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20个经典英文谚语
20个经典英文谚语
2016-01-12 外专委
今天,为大家精选了20句经典谚语并做了些许点评,请背下来,并加以理解,能在你的口语和写作中活用出来。
1. Practice makes perfect. 熟能生巧。
批注:运用了押头韵的写法,p对p;再如:pride and prejudice(傲慢与偏见)
2. God helps those who help themselves. 自助者天助。
批注:those who„也是一种替换people的表示“人”的写法;比如:Those who break the law should be brought tojustice.(违法必究)
3. Easier said than done. 说起来容易做起来难。
批注:该句其实句首省略了形式主语it is.
4. Where there is a will, there is a way. 有志者事竟成。
批注:where引导地点状语从句;运用了押韵,比如will和way。
5. A small mistake will trigger huge consequences. 失之毫厘,谬之千里。
批注:trigger,表示“引发”,可用cause, result in, lead to等替代。
6. Experience is the mother of wisdom. 实践出真知。
批注:mother是经典的表示“原因”的比喻,„is the mother of„也是一个经典句型。比如 failure is the mother ofsuccess.
7. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. 只工作不玩耍,聪明孩子也变傻。
批注:一种“劳逸结合”的有趣说法。
8. Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.无德之美犹如没有香味的玫瑰,徒有其表。 批注:“金玉其外,败絮其中”的有趣说法,非常形象生动。
9. More hasty, less speed. 欲速则不达。
批注:我们只学过the more„, the more(越„越„)的句型,这句话是前后相反的比较级,只得注意。
10. It’s never too old to learn. 活到老,学到老。
批注:双重否定表肯定,too„to„太怎样以至于不能怎样,前面加never,再否定一次,负负得正。
11. All that glitters is not gold. 闪光的未必都是金子。
批注:all+ not表示“不是所有的„都„”,而不是“所有的„都不„”
12. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.千里之行始于足下
批注:begin with值得学习表示“以„为开端”,如Asuccess begins with a good beginning.
13. Look before you leap. 三思而后行。
批注:“跳之前先望一望”(挺有意思的表达)
14. Rome was not built in a day. 伟业非一日之功。
批注:另译,罗马不是一天建成的;冰冻三尺非一日之寒。
15. Great minds think alike. 英雄所见略同。
批注:alike是一个副词,表示“相似”,值得大家多使用。They look alike. 他们长得相似。
16. It is hard to please all. 众口难调。
批注:please可以作为动词,表示“让„满足”。
17. Action speaks louder than words. 行动胜于语言。
批注:形象生动,拟人化的手法。
18. Bad news travel fast. 坏事传千里。
批注:大家注意“travel”这个动词,描述一个信息传递的动作。
19. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难见真情。
批注:经典能流传下来的语言总是朗朗上口的。注意in need和indeed的押韵。
20. Do as Romans do in Rome. 入乡随俗。
批注:到了罗马就要像罗马人那样行事。as引导一个方式状语从句。
英语俗语谚语归纳
1.爱不释手fondle admiringly
2.百闻不如一见(眼见为实) Seeing is believing.
3.比上不足比下有余 worse off than some, better off than many; to fall short of the best, but be better than the worst.
4.笨鸟先飞 A slow sparrow should make an early start.
5.不眠之夜 white night
6.不以物喜不以己悲 not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personnal losses
7.不遗余力 spare no effort; go all out; do one's best
8.不打不成交 No discord, no concord.
9.拆东墙补西墙 rob Peter to pay Paul
10.辞旧迎新 bid farewell to the old and usher in the new; ring out the old year and ring in the new
11.大事化小小事化了 try first to make their mistake sound less serious and then to reduce it to nothing at all
12.大开眼界 open one's eyes; broaden one's horizon; be an eye-opener
13.国泰民安 The country flourishes and people live in peace
14.过犹不及 going too far is as bad as not going far enough; beyond is as wrong as falling short; too much is as bad as too little
15.功夫不负有心人 Everything comes to him who waits.
16.好了伤疤忘了疼 once on shore, one prays no more
17.好事不出门恶事传千里 Good news never goes beyond the gate, while bad news spread far and wide.
18.和气生财 Harmony brings wealth.
19.活到老学到老 One is never too old to learn.
20.既往不咎 let bygones be bygones
21.金无足赤人无完人 Gold can't be pure and man can't be perfect.
22.金玉满堂 Treasures fill the home.{mistake谚语}.
