【独家】专四专八写作名言谚语集锦（二）

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　　四、理想与现实

　　名言类：

　　1. Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.(R. Peters, American jurist)

　　人生应该树立目标，否则你的精力会白白浪费。(美国法学家波得斯)

　　2. Ideals are like the stars—we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them. (Carl Schurz, American statesman)

　　理想犹如天上的星星，不能摘到，但我们犹如水手可借它们指引航向。(美国政治家舒尔茨)

　　3. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. (Alexandre Dumas, French writer)

　　生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。(法国作家大仲马)

　　【提示：本句可随话题变化灵活改写，如谈论学习时可变为 Learning without an aim is like sailing without a compass.；谈论阅读时可变为 Reading without thinking is like eating without digestion.】

　　4. 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)

　　【提示：以上四句可用来谈论理想的重要性。】

　　5. Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. (Edmond Burke, British statesman)

　　众所周知，胸有大志者能屈能伸。(英国政治家伯克)

　　6. 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)

　　7. If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky 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)

　　8. 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)

　　【提示：以上三句可用来强调决心(determination/will)对于实现理想的重要性。】

　　9. 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)

　　10. It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. (G. Eliot, British novelist)

　　天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。(英国小说家艾略特)

　　11. Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. (C.Weizmann, Irish president)

　　奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命地努力。(爱尔兰总统魏茨曼)

　　12. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can’t bring it to achievement. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. (Euripides, ancient Greek dramatist)

　　我们懂得善，我们理解善，但是我们无法实现善。人的勇气就是坚信自己的希望能够实现，并为之进行不屈不挠地努力。(古希腊悲剧诗人欧里庇得斯)

　　13. You never know what you can do till you try. (Frederick Marryat, British novelist)

　　除非你亲自尝试一下，否则你永远不知道你能够做什么。(英国小说家马里亚特)

　　14. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. (Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic)

　　完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。(英国作家、评论家约翰逊)

　　【提示：以上六句可用来论述行动对实现理想的重要性。】

　　15. To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield. (Alfred Tennyson, British poet)

　　要奋斗，要探索，要有所发现，而不要屈服。(英国诗人丁尼生)

　　16. A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (J. Barrymore, American actor)

　　只要一个人还有所追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。(美国演员巴里穆尔)

　　谚语类：

　　1. A penny soul never came to two pence.

　　志小者不能成大事。

　　2. Great hopes make great men.

　　伟大的理想造就伟大的人物。

　　3. If you don’t aim high, you will never hit high.

　　瞄得低，也就打不高。(志不高者成不了大业。)

　　4. Little things amuse (or please) little minds.

　　幼稚的人易满足。(人无大志，喜爱琐细的东西。)

　　5. Life is but a span.

　　人生苦短。

　　6. Life is not all roses.

　　人生并不是康庄大道。

　　7. Attempt not or accomplish.

　　不干则已，干必彻底。

　　8. Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.

　　世上无难事，只怕有心人。

　　9. He who wills success is half way to it.

　　下决心成功的人已成功了一半。

　　【提示：以上三句可用来强调决心(determination/ will)对于实现理想的重要性。】

　　五、社会与环境

　　名言类：

　　1. Good order is the foundation of all things. (E. Burke, British statesman)

　　良好的秩序是一切的基础。(英国政治家伯克)

　　2. Law is order, and good law is good order. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher)

　　法律就是秩序，有好的法律才有好的秩序。(古希腊哲学家亚里士多德)

　　3. No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. (Thomas Jefferson, America president)

　　没有哪个社会可以制订一部永远适用的宪法，甚至一条永远适用的法律。(美国总统杰斐逊)

　　4. Punishment is justice for the unjust. (Augustine, British writer)

　　惩罚是对正义的伸张。(英国作家奥古斯丁)

　　【提示：以上四句可用来谈论法律的重要性。】

　　5. It is better to fight for justice than to rail at the ill. (Alfred Tennyson, British writer)

　　与其责骂罪恶，不如伸张正义。(英国作家丁尼生)

