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高考英语作文谚语与名言荟萃
Lesson 6 Love and Happiness爱情与幸福
A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
[译]快乐的妻子是生活的乐事。
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
[译]知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
A good husband makes a good wife.
[译]夫善则妻贤。
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
[译]令人愉快的欢笑是房间里的阳光。
A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
[译]通往幸福的最大障碍就是对幸福苛求太多。
A happy heart makes a blooming visage.
[注解]bloom开花,焕发青春。visage脸,面貌。
[译]心情愉快使人青春焕发。
A light heart can bear everything.
[译]轻松愉快的心情能够忍受一切。
A mother's love never changes.
[译]母爱永恒。
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
[注解]语出诗人Keats(济慈)。
[译]美好的事物,回味无穷。
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
[译]别后常相思,相逢情更深。
Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life.
[注解]语出美国发明家爱迪生。
[译]有所成就是人生惟一的真正乐趣。
After a storm comes a calm.
[注解]意指生活中,一段不愉快的时光之后总会有好光景。同义谚语有:After rain comes fair weather. 雨过天晴。
[译]雨过天晴;否极泰来。
All are not merry that dance lightly.
[译]跳着轻快舞步的人,未必个个都快乐。
Anticipating pleasure is also a pleasure.
[译]期待快乐本身也是一种快乐。
As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred.
[译]美酒可制成烈醋,热爱能变为深仇。
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
[译]事物的美存在于仔细观察者心目中。
Beauty is but a blossom.
[译]美丽只是盛开的花朵。
Beauty is but skin-deep.
[译]美貌不过一肤之厚;美貌只是外表罢了,不可以貌取人。
Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
[注解]指审美并不是客观的,而决定于人的主观评价,美就在于观看者眼中。意同“In the eyes of the lover, his beloved is a beauty. (or Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.)”
[译]情人眼里出西施。
Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain set.
[注解]语出Francis Bacon,英国哲学家培根。
[译]美貌就像宝石,不用装饰最好。
Behind bad luck comes good luck.
[译]塞翁失马,焉知非福?
Benefits please like flowers, while they are fresh.
[译]恩泽让人欣喜,犹如鲜花使人心醉;善举就像鲜花般艳丽,人人见了都喜欢。
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
[译]笑一笑把烦恼都忘掉,愁一愁愁白了少年头。
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
[注解]语出Alexander Pope,英国诗人蒲伯。
[译]一无所求的人是幸福的,因为他永远也不会失望。
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
[译]仁爱须由近及远。
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
[注解]意指妻子的品行比美貌更重要。
[译]选妻用耳莫用眼。
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
[译]不要向不如你幸福的人说你自己的幸福。
East or west, home is best.
[注解]意同“Home is home, be it ever so homely.”或“There is no place like home”。走遍天下,世界上没有比家更好的地方;不论家怎么简陋寒酸,却永远是最温馨的地方。意指在家千日好,出门时时难。汉语里,“金窝银窝,不如自家狗窝”也是此意。
[译]管他东方或西方,家是最好的地方。
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
[译]家家有本难念的经。
Every heart has its own bitterness.
[译]各人有各人的苦恼。
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
[译]每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
[注解]出自拉丁语。人人都是自己命运的建筑师;各人的幸福靠各人自己创造。
[译]自己的命运自己掌握。
Every picture tells a story.
[译]每一幅照片的背后都有一个故事。
Expectation is better than realization.
[译]期待总比现实美。
Fair faces need no paint.
[译]貌美毋须修饰。
Faults are thick where love is thin.
[注解]一旦爱情淡薄,情人或夫妻双方就会夸大对方的弱点。
[译]一朝情意淡,样样不顺眼。
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
[注解]语出英国剧作家肖伯纳。
[译]初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
[译]追求爱情,它要逃走;逃避爱情,它会跟你。
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
[注解]forbidden fruit“禁果”,该词源自《圣经》。据《旧约·创世纪》第2章第10节,上帝不让亚当吃智慧树上的果子,但夏娃却被蛇诱惑去偷吃了禁果,并给亚当也吃了,两人有了智慧而结为夫妻,却被上帝赶出了伊甸园。此谚语指不能得到的东西最想要。
[译]禁果分外甜。
Fortune favors fools. (or Fools have fortune.)
[注解]出自拉丁语。幸运偏爱傻子。
[译]傻人有傻福。
Fortune favours the bold.
[译]幸运之神总是眷顾有勇气尝试的人。
Fortune is good to him who knows to make good use of her.
[译]知道利用幸福的人才有幸福。
Fortune knocks at least once at every man's gate.
[译]风水轮流转;人总有走运之时。
From short pleasure long repentance.
[译]痛快一时,悔恨终身。
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
[译]从一个儿童教育的开始,他就应体验到发现的快乐。
Good eating deserves good drinking.
