英语翻译之妙语、名言、谚语;有关Live的英语成语
(2011-06-14 22:53:12)
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英语翻译之妙语学习
1.Silence is not always golden, sometimes it is plain yellow.沉默并非永远是金,有时只不过是呈现黄色而已。
2.Beauty is only skin deep.
美貌是肤浅的。
3.What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (Shakespeare)
名字算得了什么?玫瑰无论换成什么名字,都依然散发芬芳。(莎士比亚)
4.
愤怒与危险不过一步之遥。
5.
时间是个多才多艺的表演者。它能展翅飞翔,能阔步前行,能痊愈创伤,能消耗殆尽,也能揭露真相。(弗兰克林·P·琼斯)
6.
如果没有了图书馆我们还剩什么?我们没有了过去也没有了未来。(凯·布拉德伯里)
7.
真理没有自己特定的时间段。它的时间段永远是现在。
8.
永恒真理如果不能在新的社会形势下被赋予新的意义,就既不是真理也不是永恒的了。(弗兰克林·罗斯福)
9.
世人很看重迅速在世界上升起的人,但是无论什么也不能比尘埃、稻草、羽毛升得更快。(黑尔)
10.
天生决不会降下玫瑰。如果我们想要更多的玫瑰,我们就必须种植玫瑰。(乔治·艾略特)
英语翻译之名言学习
1. Important principles may and must be flexible.
重要的原则能够也必须是灵活的。
2. The modern world is the child of doubt and inquiry, as the ancient world was the child of fear and faith.
现代的世界是由怀疑和质疑而来,而古代的世界却是恐惧和笃信的产物。
3. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
坚持自己;绝不要模仿。你自己的天赋可以随时以自己毕生积累的素质修养来展示;但模仿他人的才华你只能暂时地、部分地占用。
4. The person who agrees with everything you say either isn’t paying attention or else plans to sell you something.
一个人如果对你所说的均表示赞同,要么他漫不经心听你讲话,要么就是打算向你推销什么。
5. Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hand.
一个人的命运模式主要是由自己决定的。
6. A living language must keep pace with improvements in knowledge and with the multiplication of ideas.
活的语言必须与知识的进步和观念的增进同步并进。
7. Ideals are like the stars----we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.
理想就像星星----我们绝不能到达星星那儿;但是,我们像船员一样,可以用星星指引我们的航向。
英语翻译之英语谚语
1. Rome was not built in a day
罗马不是一天建成的。
2. Dripping water wears away stone.
水滴石穿
3. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
有志者事竟成。
4. A good beginning is half done.
好的开始是成功的一半。
5. Actions speak louder than words.
事实胜于雄辩。
6. A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.
吃一堑,长一智。
7. A hedge between keeps friendship green.
君子之交淡如水。
8. A good book is the best of friend, the same today and forever.
好书正如良友,会让你受益终生。
9. A good conscience is a soft pillow.
不做亏心事,不怕鬼敲门。
10. Let bygones be bygones.
既往不咎。
11. Fear always springs from ignorance.
恐惧源于无知。
12. He who risks nothing gains nothing.
收获与风险并存。
13. Necessity is the mother of invention.
需求是发明的动力。
14. There is no general rule without some exception.
任何规则均有例外。
有关Live的英语成语

1.
E.g.: I bought a second-handed sewing machine and then had to pay out lots of money to replace many worn parts. You live and learn----it would have been cheaper to buy a new one!
我买了台旧缝纫机,但后来花好多钱更换损坏了的部件。吃一堑,长一智----还不如买台新的便宜!
2.
E.g.: We get on well with our next-door neighbors----it’s a case of live and let live.
我们与隔壁邻居相处的不错----重要的是不要干涉别人干什么。
3.
E.g.: They live by their hands.他们靠双手劳动生活。
E.G.: We live by our university.我们住在大学附近。
4.
E.g.: I couldn’t get a permanent job so I had to live by my wits for a couple of years.
我没能找到长久的工作,因此这两年来我只能靠我的门槛吃饭。
5.
E.g.: Twenty years later, his family are still trying to live the scandal down.
20年过去了,他的一家仍在努力设法忘记那件丑闻。
6.
E.g.: After my husband was made redundant, we had to live from hand to mouth until he found another job.
在我丈夫失业后还没有找到另外工作之前,我们的生活很困苦,仅足糊口。
7.
E.g.: Living in sin si no longer the social stigma it once was.
现在同居不再像过去那样被认为是一种社会的耻辱行为。
8.
E.g.: We always take plenty of money on holiday so that we can live it up for at least two weeks in the year.
我们通常带很多钱去度假,这样在一年里至少有两星期我们能纵情欢乐。
9.
E.g.: He will die, but his fame will live on after him.
他总是要死的,但是他的声誉将永存下去。
E.g.: We live chiefly on rice.
我们以大米为主食。
10.
E.g.: Vincent lives on his reputation these days; he doesn’t go out seeking new business, it comes to him.
文森特现在靠过去的成就就能取得成功,他不要出去开拓新的生意,它自己也会找上门来。
11.
E.g.: We trekked through the jungle and had to live rough for ten days before we returned to camp.
我们在丛林中艰苦跋涉,在回到营地前的10天里,得在极不舒适的困难条件下生活。
12.
E.g.: It is now three years since I got drunk at a party but my wife still won’t let me live it down.
自从上次我在聚会上喝醉酒至今已3年了,但我的妻子仍对我进行限制。
13.
E.g.: The old woman is not likely to live through the winter.
那位老妇人不大可能活过这个冬天。
E.g.: He was among the few who managed to live through the experiences in the enemy prison camp.
或者离开战俘集中营的人很少,他是其中的一个。
14.
E.g.: They must have been lost in the jungle for days, but unfortunately nobody lived to tell the tale.
他们一定在密林中迷失方向好几天了,不幸的是他们中没有一个人生还。
15.
E.g.: His wife was so clever that he felt he could never live up to her.
他的妻子那么聪明,他感到自己怎么也配不上她。
16.
E.g.: Wendy is the real live wire of the department who motivates all the others.
在这个部门里,文迪算得上是个活跃分子,对其他人很有激发力。
17.
E.g.: I injured a child through bad driving and I’ll have to live with that fact for the rest of my life.
由于驾驶不慎我碰伤了个小孩,在我以后的生活中我得背上各包袱。
18.
E.g.: There has been some freak weather this year. It snowed in September for the first time in living memory,
今年的天气有些反常,9月份下雪我还是生来第一次碰到。