书城英文图书青春阅读——聆听人生真谛(双语)
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Learning and Thinking.

学习与思考

There is no satiety in study.

学无止境。

He who will not learn when he is young will regret it when he old.

少时不学,老来后悔。

It is never too late to learn.

学习从不嫌晚。

Seeing much,suffering much, and studying much,are the three pillars of learning.

多看,多磨砺,多研究,是为学三支柱。

Learning isnt a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

学习不是达到目标的一种手段,它本身就是目标。

You must learn to crawl before you walk.

先学爬,再学走。(循序渐进。)

Learning something that you may do something.

干什么都需要学习。

All things are attained by diligence and toil.

一切都是通过勤劳获得的。

He who questions nothing learns nothing.

什么都不问就什么也学不到。

Learn even from an enemy.

即使是敌人也可以向他学习。

Learning without thought is useless;thought without learning is dangerous.

学而不思,无用;思而不学,危险。

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds,so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

土壤因播种而改良,思想用学习来磨炼。

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

读而不思,犹食而不化。

Better to read little with thought than much with levity and quickness.

贪快读得多,不如边学边想读得少。

He that can read and meditate will no find his evenings long or life tedious.

会读书思索的人不会感到长夜无聊或者生活乏味。

The more we study,the more we discover our ignorance.

读书越多,越感到腹中空虚。

If a man empties his purse into his head,no man can take it away from him.An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

倾囊求知,无人能夺。投资知识,得益最多。

If a man will not seek knowledge, it will not seek him.

你若不去找知识,知识不会来找你。

Men learn by their sufferings more than by any other teaching.

人从苦难学到的东西超过别的教导。

To know everything is to know nothing.

样样都通,样样稀松。

It is not wide reading but useful reading that tends to excellence.

读书要有成效不在于博览,而在于读有用的书。

Learning is a bitter root,but it bears sweet fruit.

学习根苦果甜。

Observation is the best teacher.

观察是最好的老师。

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.

知识是治疗恐惧的药。

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

掩盖无知要比学到知识更难。

You may glean knowledge by reading,but you must separate the chaff from the wheat by thinking.

读书可以获得知识,思考才能去粗存精。

No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.

没有比读书便宜的娱乐,也没有比读书更持久的欢乐。

No such thing as genius;it is nothing but labour and diligence.

无所谓天才,它仅是刻苦加勤奋。

There needs a long apprenticeship to understand the mystery of the world trade.

要知世事奥秘多,须要长期作学徒。

It is a peculiarity of knowledge that those who thirst for it always get it.

知识的特性是渴望它的人总是最先得到它。

All readers can be divided into two classes:those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

所有的读者都可分为两类:为了记住而读的和为了忘却而读的。

Be as careful of the books you read,as of the company you keep;for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

选书应和交友一样谨慎,因为你的习性受书籍的影响不亚于朋友。

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.

孩提时代学到的东西,到老死也不会忘记。

Discussion is an exchange of intelligence argument is an exchange of ignorance.

讨论是交换情况,争辩是交换无知。

You can tell a mans taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

一个人判断哪些书不用看,你就可以知道他对文学的兴趣。

A great part of the information one acquires by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

一个人的学问中有很大一部分是通过查找某事物时发现另外的事物而获得的。

Wise men seek instruction,fools fall for applause.

聪明人找人指教,蠢人则在赞美声中跌倒。

Histories make men wise;poets witty; mathematics subtle,natural philosophy deep; morality grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

历史使人聪明;诗使人机智;数学使人敏锐;哲学使人含蓄;伦理使人严肃;逻辑和修辞使人善辩。

He who knows useful things not many things,is wise.

聪明人不是懂得多,而是懂得有用的东西。

The wise man knows he knows nothing;the dunce thinks he knows all.

聪明人知道自己不懂什么,蠢人则认为自己什么都懂。

Other peoples defects are good teachers.

别人的缺点就是自己的好老师。

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Fools learn nothing from wise men,but wise men learn much from fools.

愚人不会从聪明人那里学到什么东西,但聪明人却能从愚人那里学到许多东西。

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared,for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

甚至对最有准备的人来说,考试也是不容轻视的,因为最大的蠢才也可能提出超过聪明的人所能回答的问题。

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

字典正如时钟一样;最坏的一种仍胜于无,然而最好的一种也不能认为是十分准确的。

Failure is the mother of success.

失败是成功之母。

By reading we enrich the mind ;by conversation we polish it.

读书使我们思想丰富,谈话可以唤起我们的思想。

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

知识浅薄,如履薄冰。

A person with a book is a real person alive on the earth;without a book he is a fool.

手不释卷者是活在世上的真正的人;不然,就是一个傻瓜。

A fool may give a wise man counsel.

一个蠢才也可以给一个聪明人以教诲。

Democracy is the expression of popular will.Not one man,not a group of men,but the people are supreme.Sovereignty resides in them.

民主即是民众意愿的表达。处于至高无上地位的不是一个人,也不是一群人, 而是全体人民,主权属于他们。

The whole dignity of man lies in the power of thought.

人的全部尊严在于思考的力量。

The greatness of mankind derives from thought.

人类的伟大来源于思想。

He who has an art has everywhere a part.

有一技之长的人到处可以立足。

He who has a good trade through all waters may wade.

有一技之长的人可以处处涉足。

Great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

教育之艰在于在意念中获得经验。 Good temper is like a sunny day,it sheds its brightness everywhere.

好的脾气正如一个有阳光的日子,它的光芒普照四方。

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

成大事不在力量大小,而在于持久。

Great souls suffer in silence.

伟大的灵魂往往在沉默中受煎熬。

Constant effort yields sure success.

功到事成。

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world,not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

在科学上,功劳归于使全世界信服的人,而不归于首先有这种想法的人。

The science teaches,above all,to doubt and be ignorant.

真正的科学首先教人怀疑和知道自己无知。

Unless it goes hand in hand with science,democracy will have no future.

民主只有和科学携手并行,才会有未来。

That is the essence of science:ask an impertinent question,and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

科学的本质是:提出一个不恰当的问题,于是你便走上了通往恰当答案的路。

Scientific knowledge aims at being wholly impersonal.

科学知识要求完全不受个人影响。

A man becomes learned by asking questions.

问遍千家成行家。

He who teaches me for one day is my teacher for life.

一日为师,终生为师。

There"s many trade,and every trade has its masters.

三百六十行,行行出状元。

When I walk in the company of three men,there must be a teacher of mine.

三人行,必有吾师。

Since man is not born with knowledge,who can be without doubt?

人非生而知之,孰能无惑?