23.脚踏实地 be down-to-earth
24.脚踩两只船 sit on the fence
25.君子之交淡如水 the friendship between gentlemen is as pure as crystal; a hedge between keeps friendship green
26.老生常谈陈词滥调 cut and dried, cliché
27.礼尚往来 Courtesy calls for reciprocity.
28.留得青山在不怕没柴烧 Where there is life, there is hope.
29.马到成功 achieve immediate victory; win instant success
30.名利双收 gain in both fame and wealth
31.茅塞顿开 be suddenly enlightened
32.没有规矩不成方圆 Nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards.
33.每逢佳节倍思亲 On festive occasions more than ever one thinks of one's dear ones far away.It is on the festival occasions when one misses his dear most.
34.谋事在人成事在天 The planning lies with man, the outcome with Heaven. Man proposes, God disposes.
35.弄巧成拙 be too smart by half; Cunning outwits itself
36.拿手好戏 masterpiece
37.赔了夫人又折兵 throw good money after bad
38.抛砖引玉 a modest spur to induce others to come forward with valuable contributions; throw a sprat to catch a whale
39.破釜沉舟 cut off all means of retreat;burn one‘s own way of retreat and be determined to fight to the end
40.抢得先机 take the preemptive opportunities
41.巧妇难为无米之炊 If you have no hand you can't make a fist. One can't make bricks without straw.{mistake谚语}.
42.千里之行始于足下 a thousand-li journey begins with the first step--the highest eminence is to be gained step by step
43.前事不忘后事之师 Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.
44.前人栽树后人乘凉 One generation plants the trees in whose shade another generation rests.One sows and another reaps.
45.前怕狼后怕虎 fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind hesitate in doing something
46.强龙难压地头蛇 Even a dragon (from the outside) finds it hard to control a snake in its old haunt - Powerful outsiders can hardly afford to neglect local bullies.
47.强强联手 win-win co-operation
48.瑞雪兆丰年 A timely snow promises a good harvest.
49.人之初性本善 Man's nature at birth is good.
50.人逢喜事精神爽 Joy puts heart into a man.
51.人海战术 huge-crowd strategy
52.世上无难事只要肯攀登 Where there is a will, there is a way.
53.世外桃源 a fictitious land of peace away from the turmoil of the world;
54.死而后已 until my heart stops beating
55.岁岁平安 Peace all year round.{mistake谚语}.
56.上有天堂下有苏杭 Just as there is paradise in heaven, ther are Suzhou and Hangzhou on earth
57.塞翁失马焉知非福 Misfortune may be an actual blessing.
58.三十而立 A man should be independent at the age of thirty.At thirty, a man should be able to think for himself.
59.升级换代 updating and upgrading (of products)
60.四十不惑 Life begins at forty.
61.谁言寸草心报得三春晖 Such kindness of warm sun, can't be repaid by grass. 62.水涨船高 When the river rises, the boat floats high.
63.时不我待Time and tide wait for no man.
64.杀鸡用牛刀break a butterfly on the wheel
65.实事求是seek truth from facts; be practical and realistic; be true to facts
66.说曹操,曹操到Talk of the devil and he comes.
67.实话实说speak the plain truth; call a spade a spade; tell it as it is
68.实践是检验真理的唯一标准Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.
69.山不在高,有仙则名'No matter how high the mountain is, its name will spread far and wide if there is a fairy; '
70.韬光养晦hide one's capacities and bide one's time
71.糖衣炮弹sugar-coated bullets
72.天有不测风云Anything unexpected may happen. a bolt from the blue
73.团结就是力量Unity is strength.
74.“跳进黄河洗不清”'eve if one jumped into the Yellow River, one can not wash oneself clean--there's nothing one can do to clear one's name '
75.歪风邪气unhealthy practices and evil phenomena
76.物以类聚,人以群分Birds of a feather flock together.
77.往事如风'The past has vanished (from memory) like wind.; What in past, is pas
78.望子成龙hold high hopes for one's child
79.屋漏又逢连阴雨Misfortunes never come singly. When it rains it pours.
80.文韬武略military expertise; military strategy
81.唯利是图draw water to one's mill
82.无源之水,无本之木water without a source, and a tree wiithout roots
83.无中生有make create something out of nothing
84.无风不起浪There are no waves without wind. There's no smoke without fire. 85.徇私枉法bend the law for the benefit of relatives or friends
86.新官上任三把火a new broom sweeps clean
87.虚心使人进步,骄傲使人落后Modesty helps one go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind.
