1.If you smile when one is around， you really mean it.
如果你独自一人笑了，那是真心的笑。--Andy Rooney
2.Wonders are many，and nothing is more wonderful then man.
天下奇迹无数，却无一比人更奇妙。--Sophocles
3.The proper function of man is to live，but not to exist.
人应该生活，而非单纯生存。--Jack London
4.The great advantage of telling the truth is one’s so much more likely to sound convincing.
说真话最大的优势就是听上去很可能更令人信服。--Susan Howatch
5.Misers are no fun to live，but they make great ancestors.
与吝啬鬼生活毫无乐趣，但他们却为后人称道不已。--Tom Snyder
6.There is not a heart but has its moments of longing，yearning for something better，nobler and holier than it knows before.
每个人都有向往的时候，渴望比以前更美好，更高贵，更神圣的东西。--H.W.Beecher
7.Conquer fear of death and you are put into possession of you life.
战胜对死亡的恐惧才能真正享受生命。--G.Meredith
8.He that is once born，once die.
有生比有死。--Herbert
9.The more alternative，the more difficult the choice.
选择越多越难抉择。--Abbe D’Allaiva
10.The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
江山易改，本性难移。--Suetonius
11.forgiveness to the injured does belong;but they never pardon who have done wrong.
受害者有权宽恕，但他们永远也不能原谅那些害人者。--Dryden 加德莱顿
12.There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
该说话时说话，该沉默时沉默。--Caxton卡克斯顿
13.People with tact have less to retract.
智者悔少。--Arnold Glasgow阿诺德·格拉斯哥
14.To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
制造不公比承受不公更可耻。--Plato柏拉图
15.Regardless of how much patience we have，we would prefer never to use any of it.
无论我们有多大的耐心，我们都希望永远不要用到它。--James TO.O’Brien詹姆士·T·奥布赖恩
16.Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big.
有些人从来不有夸张—他们只是记错了。--Audrey Snead奥德丽·斯尼德
17.Thieves respect property;they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
盗贼尊重财产权，他们只是希望财产能变成他们的财产，因为这样，他们才能更尊重这财产权。--G.K.Chesterton G.K.切斯特顿
18. In a way，nobody sees a flower really. It is so small;we haven’t time.And to see takes time，as to have a friend takes time.
在某种意义上，没有人真正看过一朵花。花那么小，我们又没有时间，要看可要花时间的，就像交朋友也要花时间。--Georgia O’keeffe乔治亚·奥基夫
19.How majestic is naturalness.I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
自然是多么高贵呀。我从不认为不自然不简单的人是真正伟大的人。矫揉造作不可避免的会暴露不能肯定自己的人。--Charles Daves查尔斯·戴夫斯
20.The worst bankrupt is the person who lost his enthusiasm.
最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。-- H.W.Arnold H.W.阿诺德
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谚语: 1. A bosom friend afar brings a distant land near. 海内存知己，天涯若比邻。
2. A common danger causes common action. 同舟共济。
3. A contented mind is a continual / perpetual feast. 知足常乐。
4. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. 吃一堑，长一智。
5. A guest should suit the convenience of the host. 客随主便。
6. A letter from home is a priceless treasure. 家书抵万金。
7. All rivers run into the sea. 殊途同归。
8. All time is no time when it is past. 机不可失，时不再来。
9. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. 一日一个苹果，身体健康不求医。
10. As heroes think, so thought Bruce. 英雄所见略同。
11. A young idler, an old beggar. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
12. Behind the mountains there are people to be found. 天外有天，山外有山。
13. Bad luck often brings good luck. 塞翁失马，安知非福。
14. Bread is the stall of life. 面包是生命的支柱。(民以食为天。)
15. Business is business. 公事公办。
16. Clumsy birds have to start flying early. 笨鸟先飞。
17. Courtesy costs nothing. 礼多人不怪。
18. Custom makes all things easy. 习惯成自然。
19. Desire has no rest. 人的欲望无止境。
20. Difficult the first time, easy the second. 一回生，二回熟。
21. Do not change horses in mid-stream. 别在河流中间换马。
22. Do not have too many irons in the fire. 贪多嚼不烂。
23. Do not pull all your eggs in one basket. 别把所有的蛋都放在一个篮子里。(不要孤注一掷。)
24. Do not teach fish to swim. 不要班门弄斧。
25. East or west, home is the best. 东奔西跑，还是家里好。
26. Experience is the best teacher. 实践出真知。
27. Fact is stranger than fiction. 事实比虚构更离奇。(大千世界，无奇不有。)
