值得一看的名句,英漢對(duì)照(3)

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Follow your own course, and let people talk.
     走自己的路,讓人家去說(shuō)吧。
     -Alghieri Dante(意大利詩(shī)人但?。?BR>     If you would have a thing well done, you must do it yourself.
     如果要將事情做好,就得親自動(dòng)手。
     -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(美國(guó)詩(shī)人朗費(fèi)羅)
     Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
     最可怕的事莫過(guò)于行動(dòng)中的無(wú)知。
     -Desiderius Eramus(荷蘭人文主義者伊拉莫斯)
     Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds.
     什么樣的人便決定了干什么樣的事;同樣,干什么樣的事也決定了是什么樣的人。
     -George Eliot(英國(guó)小說(shuō)家艾略特)
     When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty little package.
     一個(gè)只顧自己的人不足以成大器。
     -John Ruskin(英國(guó)作家羅斯金)
     The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
     痛苦的秘密在于有閑功夫擔(dān)心自己是否幸福。
     -George Bernard Shaw(英國(guó)劇作家肖伯納)
     Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals.
     樂(lè)觀主義者總是想象自己實(shí)現(xiàn)了目標(biāo)的情景。
     -Lucius Annaeus Seneca(古羅馬哲學(xué)家,西尼加)
     Almost any situation ——good or bad—— is affected by the attitude we bring to.
     差不多任何一種處境——無(wú)論是好是壞——都受到我們對(duì)待處境的態(tài)度的影響。
     -Lucius Annaeus Seneca(古羅馬哲學(xué)家西尼加)
     Perhaps you can't control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life.
     或許你不能支配自己的工作,但你能夠使生活發(fā)生轉(zhuǎn)變。
     -Alan Loy Mcginnis(英國(guó)作家麥金尼斯)
     The Chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity.
     中文的"危機(jī)"分為兩個(gè)字,一個(gè)意味著危險(xiǎn),另外一個(gè)意味著機(jī)會(huì)。
     -Burejer(英國(guó)作家布瑞杰)
     The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
     生活的悲劇不在于人們受到多少苦,而在于人們錯(cuò)過(guò)了什么。(英國(guó)散文家、歷史學(xué)家,卡萊爾)
     -Thomas Carlyle(英國(guó)散文家卡萊爾)
     I find life an exciting business —— and most exciting when it is lived for others.
     我發(fā)現(xiàn)生活是令人激動(dòng)的事情,尤其是為別人活著時(shí)。
     -Helen Keller(美國(guó)作家,海倫?凱勒)
     Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
     年輕人一生中常犯大錯(cuò)誤,其中之一就是把愛(ài)情太理想化了。
     -John Ray(美國(guó)科學(xué)家雷伊)
     I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got down to work.
     我從不等待情緒的來(lái)臨。如果你一味等待,就將一事無(wú)成。你必須牢記,只有動(dòng)手才能有所得。
     -Pearl Buck(美國(guó)作家賽珍珠)
     Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
     經(jīng)驗(yàn)是思想之子,思想是行動(dòng)之子,了解他人不可以書(shū)本為據(jù)。
     -Benjamin Disraeli(英國(guó)政治家狄斯雷利)
     The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
     衡量一個(gè)人真正的品質(zhì),要看他在知道永遠(yuǎn)也不會(huì)被人發(fā)現(xiàn)的情況下做些什么。
     -Thomas Bobington Macaulay(英國(guó)歷史學(xué)家麥考萊)
     Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
     考慮是不要匆忙,但是一旦行動(dòng)的時(shí)刻來(lái)到,就要毫不猶豫地投身行動(dòng)。
     -John Albion Andrew(美國(guó)廢奴運(yùn)動(dòng)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人安德魯)