　　6. Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer)

　　奇特几乎总能提供一种线索。一种犯罪越是普通，越是不具特点，就越难以查明。(英国作家柯南·道尔爵士)

　　【提示：本句观点还适合谈论被大家习以为常的错误的社会行为，像破坏环境、浪费资源等。例如：As the British writer Conan Doyle put it, “Singularity is…” This may explain why people are so blind to the common serious waste of water, electricity, paper and many other living resources.】

　　7. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative. Conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)

　　改革积极，保守主义消极。因为保守主义追求舒适，改革追求真理。(英国哲学家斯宾塞)

　　8. Change starts when someone sees the next step. (William Drayton, American congressman)

　　当有人看清下一步，变革就开始了。(美国议员德雷登)

　　9. Discontent is the first step in progress of a man or a nation. (Oscar Wilde, British playwright)

　　不满足是一个人或一个民族进步的第一步。(英国剧作家王尔德)

　　10. Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it. (Michael Novak, American author)

　　传统之所以能够延续是因为有年轻的一代体认到传统中的华彩，并予以锦上添花。(美国作家努沃克)

　　11. In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. (Marianne Williamson, American author and lecturer)

　　每个社会都有缺失待补。每个国家都有创伤待愈。每个人内心都有补缺愈创的力量。(美国作家、演说家威廉逊)

　　12. The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. (Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist)

　　人的成就只有对社会有用才是有价值的。(奥地利心理学家阿德勒)

　　【提示：以上两句可用来论述人与社会的关系，第一句突出了个人的力量。】

　　13. The more we exploit nature, the more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. (Morris K. Udall, American Congressman)

　　我们越剥削自然，所剩的选择就变得越少，直到我们只剩下一个选择：为生存而挣扎。(美国议员尤达尔)

　　14. We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone is arguing over where they’re going to sit. (David Suzuki, Canadian environmentalist and scientist)

　　我们仿若正坐在一辆直冲向砖墙的大车上，而人们还在争论应该坐哪儿。(加拿大环境学家、科学家铃木)

　　【提示：本句可用来描述或讽刺面对危机时人们本末倒置的处理方式。】

　　15. In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences. (Horacle Annexley Vachell, British writer)

　　自然界中没有奖赏和惩罚，只有因果报应。(英国作家瓦谢尔)

　　16. Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. (W. Clement Stone, American author)

　　小心选择你的环境，因为它会影响你的生活；小心选择你的朋友，因为你会与他们日益相像。(美国作家斯通)

　　谚语类：

　　1. A great ship asks deep waters.

　　船大吃水深。(英雄要有用武之地。)

　　2. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise.

　　弱者屈于环境，强者利用环境。

　　3. Do in Rome as the Romans do.

　　入国问禁，入乡随俗。

　　4. Bad customs are better broken than kept up.

　　恶习宜除不宜留。

　　5. Other days, other ways.

　　时移俗易。

　　6. Times change and we change with them.

　　时代变化，我们也随之变化。

　　【提示：本句适于改写来引出话题，如：网络、节日庆祝方式、人际交往方式、师生关系等，随后再描述话题范围里的具体变化。以节日庆祝方式为例，原句可改写为 Times change and the teacher-student relationship changes with them。】

　　7. Keep good men company and you shall be of the number.

　　近朱者赤，近墨者黑。

　　六、逆境与人生

　　名言类：

　　1. Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)

　　苦难显才华，好运隐天资。(古罗马诗人贺拉斯)

　　2. As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it. (Hugh Black, American writer)

　　水果不仅需要阳光，也需要寒夜冷雨使其成熟。人的品性陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和困难。(美国作家布莱克)

　　3. Tough-minded optimists approach problems with a can-do philosophy and emerge stronger from tragedies. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, ancient Roman Philosopher)

　　意志坚强的乐观主义者用“世上无难事”人生观来思考问题，越是遭受命运打击，越是表现得坚强。(古罗马哲学家西尼加)

