[轉載]·§·English Adages·§·
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——English Adages——
[英文]：Life is sweet.
[中文]：人生是美好的.
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[英文]：Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.
[中文]：人生是美好的,但要學會如何享用美好的生活.
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[英文]：Life is real, life is earnest.
[中文]：人生真實,人生誠摯.
[出處]：H.W.Longfellow 朗費羅(美國詩人)
[英文]：Life is compared to a voyage.
[中文]：人生好比是壹次航程.
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[英文]：Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.
[中文]：生活若無波折險阻,就會過於平淡無奇.
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[英文]：Life means struggle.
[中文]：生活就是鬥爭.
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[英文]：Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.
[中文]： 人生即是壹段艱難曲折的旅程. /人生無坦途.
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[英文]：Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.
[中文]：人生像壹匹馬,妳不駕馭它,它便駕馭妳.
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[英文]：Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
[中文]：人生是壹幅大畫布,妳應該努力繪出絢麗多彩的畫面.
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[英文]：Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
[中文]：人生如壹首樂曲,要用樂感,感情和直覺去譜寫.不能只按樂律行事.
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溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:06 PM
[英文]：Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
[中文]：生活是繪畫,不是做算術.
[出處]：O.W.Holmes 霍姆斯
[英文]：Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two.
[中文]：生活是壹張白紙,每個人都在上面寫上自己的壹兩句話.
[出處]：A.Lowell 洛威爾
[英文]：On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind.
[中文]：地球上唯壹偉大的是人,人身上唯壹偉大的是心靈.
[出處]：A.Hamilton 哈密爾頓
[英文]：Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas.
[中文]：人的壹切----面貌,衣著,心靈和思想,都應該是美好的.
[出處]：Chekhov 契訶夫
[英文]：All things in their being are good for something.
[中文]：天生我才必有用.
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[英文]：The good or ill of man lies within his own will
[中文]：人的善良或邪惡都存在於他自己的意誌之中.
[出處]：[古希臘]Epictetus 愛比克泰德
[英文]：He is born in a good hour who gets a good name.
[中文]：生逢其時,美譽自至.
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[英文]：Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
[中文]：生活只是由壹系列下決心的努力所構成.
[出處]：T.Fuller 富勒
[英文]：Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limitless.
[中文]：要這樣生活,仿佛妳壽命永恒.要這樣工作,仿佛妳精力無窮.
[出處]：S.Bernhardt 伯恩哈特(法國女演員)
[英文]：To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
[中文]：生活是壹種人人須學而無人能教的藝術.
[出處]：H.Ellis 埃利斯
溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:06 PM
[英文]：Life is a foreign language: All men mispronounce it.
[中文]：生活是壹種外語,誰都發不好它的音.
[出處]：C.D.Morley 莫利
[英文]：Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
[中文]：生活教會了我思考,但思考卻沒有教會我生活.
[出處]：A.Herzen 赫爾岑(俄國作家,哲學家)
[英文]：I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.
[中文]：人生道路艱難困苦,難怪嬰兒出世就哭. /我方出世,哭泣不止,為何如此,日月自知.
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[英文]：Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.
[中文]：困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書.
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[英文]：The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
[中文]：人的正確功能是生活,而不是生存.
[出處]：Jack London 傑克.倫敦(美國小說家)
[英文]：I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
[中文]：夢裏見到人生無比美麗,醒時發現義務即是人生.
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[英文]：One should eat to live, not live to eat.
[中文]：人生應為生而食,不應為食而生.
[出處]：Socrates 蘇格拉底
[英文]：Live not to eat, but eat to live.
[中文]：不要為了吃飯活著,而要為了活著吃飯.
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[英文]：I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
[中文]：我吃東西只是為了不再去想食物.
[出處]：N.F.Simpson 辛普森
[英文]：Life lies not in living but in liking.
[中文]：生活的意義並不在於活著,而在於愛好人生.
