goldsmith)
我们最值得自豪的不在于从不跌倒,而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来。(哥德斯密斯)
It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about ? (H.D. Thoreau)
光勤劳是不够的,蚂蚁也是勤劳的,要看你为什么而勤劳。(梭罗)
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. (A. Einstein)
不要为成功而努力,要为作一个有价值的人而努力。(爱因斯坦)
微小的幸福就在当前,就在身边,知足感激就是天堂。
You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of sucess. (Charles Chaplin)
人必须相信自己,这是成功的秘诀。(卓别林)
A wise man never loses anything if he has himself. (Nietzche)
有智慧的人只要能掌握自己,便什么也不会失去。(尼采)
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)
在这个世界上取得成功的人,都努力去寻找他们想要的机会,如果找不到时,他们就自己创造机会。(萧伯纳)
A great man is always willing to be little. (R. W. Emerson)
伟大的人物总是愿意当小人物的。(爱默生)
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are summits of ranges. (T. W. Higginson)
伟人很少是突兀的山峰;它们是众山中的最高峰。(希金森)
What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: To be himself. (Ibsen)
人的第一天职是什么?答案很简单:不伪饰自己。(易卜生)
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
(W. M. Thackeray)
大胆挑战,世界总会让步。如果有时你被它打败了,不断地挑战,它总会屈服的。(萨克雷)
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure. (A. Bierce)
命运是暴君施虐的权威,傻瓜失败的借口。(比尔斯)
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it. (S. Dali)
不要为十全十美担心,你永远做不到十全十美。(达里)
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (L. Blum)
品德可能仅仅在于有勇气做出抉择。(布鲁斯)
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. (W. Penn)
妒忌者对别人是烦恼,对他们自己却是折磨。(佩恩)
The sum of be haviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others. (F. Bacon)
人的行为准则是:维护自己的尊严,不妨碍他人的自由。(培根)
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. (A. M. Lindbergh)
生活中最使人筋疲力尽的事是弄虚作假。(林德伯格)
给人以宁静,予己以清幽;给人以宽松,予己以从容。
One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor. (Nehru)
一个人能在战场上制胜千军,但只有战胜自己才是最伟大的胜利者。(尼赫鲁)
The greater the man, the more restrained his anger. (Ovid)
人越伟大,越能克制怒火。(奥维德)
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. (A. E. Stevenson)
为原则而斗争容易,按原则的要求活着才难。(史蒂文森)
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (T. Paine)
想要收获自由之果的人,必须承受维护自由的劳苦。(潘恩)
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort. (Shakespeare)
不要只因一次挫败,就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。(莎士比亚)
The man who has made up his mind to win will never say " Impossible". (Napoleon)
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能”的。(拿破仑)
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. (C. Weizmann)
奇迹有时候是会发生的,但是你得为之拼命努力。(魏茨曼)
It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. (G. Eliot)
天上永远不会掉下玫瑰来,如果想要更多的玫瑰,必须自己种植。(艾略特)
If you do not learn to think when you are young, you may never learn. (Edison)
如果你年轻时不学会思考,那就永远不会。(爱迪生)
All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear. (H. D. Thoreau)
一切好的东西都是便宜的,所有坏的东西都是非常贵的。(梭罗)
If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. (O. Wilde)
如果世界上少一些同情,世界上也就会少一些麻烦。(王尔德)
The true love should surmount the length of life, the width of mind and the depth of soul
真正的爱,应该超越生命的长度、心灵的宽度、灵魂的深度。
莫使物动心之静,莫使意乱心之宁。心静乾坤大,心安理数明。
God never complains people’s ignorance while people actually complains the unfair of God.
上帝从不埋怨人们的愚昧,人们却埋怨上帝的不公平。
We cannot change anything unless we accept it .Condemnation does not liberate it ,it oppresses.(Jung)
对一件事情我们必先接受它,才能改变它。谴责并不能把我们从困扰中解脱出来,只会使之加剧。(荣格)
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be .(Abraham Lincoln)
对于大多数人来说,他们认定自己有多幸福,就有多幸福。(林肯)
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not .
(George Bernard Shaw )
痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。 (肖伯纳)
Happiness is a butterfly, which ,when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (N. Hawthorn)
幸福是一只蝴蝶,你要追逐它的时候,总是追不到;但是如果你悄悄地坐下来,它也许会飞落到你身上。(英国作家杰克逊)
Happiness only real when you truly realize the value of life,Can experience. (Munir Nassef)
真正的幸福只有当你真实地认识到人生的价值时,才能体会到。 (穆尼尔·纳素夫)
Ambition or pure responsibility does not produce any real valuable thing, only for the human and the objective things, love and dedication to produce something of real value. (Einstein)
雄心(个人欲望)或单纯的责任感不会产生任何真正有价值的东西,只有对于人类和对于客观事物的热爱与献身精神才能产生真正有价值的东西。(爱因斯坦)
As long as you have a reasonable thing to do, your life will appear beautiful. (Einstein)
只要你有一件合理的事去做,你的生活就会显得特别美好。 (爱因斯坦)
We soon believe what we desire. (Chaucer)
我们欲望中的东西,我们很快就信以为真。(乔叟)
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly ,use soberly ,distribute cheerfully ,and leave contentedly. (Bacon ,Of Riches ,Essays)
不要寻求令人称羡的财富,应当追求这样的境界:对财富正当地获取,清醒地使用,愉快地施舍并能知足地放弃。
培根《随笔·论财富》
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功,当以恒心为良友,以经验为参谋,以谨慎为兄弟,以希望为哨兵。
-Thomas Edison(爱迪生)
Don't waste life in doubts and fears. (Emerson)
不要把生命浪费于怀疑与恐惧中。(爱默生)
Many people's tombstones should read: " Died at 30, buried at 70." (N. M. Butler)
许多人的墓碑上应该刻上:“三十而死,七旬而葬。”(巴特勒)
人生有两个方向很重要:一是出门,二是回家(本源归宿)。
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
真正的勇气是:无所畏惧地接受上天给你的一切。
The best hearts are always the bravest. (Proverb)
心灵最高尚的人,也总是最勇敢的人。 或“无私者无畏”
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. (M. Moore)
胜利是不会向我们走来的,我必须自己走向胜利。(穆尔)
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
(Joseph Addison)
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。(美国作家艾迪生)
That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest. (H. D. Thoreau)
能处处发现乐趣的人才是最富有的人。(梭罗)
A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth.
缄默的嘴,真诚的心,是世界上最令人赞美的东西。
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. (Roosevelt)
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。(罗斯福)
Genius only means hard-working all one's life. (Mendeleyev)
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。—— 门捷列夫
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (J.Barrymore)
只要一个人还有追求,他就没有老;直到后悔取代了梦想,一个人才算老。(巴里摩尔)
Man's duty is to have the courage to seek the truth. (Copernicus)
人的天职在勇于探索真理。(哥白尼)
No matter when you start, the more importantly is that do not stop after started. No matter when you end, the more importantly is that do not regret after ended. (Plato)
不论你在什么时候开始,重要的是开始之后就不要停止。不论你在什么时候结束,重要的是结束之后就不要悔恨。(柏拉图)
The place which the ideal is in, the hell maybe a heaven. The place which hope is in, the pain may becomes happiness.
有理想在的地方,地狱就是天堂。有希望在的地方,痛苦也成欢乐。