　　4. No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. (William Penn, British admiral)

　　没有播种，何来收获；没有辛劳，何来成功；没有磨难，何来荣耀；没有挫折，何来辉煌。(英国海军上将佩恩)

　　【提示：以上四句可用于论述“逆境”对人生的积极影响，如：激发潜力、锤炼性格等。】

　　5. Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. (H.J. Kaier, American businessman)

　　困难只是穿上工作服的机遇。(美国实业家凯泽)

　　6. The Chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity. (Burejer, British writer)

　　中文的“危机”分为两个字，一个意味着危险，另外一个意味着机会。(英国作家布瑞杰)

　　7. Let us suggest to the person in crisis that he cease concentrating so upon the dangers involved and the difficulties，and concentrate instead upon the opportunity —for there is always opportunity in crisis. (Seebohm Caroline, British physician)

　　让我们建议处在危机之中的人：不要把精力如此集中地放在所涉入的危险和困难上，相反而要集中在机会上——因为危机中总是存在着机会。(英国医生卡罗琳)

　　【提示：以上三句对于危机的理解相同，但语气不同，第一个活泼俏皮，第二个深具文化韵味，第三个像权威诊断，如何选用取决于我们自己文章的风格和引用目的，如：引出话题时第一句较好；提建议时第三句更适合。】

　　8. Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation. (John Kennedy, American president)

　　从希望中得到欢乐，在苦难中保持坚韧。(美国总统肯尼迪)

　　9. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Helen Keller, American writer)

　　虽然世界多苦难，但苦难总是能战胜的。(美国作家海伦·凯勒)

　　10. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Leonhard Frand, German novelist)

　　我可以拿走人的任何东西，但有一样东西不行，这就是在特定环境下选择自己的生活态度的自由。(德国小说家弗兰克)

　　11. Almost any situation—good or bad—is affected by the attitude we bring to. (Lucius Annaus Seneca, ancient Roman philosopher)

　　差不多任何一种处境——无论是好是坏——都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。(古罗马哲学家西尼加)

　　12. Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade. (James Russell Lowell, American poetess and critic)

　　灾难就像刀子，握住刀柄就可以为我们服务，拿住刀刃则会割破手。(美国女诗人、批评家洛威尔)

　　【提示：以上两句不仅限于论述逆境，也可以用于论述其他有争议的话题，例如：technology, the Internet, money, love等等都是双刃剑，其利弊取决于人们的态度。第二句使用时要随话题灵活扩写，如：The American poetess J. R. Lowell said that mishaps are like knives…. In my opinion, so is the Internet. 】

　　13. It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (William Somerset Maugham, British novelist)

　　说苦难能使人格得到升华，这是不确切的；幸福有时倒能做到这一点，而苦难常会使人心胸狭窄，产生复仇的心理。(英国小说家毛姆)

　　14. Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, ancient Roman philosopher)

　　小困难，大声叫嚷；大困难，闷声不响。(古罗马哲学家尼加)

　　15. The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle, British essayist and historian)

　　生活的悲剧不在于人们受了多少苦，而在于人们失去了什么。(英国散文家、历史学家卡莱尔)

　　16. A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. (J. Burroughs, American naturalist)

　　一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。(美国博物学家巴勒斯)

　　17. Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb. (W. M. Thackeray, British novelist)

　　大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服的。(英国小说家萨克雷)

　　18. Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will, rather than of means, that man fails to succeed. (La Rocheforcauld, French writer)

　　很少有事情是根本做不成的；之所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。(法国作家罗切福考尔德)

　　【提示：以上两句可用于论述对待失败的态度。】

　　19. 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)

　　20. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. (S. Caroline, British writer)

　　艰难之路，唯勇者行。(英国作家卡罗琳)

　　谚语类：

　　1. Every cloud has a silver lining.

　　每朵乌云背后都有一线光明。

　　2. A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.

　　吃一堑，长一智。

　　3. Adversity leads to prosperity.