原標題:【獨家】專四專八寫作名言諺語集錦(一)
一、教育與學習
名言類:
1. Knowledge is power. (Francis Bacon, British philosopher)
知識就是力量。 (英國哲學家 培根)
【提示:本句適於靈活改寫,如談時間重要時可改為Time is power.;談金錢重要時可改為Money is power.】
2. Knowledge is the food of the soul. (Plato, ancient Greek philosopher)
知識是心靈的食糧。 (古希臘哲學家 柏拉圖)
3. Activity is the only road to knowledge. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)
行動是通往知識的唯一道路。 (英國劇作家 蕭伯納)
4. Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. (Thomas Fuller, British historian)
知識是寶庫,而實踐是開啟寶庫的鑰匙。(英國歷史學家 福勒)
5. A free man obtains knowledge from many sources besides books. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)
一個自由的人除了從書本上獲取知識外,還可以從許多別的來源獲得知識。(美國總統 傑斐遜)
【提示:以上三句都可用於闡釋知識來源。】
6. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him; an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin, American president)
傾己所有追求知識,沒有人能奪走它;向知識投資,收益最佳。(美國總統 富蘭克林)
7. A little learning is a dangerous thing. (Alexander Pope, British poet)
學問淺薄,如履薄冰。(英國詩人 蒲柏)
8. A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. (William Allen White, American journalist)
學問淺薄對一個人並不危險,只要他不誤以為自己學問淵博。(美國知名記者 懷特)
9. Example is always more efficacious than precept. (Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic)
身教勝於言教。(英國作家、批評家 詹森)
10. Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou, British educator)
教育始於母親膝下,孩童耳聽一言一語,均影響其性格的形成。 (英國教育家 巴盧)
11. If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (John Bunyan, British essayist)
你若希望你的孩子總是腳踏實地, 就要讓他們負些責任。(英國散文家 班揚)
12. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Yeats, Irish poet)
教育不是注滿一桶水,而是點燃一把火。(愛爾蘭詩人 葉芝)
13. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Will Durant,American historian)
教育是一個逐步發現自己無知的過程。(美國歷史學家 杜蘭特)
14. The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter. (J. Angell, American psychologist)
教育最主要的目的不是教你掙得麵包,而是使你吃的每一口都香甜。(美國心理學家 安吉爾)
【提 示:除了直接引用,還可以在談教育應利於學生求職這一反觀點時,作為反駁的靶子, 如:The American psychologist J. Angell once said … However, if several years』 college education fails to make us earn our bread, we do not even have the chance to taste how sweet it is.】
15. In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life. (William Allen White, American journalist)
教育不是為了教會青年人謀生,而是教會他們創造生活。(美國知名記者 懷特)
16. Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)
教育以造就人的品質為其目標。(英國哲學家 斯賓塞)
【提示:以上四句都可用於闡釋教育的真正意義或目的。】
諺語類:
1. Unpolished pearls never shine.
玉不琢,不成器。
2. Learn young, learn fair.
學習趁年少,而且要學好。
3. A young idler, an old beggar.
少壯不努力,老大徒傷悲。
4. Learning is the eye of the mind.
學問是心靈的眼睛。
5. There is no royal road to learning.
學無坦途。
6. Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
天才不過是勤奮而已。
7. Knowledge advances by steps not by leaps.
知識逐步增加,不能一蹴而就。
8. Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
知識使人謙虛,無知使人驕傲。
9. Complacency is the enemy of study.
學習的敵人是自己的滿足。
10. He who inquires much learns much.
問得多,學得多。
【提示:本句適於靈活改寫,如談實踐的意義時可改為He who practices much learns much; 談閱讀或旅行的意義時可改為He who reads/ travels much learns much.】
