【格言集锦 · 第1/2020期】万事不过开头难。(德芳侯爵夫人)

编者按:

思考了很久才新增的栏目(主要是书看得快,但是读后感写得慢

,翻译也慢),

希望大家喜欢。

1. Everyone wishes to have the truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth。Richard Whately

人人都希望真理在自己一边,但不是每个人都希望自己站在真理那一边。(理查德 · 惠特利)

2.  Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistake. (Oscar Wilde)

谬误常常以“经验”之名出现。(奥斯卡·王尔德)

3.  As scare as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Jash Billings)

尽管真理相当罕见,但它永远供过于求。(比林斯)

4. Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't. (Mark Twain)

事实比小说离奇。小说不得不忠实于种种可能性,事实则不必。(马克·吐温)

5.  Thinking isn't to agree or disagree——that's voting.(Robert Frost)

思考并非同意或不同意——那是表决。(弗洛斯特)

6. Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives himself. (Edward Gibbon)

每个人都接受两种教育,一种来自他人,另一种更重要的来自自己。(爱德华·吉本)

7. To build one more school can afford building one less prison. (Victor Hugo)

多建一所学校就可以少建一座监狱。(雨果)

8.  Perhaps they were right in putting love into books...Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. (William Faulkner)

也许把爱情写在书里是对的……也许它在别的地方都无法存在。(福克纳)

9.  This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. (William Lyon Phelps)

对一个绅士的决定性考验,是看他是否尊重对自己不可能有用处的人。(费尔普斯)

10. Anger is seldom without an argument, but soldom with a good one.(Charles Montague Halifax)

生气很少是没有理由的,不过很少具有充分的理由。(哈利法克斯)

11. He who tell a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one. (Alexander Pope)

说谎者没有意识到自己承担了多么大的一桩苦差事,因为他必须再说二十个谎来维持这一个谎。(蒲柏)

12. The beautiful is nothing other than the visible form of the good. (Plato)

美无非是善的可见形式。(柏拉图)

13. To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. (Oscar Wilde)

变得更加深谋远虑是受过磨难的人的特权。(王尔德)

14. Our enemies come nearer the truth in their opinions of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. (La Rochefoucauld)

敌人对我们的看法比我们对自己的看法更接近事实。(拉罗什富科)

15.  It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. (Agnes Repplier)

在自己身上找到幸福不容易,在别的地方找到幸福不可能。(雷普利尔)

16.  He is most powerful who governs himself. (Seneca)

能克制自己的人最有力量。(塞内加)

17.  It is only the first step that is difficult. (Marquise de Deffand)

万事不过开头难。(德芳侯爵夫人)

18.  The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. (Napoleon)

信守诺言的最好方法就是永远不要许诺。(拿破仑)

19.  A woman must choose: with a man liked by women, she is not sure; with a man disliked by women, she is not happy. (A. France)

女人必须做出选择:与讨女人喜欢的男人在一起不可靠;与不讨女人喜欢的男人在一起不快乐。(法郎士)

20.  Love is sweet, but tastes best with bread. (Yiddish proverbs)

爱情是蜜糖,但只有加上面包也是味道最好的。

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