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溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:06 PM
[英文]：The unexamined life is not worth living.
[中文]：渾渾噩噩的生活不值得過.
[出處]：Socrates 蘇格拉底
[英文]：Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
[中文]：生活就像洋蔥頭:妳只能壹層壹層地把它剝開,有時妳還得流淚.
[出處]：C.Sandburg 桑德堡
[英文]：Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold.
[中文]：生活不在於握有壹手好牌,而在於把手裏的牌打好.
[出處]：J.Billings 比林斯
[英文]：Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises.
[中文]：生活是壹種藝術,要在不充足的前提下得出充足的結論.
[出處]：S.Butler 勃特勒
[英文]：Life is not all beer and skittles.
[中文]：人生並非只是啤酒和九柱戲. /人生並不全是吃喝玩樂.
[出處]：T.Hughes 休斯(英國作家)
[英文]：For man is man and master of his fate.
[中文]：人就是人,是自己命運的主人.
[出處]：A.Tennyson 丁尼生
[英文]：You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
[中文]：妳並不掌管整個宇宙,但妳得掌管妳自己.
[出處]：A.Bennett 本涅特
[英文]：There is a history in all men's lives.
[中文]：所有人的生活裏都有壹部歷史.
[出處]：Shakespeare 莎士比亞
[英文]：There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
[中文]：宇宙中只有壹芥之地妳肯定可以改善,那就是妳自己.
[出處]：A.Huxley 赫胥黎
[英文]：The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
[中文]：生活中最大的幸福是堅信有人愛我們.
[出處]：[法]V.Hugo 雨果
溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:07 PM
英文]：Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
[中文]：人生應該樹立目標,否則妳的精力會白白浪費.
[出處]：R.Peters 彼得斯
[英文]：The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
[中文]：人生重要的在於確立壹個偉大的目標,並有決心使其實現.
[出處]：Goethe 歌德
[英文]：None is of freedom or life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.
[中文]：只有每天再度戰勝生活並奪取自由的人,才配享受生活或自由.
[出處]：[荷蘭]Erasmus 伊拉斯漠
[英文]：What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
[中文]：沒有了目的,生活便郁悶無光.
[出處]：George Eliot 喬治.埃略特
[英文]：Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
[中文]：不要認為取勝就是壹切,更重要的是要有信念,倘若妳沒有信念,那勝利又有什麽意義呢?
[出處]：Lane Kirkland 萊恩.柯克蘭
[英文]：He will shoot higher who shoots at the moon than he who aims at a tree.
[中文]：瞄準月亮的人總比瞄準樹的人射得高. /目標遠大,效果必佳.
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[英文]：Hitch your wagon to a star.
[中文]：把妳的馬車拴到星星上. /要胸懷大誌.
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[英文]：We are not born for ourselves.
[中文]：人之有生,不為壹已.
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[英文]：As long as you live, you should be man useful to the people. /Be useful to the people all your life.
[中文]：活著就要做壹個對人民有用的人.
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溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:07 PM
[英文]：Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
[中文]：只有為別人而活,生命才有價值.
[出處]：A.Einstein 愛因斯坦
[英文]：He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself.
[中文]：只為自己活著的人,不值得活在世上.
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[英文]：Make yourself necessary to someone.
[中文]：使自己成為別人需要的人.
[出處]：R.W.Emerson 愛默生
[英文]：Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his boundless sense of responsibility in his work and his boundless warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people.
[中文]：白求恩同誌毫不利已專門利人的精神,表現在他對工作的極端負責任,對同誌對人民的極端熱忱.
[出處]：Mao Zedong 毛澤東
[英文]：I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man.I don't know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world.
[中文]：我想揭示大自然的秘密,用來造福人類.我認為,在我們的短暫壹生中,最好的貢獻莫過於此了.
[出處]：Edison 愛迪生
[英文]：Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
[中文]：卓越的天才不屑走旁人走過的路.他尋找迄今未開拓的地區.
