英文名句，英文名言佳句賞析 vol.15

1. Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

   Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims

   不可因起床過晚兒縮短了清晨時光；把清晨當成生命的典型，有如某種程度的神聖。

   叔本華，《忠告與格言》
2. To beautify life is to give it an object.

   Jose Marti, On Oscar Wilde

   美化生命及賦予生命目標。

   馬惕，《論王爾德》
3. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.

   Maugham

   如果國家對任何事的評估高於自由，它會喪失自由；諷刺的是，如果它評估高的是安逸或金錢，它也會喪失安逸或金錢。

   毛姆
4. Books cannot be killed by fire. People due, but books never die. No man no face can abolish memory.

   Roosevelt

   書不會毀於戰火。人會死，但書勇不死。沒有人也沒有武力可以終止記憶。

   羅斯福
5. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

   Disraeli, Sybil

   自知無知乃是邁向知識的一大步。

   狄斯累利《西碧爾》
6. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

   Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea

   結婚是權利減半，責任加倍。

   叔本華，《世界之為意志與理念》
7. Art for art’s sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

   George Sand

   為藝術而藝術是句空話。為真、為善、為美而藝術是我追尋的信條。

   喬治桑
8. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

   Kennedy, “Inaugural Address”

   自由社會如果不能幫助眾多的窮人，也就不能保全少數的富人。

   甘迺迪 〈就職演說〉
9. Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation to, as present to the prosterity of those who are yet unborn.

   Addison, The Spectator

   書是偉大的天才留給人類的遺產，當作給予尚未出生的後代的禮物。

   亞狄生，《旁觀者》
10. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

    Johnson

    生活是需求不斷的過程，而非享樂不斷的過程。

    約翰生

英文名句，英文名言佳句賞析 vol.14

1. A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

   Durant, “What is Civilization?”

   政治家成不了道德家。

   杜蘭，〈何謂文明？〉
2. Teas in the listener’s eyes are the finest possible reward for any singer.

   Andersen, “The Nightingale”

   對任何歌唱者來說，聆聽者眼中的淚水是最好的報酬。

   安徒生<夜鶯>
3. The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

   Santayana

   不曾哭泣的年輕人是野人；不願歡笑的老人是愚人。

   桑塔亞那
4. He who loves another tries truly to understand the other.

   -----Overstreet, “The Hidden World Around Us”

   愛別人的人，就會真誠的設法了解別人。

   奧佛斯特里特，〈隱密的世界〉
5. If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article.

   Adler, “Reading and the Growth of the Mind”

   如果你為了想成為更好的讀者而閱讀的話，你不能只讀任何書或文章。

   爾德勒，〈閱讀與心靈的成長〉
6. Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

   Stevenson

   破壞輿論的人與偷竊國庫的人同樣邪惡。

   史蒂文生
7. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

   Hugo, Saint Denis

   稱讚有幾分像是透過面紗的輕吻。

   雨果，《聖丹尼斯》
8. The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food.

   Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

   人類歷史是飢餓者尋覓食物的紀錄。

   房龍，《人類的故事》
9. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than other.

   Orwell, Animal Farm

   所有動物皆平等，但是有些動物比其他動物更平等。

   歐威爾，＜動物農莊＞
10. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friend.

    Balthasar Gracian, “The Golden Mean”

    智者從他的敵人那而所得到的益處，要比愚者從他的朋友那所得到的益處為多。

    葛雷辛，〈中庸〉