88. 蓄势而发accumulate strength for a take-off
89.心想事成May all your wish come true
90.心照不宣have a tacit understanding; give tacit consent; tacit understanding 91.先入为主First impressions are firmly entrenched.
92.先下手为强catch the ball before the bound
93.像热锅上的蚂蚁like an ant on a hot pan
94.现身说法warn people by taking oneself as an example
95.息事宁人pour oil on troubled waters
96.喜忧参半mingled hope and fear
97.循序渐进step by step
98.一路平安,一路顺风speed somebody on their way; speed the parting guest
99.严以律己,宽以待人be strict with oneself and lenient towards others
100鱼米之乡
101.有情人终成眷属'Jack shall have Jill, all shall be well.'
102.有钱能使鬼推磨Money makes the mare go. Money talks.
常用英语谚语200句
1.爱屋及乌 Love me, love my dog.
2.百闻不如一见 Seeing is believing.
3.比上不足比下有余 worse off than some, better off than many; to fall short of thebest, but be better than the worst.
4.笨鸟先飞 A slow sparrow should make an early start.
5.不眠之夜 white night{mistake谚语}.
6.不以物喜不以己悲 not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personnal losses
7.不遗余力 spare no effort; go all out; do one's best
8.不打不成交 No discord, no concord.
9.拆东墙补西墙 rob Peter to pay Paul
10.辞旧迎新 bid farewell to the old and usher in the new; ring out the old year and ring inthe new
11.大事化小小事化了 try first to make their mistake sound less serious and then to reduceit to nothing at all
12.大开眼界 open one's eyes; broaden one's horizon; be an eye-opener
13.国泰民安 The country flourishes and people live in peace
14.过犹不及 going too far is as bad as not going far enough; beyond is as wrong as fallingshort; too much is as bad as too little
15.功夫不负有心人 Everything comes to him who waits.
16.好了伤疤忘了疼 once on shore, one prays no more
17.好事不出门恶事传千里 Good news never goes beyond the gate, while bad news spread far andwide.
18.和气生财 Harmony brings wealth.
19.活到老学到老 One is never too old to learn.
20.既往不咎 let bygones be bygones
21.金无足赤人无完人 Gold can't be pure and man can't be perfect
22.金玉满堂 Treasures fill the home.
23.脚踏实地 be down-to-earth
24.脚踩两只船 sit on the fence
25.君子之交淡如水 the friendship between gentlemen is as pure as crystal; a hedgebetween keeps friendship green
26.老生常谈陈词滥调 cut and dried, cliche
27.礼尚往来 Courtesy calls for reciprocity.
28.留得青山在不怕没柴烧 Where there is life, there is hope.
29.马到成功 achieve immediate victory; win instant success
30.名利双收 gain in both fame and wealth
31.茅塞顿开 be suddenly enlightened
32.没有规矩不成方圆 Nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards.
33.每逢佳节倍思亲 On festive occasions more than ever one thinks of one's dear onesfar away.It is on the festival occasions when one misses his dear most.
34.谋事在人成事在天 The planning lies with man, the outcome with Heaven. Man proposes,God disposes.
35.弄巧成拙 be too smart by half; Cunning outwits itself
36.拿手好戏 masterpiece
37.赔了夫人又折兵 throw good money after bad{mistake谚语}.
38.抛砖引玉 a modest spur to induce others to come forward with valuable contributions;throw a sprat to catch a whale
39.破釜沉舟 cut off all means of retreat;burn one‘s own way of retreat and be determined to fight to the end
40.抢得先机 take the preemptive opportunities
41.巧妇难为无米之炊 If you have no hand you can't make a fist. One can't make brickswithout straw.
42.千里之行始于足下 a thousand-li journey begins with the first step--the highesteminence is to be gained step by step
43.前事不忘后事之师 Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.
44.前人栽树后人乘凉 One generation plants the treesin whose shade another generation rests.One sows and another reaps.
45.前怕狼后怕虎 fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind hesitate in doingsomething
46.强龙难压地头蛇 Even a dragon (from the outside) finds it hard to control a snakein its old haunt - Powerful outsiders can hardly afford to neglect localbullies.
47.强强联手 win-win co-operation
48.瑞雪兆丰年 A timely snow promises a good harvest.