[出處]：Lincoln 林肯
[英文]：To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
[中文]：活著就要發揮作用,這就是生活的全部內容.
[出處]：Holmes 霍姆斯
[英文]：Only when one plunges into the powerful current of the times will one's life shine brilliantly.
[中文]：壹個人只有投身於偉大的時代洪流中,他的生命才會閃耀出光彩.
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[英文]：Man can only be free through mastery of himself.
[中文]：只有通過掌握自己,才能使自己得到解放.
[出處]：S.E.Morison 莫裏森
溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:07 PM
[英文]：One man, no man.
[中文]：個人是渺小的.
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[英文]： Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
[中文]：只有向後看才能理解生活;但要生活好,則必須向前看.
[出處]：Kierkegaard 克爾愷郭爾
[英文]：While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will. And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living.
[中文]：只要還有壹塊知識和意誌尚未征服的領域,只要人們能自由思考和行動,生活就是值得的.
[出處]：A.Austin 奧斯汀(英國作家)
[英文]：Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
[中文]：不要害怕妳的生活將要結束,應該擔心妳的生活永遠不會真正開始.
[出處]：J.H.Newman 紐曼
[英文]：We are here to add what we can you to life, not to get what we can from it.
[中文]：我們來到世上是為了盡自己所能給生活增加壹些東西,而不是為了從生活中獲取我們所能得到的壹切.
[出處]：W.Osler奧斯勒
[英文]：Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
[中文]：生活有百分之十在於妳如何塑造它,有百分之九十在於妳如何對待它.
[出處]：I.Berlin 柏林
[英文]：The great use of life is to spend it for some thing that overlasts it.
[中文]：生命的最大用處是將它用於比生命更長久的事物上.
[出處]：W.James 詹姆斯
[英文]：Better do more daily, trivial, ordinary and practical work that is needed by the people, than say a thousand empty words that may be sweet to the ear.
[中文]：多做壹些人民需要的,日常的,細小的,平凡而實際的工作,勝過說壹千句漂亮動聽的話語.
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溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:08 PM
[英文]：Life is made up of little things.
[中文]：生活是由許多小事構成的.
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[英文]：No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.
[中文]：在這個世界上能為別人減輕負擔的人都是有用的.
[出處]：C.Dickens 狄更斯
[英文]：Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
[中文]：衡量生命的尺度是思想和行為,而不是時間.
[出處]：J.Lubbock 盧伯克
[英文]：The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
[中文]：生命的價值不在於能活多少天,而在於我們如何使用這些日子.
[出處]：Montaigne 蒙田
[英文]：Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
[中文]：要選擇行動的壹生,而不是炫耀的壹生.
[出處]：[古羅馬]C.Nepos 內波斯
[英文]：The first step is as good as half over.
[中文]：第壹步是最關鍵的壹步.
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[英文]：Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.
[中文]：河流雖歷盡險阻,也能蜿蜓流入大海.
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[英文]：Goals determine what you are going to be.
[中文]：目標決定妳將成為什麽樣的人.
[出處]：Julius Erving 朱利葉斯.歐文
[英文]：Young people must equip themselves for life's duties and guard against its temptations.
[中文]：年輕人必須為履行生活所賦予他們的職責充實自己,同時要抵制生活的誘惑.
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[英文]：Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
[中文]：生活沒有目標就像航海沒有羅盤.
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溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:08 PM
[英文]：All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.
[中文]：人類所有的智慧可以歸結為兩個----等待和希望.
[出處]：Alexandre Dumas Pere 大仲馬(法國作家)
[英文]：Ideals are like the stars--we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.
[中文]：理想就像是星星--我們永遠夠不著星星,但是我們像水手壹樣,用它們指引航程.
[出處]：C.Schurz 舒爾茨(美國政治家)
[英文]：Hope is life and life is hope
[中文]：希望就是生活,生活也就是希望.
