To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation.
——Socrates
注重智慧、真理和靈魂的提升遠(yuǎn)比追求金錢(qián)、榮譽(yù)和名望要好得多。
——蘇格拉底
Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
——George Washington
不要承擔(dān)你完成不了的事,但一定要信守諾言。
——喬治·華盛頓
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
——Benjamin Franklin
不要出賣(mài)美德以換取財(cái)富,也不要用自由交換權(quán)力。
——本杰明·富蘭克林
I would like to live to study, and not study to live.
——Francis Bacon
我愿意為了學(xué)習(xí)而活著,不愿意為了活著而學(xué)習(xí)。
——弗朗西斯·培根
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
——Abraham Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走過(guò)的路。他尋找未開(kāi)拓的地區(qū)。
——亞伯拉罕·林肯
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
——John Dryden
錯(cuò)誤像浮在水面的稻草,要想尋找珍珠就得潛到它的下面。
—— 約翰·德萊頓
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
——Plato
體育運(yùn)動(dòng)如果是出于強(qiáng)迫,仍會(huì)有鍛煉之效;但在強(qiáng)迫之下獲得的知識(shí),則不能植根于頭腦中。
——柏拉圖
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
——Helen Hayes
你從父母那里學(xué)到愛(ài),學(xué)會(huì)笑,學(xué)會(huì)怎樣走路。而打開(kāi)書(shū)本,你將擁有翅膀。
——海倫·海斯
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
——William Osler
在科學(xué)上,功勞歸于使全世界信服其想法的人,而不歸于首先有這種想法的人。
——威廉·奧斯勒
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
——Thomas Jefferson
不要因?yàn)楸阋硕ベI(mǎi)你不需要的東西;對(duì)你而言它是昂貴的。
——托馬斯·杰弗遜
Don't gild the lily.
——Shakespeare.
不要給百合花鍍金(不要畫(huà)蛇添足)。
——莎士比亞 |