"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." -- Winston Churchill, "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat". [1] (我能奉献的仅仅是热血、辛劳、眼泪和汗水。) "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." -- George Orwell, "Animal Farm". [2] (所有动物平等,但有些动物更平等。) "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby". [3] (我们继续前进,就像船只逆流而行,不停被拖回过去。) "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." -- Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince". [4] (若不能同时拥有恐惧和爱,那更好的是被人所畏惧。) "Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." -- Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man". [5] (生命需要体验,而不是被控制;面对必然的失败,人类能够胜利的关键是继续奋斗。) "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." -- Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice". [6] (世界上一种普遍承认的事实是:如果一个男人拥有了财富,那么他一定在寻找妻子。) "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina". [7] (所有的幸福家庭都很相似;而每个不幸的家庭,各有各自的不幸。) "I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am." -- Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar". [8] (我深吸一口气,听着我已经熟悉的心跳声:我存在,我活着。) "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." -- Tennessee Williams, "A Streetcar Named Desire". [9] (我总是依赖陌生人的善意。) "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance". [10] (在一个不断试图让你变成其他样子的世界里保持真我,是最伟大的成就。) "The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." -- John Green, "Looking for Alaska". [11] (走出痛苦的迷宫,唯一的出路是宽恕。) "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas Edison. [12] (我并没有失败。我只是找到了那些行不通的一万种方法。) "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -- J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". [13] (沉溺于梦想并忘记生活,是不可取的。) "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." -- Saint Augustine. [14] (这世界就像一本书,那些不旅行的人只读到了一页。) |
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