49.人之初性本善 Man's nature at birth is good.
50.人逢喜事精神爽 Joy puts heart into a man.
51.人海战术 huge-crowd strategy
52.世上无难事只要肯攀登 Where there is a will, there is a way.
53.世外桃源 a fictitious land of peace away from the turmoil of the world;
54.死而后已 until my heart stops beating
55.岁岁平安 Peace all year round.
56.上有天堂下有苏杭 Just as there is paradise in heaven, ther are Suzhou and Hangzhouon earth
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57.塞翁失马焉知非福 Misfortune may be an actual blessing.
58.三十而立 A man should be independent at the age of thirty.At thirty, a man should beable to think for himself.
59.升级换代 updating and upgrading (of products)
60.四十不惑 Life begins at forty.
61.谁言寸草心报得三春晖 Such kindness of warm sun, can't be repaid by grass.
62.水涨船高 When the river rises, the boat floats high.
63.时不我待 Timeand tide wait for no man.
64.杀鸡用牛刀 break a butterfly on the wheel
65.实事求是 seektruth from facts; be practical and realistic; be true to facts
66.说曹操,曹操到 Talk of the devil and he comes.
67.实话实说 speakthe plain truth; call a spade a spade; tell it as it is
68.实践是检验真理的唯一标准 Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.
69.山不在高,有仙则名 No matter how high the mountain is, its name will spread far andwide if there is a fairy
70.韬光养晦 hideone's capacities and bide one's time
71.糖衣炮弹 sugar-coatedbullets
72.天有不测风云 Anything unexpected may happen. a bolt from the blue
73.团结就是力量 Unity is strength.
74.“跳进黄河洗不清” eve if one jumped into the Yellow River, one can not wash oneselfclean--there's nothing one can do to clear one's name
75.歪风邪气 unhealthypractices and evil phenomena
76.物以类聚,人以群分 Birds of a feather flock together.
77.往事如风 Thepast has vanished (from memory) like wind.; What in past, is pas
78.望子成龙 holdhigh hopes for one's child
79.屋漏又逢连阴雨 Misfortunes never come singly. When it rains it pours.
80.文韬武略 militaryexpertise; military strategy
81.唯利是图 drawwater to one's mill
82.无源之水,无本之木 water without a source, and a tree wiithout roots
83.无中生有 makecreate something out of nothing
84.无风不起浪 There are no waves without wind. There's no smoke without fire.
85.徇私枉法 bendthe law for the benefit of relatives or friends
86.新官上任三把火 a new broom sweeps clean
87.虚心使人进步,骄傲使人落后 Modesty helps one go forward, whereasconceit makes one lag behind.
88. 蓄势而发 accumulate strength for a take-off
89.心想事成 Mayall your wish come true
90.心照不宣 havea tacit understanding; give tacit consent; tacit understanding
91.先入为主 Firstimpressions are firmly entrenched.
92.先下手为强 catch the ball before the bound
93.像热锅上的蚂蚁 like an ant on a hot pan
94.现身说法 warnpeople by taking oneself as an example
95.息事宁人 pouroil on troubled waters
96.喜忧参半 mingledhope and fear
97.循序渐进 stepby step
98.一路平安,一路顺风 speed somebody on their way; speed the parting guest
99.严以律己,宽以待人 be strict with oneself and lenient towards others
100.鱼米之乡 a land of milk and honey
101.有情人终成眷属 Jack shall have Jill, all shall be well. 102.有钱能使鬼推磨 Money makes the mare go. Money talks.
103. 有识之士 people of vision
104.有勇无谋 use brawn rather than brain
105.有缘千里来相会 Separated as we are thousands of miles apart, we come together as ifby predestination.
106.与时俱进 advance with times
107.以人为本 people oriented; people foremost
108.因材施教 teach students according to their aptitude
109.欲穷千里目,更上一层楼 to ascend another storey to see a
thousand miles further; Ascendfurther, were you to look farther; Would eye embrace a thousand miles? Go up,one flight.' a land of milk and honey 110.欲速则不达 Haste does not bring success.
111. 优胜劣汰 survival of the fittest
112.英雄所见略同 Great minds think alike.
113.冤家宜解不宜结 Better make friends than make enemies.