[译]美酒配佳肴。
Happiness consists in contentment.
[译]知足者常乐。
Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage must be created.
[译]幸福婚姻并不是自然而然就有的,它需要努力去创造。
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
[译]幸福是一只蝴蝶,你要追逐它的时候,总是追不到;但是如果你悄悄地坐下来,它也许会飞落到你身上。
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
[译]幸福犹如香水,你不可能泼向别人而自己却不沾几滴。
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
[译]愉快有益于人的身体,但只有悲伤才能培养心灵力量。
Happiness is not something you experience; it's something you remember.
[注解]出自美国钢琴家利万特。
[译]幸福不是你经历的事,而是你记得的事。
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
[注解]语出美国作家寇第斯。
[译]幸福首先在于健康。
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
[译]幸福在于自知拥有幸福。
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
[注解]语出美国总统罗斯福。
[译]幸福不在于拥有金钱,而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。
Happiness takes no account of time.
[译]幸福不觉光阴过。
Happy is he that is happy in childhood.
[译]童年时代快乐的人是幸福的。
Happy is he that is happy in his children.
[译]为孩子感到高兴的人是有福的人;喜看儿女成长,父母心里欢畅。
Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
[译]记得青年时所做的愚笨事的人是幸福的。
Happy is the man that owes nothing.
[译]无债一身轻;无债便是福。
Happy is the man who is living by his hobby.
[注解]语出英国剧作家肖伯纳. G.。
[译]醉心于某种癖好的人是幸福的。
Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.
[注解]语出伊索寓言《狮子、狐狸和驴子》,意为能从他人的不幸中得到经验的人才是幸福人。
[译]吸取他人教训,自己才会走运。
Hasty love, soon cold.
[译]一见钟情难持久。
Hatred is blind as well as love.
[译]爱情与仇恨同样是盲目的。
He alone is happy who commands his passions.
[译]只有控制感情的人,才会幸福。
He is truly happy who makes others happy.
[译]真正幸福的是使人幸福的人。
He knows best what good is that has endured evil.
[译]忍过痛受过苦,最知幸福是何物。
He most lives who lives most for others.
[译]活着对别人贡献最多的人,活得最有意义。
He that has a wife has a master.
[注解]近义的还有:Women, money and wine have their good and their pine.妇女、金钱和美酒,有好处也有悲愁。pine痛苦,悲惨。
[译]娶了妻子就有了管家人。
He that has no children knows not what is love.
[译]没有孩子的人,不懂什么叫爱。
He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
[译]为财富而结婚就是出卖自由。
Hold fast when you have it.
[注解]比喻要珍惜现在所拥有的一切。
[译]紧握你手中之物。
Home is where the heart is.
[译]心所在,家所在。
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
[注解]引喻为:有乐就有苦,有喜就有忧。
[译]蜜糖是甜的,但蜜蜂会螫人。
Hope is itself a species of happiness which this world affords.
[译]希望本身是一种幸福,也许是这个世界能提供的主要的幸福。
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
[译]如果你独自一人时笑了,那是真心的笑。
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
[译]想被人爱,就要去爱别人,并让自己可爱。
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
[译]顺利时要快乐,不利时要思索。
In the election of a wife, as in a project of war, to err but once is to be undone for ever.
[译]选择妻子也像策划战争,一时之错将成终身之恨。
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.
[译]勤勉是幸福的右手,节俭是幸福的左手。
It is a poor heart that never rejoices.
[注解]语出英国小说家马里亚特。
[译]不知世间有乐者最可怜。
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
[译]施恩比受惠更有福。
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
[译]满足所得,但不能满足现状。
Joy and sorrow are next-door neighbours.
[译]快乐和忧愁彼此紧相邻。
Joy often comes after sorrow, like morning after night.
[译]暮去必将朝至,苦尽常会甜来。
Joy shared with others are more enjoyed.
[译]与人同乐,其乐无穷。
Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.
[注解]surfeit过度、过多。
[译]乐极生悲。
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
[注解]喻指婚前择偶要仔细,婚后双方要相互包容,互相体贴。
[译]婚前睁大双眼择配偶,婚后半闭眼睛过日子。
Labour is light where love doth pay.
[译]爱情作酬报,劳苦必轻松。
Leave virtue and kindness to your children instead of property. Only this can bring happiness to them. This is my experience.
[译]留给你的孩子美德和仁慈,而不是财产。只有这样才能给他们带来幸福,这是我的经验。
Let beggars match with beggars.
[译]龙配龙,凤配凤。
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
[译]人生是花朵,爱情是花蜜。
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
[译]生活有10%在于你如何塑造它,有90%在于你如何对待它。
Love all, trust a few, be false to none.
