【灵感手抄本】
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为了赢,本次全部采用双语
Each passing year takes something from us.
每个流年都从我们身上取走些东西。
——Horace 贺拉斯
Nothing goes swifter than the years.
没有什么比年岁跑得快。
——Ovid 奥维德
The precept“know yourself”,was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind;but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
“认识你自己”这一格言并非仅仅为了告诫人们切勿骄傲;
它同样也使我们能了解自身的价值。
——Cicero 西塞罗
The wheel of change moves on,and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
变化的车轮滚滚前进,有的人上来了,有的下去了。
——Nehru 尼赫鲁
To master oneself is the greatest mastery.
最伟大的征服莫过于征服自己。
——Seneca 塞涅卡
There are admirable potenciality in every human being.Believe in your strength and youth.Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself:“It all depends on me.”
每一个人的身上都蕴藏着一种可贵的潜力。
相信你的力量和青春。
你要学会不断地告诫自己:
“一切取决于我。”
——Gide 纪德
Self-knowledge is best learned,not by contemplatidn,but action.Strive to do you duty,and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made.
学会自知的最好途径不是通过冥思苦想,而是通过行动。尽心尽责,你很快就能发现自己是哪块料。
——Goethe 歌德
To know one’s self is the true;to strive with one’s self is the good;to conquer one’s self is the beautiful.
了解自己为真;
搏击自己为善;
征服自己为美。
——Jacques Roux 扎克·鲁
Trust not yourself,but your defects to know
Make use of every friend and every foe.
不要相信你自己,而要知道你的弱点,朋友和敌人,都可供你借鉴。
——Pope 蒲柏
To live is to change,and to be perfect is to have changed often.
生活就是变,生活得愈好就是变得愈频繁。
——Newman 纽曼
The highest and most fruitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves.To have a low opinion of our own merits,and to think highly of others,is an evidence of wisdom.All men are frail,but you should consider none as frail as yourself.
最高而最有利的学习是对自己的认识。
对自己的长处不要看得过高,对别人的则可看得高些,这是明智的表现。
所有的人都是脆弱的,而你却应当把自己看得比别人更为脆弱。
——Thomas Kempis 托马斯·坎皮斯
He who is firm and resolute in will moulds the world to himself.
谁意志坚定而顽强,谁塑造自己的世界。
——Goethe 歌德
Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
那些相信只有自己是正确的人,通常都能有所成就。
——Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎
Self-reverence,self-knowledge,self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
自尊,
自知,
自制,
仅此三样便能使人强大无比。
——Tennyson 丁尼生
What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
你对自己的看法比别人对你的看法更为重要。
——Seneca 塞涅卡
As is our confidence,so is our capacity.
有多大信心,便有多大能力。
——William Hazlitt 威廉·赫士列特
Be as a tower,that,firmly set,
Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
像一座塔,坚定矗立,
任何疾风都动摇不了它的顶。
——Dante 但丁
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors,and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.
除非从过去的错误中取得有益的教训和从宝贵的经验中获得好处,我们是不应该向后看的。
——Washington 华盛顿
Diligence is the mother of good luck,and God gives all things to industry.Then plough deep while sluggards sleep,and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
勤奋是好运的母亲,上帝给予勤劳人以一切。当着懒汉还睡在床上时,你就深耕细作,你定有余粮可以出售。
——Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林
Pray to God and ply the hammer.
祈求上帝的同时,还要挥舞榔头地劳动。
——Cervantes 塞万提斯
Each day is a little life;every waking and rising a little birth,every fresh morning a little youth,every going to rest and sleep a little death.
每个日子是小小的生命,每次醒来是小小的诞生,每天清晨是小小的青春,每次就寝是小小的死亡。
——Schopenhauer 叔本华
Nothing is worth more than this day.
没有什么比今天更宝贵。
——Goethe 歌德