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[英文]：If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
[中文]：人靠希望活著.
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[英文]：While there is life there is hope.
[中文]：壹息尚存,希望不滅.
[出處]：英國諺語
[英文]：He that lives in hope dances without music.
[中文]：生活在希望中的人,沒有音樂照樣跳舞.
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[英文]：Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
[中文]：人生永遠滿懷希望. /只要有人,就有希望.
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[英文]：I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
[中文]：我告訴妳,沒有希望的悲傷是沒有感情的.
[出處]：E.B.Browning 布朗寧夫人(英國詩人)
[英文]：Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
[中文]：希望是美好的早餐,卻是糟糕的晚餐.
[出處]：F.Bacon 培根
[英文]：Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
[中文]：機會是個沒有意義的詞;任何事物都不會無緣無故地存在.
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溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:08 PM
[英文]：He who has never hoped can never despair.
[中文]：從來沒有抱過什麽希望的人也永遠不會失望.
[出處]：Bernard Show 蕭伯納
[英文]：When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
[中文]：當壹個內心開始鬥爭時,他就有了價值.
[出處]：R.Browning 布朗寧
[英文]：He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life.
[中文]：壹切都指望機會的人使自己的生活變得像賭彩票壹樣.
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[英文]：Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
[中文]：希望本身是壹種幸福,也許是這個世界能提供的主要的幸福.
[出處]：S.Johnson 約翰遜
[英文]：Hope is bad for the happy man, and good for the unhappy.
[中文]：希望對幸福的人是不好的事,對不幸福的人是好事.
[出處]：L.Tolstoy 托爾斯泰
[英文]：You never know your luck.
[中文]：命運好壞不由已.
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[英文]：Chance generally favours the prudent.
[中文]：運氣通常照顧深思熟慮者.
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[英文]：The wish is father to the thought.
[中文]：思考源於願望. /心有所欲,腦有所思.
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[英文]：Man is not made for defeat.
[中文]：創造人不是為了讓他遭受失敗. /人不是為失敗而生的.
[出處]：E.Hemingway 海明威
[英文]：Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
[中文]：不要為成功而努力,要為作壹個有價值的人而努力.
[出處]：A.Einstein 愛因斯坦
溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:10 PM
[英文]：Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
[中文]：我們最值得自豪的不在於從不跌倒,而在於每次跌倒之後都爬起來.
[出處]：O.Goldsmith \ 戈德史密斯
[英文]：Popularity?It's glory's small change.
[中文]：名望嗎?那不過是光榮的零頭.
[出處]：V.Hugo 雨果
[英文]：There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
[中文]：只有壹種成功,那就是能夠用自己的方式度過自己的壹生.
[出處]：C.Morley 莫利
[英文]：It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
[中文]：光勤勞是不夠的,螞蟻也是勤勞的.要看妳為什麽而勤勞.
[出處]：H.D.Thoreau 梭羅
[英文]：Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
[中文]：人類生存的最大魔法,是從稍縱即逝的事物中攫取永恒.
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[英文]：We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
[中文]：我們必須接受失望,因為它是有限的,但千萬不可失去希望,因為它是無窮的.
[出處]：Martin Luther King.Jr. 馬丁.路德.金
[英文]：Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.
[中文]：橫眉冷對千夫指,俯首甘為孺子牛.
[出處]：Lu Xun 魯迅
[英文]：Take little, but give(or offer)much.
[中文]：應少索取,而多奉獻.
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[英文]：The cow eats grass but gives milk.
[中文]：牛吃的是草,擠出來的是奶.
[出處]：Lu Xun 魯迅
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[英文]：A man's life is limited, but there is no limit to serving the people. I will dedicate my limited life to the limitless job of serving the people.
[中文]：人的生命是有限的,可是,為人民服務是無限的,我要把有限的生命,投入到無限的為人民服務之中去......
[出處]：LeiFeng雷鋒
[英文]：You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
[中文]：人必須相信自已,這是成功的秘訣.