28. Faith can move mountains. 信念能移山。(精诚所至，金石为开。)
29. First impressions are half the battle. 先入为主。
30. Give as good as one gets. 一报还一报。(以德报德，以怨还怨。)
31. Give everyone his due. 一视同仁。
32. Good wine needs no bush. 酒香不怕巷子深。
33. Haste makes waste. 欲速则不达。(忙中常出错。)
34. He that promises too much means nothing. 轻诺者寡信。
35. He who has an art has everywhere a part. 一招鲜，吃遍天。
36. He would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom. 千里之行始于足下。
37. Home is where the heart is. 心在哪里，哪里就是家。#p#副标题#e#
本土化表达：
1. a big shot = an important person 大腕儿，大亨
2. a breath of fresh air 使人耳目一新的人
3. Achilles' heel 致命弱点;个性的瑕疵
4. be all ears 洗耳恭听
5. be all eyes 目不转睛
6. a wet blanket 讨人嫌的人
7. chip in = contribute money 捐献，集资
8. sell like hot cakes = sell very well or very quickly 畅销
9. get butterflies in one's stomach = get nervous 紧张不安
10. two thumbs up 举双手赞成
11. be the apple of one's eye = be very precious to sb. 非常珍贵
12. pull one' s leg = tease someone 开某人玩笑
13. break one' s back 辛勤工作
14. twenty-four seven = 24 hours a day, 7 days a week = all the time 永远，一直
15. go for a song = be sold very cheaply 贱卖
16. bucket down = rain very heavily 瓢泼大雨
17. backroom boys 幕后英雄
18. below the mark = not measure up 不够水平，不合格
19. beyond compare 绝佳的，最棒的
20. break even 不赔不赚
21. by the book 照章办事
22. cast a cloud over 泼冷水，是蒙上阴影
23. castles in the sky / air 空中楼阁
24. as clear as a bell 非常清楚
25. clear the air 消除误会
26. come to terms 达成协议
27. shed crocodile tears 假装哭泣，假慈悲
28. cut corners 走捷径
29. do's and don'ts 行为规范
30. face the music 面对现实
31. fair and square 正大光明的
32. first things first 先说重要的
33. forgive and forget 尽释前嫌;握手言和
34. get the ball rolling 使蓬勃发展
35. a knockout 引人注目
36. a man of few words 沉默寡言的人
37. a rainy day 不如意的日子
38. all thumbs 笨手笨脚的;一窍不通的
39. ants in one's pants (skirt) 坐立不安
40. as mod as sb. 与某人一样时髦
41. at one's finger's tips 了如指掌
42. at sixes and sevens 混乱的
43. backseat driver 指手划脚的人
44. bite one's head off 大发脾气
45. black sheep 不孝子女
46. blow one's top 怒发冲冠
47. break one's neck 痛打一顿;拼命做某事
48. break the ice 打破僵局;打破沉默
49. bring down the house 掌声雷动
50. burn a hole in one's pocket 花钱如流水#p#副标题#e#
英语名人名言*创造
All work is empty save when there is no love.
--Gibran
没有爱，所有的工作都空洞无物。
--纪伯伦
Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.
--John Locke
哪里缺乏热情，哪里就不会有勤奋。
--约翰·洛克
Darkness closes two eyes, but darkness opens a thousand others within us. Those unseen eyes are sometime troublesome. Yes, night brings strange fears and longings.
--Louis Danz
黑暗使我们闭上双眼，然而却又打开了我们内心的无数双眼睛，这些看不见的眼睛有时令人烦恼;的确，夜晚带来希奇古怪的恐惧和渴望。
--路易斯·但泽
It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.
--Homer
常常是最后一首歌赢得掌声最多。
--荷马
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life..
--Chesterton
初生牛犊是一切事物中的最终胜利者，正是他赢取并饱尝了生活的精华。
--切斯特顿
Nobody sees with his eyes alone; we see with our souls.
--Henry Miller
没有人只用眼睛看，我们用心灵去看。1 d3 S5 R9 i0 b7 R9 @& X/ K6 r A
--亨利·米勒
*事业
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realises itself through changes.
--John Dewey!
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住在变化中完成自身的永恒目标。
--约翰·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.
--John F.Kennedy
变化是生活的法则。只盯着过去或眼前的人注定失去未来。
Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.
--Goethe
天才悄无声息地诞生，性情却在生命之河里逐渐形成。
--歌德
With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything.
--Joseph Roux
一个人既自傲又胆怯，将永远一事无成。$ M. r; V9 C( w$ L
--约瑟夫·鲁#p#副标题#e#
If there is anything that we wish to change the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
--Jung
假如我们想让孩子在某个方面有所改变，我们应首先检验一下，看看我们自己是否最好在这一方面变一变。
--荣格
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
--Isadora Duncan
你能留给孩子的最好财产莫过于允许他完全独立自主地摸索自己的道路。
--伊莎多拉·邓肯
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.
