英语中的好词好句！

IDEAL 理想篇 Do not , for one repulse , give up the purpose that you resolved to effect .(William Shakespeare , British dramatist) 不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚.W.) Don't part with your illusions . When they are gone you may still exist , but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain , American writer) 不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。（(美国作家 马克・吐温) I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man . I don't know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world .(Thomas Edison , American inventor) 我想揭示大自然的秘密，用来造福人类。我认为，在我们的短暂一生中，最好的贡献莫过于此了。 (美国发明家 爱迪生. T.) Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal , there is no secure direction ; without direction , there is no life .( Leo Tolstoy , Russian writer) 理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。 (俄国作家 托尔斯泰. L .) If winter comes , can spring be far behind ?( P. B. Shelley , British poet ) 冬天来了，春天还会远吗？( 英国诗人, 雪莱. P. B.) If you doubt yourself , then indeed you stand on shaky11 ground .( Ibsen , Norwegian dramatist ) 如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。 (挪威剧作家 易卜生) If you would go up high , then use your own legs ! Do not let yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads . (F. W . Nietzsche , German Philosopher) 如果你想走到高处，就要使用自己的两条腿！不要让别人把你抬到高处；不要坐在别人的背上和头上。(德国哲学家 尼采. F. W.) It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest , but there is seldom any money in them.( Mark Twain , American writer ) 就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了我们的最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有任何金钱。(美国作家 马克・吐温) Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. Alexander Dumas (Davy de La Pailleterie, French Writer) 生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。 (法国作家 大仲马. A.) The ideals which have lighted my way , and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully 19 have been kindness , beauty and truth .(Albert Einstein , American scientist) 有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是――真、善、美。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦 . A .) The important thing in life is to have a great aim , and the determination to attain it. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German Poet and dramatist) 人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。(德国诗人、戏剧家 歌德 . J . M .) The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds .(Mark Twain , American writer) 具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。 (美国作家 马克・吐温) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president) 实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。 (美国总统 罗斯福. F .) When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory .(Abraham Lincoln , American statesman) 如果一个目的是正当而必须做的，则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。(美国政治家 林肯. A.) STRUGGLE 奋斗篇 Genius only means hard-working all one's life .( Mendeleyer , Russian Chemist) 天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。 (俄国化学家 门捷列耶夫) I have nothing to offer but blood , toil tears and sweat . (Winston Churchill, British Politician) 我所能奉献的没有其它，只有热血、辛劳、眼泪与汗水。(英国政治家 丘吉尔 . W.) Man errs so long as he strives. (Johan Wolfgang Goethe , German poet and dramatist) 人只要奋斗就会犯错误。 (德国诗人、剧作家 歌德. J. W.) My fellow Americans , ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world ; ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man . (John Kennedy , American President ) 美国同胞们，不要问国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你们能为国家做些什么。全世界的公民们，不要问美国将为你们做些什么，而要问我们共同能为人类的自由做些什么。 (美国总统 肯尼迪. J.) Our destiny offers not the cup of despair , but the chalice of opportunity . (Richard Nixon, American President ) 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。(美国总统 尼克松 . R.) Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet . (Jean Jacques Rousseau , French thinker) 忍耐是痛苦的，但它的果实是甜蜜的。 (法国思想家 卢梭. J. J.) Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow . (Emerson, American thinker ) 进步是今天的活动、明天的保证。 (美国思想家 家默生) The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better .No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes . He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new ; and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them . (Franklin Roosevelt , American President ) 人经过努力可以改变世界，这种努力可以使人类达到新的、更美好的境界。没有人仅凭闭目、不看社会现实就能割断自己与社会的联系。他必须敏感，随时准备接受新鲜事物；他必须有勇气与能力去面对新的事实，解决新问题。(美国总统 罗斯福建. F.) There is no royal road to science ,and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of gaining its numinous summits . (Karl Marx, German revolutionary ) 在科学上没有平坦的大道，只有不畏劳苦沿着其崎岖之路攀登的人，才有希望达到它光辉的顶点。( 德国革命家 马克思. K .) The man who has made up his mind to win will never say impossible . (Bonaparte Napoleon ,French emperor ) 凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。( 法国皇帝 拿破仑. B.) To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom .(Ronald Reagan , American President ) 为了保住这最后的、最伟大的自由堡垒，我们必须尽我们所能。(美国总统 里根. R.) We cannot always build the future for our youth , but we can build our youth for the future . (Franklin Roosevelt , American president ) 我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来，但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。 (美国总统 罗斯福. F.) Where there is a will , there is a way .( Thomas Edison , American inventor ) 有志者，事竟成。 (美国发明家 爱迪生. T.) SUCCESS 成功篇 Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life .( Thomas Edison , American inventor) 有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。( 美国发明家 爱迪生. T. ) But has the last word been said ? Is all hope to be lost ? Is the defeat final No !(Charles De Gaulle , French president ) 但是难道败局已定，胜利已经无望？不，不能这样说！ (法国总统 戴高乐. C.) I succeeded because I willed it ; I never hesitated .(Bonaparte Napoleon , French emperor ) 我成功是因为我有决心，从不踌躇 。 (法国皇帝 拿破仑. B .) If you wish to succeed , you should use persistence as your good friend , experience as your reference , prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. (Thomas Edison , American inventor ) 如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。 (美国发明家 爱迪生. T.) Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily . (Friedrich Schiller , German Dramatist and poet). 只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举地完成困难的事。(德国剧作家、诗人 席勒. F.) Power invariably means both responsibility and danger .(Theodore Roosevelt , American president) 实力永远意味着责任和危险。 (美国总统 罗斯福. T.) Success covers a multitude of blunders .(George Bernard Shaw , British Dramatist) 成功由大量的失望铸就。( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.) The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want , and if they cannot find them .they make them. (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist ) 在这个世界上，取得成功的人是那些努力寻找他们想要机会的人，如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.) You have to believe in yourself . That's the secret of success .(Charles Chaplin , American actor ) 人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。 (美国演员 卓别林. C.) HEALTH 健康篇 A light heart lives long .( William Shakespeare , British dramatist ) 豁达者长寿。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.) Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise .(Benjamin Franklin , American president ) 早睡早起会使人健康、富有和聪明。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B.) Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin Franklin , American president) 懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B.) The first wealth is health .( Ralph Waldo Emerson , American thinker ) 健康是人生第一财富。 (美国思想家 爱默生. R. W.) WEALTH 财富篇 All the splendor 1 in the world is not worth a good friend .(Voltaire , French thinker) 人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。 (法国思想家 伏尔泰) Creditors 4 have better memories than debtors . (Benjamin Franklin , American president ) 放债的比借债的记忆好。( 美国总统 富兰克林. B.) If you would know the value of money , go and try to borrow some . (Benjamin Franklin , American president ) 要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。