[出處]：Charles Chaplin查理.卓別林
[英文]：Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any thing.
[中文]：永遠記住:妳爭取成功的決心才是頭等重要的.
[出處]：Abraham Lincoln亞伯拉罕.林肯
[英文]：Even a small star shines in the darkness.
[中文]：星星再小,也會發光.
[出處]：芬蘭諺語
[英文]：Be concerned about the affairs of state before others, and enjoy comfort after others. Be the first to feel concern about state affairs and the last to enjoy yourself.
[中文]：先天下之憂,後天下之樂而樂.
[出處]：
[英文]：Give me liberty or give me death.
[中文]：不自由,毋寧死.
[出處]：
[英文]：Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.
[中文]：沒有什麽比獨立自由更可寶貴的了.
[出處]：( 越南)Ho Chi Minh胡誌明
[英文]：Who loses liberty loses all.
[中文]：失掉自由使失掉壹切.
[出處]：
[英文]：Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
[中文]：寧自由而貧困,毋奴於人而富足.
[出處]：
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[英文]：Only the selfless can be fearless.
[中文]：無私才能無畏.
[出處]：中國諺語
[英文]：No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year.
[中文]：人活百年不嫌多.
[出處]：
[英文]：To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
[中文]：活在生者的心裏,就是不死.
[出處]：T.Campbell坎貝爾
[英文]：You should, like a candle, burn yourself out to give light to others.
[中文]：要像蠟燭壹樣燃燒自已,照亮別人.
[出處]：
[英文]：He devoted himself entirely to the service off the people until his death. /Give one's all till one's heart stops beating.
[中文]：鞠躬盡瘁,死而後已.
[出處]：
[英文]：The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
[中文]：人生在世的首要大事是保持靈魂的高尚.
[出處]：(法)Flaubert福樓拜
[英文]：Business before pleasure.
[中文]：先工作,後娛樂. /幹完正事再玩兒.
[出處]：
[英文]：Be sure before you marry of a house where in to tarry.
[中文]：先立業,後成家.
[出處]：
[英文]：I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
[中文]：我不緬懷過去的歷史,而致力於未來的夢想.
[出處]：T.Jefferson傑弗遜(美國第3任總統)
[英文]：I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
[中文]：我不害怕明天,因為我見過昨天,又熱愛今天.
[出處]：W.A.White懷特美國記者)
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[英文]：Hope well and have well.
[中文]：善寄希望於未來,又善保有現在.
[出處]：
[英文]：Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life.
[中文]：有所成就乃是人生唯壹的真正樂趣.
[出處]：T.Edison愛迪生
[英文]：The world is his who enjoys it.
[中文]：世界屬於熱愛世界的人.
[出處]：
[英文]：Establishing goals is all right if your don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
[中文]：不妨訂立目標,只要妳不讓它阻擋妳兜有趣的圈子.
[出處]：
[英文]：What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
[中文]：因循蹉跎,壹事無成.
[出處]：
[英文]：Little things please little minds.
[中文]：小事滿足小誌者. /胸無大誌,事事稱心.
[出處]：
[英文]：A penny soul never came to two penny.
[中文]：誌小者成不了大事. /心胸狹窄,壹事無成.
[出處]：
[英文]：The world is a ladder for some to go up and some down.
[中文]：世事如長梯,有人上來有人下.
[出處]：
[英文]：The horizon of life is broadened chiefly by the enlargement off the heart.
[中文]：生活的地平線是隨著心靈的開闊而變寬廣的.
[出處]：H.Black布萊克
[英文]：Nothing seek, nothing find.
[中文]：無所求則無所獲.
[出處]：
溫蒂·格蘭傑 2005-3-27 12:11 PM
[英文]：Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
[中文]：幸福是太多和太少之間的壹站.
[出處]：C.Pollock波洛克
[英文]：Most folks are about as happy as they make up t