书城英文图书青春阅读——聆听人生真谛(双语)
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第5章 理念篇(1)

理想与信念

Laughter is the music of life. It is laughter that can brightens a friends day and bring good friends closer. And at critical times, laughter can help release  tension and give your friend a new perspective on a seemingly grave or hopelesssituation.

欢笑是生活中的音乐。是欢笑使朋友的日子过得愉快,使好朋友更亲近。在危急关头, 欢笑可以帮助消除紧张,给你的朋友带来绝处逢生的希望。

By the time we realize our parents were  right, we have children who think were  wrong.

当我们意识到我们的父母曾经正确的时候,我们已为人父母了,而我们的孩子却认为我们是 错的。

To feel better, you need to think better.  Say yes to yourself.

你只有往好处想,才会感觉良好。要对自己有信心。

Dont cut loose from your longings, for  what are we without our longings?

不要摆脱渴望的束缚,没有了渴望,我们会怎样?

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up  to make sure the old year leaves.

乐观的人熬到午夜,只为了看新年的来临。悲观的人待到午夜,只为了确定过去的一年终 于过去了。

There must be some use for the talent heaven granted me.

天生我材必有用。

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

大多数人急不可待地追求快乐,以至于匆忙中错过了享受欢乐。

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

许多年轻人都会犯这样的错误,认定如果自己不能拯救全人类就是失败。

The cat could very well be mans best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

猫可以成为人最好的朋友,但它永远不会屈从于这一点。

There has never been an age that did not  applaud the past and lament the present.

没有一代人不赞赏过去、惋惜现在的。

You never know when youre making a memory.

给你留下印象最深的事,在经历的时候你并不觉得。

I dont think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

不要想起所有的悲伤,而要记得仍然存在的美。

Confession is good for the soul—and sometimes royalties.

忏悔对灵魂来说是件好事,有时对忠诚来说也不无裨益。

For many, lifes longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence.

对许多人来说,生活中最长的一段路莫过于从依赖到独立了。

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they  will never find it.

人们因追求完美而抛弃那些他们可以得到的东西、而对那些他们不可能拥有的东西,却在根本不可能找到的地方寻找着。

You dont have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

作个诗人并不一定要痛苦。对每个人来说青春时期就够痛苦的了。

A human beings first responsibility is  to shake hands with himself.

人的第一个责任是和自己握手。

Live so that your friends can defend you  but never have so.

活着,要人不犯我,我不犯人。

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble.

冒险不过是麻烦的一个浪漫说法罢了。

Spring is wonderful. It makes you feel young enough to do all the things youre old enough to know you cant.

春天很美妙。它使你感觉年轻,它使你去做那些你的年龄使你认为你不可能做的事。

Recall it as often as you wish, a happy  memory never wears out.

一个愉快的记忆是不会令人厌倦的,你可以随时回味。

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

如果我们生活得好,时代也会很好。时代就像我们一样。

If youre going to be able to look back  on something and loathe about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

如果你想追溯往事,抱怨过去,最好现在一笑了之。

Id rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.

我宁愿败倒在我所欣赏的事物的脚下,也不愿战胜我所痛恨的事物。

In the face of uncertainty,there is nothing wrong with hope.

面对无法确定的事情,满怀期望地对待它是最明智的。

Having it all doesnt necessarily mean having it all at once.

全部拥有并不意味着得来全不费功夫。

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you dont want, drink what you dont like, and do what youd rather not.

保持健康唯一的途径是吃你不想吃的,喝你不喜欢喝的,做你不喜欢做的。

Middle age is when you wish you could have some of the naps you refused to take as a kid.

中年时你希望午睡,而孩提时你却拒绝。

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

每一代人都认为自己比上代人聪明,而又比下一代明智。

We drink for joy and become miserable; we drink for sociability and become argumentative; we drink for sophistication and become obnoxious; we drink to help us  sleep and awake exhausted; we drink for exhilaration and end up depressed.

我们为了寻求欢乐而喝酒,却变得痛苦;我们为了交际而喝酒,却变得好争辩;我们为了显得老练而喝酒,却变得讨厌;我们为了帮助睡眠而喝酒,却筋疲力尽地醒着;我们为了兴奋而喝酒,最后得到的却是抑郁。

We drink to gain confidence and become afraid; we drink to make conversation flow and become incoherent; we drink to diminish our problems and see them multiply.

我们为了获得信心而喝酒,却变得胆怯;我们为了使谈话滔滔不绝而喝酒,却变得语无伦次;我们为了减少问题而喝酒,却眼看着问题倍增。

The finest hours of life are those spent not among large groups, but in conversation with just a few people, in reading  great books, in listening to great music, wandering in a forest of giant sequoia, unraveling natures secrets in a laboratory. The men who have had the most to  give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

人生中最美好的时光不是和一大群人在一起,而是和几个人交谈,阅读名著,聆听伟大的音乐,徘徊于红杉树林中,在实验室里揭示自然的奥秘。给予同胞最多的人是那些在孤寂中充实自己头脑和心灵的人。不能使人学会适应孤独的教育是失败的。

Life is like a tennis game, you cant win without serving.

人生就像打网球,不发球是永远不可能赢的。

One candle can light a thousand others without diminishing its own light.

一只蜡烛可以点燃一千只蜡烛,而它自己的光辉不会因此而减弱。

To feel rich, count the things you have that money cant buy.

数一数你自己所拥有的那些金钱买不到的东西,就会觉得自己很富有。

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

欢乐就像香水,如果你自己不先洒上几滴的话,就不会落在别人身上。

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

没有任何化妆品比欢乐更能使人美丽。

Blowing out the other fellows candle wont make yours shining any brighter.

吹灭别人的蜡烛并不能使你的蜡烛燃烧得更亮。

Its easier and better to build boys than to repair men.

塑造一个男孩比挽救一个男人要容易得多。

Politeness is to do and say the kindest thing in the kindest way.

礼貌就是做最慈善的事,说最和善的话。

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. You never lose by giving.

我们也许会不出自爱心地付出,但却不能爱而不付出,而在这付出的过程中你永远不会失去 什么。

All the best things in life are shared.Love just doesnt grow if you leave it on a shelf, take it down and use it, don t keep it to yourself.

生命中最美好的东西都是可以分享的,如果你把爱放在书架上,它是不会滋长的,把它取下 来,利用它,不要只留给你自己。

When I look at the future its so bright, it burns my eyes.

当我展望未来时,它竟如此夺目,令我目眩。

Our lives are sudden and changing and sometimes beyond our control. Out of control, we feel free.

我们的生活是瞬息万变的,有时会超越我们的控制。挣脱羁绊,我们感到很自由。

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

我宁愿生活在一个被神秘感所环绕的世界,而不愿生活在一个一切都一览无余、不需思考的 小世界里。

When it comes to staying young, a mindlift beats a facelift any day.

要想永远年轻,则应重视思想修养,而不能只靠整容。

You dont stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.