2002年2月10日 星期日

英文名句,英文名言佳句賞析 vol.6

  1. Language is the road map of a culture.Brown, “To the Victor Belongs the Language”
    語言是一種文化的公路線路圖。
    布朗,〈語言屬於勝利者〉
  2. The difficulty in life is the choice.Moore, The bending of the Bough
    生命中的困難在於抉擇。
    摩爾,《樹枝之搖曳》
  3. One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.Mark Twain
    貓與謊言最顯著的差異之一:貓只有九條命。
    馬克吐溫
  4. As a rule, men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they actually possess.William James
    一般來說,人習慣上只使用了他們真正擁有的能力的一小部分。
    威廉 詹姆士
  5. The supreme happinees of life is the conviction that we are loved.Hugo, Les Miserables
    堅信我們被愛是生命的至樂。
    雨果,《悲慘世界》
  6. If it weren’t for art, we’d have vanished from the face of the earth long ago.Saroyan, ”Leaf and Loaf “
    如果不是有藝術的話,我們早就從地球表面消失了。
    薩拉揚,<葉子和麵包>
  7. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
    判斷自己遠比判斷他人困難。如果你能正確判斷自己,你實際上是一位具有真正智慧的人。
    修伯里,《小王子》
  8. The love and freedom I want for myself are to be tested by the love and freedom I give others.Raymond Swing, “Action Is the Measure”
    我所要的愛和自由,取決於我給予他人的愛和自由。
    史溫,〈尺度〉
  9. The more we experience our freedom, the more we recognize that of the other.Sartre, “Why Write?”
    我們越是感到自己的自由,我們就越承認別人的自由。
    沙特,〈為什麼寫作?〉
  10. We (sea folk) can live to three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea.Andersen, “The little mermaid”
    我們(水族)能活到三百歲但我們死時我們成為海上的泡沫而已。
    安徒生<美人魚>

2002年1月10日 星期四

英文名句,英文名言佳句賞析 vol.5

  1. I am found of reading in all shapes; but particularly such as tends to educate the mind and invigorate the spirit.Rochefoucauld, “Portrait of Himself”
    我喜歡所有形式的閱讀;但尤其喜歡那種傾向教育心靈與賦予精神的書。
    羅徹佛柯,〈自畫像〉
  2. The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is uniqe.Singer
    藝術的偉大不在於尋找一般性,而是在於尋找獨特性。
    辛格
  3. We want to live by each other’s happiness-not by each other’s misery.Chaplin, “The Great Dictator”
    我們必須仰賴彼此的快樂過活─而非仰賴彼此的不幸。
    卓別林,〈大獨裁者〉
  4. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.Bradstreet, “Meditations Divine & Moral”
    如果沒有冬天,春天不會如此悅人; 如果人們不是有時得嘗嘗不幸,幸運不會如此受人歡迎。
    布雷史崔,〈神聖與道德之沉思〉
  5. There is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain.Adler, “Reading and the Growth of the Mind”
    心靈能夠支撐的成長與發展限度是沒有限制的。
    爾德勒,〈閱讀與心靈的成長〉
  6. “But he hasn’t got anything on!” a little child said.Andersen, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
    「但他什麼也沒穿啊!」一個小孩子說。
    安徒生<國王的新衣>
  7. Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.Johnson
    字典像手錶;最壞的比沒有好,最好的不能期待分秒不差。
    約翰生
  8. Whatever you love and trust in this world loves you in return.Frank Harris, “The holy Man”
    你在這世上所愛與信任的任何事物,會愛你作為回報。
    哈里士,〈聖者〉
  9. We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.Goethe
    我們不能依據自己的觀念來訓練孩子;我們必須把他們當成上帝的賞賜,接納他們,愛護他們。
    哥德
  10. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Tolstoi, Anna Karenina
    快樂家庭都是相似的;不快樂家庭的不快樂卻各有不同。
    托爾斯泰,《安娜 卡列妮娜》