英文名句，英文名言佳句賞析 vol.20

1. You can tell character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

   Seneca

   看人如何接受稱讚，你就能分辨他的品德。

   塞尼加
2. Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

   Rousseau, Emile

   大自然從不欺騙我們；欺騙我們的永遠是我們自己。

   盧梭，《愛彌兒》
3. People are never ridiculous for being what they really are, but for affecting what they really are not.

   Lord Chesterfield, ”Affectation”

   人們在保持本來面目的時候，絕對不會是可笑的；只有在裝腔作態的時候，他們才是可笑的。

   柴斯特菲爾德，〈矯飾〉
4. Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

   Hegel, Philosophy of History

   生命唯有以一件有價值之事為其目標時，才有價值。

   黑格爾，《歷史哲學》
5. Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

   Eudora Welty, “Moon on a Silver Spoon”

   早在我撰寫故事之前，我就傾聽故事了。

   威蒂，〈銀湯匙上的月亮〉
6. People who know little are usually great talker, while men who know much say little.

   Rousseau, Emile

   懂得不多的人常是空論者，而淵博者則寡言。

   盧梭，《愛彌兒》
7. Some books are to be tasted, other to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

   Bacon, “Of Studies”

   有些書淺嘗即可有些說可囫圇吞下，少數書是要細細品味的。

   培根，〈論讀書〉
8. Without the memories, it’s all meaningless.

   Lois Lowry, The Giver

   沒有記憶，什麼都沒有意義。

   露意絲 勞里，《記憶受領員》
9. When all the people of the world remember to laugh, particularly at themselves, there will be no more dictators and no more wars.

   Ben Lucien Burman, “Antidote for War”

   當世界各國的人都記得要大笑，尤其是笑他們自己，世界上就不會有獨裁者，也不會有戰爭。

   勃曼，＜防戰良藥＞
10. A hungry man is not a free man.

    Stevenson

    飢餓者並非自由者。

    史蒂文生