英語好詞好句摘抄(2)
22、It never will rain roses.
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不會掉下玫瑰來,如果想要更多的玫瑰,必須自己種植。
——G. Eliot(英國小說家艾略特)
23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天賦,勤勉會使其更加完善;如果你能力一般,勤勉會補足其缺陷。
——Joshuas Reynolds(美國散文家雷諾茲)
24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成偉大的事業(yè)不在于體力,而在于堅韌不拔的毅力。
——Samuel Johnson(英國作家和評論家約翰遜)
25、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味著終身不懈的努力。
——Mendeleyev(俄國化學家門捷列耶夫)
26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的;其所以做不成,與其說是條件不夠,不如說是由于決心不夠。
——(La Racheforcauld(法國作家羅切??紶柕?
27、Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大膽挑戰(zhàn),世界總會讓步。如果有時候你被它打敗了,不斷地挑戰(zhàn),它總會屈服地。
——W.M Thackeray(英國小說家薩克雷)
28、All that you do, do with your might; t
hings done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都應盡力而為,半途而廢永遠不行。
——R.H. Stoddard(美國詩人斯托達德)
29、A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一個人可以失敗多次,但是只要他沒有開始責怪旁人,他還不是一個失敗者。
——J.Burroughs(美國博物學家巴勒斯)
30、You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
從一個國家的廣告可以看出這個國家的理想。
——Norman Douglas(英國作家道格拉斯)
31、The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
實現(xiàn)明天理想的唯一障礙是今天的疑慮。
——Franklin Roosevelt(美國總統(tǒng)羅斯福)
32、The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法實現(xiàn)之前是個怪人。
——Mark Twain(美國作家馬克?吐溫)
33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,
and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的事情是確定一個偉大的目標,并決心實現(xiàn)它。
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(德國詩人、劇作家歌德)
34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世間的大多數(shù)煩惱都是由那些想成為重要人物的人惹出來的。
——George Eliot(英國小說家艾略特)
35、If you doubt yourself,
then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你懷疑自己,那么你的立足點確實不穩(wěn)固了。
——Ibsen(挪威劇作家易卜生)
36、Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
理想是指路明燈。沒有理想,就沒有堅定的方向;
沒有方向,就沒有生活。 ——Leo Tolstory(俄國作家托爾斯泰)