Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great.... | 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。 |
Every man is a poet when he is in love. | 每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。 |
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. | 初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。 |
Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once... | 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。 |
Friendship is love without his wings. | 友谊是没有羽翼的爱。 |
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. | 并非地球引力使人坠入爱河。 |
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. | 权力越大,滥用职权的危险就越大。 |
The greatest of evils and the worst of crims is poverty. | 最大的恶和最凶的罪是贫穷。 |
The paramount duty of Congress is to stop deficiencies by the restoration of that protecti... | 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。 |
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule be-gins. | 暴君死了,他统治也就结束;烈士死了,他的统治刚开始。 |
There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self. | 在王座的后面还有比国王本人更伟大东西。 |
To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the peo... | 要了解政府的政绩只需要观察民情。 |
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must... | 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。 |
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. | 过分喜欢权力就会不择手段。 |
We need in politics man who have something to give, not men who have something to get. | 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。 |
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. | 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。 |
When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old p... | 社会需要重建时,试图墨守旧的蓝图重建它是徒劳无益的。 |
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, und... | 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。 |
Character is what you are in the dark. | 暗处最能反映一个人真正品格。 |
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. | 勇气是一架梯子,其他美德全靠它爬上去。 |
Despite all the life danger, with one selfless act from one common person, someone is save... | 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。 |
Distrust can be contagious. But, so can trust. | 不信任有传染性。但是信任也如此。 |
Fame is the chastisement of meit and the punishment of talent. | 盛名殊誉是德才之忌。 |
God was constructed out of mankind's need for hope, for purpose, for meaning:an invisible ... | 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。 |
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; general good is the plea... | 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。 |
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you... | 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。 |
If you would convince others ,you seem open to conviction yourself. | 要说服别人,先得说服自己。 |
If your morals make you dreary. Depend upon it, they are wrong. | 如果你的品行使你郁郁寡欢,那么,这些品行无疑是错误的。 |
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be reg... | 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? |
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. | 人不仅要做好事,更要以正确的方式做好事。 |
Lying disguises our mortality, our inadequacies, our fears and anxieties, our loneliness i... | 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。 |
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be... | 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。 |
Morality is the custom of one's country ;cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.Mora... | 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。 |
Morality is the herd instinct in the individual. | 道德是个人心目中的群居本能。 |
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. | 道德可能仅仅在于有勇气作出抉择。 |
Mutual forgiveness of each vice, such are the gates of Paradise. | 相互宽容对方的缺点,乃是通向天堂之门。 |
No mourality can be founded on authority, even if the authouity were divine. | 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。 |
Nothing is easier than to deceive one's self. | 再没有什么比欺骗自己更容易的了。 |
Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower. | 品格之于人,犹如芳香之于花。 |
Plain living and high thinking. | 生活要朴素,情操要高尚。 |
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. | 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。 |
There is , however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. | 克制也有个限度,超过了限度就不再是美德。 |
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. | 美德是勇敢的,善良从来无所畏惧。 |
We all tell lies--little lies, big lies, necessity lies in order to insure social and psyc... | 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。 |
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. To persev... | 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。 |
Wherever true valor is found, true modesty will there abound. | 真正的勇敢,都包含谦虚。 |
Words may be false and full of arts ,sighs are the natural language of the heart. | 言语可以是谎言并带有技巧;叹息才是心灵的自然流露。 |
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight | 伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。 |
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. | 一部小说犹如一面在大街上走的镜子。 |
A picture is a poem without words. | 一幅画是一首没有文字的诗歌。 |
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. | 诗人是这样的人,他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。 |
A poet is born, not made. | 诗人靠天分,不是靠培养。 |
Any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authourity is not using his intelligence;... | 一个借着引经据典来辩论的人,不是在运用自己的才智,他是在运用自己的记忆力。 |
Art is long, and time is fleeting. | 艺术是永恒的,时间则是瞬息即逝的。 |
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it ! | 艺术远没有生活重要,但是没有艺术生活是多么乏味呀! |
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. | 艺术不是手艺,它是艺术家的体验到的感情的传递。 |
Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought. | 艺术是感情的模制品,犹如语言是思想的模制品。 |
Art is the object of feeling, and the subject of nature. | 艺术是情感的客观表现。也是本性的主观反映。 |
Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men... | 艺术是自然的右手。自然只让我们存在,而艺术创造我们的人类。 |
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travel. | 好画犹如佳肴,只可意会,不可言传。 |
Good painting is like good cooking; it ca n be tasted, but not explained. | 简单地说,伟大的文学就是包涵极其丰富意义的语言。 |
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree | 幽默被人正确地解释为“以诚挚表达感受,寓深思于嬉笑”。 |
Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. | 我写作只是为了增加自身的美。 |
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. | 音乐要用心灵去听,用头脑去感觉。 |
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brains. Victor Hugo, French write... | 爵士乐使你的肌肉发痒,交响乐能舒展你的灵魂。 |
Literature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes... | 文学是一种理智之光,它和阳光一样,有时能使我们看到我们不喜欢的东西。 |
Love and scandal the best sweeteners of tea. | 风流韵事与丑闻是品茶聊天时的最佳话题。 |
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. | 音乐有着抚慰粗野的胸怀、软化顽石或使千年老树弯腰的魅力。 |
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. | 音乐是唯一不能用及表达卑鄙的或讽刺的事物的语言。 |
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a apeaking picture. | 画是无言之诗,诗是有声之画。 |
Rules and modesty destroy genius and art. | 规则与谦逊会毁掉天才和艺术。 |
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face their ... | 讽刺是一面镜子,观看者通常从中看到每一个人的面容却看不到自己。 |
Some people pretend to despise the things they cannot have. | 吃不到葡萄的人说葡萄酸。 |
Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. | 语言是心灵的镜子;一个人只要说话,他说的话就是他的心灵的镜子 |
Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you... | 阳光可能炙烤你,食品可能毒害你,言语可能诅咒你,图画可能侮辱你——音乐不会处罚你只会祝福你。 |
The art of giving presents is to give something which others cannot buy for themselves. | 送礼的艺术在于送别人不能给自己买的东西。 |
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep in their downwar... | 文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时候是齐头并进的。 |
The landscape belongs to the man who looks at it. | 风景属于看风景的人。 |
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. | 爱美是健康人性的重要组成部分。 |
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props , the pi... | 诗人的声音不应只是人类的记录,而应是使人类永存并得到胜利的支柱和栋梁。 |
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and ... | 文化的价值在于它对人类品性的影响。除非文化能使品性变为高尚、有力。文化的作用在于裨益人生,它的目标不是美,而是善。 |
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