( 美国总统 富兰克林. B.) If your Riches are yours , why don't you take them with you to the other world ?(Benjamin Franklin , American president ) 如果财富是你的，那么你为什么不把它们和你一起带到另一个世界去呢？( 美国总统 富兰克林. B.) Money is a good servant and a bad master .(Francis Bacon , British philosopher ) 金钱是善仆，也是恶主。( 英国哲学家 培根. F. ) Money is like muck , not good except it be spread .(Francis Bacon , British philosopher) 金钱好比粪肥，只有撒到在大地才是有用之物。(英国哲学家 培根. F.) No country , however rich , can afford the waste of its human resources .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president) 任何一个国家，不管它多么富裕，都浪费不起人力资源。(美国总统 罗斯富. F.) Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing .(Albert Einstein , American scientist ) 有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。(美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A.) HAPPINESS 幸福篇 A lifetime of happiness ! No man alive could bear it ; it would be hell on earth .(G. Bernard Shaw ,British dramatist ) 终身幸福！这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的，那将是人间地狱。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.) Happiness is form courage .( H. Jackson , British writer ) 幸福是勇气的一种形式。 (英国作家 杰克逊. H.) Happy is the man who is living by his hobby .(G. Bernard Shaw , British dramatist ) 醉心于某种癖好的人是幸福的。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G .) Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money ; it lies in the joy of achievement , in the thrill of creative effort .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president ) 幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。(美国总统 罗斯福. F.) Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen , as by little advantages that occur every day .( Benjamin Franklin ,American president). 与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.) Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be .(Abraham Lincoln ,American president ) 对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。(美国总统 林肯. A.) The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not . (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist ) 痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳 . G .) The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved .( Victor Hugo , French novelist ) 生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。( 法国小说家 雨果. V .) There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence .(Jean Jacques Rousseau, French thinker ) 人间最大的幸福莫如既有爱情又清白无暇。( 法国思想家 卢梭. J . J. ) To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune .(Bonaparte Napoleon , French emperor ) 要真正了解一个人，需在不幸中考察他。 (法国皇帝 拿破仑. B .) We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it . (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist) 正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样，我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G. ) TIME 时间篇 At twenty years of age , the will reigns; at thirty , the wit ; and at forty , the judgment .(Benjamin Franklin ,American president) 二十岁时起支配作用的是意志,三十岁时是机智,四十岁时是判断。(美国总统 富兰克林 . B.) Do you love life ? Then do not squander time ; for that's the stuff5 life is made of .(Benjamin Franklin , American president ) 你热爱生命吗？那么，别浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.) Each moment in history is a fleeting time , precious and unique .( Richard Nixon , American president ) 历史巨轮飞转，分分秒秒的时间都十分宝贵，也独具意义。(美国总统 尼克松. R.) Fish and visitors smell three days .( Franklin Benjamin , American president ) 鱼放三天发臭，客住三天讨嫌。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B.) I am a slow walker , but I never walk backwards .(Abraham Lincoln , American president) 我走得很慢，但是我从来不会后退。 (美国总统 林肯. A.) If you want to understand today , you have to search yesterday .( Pearl Buck , American female writer ) 想要懂得今天，就必须研究昨天。(美国女作家 赛珍珠) In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist) 迁延蹉跎，来日无多，二十丽姝，请来吻我，衰草枯杨，青春易过。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.) Never leave that until tomorrow , which you can do today . (Benjamin Franklin , American president ) 今天的事不要拖到明天。