11. He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning.
恥於問即是恥於學。
12. Learn from the mistakes of others and prevent your own.
前人犯錯,後人戒。
二、工作與生活
名言類:
1. My philosophy of life is work. (Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor)
我的人生哲學就是工作。(美國發明家 愛迪生)
2. To youth I have three words of counsel—work, work and work. (Otto Btismarck, German statesman)
對於青年,我的忠告只有三個詞——工作,工作,工作。(德國政治家 俾斯麥)
3. Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work. (David Grayson, American journalist)
我發現,辛勤工作的報酬幾乎總是幸福。(美國記者 格雷森)
4. The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. (Albert Einstein, American physicist)
一個人的價值應該在於他貢獻什麼,而不是他能獲得什麼。(美國物理學家 愛因斯坦)
5. Why should work be such a significant source of human satisfaction? A good share of the answer rest in the kind of pride that is stimulated by the job, by the activity of accomplishing. (Leonard R. Sayles, British writer)
為什麼工作竟然是人們獲得滿足的如此重要的源泉呢?最主要的答案就在於,工作和通過工作所取得的成就能激起一種自豪感。(英國作家 塞爾斯)
6. Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty. (Voltaire, French philosopher)
工作攆跑三個魔鬼:無聊、墮落和貧窮。(法國哲學家 伏爾泰)
【提 示:以上四句都可用來談論工作的意義。此外,本句可隨話題變化靈活運用,可以用以引出話題, 如:The French philosopher Voltaire said, 「Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.」 Sometimes so does a hobby. 也 可以仿寫表達自己的觀點, 如:Exercise banishes those three great evils: illness, boredom and depression.】
7. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. (Elbert Hubbard, British writer)
為把明天的工作做好,最好的準備是把今天的工作做好。(英國作家 哈伯德)
8. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. (Winston Churchill, British prime minister)
不能愛哪行幹哪行,要幹哪行愛哪行。(英國首相 邱吉爾)
9. We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine cases out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. (John Lubbock, British banker)
我們常常聽人說,人們因工作過度而垮下來,但是實際上十有八九是因為飽受擔憂或焦慮的折磨。(英國銀行家 盧伯克)
10. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein, American physicist)
有這樣兩種生活方式:一種生活視一切為平常;一種生活視一切為奇蹟。(美國物理學家 愛因斯坦)
11. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. (Albert Einstein, American physicist)
服務他人的生活才有意義。(美國物理學家 愛因斯坦)
【提示:本句既可以用來談生活的意義,又可以用來談工作、奉獻等。】
12. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, it has to take you in. (Frost Robert, American poet)
無論何時何地,家永遠是向遊子敞開大門的地方。(美國詩人 羅伯特)
13. The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress. (E. Coke, British jurist)
每個人的家對他自己都像是城堡和堡壘。(英國法學家 科克)
14. He is the happiest, be he King or peasant, who finds peace in his home. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist and poet)
無論是國王還是農夫,家庭和睦是最幸福的。(德國劇作家、詩人 歌德)
15. There is a skeleton in every house. (William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist)
家家都有一本難念的經。(英國小說家 薩克雷)
16. Prevention is better than cure. (Charles Dickens, British novelist )
預防勝於治療。(英國小說家 狄更斯)
17. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health. (Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor)
快樂最利於健康。(美國發明家 愛迪生)
諺語類:
