一些英文名句

Pull the chestnut out of fire.火中取栗。

Put your shoulder to the wheel.鼎力相助。

Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.要人尊敬，必须自重。

Seek the truth from facts.实事求是。

Success belongs to the persevering.坚持就是胜利。

The best hearts are always the bravest.无私者无畏。

Where there is life, there is hope.留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。

Things at the worst will mend.否极泰来。

The finest diamond must be cut.玉不琢，不成器。

The fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong man.烈火验真金，艰难磨意志。

1. College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?大学是你一生中最美好的时光。什么时候你的父母还会一年花几千块供你去一个陌生的地方天天晚上喝醉。

1. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates。大学当然是个有很多知识的地方：大一的带进来一些，大四的带不走多少，知识便积累起来了。

3. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep。教授就是别人都睡了他还在讲话的人。

4. As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools。只要有考试，学校里就会有祷告者。

5. The things taught in colleges are not an education, but the means to an education。大学里学得不是知识，而是学习知识的方法。

6. Never get married in college：it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake。千万不要在大学结婚：一旦你未来的雇主发现你已经犯下一个错误，你就很难起步了。

7. Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself。学习不是为生活做准备，学习就是生活的全部。

8. The university brings out all abilities, including incapability。大学能培养人的各种能力，包括无能。

9. The chief value in going to college is that it's the only way to learn it really doesn't matter。上大学的主要价值是：只有上了才知道真的不值啊。

10. 80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read。期末考试中80%的内容都来自你翘掉的那节课和你漏读的那本书。

11. To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States."那些取得好成绩的同学，做的好！那些得C的同学，有一天你们会成为美国总统。

经典总是让人回味无穷，为其中的玄妙感慨不已：可能很简单很平实的开头，却能引人入胜。看看如下十佳绝妙小说的开头，你有这种感觉吗？

T he Color Purple

ALICE WALKER，《紫色》(1982)

You better not never tell nobody but God。除了上帝，对谁都要守口如瓶，切记。

Paradise

TONI MORRISON，《天堂》(1998)

They shoot the white girl first。他们先开枪打死了那个白人女孩。

Waiting

哈金，《等待》(1999)

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu。军医孔林每年夏天都要回农村老家跟妻子淑玉商量一次离婚。

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. SALINGER，《麦田里的守望者》(1951)

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth。如果你对我的故事充满好奇，你第一件想要知道的事情一定是我生于何处，童年如何，以及在生下我之前父母的罗曼史，还有David Copperfield是怎样一个烂人。但是坦白地讲，这些我都不想写。

Hyperion

DAN SIMMONS，《海伯利安》(1989)

The Hegemony Consul sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamps below.领事正襟危坐在自己的乌木阳台之上弹奏着那架历久弥新的斯坦威钢琴，用升c小调演奏拉赫曼尼诺夫的《序曲》；与此同时，巨大的绿色蜥蜴在下方的泥沼之中蜿蜒逶迤。

One Hundred Years of Solitude

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ，《百年孤独》(1967)

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.多年以后，奥雷连诺上校站在行刑队面前，准会想起父亲带他去参观冰块的那个遥远的下午。