亞里斯多德與蘇格拉底、柏拉圖一起被廣泛認(rèn)為是西方哲學(xué)的奠基者，他的哲學(xué)思想深深影響人類(lèi)長(zhǎng)達(dá)兩千多年，是整個(gè)人類(lèi)歷的偉大哲學(xué)家。馬克思曾稱(chēng)亞里斯多德是“古希臘哲學(xué)家中最博學(xué)的人物”，恩格斯稱(chēng)他是“古代的黑格爾”。讓我們?cè)趦A聽(tīng)這樣一個(gè)歷史巨人的教誨時(shí)， 不經(jīng)意地記住一些單詞吧！或許你可能會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)原來(lái)這些單詞如此容易，這是因?yàn)槟愕乃枷氡淮騽?dòng)了。
1.A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Confound:混淆
Populous:人口稠密的
2.Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. Purpose:目的
3.Bad men are full of repentance.
Repentance：后悔
3.Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Bashfulness:魯莽
Ornament:裝飾
Reproach:詬??；指責(zé)
4.Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Oligarch:寡頭
Tyrant:暴君
Deprive:剝奪
5.Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Guarantee:保證
6.Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Democracy:民主
Indigent:貧窮的
7.Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Dignity:尊嚴(yán)
Consist:組成
Consciousness:意識(shí)
Deserve:應(yīng)該獲得
8.Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Prosperity:富足；繁榮
Refugee:避難所
Adversity:不利
9.Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Philosophic:哲理的
Singular:單一的
Universal:普遍的
10.In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Marvelous:神奇的
11.It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Unbecoming:不得體的；
Utter:說(shuō)出
Maxim:格言；警句
12.Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Sway:搖擺；被…左右
Reverence:尊敬
13.Nature does nothing in vain.
Vain:徒勞的
14.No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Exempt:被免除的
15.Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Perfection:完美
16.Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
prefer: 更喜歡…
17.Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Decline:衰退
Degenerate:墮落
Despotism: 專(zhuān)制；*
1.A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Confound:混淆
Populous:人口稠密的
2.Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. Purpose:目的
3.Bad men are full of repentance.
Repentance：后悔
3.Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Bashfulness:魯莽
Ornament:裝飾
Reproach:詬??；指責(zé)
4.Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Oligarch:寡頭
Tyrant:暴君
Deprive:剝奪
5.Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Guarantee:保證
6.Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Democracy:民主
Indigent:貧窮的
7.Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Dignity:尊嚴(yán)
Consist:組成
Consciousness:意識(shí)
Deserve:應(yīng)該獲得
8.Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Prosperity:富足；繁榮
Refugee:避難所
Adversity:不利
9.Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Philosophic:哲理的
Singular:單一的
Universal:普遍的
10.In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Marvelous:神奇的
11.It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Unbecoming:不得體的；
Utter:說(shuō)出
Maxim:格言；警句
12.Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Sway:搖擺；被…左右
Reverence:尊敬
13.Nature does nothing in vain.
Vain:徒勞的
14.No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Exempt:被免除的
15.Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Perfection:完美
16.Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
prefer: 更喜歡…
17.Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Decline:衰退
Degenerate:墮落
Despotism: 專(zhuān)制；*