114.冤假错案 cases in which people were unjustly, falsely or wrongly charged orsentenced; unjust, false or wrong cases
115.一言既出,驷马难追 A real man never goes back on his words. 116.招财进宝 Money and treasures will be plentiful
117.债台高筑 become debt-ridden
118.致命要害 Achilles' heel
119. 众矢之的 target of public criticism
120.知己知彼,百战不殆 Know the enemy and know yourself, andyou can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.
121. 纸上谈兵 be an armchair strategist
122.纸包不住火 Truth will come to light sooner or later.
123.左右为难 between the devil and the deep blue sea
英语常用谚语
I think the best attitude toward life is to keep your humor on and show your smile to what happens. 人生在世,八方风雨;不妨一笑,淡然处之。 When you're down and out, remember to keep your head up. When you're up and well, remember to keep your feet down. 穷困潦倒时,要抬头挺胸;春风得意时,要脚踏实地。 When work is a pleasure, life is joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.—Maxime Gorki 工作是一种乐趣时,生活是一种享受!工作是一种义务时,生活则是一种苦役。—马克西姆·高尔基 Life is more like a battlefield. If you want something, you have to fight your best for it. 生活就好比一个战场,如果你想得到一样东西,就必须拼命去争取。 If you weeped for the missing sunset,you would miss all the shining stars. 如果你为错过夕阳而哭泣,那么你就要错过群星了 Forget all the reason why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will. 忘掉所有那些“不可能”的借口,去坚持那一个“可能”。 Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. —Jonathan Swift 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。 —斯威夫特.J. Literature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like. —Samusel Johnson 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。 —约翰逊.S. When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to it are also lawful and obligatory. —Abraham Lincoln 如果一个目的是正当而必须做的,则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。 —林肯. A. Work is more that a necessary for most human beings; it is the focus of their lives, the source of their identity and creativity. —Leonard R.Sayles 对大多数人来说,工作不仅仅是一种必需,它还是人们生活的焦点,是他们的个性和创造性的源泉。 —塞尔斯.L.R. 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 我们常常听人说,人们因工作过度而垮下来,但是实际上十有八九是因为饱受担忧或焦虑的折磨。 —卢伯克.J. Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. —Saint Exupery 爱情不在于相互凝视,而在于共同往外朝一个方向看。 —圣埃格•楚佩里 Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.
—O Henry
人生是由呜咽,抽泣和微笑组成,而在三者之中,抽泣处于支配地位。 —欧•亨利 If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. —Reynolds 如果你有天赋,勤勉会使其更加完善;如果你能力一般,勤勉会补足缺陷。 —雷诺兹 A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. 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。 The size of your body is of little account, the size of your brain is of much account, the size of your heart is of the most account of all. 身体的大小无关紧要,头脑的大小非常重要,而最最重要的是心灵的大小。 Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love. 幸福的家庭,父母靠慈爱当家,孩子也是出于对父母的爱而顺从大人。 Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them on reading valueless books. —Ruskin 生命是短暂的,生命中的宁静时刻更少,我们不应该浪费时间去读没有价值的书。 —罗斯金 Penitence enervates our spirit, causing a greater loss than loss itself and making a bigger mistake than mistake itself, so never regret. 后悔是一种耗费精神的情绪。后悔是比损失更大的损失,比错误更大的错误,所以不要后悔。 Everyone has his inherent potential which is easily concealed by habbits, blured by time, and eroded by inertia. 每个人都有潜在的能量,只是很容易被习惯所掩盖、被时间所迷离、被惰性所消磨。 Remember what should be remembered, and forget what should be forgotten. Alter what is changeable, and accept what is immutable. 记住该记住的,忘记该忘记的。改变能改变的,接受不能改变的。 Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other. —Rabindranath Tagore 我们一度梦见彼此是陌生人,醒来时发现彼此是相亲相爱的。 —泰戈尔 I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. —Jane Austen 我不希望遇到好相处的人,因为我会很喜欢他们,喜欢别人可是件大麻烦。 —简•奥斯汀 A woman, especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. —Jane Austen 一个女人要是不幸聪明得什么都懂,那就必须同时懂得怎么伪装成什么都不懂。 —简•奥斯汀 A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. —Jane Austen 女人的思维很有跳跃性:从仰慕到爱慕,从爱慕到结婚都是一眨眼间的事。 —简•奥斯汀 That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for
