Unit 01 智慧篇—改变世界的力量

一定要知道的经典名句

1. 简洁是智慧的灵魂，冗长是肤浅的藻饰（言贵简洁）。

Brevity is the soul of wit.

出自Hamlet 2.2《哈姆雷特》第二幕第二场

2. 智慧是命运的一部分，一个人所遭遇的外界环境会影响他的头脑。Men’s judgments are a parcel of their fortunes; and things

outward do draw the inward quality after them, to suffer all

alike.

出自Antony and Cleopatra 3.13《安东尼和克里奥派特拉》第三幕第十三场3. 知子之父为智。

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

出自A Merchant of Venice 2.2《威尼斯商人》第二幕第二场

4. 做过的事不能逆转。

What’s done cannot be undone.

莎士比亚还有这样说

•满瓶不动，半瓶摇。

The empty vessels make the greatest sound.

•不要给百合花镀金（画蛇添足）。

Don’t gild the lily.

•宁为聪明的愚夫，不做愚蠢的才子。

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

•祸兮福之所倚。

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

•无知乃是罪恶，知识乃是我们借以飞向天堂的翅膀。

Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. •不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。

Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.

•闪光的并不都是金子。

All that glisters is not gold.

•抛弃时间的人，时间也抛弃他。

Discard time, the time he has abandoned. Discard time, and time is up to him.

其他名人也这么说

•赫伯特(Herbert)

他用爱，统治了王国，而不是利剑。

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

•拿破仑(Napoleon)

要真正了解一个人，需要在不幸中判断他。

To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.

•巴特勒(Butler)

永远正确是最大的错误。

There is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

•巴纳姆(Barnum)

金钱是可怕的主人，却是绝佳的仆人。

Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant.

•尼采(Nietzsche)

聪明的人只要能掌握自己，便什么也不会失去。

A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.

•罗素(Russell)

有些东西你想要而没有，这是幸福不可缺少的一部分。

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part

of happiness.

•伏尔泰(Voltaire)

持久的争论意味着双方都是错的。

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.

•富兰克林(Benjamin Franklin)

想被人爱，就要去爱别人，并让自己可爱。

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

•亚里士多德(Aristotle)

做一件好事并不难，难的是养成一种做好事的习惯。

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

•卢梭(Rousseau)

大自然永远不会欺骗我们，欺骗我们的往往是我们自己。

Nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves.

•亚伯拉罕•林肯(Abraham Lincoln)

重要的原则能够也必须是灵活的。

Important principles may and must be flexible.

•肯尼迪(Kennedy)

我们选择登月及其他事情，并不是因为它们简单，而是因为它们困难。

We choose to go to the moon and other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

•爱因斯坦(Albert Einstein)

有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

•马克•吐温(Mark Twain)

具有新想法的人在其想法被接受之前是怪人。

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

作文画龙点睛抄这句

当写到和“智慧”有关的作文时，就可以这样抄！

...It is never too old to learn. To encourage lifelong learning, W. William Shakespeare says, "Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." Only when human beings pursuit a high level of knowledge and have concerns about everything on earth, we can then make the world a fairyland... ……活到老、学到老。为了鼓励终身学习的精神，莎士比亚说：“无知乃是罪恶，知识乃是我们借以飞向天堂的翅膀。”期许人类在追求知识的同时，给予世间万物更多关怀，因而才能创造出真正的人间仙境。……