- 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〉 - 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》 - 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 - 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 - 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》 - 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> - 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》 - 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〉 - 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?〉 - 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。
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- 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〉 - 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 - 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〉 - 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〉 - 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〉 - “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> - 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 - 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〉 - 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 - 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》
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