[译]要爱一切人,相信少数人,不要负于任何人。
Love alone can release the power of the atom so it will work for man and not against him.
[译]只有爱才能使原子的力量造福人类,而非危害人类。
Love and business teach eloquence.
[译]恋情和经商能培养人的口才。
Love and cough cannot be hid.
[译]爱情和咳嗽是不能掩饰的。
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
[译]爱情要求忠诚,而忠诚要求坚贞。
Love begets love.
[注解]源于拉丁语。
[译]情生情,爱生爱;爱爱相生。
Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace.
[译]爱情可使茅屋成为金碧辉煌的宫殿。
Love cannot be forced.
[译]爱情不能强求。
Love fears no danger.
[译]爱情不怕危险。
Love is a sweet torment.
[注解]torment痛苦,烦恼。
[译]爱情是一种甜蜜的折磨。
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endures his torment willingly.
[注解]tyranny暴政,暴虐。
[译]爱情是甜蜜的暴政,情人心甘情愿地忍受它的折磨。
Love is blind.
[注解]罗马神话中爱神丘比特,携带着弓箭,谁中他的箭就会发生爱情,指爱情使人对缺点视而不见。
[译]爱情是盲目的。
Love is frail at birth, but it grows stronger with age if it is properly fed.
[译]爱在起始阶段是脆弱的,但如果悉心呵护,它会随着时间的推移而牢固起来。
Love is full of trouble.
[译]爱情多烦恼。
Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases.
[译]爱情像月亮,不盈即亏。
Love is never without jealousy.
[译]有爱情就有忌妒。
Love is not to be found in the market.
[译]爱情在市场上是找不到的。
Love is stronger than death.
[译]爱的力量大于死亡。
Love is sweet in the beginning but sour in the ending.
[译]爱情开始甜丝丝,爱情结束酸溜溜。
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
[译]爱是对那些为我们所爱的人或物的生活、成长积极主动的关心。
Love is the touchstone of virtue.
[译]爱情是美德的试金石。
Love is the true price of love.
[译]爱是爱情的真正代价;爱情只能用爱情来报答。
Love is without reason.
[译]爱情无理智。
Love laughs at locksmiths.
[注解]指爱情锁不住。
[译]爱情嘲笑锁匠。
Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.
[译]爱情无贵贱,贫富皆有之。
Love looks with telescope; envy with microscope.
[译]爱情大处着眼,忌妒吹毛求疵。
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
[译]爱情把一切冷酷的心变得温柔。
Love makes obedience easy.
[译]爱情使服从变为易事。
Love makes one fit for any work.
[译]爱情使人适合干任何工作;有了爱情,干什么活儿都顺心。
Love me little and love me long.
[注解]这是对“爱得太过分或对人一见如故,热情非凡,转眼即厌烦”的人们的劝告。喻指不求情意浓,但愿情意长。
[译]细水长流,淡交长久。
Love me, love my dog.
[注解]源于拉丁语。喻指爱屋及乌。
[译]如果你爱我,也要爱我的狗;爱屋及乌。
Love needs no teaching.
[译]爱情无需教导。
Love not at the first look.
[译]切莫一见钟情。
Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
[译]维持爱情,不用强力;爱情的王国不用刀剑统治。
Love should not be all on one side.
[译]爱情不应是单方面的。
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
[译]追求而得的爱情固然美好,但不经追求而得的爱情更为美好。
Love thy neighbours as thyself.
[注解]thy相当于“你的”。thyself“你自己”。
[译]爱邻如爱己。
Love will find a way.
[译]真情所至,金石为开。
Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks.
[译]情侣靠爱情生活,就像云雀靠韭葱生活一样。
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
[注解]artificer技工,工匠。
[译]人之幸福,自己创造。
Marriage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness.
[译]结婚是人生的幸福花朵开放的时候,也可能是凋谢的时候。
Marriage makes or mars a man.
[译]婚姻能成全人也能害人。
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
[注解]意指草率结婚必后悔。
[译]结婚太急,后悔莫及。
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
[译]对于大多数人来说,他们认定自己有多幸福,就有多幸福。
No herb will cure love.
[译]相思病,无药医。
No joy without annoy.
[注解]指快乐与烦恼同在。
[译]有喜必有忧。
No love is foul, nor prison fair.
[译]没有肮脏的爱情,也没有美丽的监狱。
No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.
[译]在这个世界上能为别人减轻负担的人都是有用的。
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
[译]没有什么比回忆幸福更令人痛苦的了。
Old love will not be forgotten.
[译]旧情永难忘。
One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
[译]一个人永远不像他所想像的那样不幸,也不会像他所希望的那样幸福。
One of the greatest pleasure in life is conversation.
