让人铭记一生的英文名言

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They are just braver five minutes longer.

英雄也许不比别人更勇敢。他们只不过比别人多勇敢五分钟。——Emerson（爱默生）

In the matter of courage we all have our limits. There never was a hero who did not have his bounds.

就勇气而言，每个人都有限度。没有胆大无边的英雄。——Mark Twain（马克•吐温）

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses all.

失去财产的人损失很大，失去朋友的人损失更多，而失去勇气的人则失去一切。——Cervantes（塞万提斯）

You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

哪怕沥青覆盖了整个地球，绿草迟早会冲破障碍茁壮成长。——Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg（爱伦堡）

You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward; but if you are brave, you are your greatest friend.

怯懦者是自己最大的敌人；勇敢者是自己最好的朋友。——Frank（弗兰克）

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

人并不是生来给打败的，人可消灭，但打不败。——Hemingway（海明威）

Today's opportunity erase yesterday's failture.

今日的机遇可抹去昨日的失败。——Brown（吉恩•布朗）

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

如果仅仅就变化论变化，则只是变动不羁，倏忽即逝；这是低能的表现。真正了解变化在于把握变化中完成自身的永恒目标。——John Dewey（杜威）

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

变化是生活的法则。只盯着过去或眼前的人注定要失去未来。——Kennedy（肯尼迪）

With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything.

一个人既自傲又胆怯，将永远一事无成。——Roux（约瑟夫·鲁）

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

人最大的优点是尽可能多地驾驭外部环境，尽可能少地让环境约束自己。——Goethe（歌德）

Don't wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.

不要等候最好的条件或者最佳时机，它们永远不会降临。——Stuart（斯图亚特）

Some people will never learn anything for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

有些人永远都学不到东西，原因在于它们什么都理解得太快。——Pope（蒲柏）

To think justly, we must understand what others mean; to know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

要正确地思考，我们必须领悟别人的意思；想知道自己见解的价值，我们必须检验它们对别人有何影响。——Hazlitt（黑兹利特）

No men are an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

没有人是完全独立的岛屿，每人都是构成大陆的小一块。——Donne（邓恩）

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.

没有人能让社会服从个人意志。倘若他想寻求符合心意的社会，也必须服务于它。——Emerson（爱默生）

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover to spot uncovers himself in another.

习惯做假是小人的特点，但常常是某人做假遮住了一个污点，却在另一处露了马脚。——La Rochefoucauld（拉罗什福科）

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

每个人都是一轮月亮，都有黑暗的、不从示人的一面。——Mark Twain（马克•吐温）

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

思想越狭隘，自负越膨胀。——Aesop（伊索）

What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any on to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.

哲学的首要任务是什么？是同自负决裂。因为任何人都不可能着手去学自以为已经掌握的东西。——Epictetus（爱比克泰德）