『外语翻译』26条英文名言集锦 中英互译hovis(2009/4/1 19:11:05) 点击:
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212.* * * 1.When I say I know you,I mean I knew you yesterday. I do not know you actually now.
当我说认识你的时,我是说我认识昨天的你。我不认识现在的你。
——Kaishnamurti 克里什纳默尔迪
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.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
5.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
6.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
7.It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime,but at night it is another thing.
在白天对什么都不动感情是极为容易的,但在夜晚就是另外一回事。
--Hemingway 海明威
8. To err is human,to forgive,divine.
人皆犯错,你能原谅别人,你就是圣人。 --Pope 蒲柏
9.There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
心中的伤痛总是不知不觉渐渐愈合,虽然我们也曾痛苦地发誓说永不忘记。
——Colleen McCullough 科林·麦卡洛
10.In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
在这个世界上只有两种悲剧:一种是得不到自己想要的东西,另一种是得到了。
——Oscar Wildle 奥斯卡·王尔德
11.Naked came I into this world,and naked must I go out.
我赤裸裸地来到这个世界,也要赤裸裸地离去。
——Cervantes 塞万提斯
12.Passion,though a bad regulator,is a powerful spring.
激情虽难以驾驭,却是种强大的动力。
——Emerson 爱默生
13.Carve your name on hearts and not on marbles.
把你的名字刻在人们的心里,而不是大理石上。
——Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生
14. I can resist everything except temptation.
除了诱惑我什么都能抵抗。
——Oscar wilde 奥斯卡·王尔德
15.What is a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
一个人的首要职责是什么?很简单:做自己。
——Henrik Ibsen 易卜生
16. The love of country is the first virtue in a civilized man.
爱国是文明人类第一美德。
—— Napoleon 拿破仑
17. We can only love what we know and we can never know completely what we do not love.
我们只能爱我们理解的东西,却永远也不能彻底理解我们不爱的东西。
——A.L.Huxley A.L.赫胥黎
18.A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
美丽的形体胜于美丽的脸蛋,美丽的举止胜于美丽的形体。
——Emerson 爱默生
19.Man is,Properly speaking,based upon hope;he has no other posseession but hope.
恰当地说,人是因希望活着的,除了希望,一无所有。
——Thomas Caarlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔
20.Man must look just as ridiculous to the crab when it sees him walk forward.
人类在螃蟹看来一定也是很好笑的,因为人类居然是向前走的。
——G.c.Lichtenberg G.C.利希滕贝格
21.All men whilst they are awake are in one common world;but each of them,when he is asleep,is in a world of his own.
所有人在醒着的时候都是置身于同一个世界,但在睡着后,却都置身在自己的世界。
——Plutarch 普卢塔克
22. Everyone is a moon,and has a dark side which he never shows in anybody.
每个人都是月球,有其从不展示给人看的黑暗面。
——Mark Twain 马克·吐温
23.Do not rejoice over anyone's death;remember that we all must die.
不要因某一个人死去而欢呼;记住我们都将死去。
——Apocrypha 阿波克拉弗
24. As long as any man exists,there is some need of him;let him fight for his own.
只要人生存,就有一些需要,让他为自己去奋斗吧。
——Cicero 西塞罗
25. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
重复并不能把谎言变成真理。
——Franklin D.Roosevelt 富兰克林·D·罗斯福
26.The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
人的本能是追逐从他身边飞走的东西,却逃避追逐他的东西。
——Voltaire 伏尔泰