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B. ) Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time ; a man of talent tries to use it . (Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher ) 普通人只想到如何度过时间，有才能的人设法利用时间。(德国哲学家 叔本华. A. ) The golden age is before us , not behind us . (Mark Twain , American writer ) 黄金时代在我们面前而不在我们背后。( 美国作家 马克・吐温) The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist ) 人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.) Time is money .( Benjamin Franklin , American president) 时间就是金钱。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.) To choose time is to save time .( Francis Bacon , British philosopher ) 合理安排时间就是节约时间 。( 英国哲学家 培根. F.) We always have time enough , if we will but use it aright. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet ) 只要我们能善用时间,就永远不愁时间不够用。(德国诗人歌德. J.W.) Weep no more , no sigh , nor groan. Sorrow calls no time that's gone .(John Fletcher , British dramatist ) 别哭泣，别叹息，别呻吟；悲伤唤不回流逝的时光。(英国剧作家 弗莱沏. J.) STUDY 学习篇 Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation . (Franklin Roosevelt , American president ) E永恒的真理如果不在新的社会形势下赋予新的意义,要么就不是真理,要么就不是永恒的。 (美国总统 罗斯福 . F.) Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend . (Francis Bacon , British philosopher ) 历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑修辞学使人善辨。( 英国哲学家 培根. F.) If you don't learn to think when you are young , you may never learn .(Thomas Edison , American inventor ) 如果你年轻时就没有学会思考，那么就永远学不会思考。(美国发明家 爱迪生 . T.) Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study. (Francis Bacon , British philosopher ) 天生的才干如同天生的植物一样，需要靠学习来修剪。(英国哲学家 培根 . F.) WORK 工作篇 Don't gild the lily. 不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚 . W .) I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain , American writer) 只凭一句赞美的话我就可以充实地活上两个月。(美国作家 马克・吐温) It is no use doing what you like ; you have got to like what you do . (Winston Churchill , British prime minister) 不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。 (美国首相 丘吉尔. W.) My philosophy of life is work . (Thomas Alva Edison , American inventor) 我的人生哲学就是工作。 (美国发明家 爱迪生 . T . A .) When work is a pleasure , life is joy ! When work is duty , life is slavery .(Maxim Gorky , Russian writer ) 工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受！工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。 (俄国作家 高尔基. M.) Work banishes those three great evils : boredom , vice, and poverty. (Voltaire , French philosopher ) 工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊、堕落和贫穷。 (法国哲学家 伏尔基泰) KNOWLEDGE 知识篇 Activity is the only road to knowledge . (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist) 行动是通往知识的唯一道路 。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.) A free man obtains knowledge from many sources 1 besides books . (Thomas Jefferson , American president) 一个自由的人除了从书本上获取知识外，还可以从许多别的来源获得知识。( 美国总统 杰斐逊 . T.) A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way .(Adams Franklin , American humorist ) 我的大部分知识都是这样获得的：在寻找某个资料时意外的发现了另上的资料。 (美国幽默作家 富兰克林. A.) If a man empties his purse into his head , no man can take it away from him , an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest . (Benjamin Franklin , American president ) 倾已所有追求知识，没有人能夺走它；向知识投资，收益最佳。(美国总统 富兰克林. B.) Imagination is more important than knowledge .(Albert Einstein , American scientist ) 想象力比知识更为重要。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦. A. ) Knowledge is power . (Francis Bacon , British philosopher ) 知识就是力量。 (英国哲学家 培根. F.) The empty vessels make the greatest sound . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist ) 满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。 (英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.) EDUCATION 教育篇 And gladly would learn , and gladly teach .( Chaucer , British poet) 勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。(英国诗人, 乔叟) Better be unborn than untaught , for ignorance is the root of misfortune .