1. Business is the salt of life.
事業是人生的第一需要。
2. Industry is the parent of success.
勤奮是成功之母。
3. A burden of one’s choice is not felt.
愛挑的擔子不嫌重。
4. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
只會用功不玩耍,聰明孩子也變傻。
5. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
滾石不生苔,轉業不聚財。
6. It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.
創業容易守業難。
7. As a man sows, so he shall reap.
種瓜得瓜,種豆得豆。
8. Eat to live, but not live to eat.
人吃飯是為了活著,但活著不是為了吃飯。
9. Care and diligence bring luck.
謹慎和勤奮才能抓住機遇。
10. Wealth is nothing without health.
失去健康,錢再多也沒用。
11. A sound mind is in a sound body.
健全的精神寓於健康的身體。
12. Good health is over wealth.
健康是最大的財富。
【提示:以上三句都可用來論述健康的重要性,談論運動健身、網絡聊天、金錢與幸福等許多話題都會涉及到這一點。】
13. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
早睡早起身體好。
14. Good medicine for health tastes bitter to the mouth.
良藥苦口利於病。
三、道德與愛情
名言類:
1. 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)
人都會犯錯誤,在許多情況下,大多數仍是由於欲望或興趣的引誘而犯錯誤的。(英國哲學家 洛克)
2. The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. (Albert Einstein, American physicist)
世界變得危險不是因為那些帶來危害的人,而是因為那些看到危害卻置之不理的人。(美國物理學家 愛因斯坦)
3. Character is what you are in the dark. (D. L Moody, American churchman)
暗處最能反映一個人真正的品格。(美國教士 穆迪)
4. Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower. (C.C.Schwab,American Businessman)
品格之於人,猶如芳香之於花。(美國實業家 施瓦布)
5. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce, American dramatist)
勇氣是一架梯子,其他美德全靠它爬上去。(美國劇作家 盧斯)
6. Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (Leon Nlum, French statesman)
道德可能僅僅在於有勇氣做出抉擇。(法國政治家 布魯姆)
【提示:以上兩句用於談勇氣的重要性。】
7. 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)
行善總是具體的、特定的;抽象的、籠統的行善是惡棍、偽君子和獻媚者的託辭。(英國詩人 布萊克)
8. It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. (John Morley, British statesman)
人不僅要做好事,更要以正確的方式做好事。(英國政治家 莫利)
【提示:本句可用作解決問題時的過渡句,隨後提供具體建議,來詮釋「in the right way」。】
9. 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, American writer)
我只知道所謂道德是指你事後覺得好的東西,所謂不道德是指你事後覺得不好的東西。(美國作家 海明威)
10. If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. (Robert Louis Stevenson, British novelist)
如果你的品行使你鬱鬱寡歡,那麼,這些品行無疑是錯誤的。(英國小說家 斯蒂文森)
11. 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)
道德確實不是指導人們如何使自己幸福的教條,而是指導人們如何使自己值得擁有幸福的學說。(德國哲學家 康德)
12. We all tell lies—little lies, big lies, necessity lies in order to insure social and psychological peace and comfort. (Howard Mel, American writer)
所有的人說謊——小謊、大謊、善意的謊——都是為確保社會安寧、心理舒適採取的必要手段。(美國作家 梅爾)
13. Distrust can be contagious. But, so can trust. (Robbins Stacia, British writer)
不信任有傳染性。但是信任也如此。(英國作家 斯達卡)
14. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. (Erich Fromm, American philosopher)
愛是對人類之存在這一問題唯一明智而又令人滿意的答案。(美國哲學家 佛洛姆)
15. Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. (Barrie, Scottish playwright)
沒有一個能愛的人被說成是不幸福的,甚至沒有得到回報的愛也有其光彩。(蘇格蘭劇作家 巴裡)
16. The best proof of love is trust. (Joyce Brothers, American psychologist)
愛的最好證明就是信任。(美國心理學家 布拉德)
17. The course of true love never did run smooth. (William Shakespeare, British playwright)
通向真愛的路從無坦途。(英國劇作家 莎士比亞)
18. Love me little, love me long. (Thomas Heywood, English dramatist)
愛不貴親密,而貴久長。(英國劇作家 海伍德)
【提示:以上四句可用來談論愛的真諦。】
19. It is impossible to love and to be wise. (Francis Bacon,British philosopher)
愛令智昏。 (英國哲學家 培根)
20. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)
初戀就是一點點笨拙,外加許許多多好奇。(英國劇作家 蕭伯納)
諺語類:
1. Lies have short legs.
謊言站不長。
2. Cheats never prosper.
騙人發不了財。
3. Penny wise, pound foolish.
貪小便宜吃大虧。
4. He is wise that is honest.
誠實者最明智。
5. Honesty is the best policy.
做人誠信為本。
【提示:以上都可用來談論誠信。】
6. Love cannot be compelled.
愛情不能強求。
7. Love is blind.
愛情是盲目的。
8. Love is full of trouble.
愛情充滿煩惱。
9. Love is never without jealousy.
沒有妒忌就沒有愛情。
10. Love me, love my dog.
愛屋及烏。
【提示:本句可隨話題變化靈活改寫,如:Love me, love my books.或Love life, love the nature. 】
11. Hasty love, soon cold.
一見鍾情難持久。
12. Beauty lies in the lover’s eyes.
情人眼裡出西施。 理想與現實
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