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翻译成语和名言（5）

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）

151. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.                               -–Katherine Hepburn

爱与你所期望的获得无关，只与你期望的付出有关—一切付出。

152. You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirits of love.  

--Henry Drummond

回眸生活将有所悟：尔真正之生活，乃以爱心所为之时。

153. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action

                                                          --Benjamin Disraeli

行动并非总带来幸福，但没有行动就没有幸福。

154. Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the furthest reaches of which we are capable.                                                –Leo C. Rosten

唯将脑力与心智用至极致，幸福乃现。

155. The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.                                                    –Allan K. Chalmers

幸福之要旨：有事做、有爱好、有希冀。

156. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

–Orison Swett Marden

成就伟业者必有宏伟之目标，其锁定之目标既高，又有时似乎不可能者。

157. Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself…If you don’t have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

                                                          --Merle Shain

朋友似窗，观外可见世界，回望可见自身…若无友人，尔所见所闻则远逊于应有也。

158.The fox changes his skin but not his habits.                           –Suetonius

狐狸变毛色，却不变习性。

159.Liberal education frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.                    –Robert Maynard Hutchins

    开明的教育可以把人从阶级、种族、时间、地点、背景、家庭，甚至国家的牢笼中解放出来。

160.Our real blessing often appear to us in the shapes of pain, losses and disappointments.

                                                             --Joseph Addison

    我们真正的祝福往往以痛苦、损失和失望的形式出现在我们面前。

161.The man who is master of his passions is reason’s slave.                 –Cyril Connolly

    热情之主乃理性之奴。

162.To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.                                                          –Napoleon I

    量力而为者，是为人；随意而为者，则为神。

163.No one can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

老虎虽抚摸，也变不成猫。

164.Admit your errors before somebody else exaggerates them.      –Andrew V. Mason

承认你的错误，以免别人夸大。

165.The worst form of inequality is to make unequal things equal.     –Aristotle

不平等的最坏形式，就是试图让不平等之事平等。

166.Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.                                                  –Robin St. John

    有人总是因为玫瑰有刺而抱怨，我却感谢刺有玫瑰。

167.Heroes and winners aren’t the same thing.                      –M. K. Farrel

    英雄与胜利者不可混为一谈。

168.A friend is one who knows you as you are, understands where you’ve been, accepts who you have become, and still gently invites you to grow.

    朋友者，知尔如尔自知也，彼了解尔之过去，接受尔之现状，并仍耐心鼓励尔之成长。

169.The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but

    what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

    世间最好的东西就是学习。金钱可能丢失、被窃，健康和体力会丧失，然而你心中的信念永远为你所有。

170.We would be happier with what we have if we weren’t so unhappy about what we don’t have.

    假如我们对自己并不拥有的东西不那么忌妒（不开心），我们就会为拥有的东西而高兴。