(Plato , Ancient Greek philosopher) 与其不受教育,不如不生,因为无知是不幸的根源.(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图) Genius17 without education is like silver in the mine. (Benjamin Franklin , American president ) 未受教育的天才，犹如矿中之银。 (美国总统 富兰克. B.) The roots of education are bitter , but the fruit is sweet .(Aristotle , Ancient Greek philosopher ) 教育的根是苦的，但其果实是甜的。( 古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德) CULTURE 文化篇 A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight .(P. B. Shelley , British poet ) 伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。(英国诗人 雪莱. P. B) A novel is a mirror walking along a main road .( Stendhcl , French writer ) 一部小说犹如一面在大街上走的镜子。 (法国作家 司汤达) Art is a lie that tells the truth .( Picasso , Spanish painter ) 美术是揭示真理的谎言。 (西班牙画家 毕加索) Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (Mark Twain , American novelist ) 幽默被人正确地解释为“以诚挚表达感受，寓深思于嬉笑”。(美国小说家 马克・吐温) The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation ; the two keep in their downward tendency.( Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet ) 文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时间是齐头并进的。(德国诗人 歌德 . J . W .) When one loves one's art no service seems too hard .( O. Henry, American novelist ) 一旦热爱艺术，什么奉献也不难。 (美国小说家 欧・亨利)

4.[英语散文]-火与冰 Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire， I hold with those who favor [1] fire. But if it had to perish [2] twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great and would suffice 火与冰 有人说世界将结束于熊熊烈焰， 有人则说结束于凛凛寒冰。 欲望如火，体会其烈， 则知世之归于火为我所愿。 但若其必两度遭逢毁灭， 我知恨之极至， 必然明了，毁灭之冰， 同样魁伟， 同样顺人心意。 5.[英语散文]-美丽人生 Beauty There were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart. It is said that the true nature of being is veiled. The labor of words, the expression of art, the seemingly ceaseless buzz that is human thought all have in common the need to get at what really is so. The hope to draw close to and possess the truth of being can be a feverish one. In some cases it can even be fatal, if pleasure is one's truth and its attainment more important than life itself. In other lives, though, the search for what is truthful gives life. I used to find notes left in the collection basket, beautiful notes about my homilies and about the writer's thoughts on the daily scriptural readings. The person who penned the notes would add reflections to my thoughts and would always include some quotes from poets and mystics he or she had read and remembered and loved. The notes fascinated me. Here was someone immersed in a search for truth and beauty. Words had been treasured, words that were beautiful. And I felt as if the words somehow delighted in being discovered, for they were obviously very generous to the as yet anonymous writer of the notes. And now this person was in turn learning the secret of sharing them. Beauty so shines when given away. The only truth that exists is, in that sense, free. It was a long time before I met the author of the notes. One Sunday morning, I was told that someone was waiting for me in the office. The young person who answered the rectory door said that it was the woman who said she left all the notes. When I saw her I was shocked, since I immediately recognized her from church but had no idea that it was she who wrote the notes. She was sitting in a chair in the office with her hands folded in her lap. Her head was bowed and when she raised it to look at me, she could barely smile without pain. Her face was disfigured, and the skin so tight from surgical procedures that smiling or laughing was very difficult for her. She had suffered terribly from treatment to remove the growths that had so marred her face. We chatted for a while that Sunday morning and agreed to meet for lunch later that week. As it turned out we went to lunch several times, and she always wore a hat during the meal. I think that treatments of some sort had caused a lot of her hair to fall out. We shared things about our lives. I told her about my schooling and growing