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马克吐温名言名句（中英对照） 马克·吐温（Mark Twain）原名塞缪尔·兰霍恩·克莱门斯，是美国幽默大师、小说家、著名演说家。马克吐温的作品幽默讽刺、极度夸张、笔锋犀利。但是大家都喜欢他，亦如海伦·凯勒所言，“谁会不喜欢他呢？即使是上帝，亦会钟爱他，赋予其智慧，并于其心灵里绘画出一道爱与信仰的彩虹。”马克吐温的话，句句都是至理名言！ It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. 最好闭上嘴，让别人认为你傻，而决不把嘴巴张开去解答所有的疑难。 Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. 别到处说世界亏欠了你。世界什么都不欠你的，你还没出生它就在这儿了。 To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. 生活的成功需要两个因素：愚昧以及自信。 If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. 如果你收养了一只饥饿的狗，并且让它过上了舒服的日子，它将不会咬你。这便是狗与人最主要的区别。 Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. 习惯就是习惯，谁也不能将其一下子扔出窗外，只能一步一步地引下楼。 The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. 取得进展的秘诀就是开始；开始的秘诀就是将令人窒息的复杂任务，细化成可操作的任务，然后开始做第一件。 Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. 善良是一种聋子能听见、盲人能看见的语言。 The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. 让自己高兴起来的最好办法就是设法让别人高兴起来。 There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things.The first group is less crowded. 世界上主要有两类人。第一类人有所成就，第二类人号称自己有所成就。第一类人不如第二类人那么多。 Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. 人人都是月亮，都有决不让人知道的阴暗面。 I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. 我总是等机会错过了才发现我曾有过机会。 Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. 皱纹应该只是微笑留下的印记。 The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. 人类有一件真正有力的武器，那就是笑。 Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. 如果我们能在80岁的时候出生，然后慢慢走向18岁，那生活将会幸福无比。 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. 20年后，让你觉得更失望的不是你做过的事情，而是你没有做过的事情。所以，解开帆索，从安全的港湾里扬帆出行吧。乘着信风，去探索，去梦想，去发现！ Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. 远离那些企图让你丧失雄心的人吧。小人经常如此，而真正的伟人会让你觉得你也可以变得伟大。 The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. 保持身体健康的唯一办法，就是吃点你不想吃的，喝点你不想喝的，以及做点你不愿做的事情。 When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. 垂钓爱情用心而不是用脑做诱饵。 A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. 一个人的性格可以到他交谈中使用的形容词中去了解。 Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. 首先弄到事实，然后你就可以随心所欲地把他们扭曲。 Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. 真正伟大的人让你产生你也能伟大起来的感觉。 The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. 你解释越多，我越难理解。 Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. 今天显然什么也不会发生。 The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. 先是怕生，后才怕死。完全活过的人，随时都准备死。 Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. 善良是聋子能听，瞎子能看的语言。 The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. 越是禁止的事物越流行。 |
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