English & Chinese Quotes 中英对照妙语连珠
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
幸福是良好的健康加上糟糕的记性。
When falling in love, some lose their head, others lose their heart.
在陷入情网的时候,有些人丢了头脑,另一些人丢了心。
Love is the only thing that holds the dark at bay.
唯有爱可以把黑暗囚在港湾里。
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
爱是两个人玩的双赢游戏。
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
爱并不是从相互凝视之中获得的,倒是可以由同朝一个方向眺望而产生。这是生活给予我们的教训。
The most important thing a father can do for his children is love their mother.
一位父亲能为他的孩子做的最要紧的事是爱他们的母亲。
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which become a habit.
爱是无尽的宽恕,是惯常的温柔目光。
To be in love is to surpass oneself.
人在爱中超越自我。
Love enters a man through his eyes; a woman through her ears.
男人的爱情门户在眼睛,女人则是在耳朵。
There are three classes of men - lovers of wisdom,lovers of honor, lovers of gain.
(对女人来说)有三类男人:智慧的情人,尊荣的情人,赚钱的情人。
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
女人定规是要让人爱,而不是要让人理解。
There are no ugly woman; there are only women who not know how to look pretty.
没有丑女人,只有不懂得如何使自己显出美丽的女人。
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
想要别人爱你的话,就要去爱别人,做一个可爱的人。
If you be loved, be worthy of love.
如果有人爱你,你就该做个值得人爱的人。
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without love.
具备爱的无知和笨拙胜过缺乏爱的智慧和技巧。
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."|
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
不成熟的爱说:“我爱你,因为我需要你。”|成熟的爱说:“我需要你,因为我爱你。”
Love me little, love me long.
爱不在深厚,乃在久长。
Where there is no trust, there is no love.
没有信任就没有爱。
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
总结过去,放眼未来,把握现在。
Be happy. It is a way of being wise.
快乐起来吧!快乐才是明智的。
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
喜剧是悲剧加上时间。
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
爱是春天的植物,用它的生机使一切散发出芬芳气息,即便是它所处身的废墟,也充满了希望。
Do not scorn the person who is perpetually happy. He does know something you
don't.
不要轻视那无论何时总显得快乐无忧的人,有些事情是你所不懂的,而他懂。
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
我是一个理想主义者,我不知道将往何处,但我正在赶路。
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
我只晓得一个责任,那就是施爱。
Love is the only satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
对于人类生存问题,唯一令人满意的答案是:爱。
Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.
真理一从人的嘴里说出来就走了样。
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
一个对爱保持清醒的人无法去爱。
Contention is better than loneliness.
争吵总比寂寞好。
Good friends stab you in the front.
当面刺痛你的是你的好朋友。
If there is anything better than being loved, it's loving.
如果有什么事情比被爱着更好的话,那就是爱着。
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
结婚是两个人的结合:其中一个总是忘了生日而另一个从来不会忘记。
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
爱情就象一个砂漏,当脑子倒空的时候心就被填满了。
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
匮乏压抑了人的一些小欲望而强化了重大的欲望,就如风吹灭蜡烛而煽旺篝火。
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
我给你的忠告是:结婚吧!如果你找到一个好妻子,你是幸福的;如果妻子不贤,你则会成为哲学家。
If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!
但愿坏习惯象心一样易碎!
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
当爱被沾污时,金钱成了代用品。
Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive it.
爱使人健全;奉献或接受皆然。
Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.
浪漫植根于幻觉之上,而当我们爱上某个人时,我们也爱上他为我们营造的幻觉。
Love and a cough cannot be hidden.
恋爱与咳嗽无法掩藏。
Love is wealth.
爱是一笔财富。
It is impossible to love and be wise.
爱情和理智不能并存。
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap -- even men who hate baths.
男人喜欢追逐那些象弄湿了的香皂般令人难以捉摸的女人——哪怕是讨厌洗澡的男人。
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
世上没有女人的话,男人可以活得象神仙。
Women who seek to be equal with men lack am
bition.
寻求男女平等的女性缺乏雄心壮志。
When a female has tears in her eyes the one who cannot see is the male.