up. She told me that she had worked for years for an insurance company. She never mentioned family, and I did not ask. We spoke of authors we both had read, and it was easy to tell that books are a great love of hers. I have thought about her often over the years and how she struggled in a society that places an incredible premium on looks, class, wealth and all the other fineries of life. She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look attractive. I know that her condition hurt her deeply. Would her life have been different had she been pretty? Chances are it would have. And yet there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that had nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart. Her words came from a wounded but loving heart, very much like all hearts, but she had more of a need to be aware of it, to live with it and learn from it. She possessed a fine-tuned sense of beauty. Her only fear in life was the loss of a friend. How long does it take most of us to reach that level of human growth, if we ever get there? We get so consumed and diminished, worrying about all the things that need improving, we can easily forget to cherish those things that last. Friendship, so rare and so good, just needs our care--maybe even the simple gesture of writing a little note now and then, or the dropping of some beautiful words in a basket, in the hope that such beauty will be shared and taken to heart. The truth of her life was a desire to see beyond the surface for a glimpse of what it is that matters. She found beauty and grace and they befriended her, and showed her what is real. 美丽人生 她有着一种与外表无关的灵气和美丽。她的话语轻而易举地征服了人心，她正是我们要聆听的声音。 很多人都说人生的真谛是个未知的概念。言词的费力诠释、艺术的着力表现还有人类那似乎永无休止的纷繁思考，三者都苦苦追寻人生的真谛。希望走近以至完全把握存在的真意可以令人十分狂热。有时候，有些人以自己笃信的真理为志趣，追寻真理甚于保全生命，于是就有舍生取义之举。然而，也有另外的一种人生，他们在寻求真谛的过程中灌溉生命。 过去，我常常在教堂的心意篮里面发现一些优美的小短文，有些是关于我的布道，有些是作者日常读《圣经》的感想。写这些短文的人不仅对我的一些观点加以反思，同时还会引用一些他/她曾经读过的，令他/她难忘又喜爱的诗人或者神秘主义者的话。我给这些短文迷住了。我看到了一个执着于追寻真与美的人。其珍而重之的字句，优美动人。我还感觉到好像那些字句也乐于让我们发现，它们是那么毫无保留地，慷慨地为这无名氏作者借用，而现在轮到这位无名氏来学习与人分享这些美文的奥秘。分享令美愈加闪耀生辉，在这个意义上说，其实世上唯一的真理是分毫不费的。 过了很久我才见到这些短文的作者。 一个星期天早上，我被告知有人正在办公室等我。帮我应门的年轻人说“是个女人，说留言是她放的。”看见她的时候我大吃一惊，因为我马上就认出她是我的教区信徒，只是我一直不知道那些短文是她写的。她坐在办公室的一张椅子上，两手相扣搁在大腿上，低垂着头。在抬头看我的时候，她微笑起来却十分费劲。那是一张破了相的脸，外科手术使她的脸皮绷得紧紧的，笑对她来说也是很困难的。为了去除脸上碍眼的肉瘤她接受了手术治疗，这令她吃尽苦头。 那个星期天早上我们聊了一会儿，并决定那个星期再找个时间一起吃顿午饭。 后来我们不止吃了一顿午饭，而是好几顿。每次一起吃饭的时候她都戴着帽子。我想可能是她接受的某种治疗使她掉了不少头发。我们分享了各自生活中的点点滴滴。我跟她讲我读书和成长的故事。她告诉我她在一家保险公司里已经工作多年了。她从来没有提过自己的家庭，我也没有问。 我们还谈到大家都读过的作家作品，不难发现她非常喜欢看书。 这些年我经常想起她，在这个以外表、地位和财富等虚名浮利挂帅的社会中她是怎样一路挺过来的呢？毁掉的容颜使她怎么也无法变得耀眼迷人。我知道这深深地刺痛着她。 如果她长得漂亮，她的生命轨迹会不会有所不同呢？有可能。不过她有种独特的灵气和美，与外表完全无关。她的话轻而易举地征服了人心，她正是我们要聆听的声音。她的隽语出于一颗受过伤却充满爱的心，就像所有人的心一样，只不过她比别人更注重对自己心灵的关注、用心去体会生活并从中学习。她拥有一种细腻的美感。她生命里唯一的恐惧就是失去朋友。 我们究竟要花多长时间才能达到如此高度的成熟？能否最终达到还是个未知数呢。我们老觉得身心疲惫，怀才不遇，只顾为眼前的不足忧心忡忡，却忘了珍视一些历久常新的东西。友谊珍贵而美好，只需我们用心呵护，有时候简简单单的表示就已经足够了，譬如偶尔写几句话给朋友，或者在篮子里投入一些优美动人的字条，以期大家都能分享，记住美妙的时刻、美好的感觉。 她生命的真谛就是要透过事物的表面一睹其真正的本质。她发现了美和上帝的慈爱，而美和慈爱也待她如友，把生命的真谛呈现给她。 6.[英语诗歌]-匆匆 Rush 文：朱自清 燕子去了，有再来的时候；杨柳枯了，有再青的时候；桃花谢了，有再开的时候。但是，聪明的，你告诉我，我们的日子为什么一去不复返呢？--是有人偷了他们罢：那是谁？又藏在何处呢？是他们自己逃走了：现在又到了哪里呢？ Swallows may have gone, but there is a time of return; willow trees may have died back, but there is a time of regreening; peach blossoms may have fallen, but they will bloom again. Now, you the wise, tell me, why should our days leave us, never to return? - If they had been stolen by someone, who could it be? Where could he hide them? If they had made the escape themselves, then where could they stay at the moment? 我不知道他们给了我多少日子；但我的手确乎是渐渐空虚了。在默默里算着，八千多日子已经从我手中溜去；象针尖上一滴水滴在大海里，我的日子滴在时间的流里，没有声音也没有影子。我不禁头涔涔而泪潸潸了。 I don’t know how many days I have been given to spend, but I do feel my hands are getting empty. Taking stock silently, I find that more than eight thousand days have already slid away from me. Like a drop of water from the point of a needle disappearing into the ocean, my days are dripping into the stream of time, soundless, traceless. Already sweat is starting on my forehead, and tears welling up in my eyes. 7.