all, and the enemy of all.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below. 错误像稻草,漂浮在水面。欲觅珍珠者,须往水下潜。 父亲在家中处于吃力不讨好的位置——所有人的供养者,和所有人的敌人。 Those who eat most are not always fattest; those who read most, not always wisest. 吃得最多的人不一定最肥胖,读书最多的人不一定最聪明。 Now if you expand that to sicence and to practice and whatever. It's your pursuit of life. 如果你将之延展到科学或者实践或者其他什么,你那是你自己的生活追求。 So, there is that kind of a boundary as well, and that is a place where trouble is likely to emerge. 因此,也有那种边界,而边境线上恰恰是最容易发生争端的地方 Well assume that we're in a plurality election here, so the winner is the person who gets a plurality. 假设我们在进行一个多数制选举,所以当选者是获得票数最多的人 And scientists have been working on this for years and there's been progress, but it's still a very difficult challenge. 科学家们对此已经研究很久了,并取得了进展,但仍有很大挑战 Anyway, philosophers are not purely thinking machines but they are also human beings composed of reason, spiritedness, and appetite. 无论如何,哲学家并非只是思考机器,他们也是人类,拥有理性,意志与欲望 A life, a fulfilling life, a rich life includes ups and downs, includes pain and getting up again, includes failure and getting up again. 生活,令人满意的生活,丰富的生活包括了起起落落,包括了痛苦和再次振作,包括了失败和再次奋斗。 The polis makes, a good polis, following good laws, makes its citizens better. 一个良好的城邦,必会建立完善的法律,并施惠于民。 I'm inclined to think there's more to the best kind of life than just having pleasure and avoiding pain. 我倾向于认为人生有比享受快乐、避免痛苦更好的东西。 And eventually, we'll turn to some other value questions about if death really is the end, should we be afraid of death? 最终,我们会转向其他的关于价值的问题,比如如果死亡真的是终结,我们应该害怕吗? The soul has a very intimate connection with the body, but the person is not the soul and the body. 灵魂和肉体有着非常亲密的联系,但是人并不是灵魂加肉体。 In the course of traveling, cultures encounter other culture and they often encounter cultures that are very different from their own. 在旅行过程中,文化与文化相互碰撞,人们常常会遇到,与其自身所处文化截然不同的另一些文化。 And obesity is a huge problem in the United States, especially in the
African American community and other minority communities.
在美国, 肥胖是一个严重的问题,尤其在非裔美国人和其它少数民族群体中。 So it's the work of biomedical engineers, really, to take these innovations make them so that everybody can take advantage of it. 生物医学工程师的工作就是将药物转化为所有人都能用得上的产品。 A hedge between keeps friendship green 君子之交淡如水 贤者之间的交情,平淡如水,不尚虚华 The only legitimate fighting is man against man, shield against shield, chest against chest, everybody else is a pussy. 唯一合法的战斗方式是人对人,盾对盾,胸对胸,其他的就是孬种 But when you asked them why they didn't try it the answers tended to be "I would look silly." 但当你问他们为什么不尝试时,他们的答案往往是“这样做会很傻”。 In the country of China,the most widely recognized corporate logo, other than from Chinese companies, is KFC. 在中国,最为人们熟知的公司标识不是来自于中国的公司,而是肯德基。 You can be passive if it isn't any good but if you are more active, you may find things. 如果没什么好处你确实可以被动点,但如果你主动些,也许会发现意外的惊喜。 If you're just spending your life floating in the scientist's lab, you're not actually accomplishing anything. 如果你只是在科学实验室里做些浅显的事,你实际上没有完成任何事情。 So it's not just merely the case that in fact we are all going to die; it's a necessary truth that we're all going to die. 我们都会死去,这不仅是一个事实,还是必然的真理. Celebrate your gifts, enjoy them, but don' t take pride in them, take pride in your decision and hardwork. 庆幸你的天赋并好好利用吧,但不要因为天赋而沾沾自喜,应该为自己的勤奋和决断而自豪。 The sounds of sense are all part of language in use, which people are using to do things with. 理性的声音蕴含在所有在运用的语言中,人们利用它来处理事情。 Again, when you traveling around Europe, if you're lucky to do that, you'll see these big fortified towns. 如果你有幸能周游欧洲的话,你会见到那些大型的要塞城镇。 Positive emotions not only contribute to our success, they don't just contribute to our feeling good, they also contribute to our wellbeing. 积极情绪不仅有助我们成功,让我们感觉良好,还能让我们获得幸福。 Is Milton powerful for the very straightforward reason that he's in possession of this tremendous literary strength, this unimaginable talent? 弥尔顿如此强大的直接原因,是否因为他拥有无穷的文学力量这一难以想象的天赋? It's one of the things about God: he knows good and evil and has
chosen the good.