女性泪眼矇眬之时,视线受阻的是男性。
Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
我所发表的每个句子应当被理解为提出问题,而不要理解成下结论。
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
想象力比知识更重要。
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
当你出生时,你啼哭而世界欣喜。善度你的一生,使得你离世的时候,世界哭泣而你欣喜。
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
为原则而战比遵行原则来得容易。
A man that studied revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
一心想要复仇的人是原样保留他的创口,不然的话他的创口会愈合和好转的。
We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
相比之下,我们更易受他人恶习而非美德的感染,一如疾病远比健康易于传染。
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,then we are a sorry lot indeed.
如果人们向善仅因为他们惧怕惩罚和期望得到报偿,那真是太遗憾了。
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
以眼还眼将使整个世界失明。
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
正如门一直开着,苍蝇却去冲击玻璃窗意图自由一般,我们扑向灭亡,不知道有天路。
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
正直没有知识则软弱而无用,知识没有正直则危险而可怕。
If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.
如果你照着一个人的习气去对待他,他就总是老样子。如果你照着你所期望的样子来对待他,他就会如你所愿。
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
可叹财富并没有改变人,它只是撕去了他们的假面具。
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
慈善是唯一不会破产的投资。
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
总是说真话,这样你就无需记住你所说过的话。
Be good and you will be lonesome.
做一个好人将会很孤独。
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting.
如果理解恰当的话,遗忘与宽恕并不难。这就是说,忘记不便履行的义务,然
后宽恕自己的健忘。
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
假如你收留一只快饿死的狗,使它恢复元气,它是不会咬你的。这是人与狗的主要区别。
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
美德由自身得到回报。行善时的快慰就是足额的酬劳。
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
所谓“人人平等”,不是生而平等,而仅仅是道义上的平等,两者大不相同。
The superfluous is very necessary.
“多余”的东西正是必不可少的。
Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
没有同情心,不会怜悯人的人真是可怜。
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
我相信,每项权利意味着一项义务,每个机会意味着一个约束,每种拥有意味着一种责任。
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
榜样不仅仅是影响他人的主要因素,其实它是唯一有效的因素。
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
为犯罪而内疚的人近乎清白。
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
通达的人转变自己以适应环境。不切实际的人执意于使环境适应自己。因而,一切的进步全赖不切实际者。
It does not take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength to know what to do.
去做一个事并不是太费劲,但是要搞清楚该做什么就要花大力气了。
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
有高尚理念为伴的人从不孤独。
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
很早以前我就懂得,永远不要与猪争斗。因为你会弄得很脏,而猪就喜欢你这样。
Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
一切都要适度——包括“适度”本身。
To err is human, to forgive divine.
犯罪在于人,宽恕则在于神。
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
好人之所以是好人 且蛭谴哟彀苤斜涞么厦髌鹄础?
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
假若法律不公正,那么,人们不但有权不遵从,也有责任不遵从。
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
知道下一步该做什么就是智慧;做应该做的就是美德。
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
仁慈就是以人所不配受的爱去爱他们。
I believe in looking
reality straight in the eye and denying it.
我奉行亲眼目睹事实,然后否定它。
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
大凡大坏蛋总能迷人于一时。
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
最终我们将记住的不是敌人的言论,而是朋友的沉默。
The time is always right to do what is right
只要是正确的事,时间总会把它变成实现。
Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
对别人而言,谦卑是第一美德。
Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.
每笔巨额财富的背后必有罪恶。
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
法律以它庄严的平等,禁止富人,也禁止穷人,不许他们在天桥下露宿,在街上行乞,或偷面包吃。
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
银行是一个在晴天把伞借给你,而后当天开始下雨时它就把伞要回去的地方。
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
金钱是很多东西的外壳,而不是内核。它给你买来的,是食物,而非胃口;是药品,而非健康;是熟人,而非朋友;是仆人,而非忠心;是欢乐的日子,而非平安与幸福。
A banker will lend you money only if you can prove you don't need it.
只在你能证明你不需要钱的时候,银行才会借钱给你。
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
我什么都不要,只要一个机会,一个证明钱不能使我幸福的机会。
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
有两类人:一类是把人分为两类的,另一类不把人分为两类。