英文名言翻译讲解集合

1.Security can only be achieved through constant changes, through discarding old ideas that have

outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. —William O. Douglas

安全必须通过不断变革方可实现，必须摒弃过时无用的旧观念，并改变其他旧观念以适应现实。

—威廉·道格拉斯

discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness和adapting others to current facts都是through 的宾语，看其形态便知——都是动名词短语

others = other old ideas

William Orville Douglas:(1898-1980) United States Supreme Court Associate Justice, a fervent supporter of civil rights, conservation, and civil liberties.

(Douglas was the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court (1939-1975).)

2.Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can’t ever take that away from you.

—Mae West 真正的安全在于自己。相信自己能保护自己，别人就不能夺去你的安全感。—梅·威斯特

it = security

that = (that) you know you can do it

Mae West: (1893-1980) American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.

(Interestingly, Mae West was a common nickname for the inflatable life preserver that was popular during World War II era with US and British Air Force servicemen. The nickname was originated due to the fact that someone wearing the inflated life preserver often appeared to be as physically-endowed as the actress Mae West.)

3.Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. —Carl Jung

只在不过分妨碍生活时，保障和安全才才有意义。—卡尔·荣格

cramp = prevent the development

Carl Gustav Jung/’ɡustaf ‘juŋ/: (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of

analytical psychology known as Jungian psychology. Jung emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, religion and philosophy. His most notable ideas include the concept of psychological archetypes (心理原型), the collective unconscious(集体无意识) and synchronicity (共时性，即有意义的巧合). His best known works are Psychology of the Unconscious (《无意识心理学》)(1912) and Psychological Types (《心理类型》)(1921).

(Jung was a friend and collaborator of Sigmund Freud (佛洛伊德) for 6 years before he broke from the latter, who influenced Jung during his intellectually formative years.)

4.We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. —John F. Kennedy

别让恐惧阻挡我们追求希望。—约翰·肯尼迪

John Fitzgerald Kennedy: (1917-1963, assassinated) 35th U.S. President (Democratic), a Pulitzer Prize

winner. Events during his administration include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II. "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country" is a frequently quoted line from his Inaugural Address.

(Kennedy was the second-youngest President (months after Theodore Roosevelt), the first President born in the 20th century, the first and only Catholic president, the only President to have won a Pulitzer Prize, and the youngest President to die.)

5.We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by

their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.—Thomas Jefferson

我们认为下述真理是不言而喻（不证自明）的：人人生而平等，造物主赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权利，其中包括生存权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。—托马斯·杰斐逊

hold = have a particular opinion or belief (这个意思时hold不能用进行时态)

that all men …, that they are endowed …, that among these are …都是truths的同位语从句

unalienable = inalienable = that cannot be taken from you 不可让与的；不可剥夺的

among these are … = including …

Quoted from The Declaration of Independence (《独立宣言》) (July 4, 1776). (Read and listen to the declaration here on Blackboard)

Thomas Jefferson: (1743-1826) one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States of America, 3rd President of the U.S., principal author of The Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia.

(Jefferson is featured on the obverse(正面) of the U.S. 2-dollar bill. Figures on the obverses of other U.S. dollar bills are: 1-dollar bill – George Washington, 1st U.S. President; 5-dollar bill – Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President; 10-dollar bill – Alexander Hamilton, 1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; 20-dollar bill – Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President; 50-dollar bill – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President; 100-dollar bill – Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S.)

6.You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can be

free only if I am free. —Clarence Darrow 在此世界，保障他人之自由，方可保障己身之自由；我自由时，你方自由。—克莱伦斯·丹诺

Clarence Darrow: (1857-1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union (美国公民自由联盟), defender of the weaker and fighter for freedom, best known for the Leopold and Loeb Trial and the Scopes Monkey Trial.

7.Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.—Abraham Lincoln

不予他人自由者，自己亦不得享有自由。—亚伯拉罕·林肯deserve it not = do not deserve it

Quoted from Letter to Henry Pierce (1859)