这就是上帝的一个特别之处:他能够分辨善恶并且择善而从。
Then this moving this around here, and it will give us a sense of the difference in style between pop music and classical music. 两种音乐萦绕在四周,让我们感受到古典音乐与流行音乐的差异。 How do we get people to flourish, intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, interpersonally, intra-personally? 我们如何让人们从智力,情感,心理,人际关系,人格上全面发展? And happier people are more successful, because they have more energy and work harder. 越快乐的人越成功,因为他们有更多精力,工作更努力。 The sounds of sense are all part of language in use, which people are using to do things with. 理性的声音蕴含在所有的正在运用的语言中,人们也正利用此来处理事情。 The final exam: you should do well if you read, and if you come to lecture and if you attend section. 如果你好好读书、积极听课、参与讨论,期末考试就轻而易举。 People somehow got the idea that Los Angeles is just this wonderful city and so they started bidding up real estate prices. 不知道为什么,人们总认为洛杉矶是一个美好的城市,他们开始竞相抬升房地产价格 Let's try to have some cooperation, so we build, so we become constructive. 让我们试着合作,从而筑造未来,让我们变得具有建设性。 They make the markets work because if you didn't have this there would be all kinds of crooks and bad actors. 监管使得市场有序运行,如果缺乏监管,市场就会充斥着不法商人 They're a couple whose marital blessing had been granted by none other than God himself. 一对步入了婚姻殿堂的新人,得到了上帝的祝福。 You have to have the courage to examine who you really are, to come to terms with the dark corner of your own soul. 你必须有审视自己的勇气,面对并接受你灵魂中的黑暗角落。 And it's actually critically important to get used to things because it's a useful adaptive mechanism to keep track on new events and objects. 习惯化实际上也是至关重要的,因为这是一种非常有用的适应机制,可以让你注意到新鲜事物。 The one real objective of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions. 教育的真正目的,是让一个人可以连续发问。 A life, a fulfilling life, a rich life includes ups and downs, includes pain and getting up again, includes failure and getting up again. 生活,令人满意的生活,丰富的生活包括了起起落落,包括了痛苦和再次振作,包括了失败和再次奋斗。 It's important to take responsibilities, because no one else is going to do it for you. 重点是,你要自己承担责任,因为没人会来帮你。 There is a lot of research showing how difficult it is to change happiness
based on external factors.
比较常见的谚语
1. 爱屋及乌 Love me, love my dog.
2. 百闻不如一见 (眼见为实 )Seeing is believing.
3. 比上不足比下有余 worse off than some, better off than many; to fall short
of the best, but be better than the worst.
4. 笨鸟先飞 A slow sparrow should make an early start.
5. 不眠之夜 white night
6. 不以物喜不以己悲 not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personnal
losses
7. 不遗余力 spare no effort; go all out; do one's best
8. 不打不成交 No discord, no concord.
9. 拆东墙补西墙 rob Peter to pay Paul
10. 辞旧迎新 bid farewell to the old and usher in the new; ring out the old year
and ring in the new
11. 大事化小小事化了 try first to make their mistake sound less serious and
then to reduce it to nothing at all
12. 大开眼界 open one's eyes; broaden one's horizon; be an eye-opener
13. 国泰民安 The country flourishes and people live in peace
14. 过犹不及 going too far is as bad as not going far enough; beyond is as wrong
as falling short; too much is as bad as too little
15. 功夫不负有心人 Everything comes to him who waits.
16. 好了伤疤忘了疼 once on shore, one prays no more
17. 好事不出门恶事传千里 Good news never goes beyond the gate, while bad
news spread far and wide.
18. 和气生财 Harmony brings wealth.
19. 活到老学到老 One is never too old to learn.
20. 既往不咎 let bygones be bygones
21. 金无足赤人无完人 Gold can't be pure and man can't be perfect.
22. 金玉满堂 Treasures fill the home.
23. 脚踏实地 be down-to-earth
24. 脚踩两只船 sit on the fence
25. 君子之交淡如水 the friendship between gentlemen is as pure as crystal; a
hedge between keeps friendship green
26. 礼尚往来 Courtesy calls for reciprocity.
27. 留得青山在不怕没柴烧 Where there