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(51) Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. —Thomas Henry Huxley 要試着學習每一件事情的某些方面,以及某些事情的每一個方面。
(52) The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. —Samuel Smiles 做許多事情的最簡捷的方法是立即只做一件事。
(53) A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. —Marty Allen 經濟學的研究通常昭示我們購買任何東西的最佳時間是在去年。
(54) As a final incentive before giving up a difficult task, try to imagine it successfully accomplished by someone you violently dislike. —K. Zenios 作為在放棄一項困難任務之前的最後激勵,試想象你極其討厭的人成功地完成了這項工作。
(55) A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised. —Fred Allen 名人,就是艱苦工作一輩子而成為眾所周知、然後戴上墨鏡以防被認出的人。
(56) All generalisations are dangerous, even this one. —Alexander Fils Dumas 所有的歸納都是危險的,包括本條在內。—小仲馬
(57) The first man to fence in a piece of land saying “this is mine” and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau 那第一個在一塊地上築了籬笆,說“這是我的土地”,並且還發現人們單純得竟相信了他,就是文明社會的真正奠基者。—盧梭
(58) There are so few who can grow old with a good grace. —Sir Richard Steele 極少的人能夠非常樂意地進入耄耄之年。
(59) A friend is one who knows all about you but likes you just the same. —W.G.P. 朋友就是了解了你的全部而仍然喜歡你的人。
(60) You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. —Dr A.O.Battista 一旦對金錢、讚譽和名聲不再感興趣,你就是到達了成功的顛峰。
(61) One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself. —Sara Jeannette Duncan 一個人由於不笑自己而會失去很多笑聲。
(62) That list of New Year Resolutions you made last year can be used again. It’s as good as new. —W.G.P. 你可以把去年的“新年新打算一覽”再次使用,它猶如新起草的一樣美好。
(63) We’ve made great medical progress in the last generation. What used to be merely an itch is now an allergy. — Anonymous 在上一代我們已經取得了醫學上的巨大進步,以前只不過稱為“痒痒”的感覺,現在叫作“變態反應性”了。
(64) It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has. —William Osler 知道是什麼樣的人生了病比知道這人生了什麼樣的病要重要得多。
(65)Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less. —Charles Lamb 時間和空間是最使我迷茫、但也是最少煩擾我的東西。
(66) When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. —John F. Kennedy Crisis寫成漢語是由兩個方塊字組成(危機),第一個字表示危險,另一個是機會。—約翰·肯尼迪(美國第三十五任總統)
(67) The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one. —Simone de Beauvoir 一個退休人員的作用就是不再起作用。
(68) The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby. —Natalie Wood 一個女人要改變一個男人只有在那男人是一個嬰兒的時候才能真正成功。
(69) An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. —Nicholas Murray Butler 所謂專家就是越來越知道自己知道得少而又少的人。
(70) To do nothing is also a good remedy. —Hippocrates 不做任何事情也是一種補救良方。
(71) What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. —Palph Waldo Emerson 什麼是野草?就是一種其優點尚未被發現的植物。
(72) When a man opens the car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife. —Prince Philip 如果一位男士為他的妻子打開汽車的門,要麼這是輛新車,要麼那是位新太太。
(73) I have never seen pessimism in a Company prospectus. —Sir William Connor 我從來沒有在一份公司的計劃書中看到過悲觀主義。
(74) If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. —Mark Twain 如果你撿了一條餓狗並使它溫飽,它便不會咬你,這就是狗與人的主要區別。—馬克·吐溫
(75) Parents spend the first part of a child’s life getting him to walk and talk, and the rest of his childhood getting him to sit down and shut up. —Anonymous 父母在孩子生命的最初階段教他走路和說話,而在剩餘的童年時期教他坐下和閉嘴。
(76) The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. —James M. Barrie 幸福的奧秘不在於做你喜歡之事,而在於喜歡你不得不做的事情。
(77) The ideal committee is one with me as chairman, and two other members in bed with flu. —Lord Milverton 理想的委員會是我當主席,而另外兩個委員流行性感冒躺在床上。
(78) When you cross a street, look both ways-even in a one-way street. —Andrew Rooney 當你過馬路時,即使這是一條單向行車道,也得兩邊都要看一下。
(79) Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you. —Spanish Proverb 任何傳閒話給你的人都會傳你的閒話。-西班牙諺語
(80) Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. —G.K. Chesterton 閒適就是允許你不做任何時情。
(81)The human race has improved everything except the human race. —Adlai Stevenson 人類改善了除人類之外的每一樣事物。
(82) Knowledge is not only power, it can also be a burden. —P.K. Shaw 知識不僅僅是力量,它也會是一種負擔。
(83) One good thing about lovers is that they don’t take up much room on the public transport. —P.K. Shaw 與熱戀的人們有關的一件好事是戀人們在公交車上占據的空間不大。
(84) It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. —Friedrich Neitzsche 不是缺少愛情而是缺少友情造成了不愉快的婚姻。
(85) Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. —Zsa Zsa Gabor 僅僅因為你不愛一個男人而要與之離婚,這幾乎是與單單因為你愛一個男人而要與之結婚一樣愚蠢。
(86) Like can turn to love but seldom love to like. —P.K. Shaw 喜愛可以轉為戀愛,但很少由戀愛變成喜愛。
(87) If you feel that some things in life are not fast enough, at least you can’t complain about your birthdays. —P.K. Shaw 如果你感到生活中有些事情來得不夠快的話,至少你不能抱怨你的生日吧!
(88) One should choose for a wife only a woman one would choose for a friend if she were a man. —Joseph Joubert 只有這樣的女人才應該選作妻子:假如她是一個男人的話可以選作朋友。
(89) A man in love mistakes a harelip for a dimple. —Japanese Proverb 陷入愛河的男人會把一張豁嘴錯當成一個酒窩。—日本諺語
(90) A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. —George Santayana 一個僅僅在學校受過教育的孩子是個未曾教化的孩子。
(91) Everyone’s responsibility is no one’s responsibility. —Anonymous 人人有責就是沒人負責。
(92) Everyone lives by selling something. —Robert Louis Stevenson 每一個人都是靠賣點什麼過日子。
(93) Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. —Proverb 大自然、時間和耐心是三個偉大的醫生。
(94) How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? —Satchell Page 如果你不知道你有多老,你該有多老?
(95) Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. —Lord Henry Bougham 教育使得一個人容易被領導,但不易被駕馭,容易被掌管,但是不可能被奴役。
(96) Three of the most powerful words in the English language are amongst the shortest. They are “If”, “Yes” and “No”. Any one of these could start a war. —J.D. Boatwood 英語中最有威力的三個詞屬於最短的,它們是“如果(If)”、“是(Yes)”和“不(No)”。這些詞的任一個都可能引發戰爭。
(97) Silence is argument carried out by other means. —Ernesto “Che” Guevara 沉默是另一種意義上進行的爭辯。—切·格瓦拉
(98) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. —Winston Churchill 樂觀主義者在每一樣危險中看到機會,悲觀主義者在每一種機會裡看到危險。—丘吉爾
(99) When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. —Gertrude Stein 當孤單時,人們想與他人在一起;當與他人在一起時,人們又想獨處。總的來說,人類大抵如此。
(100) It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbour. —Eric Hoffer. 熱愛整個人類要比愛你的鄰居來得容易。
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