--Goethe
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。
--歌德
Don't wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
--Janet Erskine Stuart
不要等候最好的条件或者最佳时机，它们永远不会降临。
Some people will never learn anything for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
--Alexander Pope
有些人永远学不到什么东西，原因在于他们什么都理解得太快。
--亚历山大·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.
--William Hazlitt
要正确地思考，我们须领悟别人的意思;想知道自己见解的价值，我们须检验它们对别人有何影响。
--威廉·黑兹利特
No men is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
--John Donne
没有人是完全孤立的岛屿，每人都是构成大陆的一小块。
--约翰·邓恩
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.
--Emerson
没有人能让社会服从个人的意志。倘若他想寻求符合心意的社会，也必须服务于它。
--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 one spot uncovers himself in another.
--La Rochefoucauld
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。
--拉罗什福科
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
--Mark Twain
每个人都是一轮月亮，都有黑暗的、从不示人的一面。
--马克·吐温
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
--Aesop
思想越狭隘，自负越膨胀。
--伊索
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.
--Epictetus.
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。
--爱比克泰德#p#副标题#e#
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
--Sir Winston Churchill
不惜一切代价夺取胜利，不畏任何恐怖夺取胜利。不论道路多么漫长，多么崎岖，一定要夺取胜利!因为没有胜利就不能生存。
--温斯顿·丘吉尔
The God of Victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory to both sides.
--Emerson
胜利之神据说是独臂的，和平却将胜利赋予双方。
--爱默生
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mi12
--William Hazlitt
稳固的友谊和持久的爱情，这两者是善良和睿智的明证。
--威廉·黑兹利特
Silence is the most perfect expression of sco123
--George Bernard Shaw
沉默是蔑视的最好表达。
--肖伯纳
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.
--Democrit
倘若你心满意足，你将无所建树。
--德谟克里特
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
--Mark Twain
拥有良书、益友和一颗宁静的心：这就是理想的生活。
--马克·吐温
Only if we can restrain ourselves is conversation possible; good talk rises upon much self-discipline.
--John Erskine
我们唯有约束自己，对话才可能进行;友好的交谈依赖于良好的自我克制得以产生。
--约翰·尼斯金
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
--Christopher Morley
世界上最不幸的破产者莫过于言语消耗过大而思想无力支付的人。
--克里斯托弗·莫里
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
--Benjamin Franklin
阅读培养学问丰富的人，思考培养见识深刻的人，演讲培养思路清晰的人。
I ought to be no more than one mirror, in which my reader can see his own thinking with all its deformities so that, helped in this way, he can put it right.
--Wittgenstein
我应该只是一面镜子，我的读者可以通过这面镜子看到他思想的全部缺陷，从而借助这个途径将思想端正。
--维特根斯坦
Perhaps at bottom I'm ... a country man. The warm earth feelings gets me hardest. It's land love, ground love.
--Sherwood Anderson
或许在内心深处我是──属于乡村的，那温暖的土壤的感觉让我最难释怀，这是对乡村和土地的眷恋。
--谢伍德·安德森)
It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.
--Thomas Browne
蔑视死亡是一种英勇的行为，但是当活着比死亡更加可怕的时候，那么敢于生活下去才是至高无上的勇气。
--托马斯·布朗
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
--Rollo May
勇气是每个人首要的美德，只要他还在成长，还在前进。
--罗洛·梅#p#副标题#e#
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
--Oscar Wilde
想象是模仿，批判的精神才具有创造力。
--奥斯卡·王尔德
The greater one's love for a person, the less room for flattery. The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
--Moliere
爱一个人爱得越深就越少恭维他，毫无保留的批评才验证真的感情。
--莫里哀
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.
--Lodovico Ariosto
残忍永远出于卑劣之性，而且往往源于胆怯之心。
--路·阿里奥斯托
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
--Matthew Arnold
文化令我们知悉世界上最好的知识和话语，从而了解人类精神的历史。
--马修·阿诺德,
It is vain to find faults with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
--John Locke
当人们心甘情愿受骗上当，抱怨骗术实属徒劳无益。
--约翰·洛克)
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
--Publilius Syrus
被人拒绝也比被人欺骗好受。
--普布里利亚斯·西拉斯
The passing years steal from us one thing after another.
--Horace
逝去的年华从我们这偷走一样又一样东西。)
--贺拉斯
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single action.
--James Russell Lowell
世间所有美丽的情感抵不过一次可爱的行动。
--詹姆斯·罗素·洛威尔
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
--Publilius Syrus
假如你不注重实践，满腹经纶也是枉然。
--普布里利亚斯·西拉斯
Isn't the best defence always a good attack?
