让你更聪明的英文名言集锦

 　　1. When I say I know you,I mean I knew you yesterday. I do not know you actually now. —Kaishnamurti 克里什纳默尔迪

　　当我说认识你的时，我是说我认识昨天的你。我不认识现在的你。

　　2.Wonders are many,and nothing is more wonderful then man. --Sophocles

　　天下奇迹无数，却无一比人更奇妙。

　　3.The proper function of man is to live,but not to exist. --Jack London

　　人应该生活，而非单纯生存。

　　4.If you smile when one is around,you really mean it. --Andy Rooney

　　如果你独自一人笑了，那是真心的笑。

　　5.There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. --Caxton卡克斯顿

　　该说话时说话，该沉默时沉默。

　　6.The worst bankrupt is the person who lost his enthusiasm. - H.W.Arnold H.W.阿诺德

　　最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。

　　7.It is awfully¹ easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime,but at night it is another thing.--Hemingway 海明威

　　在白天对什么都不动感情是极为容易的，但在夜晚就是另外一回事。

　　8. To err² is human,to forgive,divine.--Pope 蒲柏

　　人皆犯错，你能原谅别人，你就是圣人。

　　9.There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget. —Colleen McCullough 科林·麦卡洛

　　心中的伤痛总是不知不觉渐渐愈合，虽然我们也曾痛苦地发誓说永不忘记。

　　10.In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. —Oscar Wildle 奥斯卡·王尔德

　　在这个世界上只有两种悲剧：一种是得不到自己想要的东西，另一种是得到了。

　　11.Naked came I into this world,and naked must I go out.—Cervantes 塞万提斯

　　我赤裸地来到这个世界，也要赤裸地离去。

　　12.Passion,though a bad regulator,is a powerful spring.—Emerson 爱默生

　　激情虽难以驾驭，却是种强大的动力。

　　13.Carve your name on hearts and not on marbles. —Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

　　把你的名字刻在人们的心里，而不是大理石上。

　　14. I can resist everything except temptation. —Oscar wilde 奥斯卡·王尔德

　　除了诱惑我什么都能抵抗。

　　15.What is a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.—Henrik Ibsen 　易卜生

　　一个人的首要职责是什么?很简单：做自己。

　　16. The love of country is the first virtue³ in a civilized⁴ man. — Napoleon 拿破仑

　　爱国是文明人类第一美德。

　　17. We can only love what we know and we can never know completely what we do not love. —A.L.Huxley A.L.赫胥黎

　　我们只能爱我们理解的东西，却永远也不能彻底理解我们不爱的东西。

　　18.A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form. —Emerson 爱默生

　　美丽的形体胜于美丽的脸蛋，美丽的举止胜于美丽的形体。

　　19.Man is，Properly speaking,based upon hope;he has no other posseession but hope. —Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

　　恰当地说，人是因希望活着的，除了希望，一无所有。

　　20.Man must look just as ridiculous to the crab⁵ when it sees him walk　forward. —G.c.Lichtenberg G.C.利希滕贝格

　　人类在螃蟹看来一定也是很好笑的，因为人类居然是向前走的。

　　21.All men whilst they are awake are in one common world;but each of them,when he is asleep,is in a world of his own. —Plutarch 普卢塔克

　　所有人在醒着的时候都是置身于同一个世界，但在睡着后，却都置身在自己的世界。

　　22. Everyone is a moon,and has a dark side which he never shows in anybody. —Mark Twain 马克·吐温

　　每个人都是月球，有其从不展示给人看的黑暗面。

　　23.Do not rejoice over anyone's death;remember that we all must die. —Apocrypha 阿波克拉弗

　　不要因某一个人死去而欢呼;记住我们都将死去。

　　24. As long as any man exists,there is some need of him;let him fight for his own. —Cicero 西塞罗

　　只要人生存，就有一些需要，让他为自己去奋斗吧。

　　25. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

　　重复并不能把谎言变成真理。—Franklin D.Roosevelt 富兰克林·D·罗斯福

　　26.The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him. —Voltaire 伏尔泰

　　人的本能是追逐从他身边飞走的东西，却逃避追逐他的东西。

1 awfully   

adv.可怕地，非常地，极端地

参考例句：

• Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
• I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。

2 err   

vi.犯错误，出差错

参考例句：

• He did not err by a hair's breadth in his calculation.他的计算结果一丝不差。
• The arrows err not from their aim.箭无虚发。

3 virtue   

n.德行，美德；贞操；优点；功效，效力

参考例句：

• He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
• You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。

4 civilized   

a.有教养的，文雅的

参考例句：

• Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
• rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为

5 crab   

n.螃蟹，偏航，脾气乖戾的人，酸苹果；vi.捕蟹，偏航，发牢骚；vt.使偏航，发脾气

参考例句：

• I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。
• The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了，就象螃蟹的壳似的。