[译]生活中最大的乐趣之一是交谈。
One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
[译]有一点我是知道的:在你们之中,只有那些愿意寻求并发现如何为别人服务的人,才是真正幸福的。
Our happiness consists not in killing others, but in sacrificing ourselves for others.
[译]我们的幸福并不是伤害别人,而是为别人而牺牲自己。
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
[注解]语出Shelley,诗人雪莱。
[译]最甜美的歌是诉说最悲伤的哀思。
Pain past is pleasure.
[译]过去的痛苦就是快乐。
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
[译]腾不出时间娱乐的人,早晚会被迫腾出时间生病。
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
[译]完全的理解有时几乎会使乐趣消失。
Pleasure comes through toil.
[译]苦尽甘来。
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.
[译]快乐不过是痛苦的间歇,享受之前要进行艰苦的努力。
Quarrels of lovers but renew their love.
[译]情人争争吵吵,自会言归于好。
Real love stories never have endings.
[译]真正的爱情故事从来不会结束。
Remembering is a dream that comes in waves.
[译]回忆是层层涟漪中出现的梦。
Sadness and gladness succeed one another.
[译]乐极生悲,苦尽甘来。
Sorrow is at parting if at meeting there be laughter.
[译]离别多悲伤,相见尽笑声。
Sunday clears away the rest of the whole week.
[译]星期天能去掉一个星期的疲劳。
Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.
[译]言语投机恨时短。
Ten men banded together in love can do what ten thousand separately would fail in.
[译]以爱心聚在一起的十个人能够完成一万个分散的人做不到的事情。
That which has bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.
[译]令你难以忍受的痛苦的事情可能带给你以甜美的回忆。
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
[译]美丽而引人注目的东西不一定都善良,但善良的东西总是美丽的。
The best proof of love is trust.
[译]爱的最好证明就是信任。
The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
[注解]指事情到了最坏时往往会好转。
[译]黎明前是最黑暗的时刻;否极泰来。
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
[注解]与此意思相同的谚语还有:The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love.
[译]情人越吵越亲密。
The foundation of true happiness is in the conscience.
[译]真正的愉快之根本在于良心。
The great use of life is to spend it for something that overlasts it.
[译]生命的最大用处是将它用于能比生命更长久的事物上。
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
[译]爱是人生最大的乐趣。
The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
[注解]stealth秘密行动,秘密。
[译]据我所知,最大的乐趣是暗中做好事又被人偶然发现。
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
[译]人生重要的事情在于确立一个伟大的目标,并有决心使其实现。
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
[译]世界上惟一成倍增加幸福的办法是将其分摊。
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
[译]痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
[译]生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。
There are lees to every wine.
[译]世上没有十全十美的东西。
There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence.
[译]人间最大的幸福莫如既有爱情又清白无瑕。
There is no rose without a thorn. (or Every rose has its thorn.)
[注解]a rose without thorn无刺的玫瑰,比喻得不到的幸福。
[译]玫瑰好看却有刺;世上没有十全十美的幸福。
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
[译]生活中惟一的幸福就是:爱和被爱。
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
[译]只有一种成功,那就是能够用自己的方式度过自己的一生。
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.
[译]真正的幸福指的是我们如何开始,而不是如何结束;指的是我们渴求什么,而不是我们拥有什么。
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
[译]有些东西你想要而没有,这是幸福不可缺少的一部分。
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of content.
[译]如果感觉到自己在生活中有了一个位置,满足的问题就解决了一半。
To fill the hour—that is happiness.
[注解]出自美国思想家爱默生. R. W.。
[译]让时间过得充实些,那才是幸福。
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
[译]活着就要发挥作用,这就是生活的全部内容。
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
[译]只有爱过和恨过后才能真正了解一个人。
True love never grows old.
[译]真爱永不老。
Two is company, but three is none.
[注解]指两个人在一起比三个人更愉快轻松。在某种情况下两个人在一起挺高兴,加上第三者就会引起麻烦或不便。比如恋爱中的男女。
[译]两人成伴,三人不欢。
Unkindness destroys love.
[译]粗暴毁爱情。
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
[译]正像我们无权只享受财富而不创造财富一样,我们也无权只享受幸福而不创造幸福。
What are the aims which at the same time are duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, and the happiness of others.
[译]什么既是目的又是职责呢?那就是,使我们自己完美,使别人幸福。
When pleasure is the business of life, it ceases to be pleasure.
[译]当享受成为生活的主要事务时,它就不再是一种享受。
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
[注解]指贫穷会导致夫妻感情破裂,家庭不和。
[译]贫穷进门来,爱情飞窗外。
Where love is there is faith.
[译]有爱情就有忠诚。
Where passion is high there reason is low.
[译]感情高涨处,理智就低落。
Work while you work; play while you play; This is the way to be cheerful and gay.
[译]拼命地干,尽情地玩;如此这般,定能欢乐。
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