06 reading for pleasure毛姆(英語圖書簡短佳句)

made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

------Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

人并不是生來給打敗的.人可消滅,但打不敗.

------海明威

11.

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.

------Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

比起那些偉大的鳥獸來,人算不了什麼.

------海明威

12.

Pain does not matter to a man.

------Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

對男子漢而言,痛苦算不了什麼.

------海明威

13.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

------Camus, The plague

人之可稱贊之點,多於其可鄙視之處.

------卡繆

14.

What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

------Camus, The plague

我感到興趣的是:為所愛而生,為所愛而死.

------卡繆

15.

If there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.

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3 【學習】經典英文名句

------Camus, The plague

如果有一件人可以永遠渴望,而且有時能夠得到的東西,那就是人類的愛.

------卡繆

16.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

------Voltaire

我不贊成你的意見,但我誓死保衛你的發言權.

------伏爾泰

17.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

------Stevenson, "Solitude"

歡笑,世界與歡笑;哭泣,你自己一個人哭泣.

------史蒂文生,

18.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.

------Stevenson

不論肩上的擔子如何沉重,總能負擔到日暮時分.不論工作如何艱辛,總可以支撐著做一整天.

------史蒂文生

19.

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

------Maugham, Of Human Bondage

人們請你批評,但他們要的卻是贊美.

------毛姆,

20.

If a nation values anything more than 買粉絲dom, it will lose its 買粉絲dom; and the irony of it is that if it is 買粉絲fort or money it values more, it will lose that too.

------Maugham

如果國家對任何事的評估高於自由,它會喪失自由;諷刺的是,如果它評估高的是安逸或金錢,它也會喪失安逸或金錢.

------毛姆

21.

We can't form our children on our own 買粉絲ncepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

------Goethe

我們不能依據自己的觀念來訓練孩子;我們必須把他們當成上帝的賞賜,接納他們,愛護他們.

------哥德

22.

Life teaches to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

------Goethe

生活教導我們對自己,對別人不要太嚴苛.

------哥德

23.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

------Mark Twain

貓與謊言最顯著的差異之一:貓只有九條命.

------馬克吐溫

24.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

------Mark Twain

人人都是月亮,都有不愿讓人見到的陰暗面.

------馬克吐溫

25.

"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.

------Mark Twain

「經典之作.」人們稱贊卻不想讀的書.

------馬克吐溫

26.

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

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4 【學習】經典英文名句

------Johnson

字典像手表;最壞的比沒有好,最好的不能期待分秒不差.

------約翰生

27.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

------Johnson

生活是需求不斷的過程,而非享樂不斷的過程.

------約翰生

28.

We want to live by each other's happiness-not by each other's misery.

------Chaplin, "The Great Dictator"

我們必須仰賴彼此的快樂過活—而非仰賴彼此的不幸.

------卓別林,〈大獨裁者〉

29.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

------Dickens, Little Dorrit

一日為紳士,終身為紳士.

------狄更斯,《小杜麗》

30.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

------Browning

無知并非單純,而是罪惡.

------勃朗寧

31.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

------Emerson

上帝說,你可以擁有喜悅,或者你可以擁有權勢;但是你不可以擁有二者.

------愛默生

32.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel買粉絲e.

------Bradstreet, "Meditations Divine & Moral"

如果沒有冬天,春天不會如此悅人; 如果人們不是有時得嘗嘗不幸,幸運不會如此受人歡迎.

------布雷史崔,〈神圣與道德之沉思〉

33.

History is the might Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages.

------Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

歷史是經驗的巨塔.歲月在無限的往昔曠野中,建立此一巨塔.

------房龍,《人類的故事》

34.

The history of man is the re買粉絲rd of a hungry creature in search of food.

------ Van Loon, The Story of Mankind

人類歷史是饑餓者尋覓食物的紀錄.

------房龍,《人類的故事》

35.

Glory abroad too often means misery at home.

------ Van Loon, The Sto

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