关于青春和理想的那些事儿

 　　Have an aim in life, or your energies will be wasted.

　　没有目标的一生注定碌碌无为，确定一个目标吧。——R.Peters

　　Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

　　生活没有目标，就像航海没有罗盘。——John Ruskin

　　One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

　　人犯错误最危险的一种就是忘记自己的目标是什么。 ——Paul Nitze

　　High expectations are the key to everything.

　　远大理想是开启万物的钥匙。 ——Sam Walton

　　What makes life dreary¹ is the want of motive².

　　缺少动力将让生活无聊乏味。 ——G.Eliot

　　If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

　　如果你等待，发生的只是你变老。 ——Larry McMurtry

　　Try not to be a man of success but to be a man of value.

　　不要试图去做个成功者，宁可做个有价值的人。 ——Einstein

　　Hope deserts us at no period of our existence.

　　在我们一生中，希望从来未遗弃过我们。 ——R.L.Stevenson

　　Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

　　希望是顿美好的早餐，但却是顿糟糕的晚餐。——Francis Bacon

　　It is not by the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

　　白发并不能告诉你一个人心灵的年纪。 ——Edward B.Lytton

　　If you do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

　　如果年轻时不培养知识，年老时将没有乘凉的树荫。——Chesterfield

　　Pross is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.

　　进步乃今日之努力，明日之保证。 ——Emerson

　　Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a ret.

　　青年时卤莽;中年时奋斗;老年时后悔。 ——Benjamin Disraeli

　　Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out.

　　时间一点一滴地流逝，如同蜡烛慢慢燃尽。——Willian Yeats

　　One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

　　光辉人生中忙碌的一个小时抵得过碌碌无为的一生。——Scott

　　When your will is ready, your feet are light.

　　当你的意志坚强了，你前进的脚步就轻快了。 ——Herbert

　　To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.

　　对于一只盲目航行的船而言，所有方向的风都是逆风。——Herbert

　　Our atest glory consists not in never falling, but in raising every time we fall.

　　人生的光荣不在于从不失败，而在于跌倒后每次都能站起来。——O.Goldsmith

　　My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

　　并不是我的所有愿望都能实现，但我依然拥有希望。——Ovid

　　All the advantage isn't in running fast, but rather in getting an early start.

　　优势不在于跑得快，而在于起身早。 ——Rabelais

　　To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

　　去奋斗，去追求，去发现，但不要放弃。 ——Tennyson

　　Ages are all equal, but genius is always above it's age.

　　一切时代都是平等的，但天才总是超越自己所处的时代。——William Blake

　　Unhappy, hope; happy, be cautions.

　　失意时，满怀希望;得意时，凡事审慎。——Robert Burton

　　The world is like a mirror; frown at it and it frowns at you; smile and it smiles too.

　　世界如一面镜子：皱眉视之，它也皱眉看你;笑着对它，它也笑着看你。——H.L.Samuel

　　Ideal is the beacon³. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without a direction, there is no life.

　　理想是灯塔。没有理想，就没有明确的航向;没有航向就没有生活。——Leo Tolstoy

　　One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

　　一个目标过高和过低都会偏离靶心。 ——Thomas Fuller

　　Life's like a play: It's not the length, but the excellence⁴ of the acting⁵ that matters.

　　生活如一个剧本：重要的不是长度而是演出精彩与否。——Seneca

　　A man's not old, but mellow⁶, like good wine.

　　人不会老朽， 而是越来越有味道，就像美酒。 ——Stephen Phillips

　　Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

　　有一点我可以确信，如果我们就过去和现在展开一场争吵， 我们就会发现我们已失去将来。——W.Churchill

　　An obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too much of happiness.

　　通往幸福的最大障碍就是对幸福苛求太多。 ——Fontenelle

　　Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

　　精彩的人生未必完美。 ——Annette Funicello

1 dreary   

adj.令人沮丧的，沉闷的，单调乏味的

参考例句：

• They live such dreary lives.他们的生活如此乏味。
• She was tired of hearing the same dreary tale of drunkenness and violence.她听够了那些关于酗酒和暴力的乏味故事。

2 motive   

n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的

参考例句：

• The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
• He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。

3 beacon   

n.烽火，（警告用的）闪火灯，灯塔

参考例句：

• The blink of beacon could be seen for miles.灯塔的光亮在数英里之外都能看见。
• The only light over the deep black sea was the blink shone from the beacon.黑黢黢的海面上唯一的光明就只有灯塔上闪现的亮光了。

4 excellence   

n.优秀，杰出，(pl.)优点，美德

参考例句：

• His art has reached a high degree of excellence.他的艺术已达到炉火纯青的地步。
• My performance is far below excellence.我的表演离优秀还差得远呢。

5 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

6 mellow   

adj.柔和的；熟透的；v.变柔和；(使)成熟

参考例句：

• These apples are mellow at this time of year.每年这时节，苹果就熟透了。
• The colours become mellow as the sun went down.当太阳落山时，色彩变得柔和了。