译成语、名句(4)
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翻译 成语和名言(4)
猎人在教学中常会碰到一些成语、名言和警句。就随手翻译一下,帮助学生理解。现在学期即将结束,把它们整理出来。
原文/某大学英语教材
译/李景琪·猎人hunter560
(2010年1月)
116. Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
人不会计划失败;只是没计划好成功。
117. Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character.
责备别人是坏习惯,但接受责备可以培养性格。
118. The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
老人相信一切,中年人怀疑一切,青年人知道一切。
119. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
机会通常伪装成艰苦的工作,所以大多数人不认识它们。
120. We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start.
判断一个人看的是终点,不是看起点。
121. All of us di not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.
我们天赋各异,但我们应该有同等的机会发挥自己的才能。
122. Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.
做完某事是完成,做得好则为成就。
123. Some men succeed because they are destined to, but most men because they are determined to.
有些人成功是因为他们有运气去做,而大多数人成功是他们决心去做。
124. The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistakes of all—doing nothing.
实干者常犯错,而从不犯大错者—不干活。
125. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
你可以不爱而给予,但不能不给予而爱。
126. We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
我们靠收入生存,靠付出而生活。
127. Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
有好主意不如把它付诸行动。
128. Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity.
成功或失败更在于心态,而不是智力。
129. Only those who dare to fall greatly can ever achieve greatly.
只有敢于大失败,才能成就大成功。
130. The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
世上最大的权利是错的权利。
131. The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing
Exactly right.
成与败的区别在于:做一件事完全对和差不多对。
132. Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
智慧是知道下一步做什么,技能是知道如何做,而美德就是做。
133. What the human mind can conceive and believe, it can accomplish.
凡人类设想和相信的东西,就能实现。
134. Age is a relative thing; you’re young as long as you have a relative who is older.
年龄是相对的;只要你有年长的亲戚,你就年轻。
135. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows.
知识分子可以用很多废话(不必要那么多的话)来讲述他自己也不太懂的东西。
136. It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
反抗本身并不高尚,只是被迫。
137. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
选择一个你爱的职业,那么一生中你就会一天活也不干。
138. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
为他人的生活带来阳光者,必定会阳光照耀。
139. Love begins when a person feels another person’s need to be as important as his own.
当你感到别人的需求如同你自己的需求同样重要时,爱即萌生。
140. The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
天才的秘诀就是把幼年的精神携至老年,即永不失去热情。
141. Home is the place where when you have to go it has to take you in.
家就是当你不得不回去时,总会接纳你的地方。
142. The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become.
143. I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.
144. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
145. The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
146. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have to try to change others.
147. In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
148. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
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150. The are of life is to know how
to enjoy a little and to endure much.

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