世界上最遥远的距离The Furthest Distance in the World The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not between life and death 不是生与死 But when I stand in front of you 而是 我就站在你面前 Yet you don't know that I love you 你却不知道我爱你 The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not when I stand in front of you 不是 我就站在你面前 Yet you can't see my love 你却不知道我爱你 But when undoubtedly knowing the love from both 而是 明明知道彼此相爱 Yet cannot be together 却不能在一起 The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not being apart while being in love 不是 明明知道彼此相爱 却不能在一起 But when painly cannot resist the yearning 而是 明明无法抵挡这股思念 Yet pretending you have never been in my heart 却还得故意装作丝毫没有把你放在心里 8.These Things Shall Never Die 这些美好不会消逝 The pure.the bright,the beautiful, 一切纯洁的,辉煌的,美丽的, That stirred our hearts in youth, 强烈地震撼着我们年轻的心灵的, The impulses to wordless prayer, 推动着我们做无言的祷告的, The dreams of love and truth; 让我们梦想着爱与真理的; The longing after something's lost, 在失去后为之感到珍惜的, The spirit's yearning cry, 使灵魂深切地呼喊着的, The striving after better hopes- 为了更美好的梦想而奋斗着的- These things can never die. 这些美好不会消逝。 The timid hand stretched forth to aid 羞怯地伸出援助的手， A brother in his need, 在你的弟兄需要的时候， A kindly word in grief's dark hour 伤恸、困难的时候，一句亲切的话 That proves a friend indeed ; 就足以证明朋友的真心； The plea for mercy softly breathed, 轻声地乞求怜悯， When justice threatens nigh, 在审判临近的时候， The sorrow of a contrite heart- 懊悔的心有一种伤感-- These things shall never die. 这些美好不会消逝。 Let nothing pass for every hand 在人间传递温情 Must find some work to do ; 尽你所能地去做； Lose not a chance to waken love- 别错失去了唤醒爱的良机----- Be firm,and just ,and true; 为人要坚定，正直，忠诚； So shall a light that cannot fade 因此上方照耀着你的那道光芒 Beam on thee from on high. 就不会消失。 And angel voices say to thee---你将听到天使的声音在说----- These things shall never die. 这些美好不会消逝。 中英文都有,对照翻译应该不算复杂.1.A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. 千里之行，始于足下。 2.Better late than never. 只要开始，虽晚下迟。 3.Youth means limitless possilities. 年轻就有无限的可能。 4.Never to old to learn. 活到老，学到老。 5.I know that my future is not just a dream. 我知道我的未来不是梦。 6.Never say die. 永不放弃。 7.Knowlege is power. 知识就是力量。 8.Just do it. 向前冲。 9.Get to another summit in your career. 开创职业生涯的另一高峰。 10.Pursue breakthroughs in your life. 追求自我的突破。 Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist) 不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚.W.) Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain, American writer) 不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。（(美国作家 马克•吐温) I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I don't know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world. (Thomas Edison, American inventor) 我想揭示大自然的秘密，用来造福人类。我认为，在我们的短暂一生中，最好的贡献莫过于此了。 (美国发明家 爱迪生. T.) To love and to loved is the greatest happiness of existence.-----Sydney Smith 爱人和被人爱是人生最大的幸福。 -------悉尼。史密斯 All love is sweet, given or returned. Common as light is loved, and its familiar voice wearies not ever. ------Shelley 所有的爱都是甜蜜的，无论是给予还是回报。爱就像阳光一样无所不在，他那熟悉的嗓音永远不会消沉。 ----雪莱 Hatred paralyzes life; love release it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darken life; love illuminates it. -----Martin Luther King 恨使生活瘫痪无力，爱使他重获新生。恨使生活混乱不堪，爱是它变得和谐。恨使什么漆黑一团，爱使它光彩夺目。 --马丁。路德。金 It's difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ---H.W.Longfellow 知道爱情开始是困难的，但知道爱情已经开始则不那么困难了。 ----H。W。朗费罗 If you'd be loved, be worthy to be loved. ----Ovid 要得到别人的爱，就必须要有值得爱的地方。 ---奥维德 Love is ever matter of comedies, and how and then of tragedies. ----Bacon 爱情常是喜剧，偶尔是悲剧。 ----培根 Love lives in cottages as well as in courts. ----George Herbert 爱在茅屋，亦在深宫。 ----乔治。赫伯特 Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. ------Bertrand Russell 人的天性就是如此，他最乐意将爱给予那些似乎最不强求爱的人。 -----罗素 Love triumphs over everything. Love has no age, no limit and no death. ----John Galsworthy 爱情战胜一切。爱情没有寿命，没有极限，没有死亡。 ----约翰。高尔斯华 Sweetest joy ,the wildest woe is love.------philip bailey 爱情是最甜蜜的欢乐，最强烈的痛苦。-----菲利浦。