--Ovid
最佳的防御难道不是绝妙的攻击吗?
--奥维德
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
--Schopenhauer
一个人可以干他想干的一切，却不能要求得到他想要的一切。
--叔本华
Difficulties increase, the nearer one comes to the goal.
--Goethe
困难增加预示着距离目标更近。
--歌德
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.
--H. L. Mencken
如果责任感令人痛苦，那它也使人创造奇迹。
--亨·路·门肯#p#副标题#e#
*实践
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
--Emerson
竭尽全力掌握各种语言，结交各式朋友，精通各类技艺及行业，如此努力方能成为一个完整的人。
--爱默生
In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good
--Edgar Friedenberg
在我们这个经验的世界里，一个不懂得自己精通什么的青年不会确切地知道他的价值所在。
--埃德加·弗里登伯格
Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
--Pindar
技能因人而异，我们必须凭藉天生的资质引导我们执著前行，奋斗不息。
--品达
The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.
--Tagore
拒人千里源于分裂的意识，宽容大度源于统一和谐意识。
--泰戈尔
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
--Homer
无所事事亦难逃一死，不如奋斗终生。
--荷马
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
--Bacon
不要寻求令人称羡的财富，应当追求这样的境界：对财富正当地获取，清醒地使用，愉快地施舍并能知足地放弃。
--培根
A life will be successful or not according to as the power of accommodation is equal to or unequal to the strain of fusing and adjusting internal and external changes.
--Samuel Butler
生活是否成功依赖于一个人的适应能力能否胜任融合和调节内部及外界变化这一重担。
--塞缪尔·小巴特勒
If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself.
--George Eliot
你想要钻入一个圆洞，你就必须将自己变为球形。
--乔治·爱略特
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
--Aristotle
人们泰然自若地承受接踵而至的灾难，并不是由于感觉迟钝，而是由于具有崇高和英勇的品质，这时，尽管在厄运中，心灵美仍放射出灿烂光辉。
--亚里士多德#p#副标题#e#
In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.
--Boethius
在各种逆境中，人们感受到的最大痛苦莫过于回忆起曾经拥有的幸福。
--波伊提乌斯
Adversity is the first path to truth.
--Byron
逆境是通往真理的第一条路。
--拜伦
Advice is like snow, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mi
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
忠告就像雪花，飘落得越轻柔，就越能持久，也越能深深地潜入人心。--塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder: but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. --William Thackeray
看见一对年轻人相亲相爱不足为奇，然而看到一对这样的老人确是人间最美的景致。
--威廉·萨克雷
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy, but he who has shown the most forbearance and the better temper.
--Samuel Butler
辩论中得分最高的并非一语中的的人，而是显出最大耐心，更具涵养的人。
--塞缪尔·巴特勒
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
--Joseph Joubert
争辩或讨论理应着眼于从中获益而不是非分出胜负不可。
--约瑟夫·尧伯
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
--Aristotle
一切技艺都与创造有关，运用技艺就是研究如何创造某种可以创造的东西。创造这种东西的始点在创制者中，而不是在被创制物中。
--亚里士多德
Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
--Hans Hofmann
艺术与科学在物质生活领域构成平衡，并且拓宽经验世界。艺术导致对生活更为深刻的思考，因为它本身乃是情感的深层表现。
--汉斯·霍夫曼
You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul..
--George Bernard Shaw
你在镜中看到自己的容貌;在艺术作品中见到自己的灵魂。
--肖伯纳
It constantly happens that the arts influence one another, that they intermingle, or that, as a result of their natural evolution, they overflow their boundaries and invade the domains of neighbouring arts. Now it is music that would become painting, now painting that would become mu123)
--Roman Rolland
各种艺术形式经常互相影响，互相融合，或者作为自然演化的结果，它们超越各自的边界，侵入邻近的艺术形式的领域。时而音乐变成了绘画，时而绘画变成了音乐。
--罗曼·罗兰
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.3 m.
--Pablo Picasso
绘画是盲人的职业，他不画所见之物，而画所感之物，画他就看到的事物向自己倾吐的感受。
--巴勃罗·毕加索
The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.
--George Bellows
理想的艺术家通晓一切，感知一切，经历一切。他怀着惊讶获取经验，并以创作欲来满足他的惊奇。
--乔治·贝洛斯
First, say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
--Epictetus
首先默默告诉自己想成为什么样的人，然后再着手必须做的事情。
--爱比克泰德
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
--Edgar Waston Howe.
人们致力于力所不及的事情的同时，往往忽略了力所能及的事情。
--埃得加·沃斯顿·豪
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be/In the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
--James Russell Lowell
美不在镜前显现/只隐于含情脉脉的眉目之间。
--詹姆斯·罗素·洛威尔#p#副标题#e#