贝利 There is hardly any activity,any enterprise ,which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations,and yet which fails so regularly,as love.------erich fromm 几乎没有任何活动、任何事业如同爱情一般；开始时充满着无限的希望与期待；而结束时却毫不例外地落空。-----埃里克。弗洛姆 Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,'Tis woman's whole existence.------byron 爱情是男人生命中的一部分，却是女人生命的全部。------拜伦 Marriage is like life in this --that it is field of battle ,and not a bed of roses.------robert Stevenson 婚姻生活---乃战场而玫瑰花朵。-----罗伯特。史蒂文森 Men are April when they woo,December when they wed;maids are May when they are maids,but the sky changes when they are wives.------Shakespear 男人求婚时像四月天，婚后像十二月天；女人少女时像五月天，为人妻后就变天。-----莎士比亚 It is hard for the human soul not to love something ,and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection. -----Jerome 要使人的灵魂不去爱是很难的，而我们的思想也有必要被某在种爱所吸引。------杰洛姆 One is easily fooled by that which one love. -----Moliere 人容易被所爱的人愚弄。 ----莫里衰 An immature person may achieve great success in a carreer but never in a marriage. -----Benjamin Spock 不成熟的人或许在事业上有很大的成就，在婚姻上则不然。 ----本杰明。史波克 The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. -----George Eliot 最幸福的女人，像最幸福的民族一样，没有历史。 ----乔治。艾略特 When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window. -----Joyce Brothers 成功来到门前时，爱情往往就走出了窗外。 -----乔伊斯。卜洛泽 Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. ---Bertrand Russell 爱情之树应该深深扎根在泥土中，而起枝条则要伸展与广阔的天空。 ------罗素 Loveliness, needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is when unadorned, adorned the most. ---James Thompson 可爱，并不需要外来的装饰，天然的可爱远比雕饰的更可爱。 -----詹姆斯。汤普森 As selfishness and complaint cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ------Helen Keller 自私和抱怨是心灵阴暗，愉悦的爱则使视野明朗开阔。 ----海仑。凯勒 Be of love a little more careful than of anything. ----E.E.Cummings 对待爱情应该比对其它任何事都更谨慎。 ---E。E。康明斯 Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle ages and old men's nurses. ----Bacon 妻子是年轻人的情妇；中年人的伴侣；老年人的看护。 ----培根 When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called for by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. -----Maurice Maeterlinck 当失去心爱的人时，我们抛洒悲苦的眼泪，那是因为我们想起了过去没有好好的深爱他们。 ----莫里斯。梅特林克 New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing known upon earth. -----Thomas Hardy 新生的爱情殉丽多彩，长久的爱情崇高伟大；但复苏的爱情则是世界上最温柔的事情。 -----托马斯。哈代 One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life, the power of reunion of the separated. -----Paul Tillich 没有爱，人无法坚强，因为爱不是一种无足轻重的情感；它是生命的血液，是分离者重新团聚的力量。 ---保罗。蒂里希 Our hours in love have wings; in absence crutches. -----Colley Cibber 爱情的时光长出了翅膀；离别时，它们是我们的精神支柱。 ----科雷。西柏 True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven. ----Sir Walter Scott 真爱是上帝单独赐予普天下芸芸众生的礼物。 -----沃尔特。司各特 And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. ----Shakespeare 当爱说话时，众神的声音是苍天沉浸在和谐的静寂中。 ----莎士比亚 Love is an endless mystery, fot it has nothing else to explain it. -----Tagore 爱是一个无穷无尽的迷，因为没有任何其他东西能够解释它。 ----泰戈尔 Among those whom I like, i can find no common denominator, but among those whom i love, i can: all of them make me laugh. ----W.H.Auden 我无法在我所喜欢的人中间找到共同的特征，但我能在我所爱的人中间找到它：他们都会是我欢笑。 ---W。H。奥登 There's noting half so sweet in life as love's young dream. -----Thomas Moore 生命中没有任何东西能像进入充满活力的爱之梦那样甜美。 ----托马斯。莫尔 Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him , and precious to those who have the better part in him. ---Plato 爱是美好带来的欢欣，智慧创造的奇观，神仙赋予的惊奇。缺乏爱的人渴望得到它，拥有爱的人又万般珍惜它。 ---柏拉图 There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence. ---Rousseau 人世间最大的幸福莫过于既有爱情又爱的纯洁无暇。 ---卢梭 The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. -----Bertrand Russell 美好的生活是一种由爱激励和由知识指导的生活。 ----罗素 The best proof of love is trust. ----Joyce Brothers 爱的最好的证明就是信任。 -----乔治斯。布格泽斯 Love is an active power in man, a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it ermits to be himself, to retain his integrity. ----Erich Fromm 爱是活跃于人心中的一种力量，它冲破人与人之间的隔阂，是我们紧紧相连；它使我们战胜孤独无助，但仍使我们保持自我个性的独立完整。 ----埃里克。拂洛姆 Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ---chekhov 爱情，友谊和尊敬都不如对某事物的共同的恨那样能把人们团结起来。 -----契可夫