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1、英语锦言妙语 索玉柱 选编作文写作专项练习Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.人生即是一段艰难曲折的旅程。/人生无坦途。Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.人生是一幅大画布，你应该努力绘出绚丽多彩的画面。Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.人生如一首乐曲，要用乐感、感情和直觉去谱写不能只按乐律行事。All t
2、hings in their being are good for something.天生我才必有用。Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成。Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limitless.要这样生活，仿佛你寿命永恒。要这样工作，仿佛你精力无穷。Life is a foreign language: All men mispronounce it.生活是一种外
3、语，谁都发不好它的音。Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.人的正确功能是生活，而不是生存。I slept and dreamt that life was beauty;I woke and found that life was duty.梦里见到人生无比美丽，醒时发现义务即是人生。One should eat to live, not live to eat.人应为生而食
4、，不应为食而生。Life lies not in living but in liking.生活的意义并不在于活着，而在于爱好人生。The unexamined life is not worth living.浑浑噩噩的生活不值得过。Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.生活就象洋葱头：你只能一层一层地把它剥开，有时你还得流泪。Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from nsufficient pre
5、mises.生活是一种艺术，要在不充足的前提下提出充足的结论。You have to believe in yourself. Thats the secret of success.人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any thing.永远记住：你争取成功的决心才是头等重要的。The world is his who enjoys it.世界属于热爱世界的人。You will never have what you like until
6、you learn to like what you have.欲得到你喜欢的东西，应先学会喜欢你已有的东西。The secret of life is not to do what one likes, but to try to like what one has to do.生活的秘密不在于做自己喜欢做的，而在于喜欢自己不得不做的。To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.有些东西你想要而没有，这是幸福不可缺少的一个部分。Something attempted, some
7、thing done.有所尝试，就等于有所作为。Death is the privilege of human nature, and life without it were not our taking.死亡是人类天然的特权，没有死的生非人类所能有。“Though death befalls all men alike, it may be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.” To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai.“人固有一死，或重于泰山，或轻于鸿毛。”为人民
8、利益而死，就比泰山还重。The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant company is humility.真理最好的朋友是时间，最大的敌人是偏见，永恒的伴侣是谦逊。Truths best ornament is nakedness.打扮真理的秘诀就是不加掩饰。A miss is as good as a mile.差之毫厘，失之千里。It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.从崇高到荒谬只有一步之差。
9、Theres only a step from the sublme to the ridiculous, but theres no road leading back from the ridiculous to the sublime.从崇高到荒谬只有一步之差，可是从荒谬却没有路能回到崇高。All great truths are obvious truths. But not all obvious truths are great truths.伟大的真理都是明摆着的事实。但不见得所有明摆着的事实都是伟大的真理。Wisdom is only found in truth.唯有在真理中
10、才能找到智慧。Deeds, not words.行动胜于空谈。Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?难道生命是如此珍贵，和平是如此甜美，以至于不惜为此戴锁链，当奴隶吗？Facts are stubborn things.事实都是顽强的。/事实是掩盖不住的。Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.心之所愿，无事不成。Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.行动是果实，言论不过是叶
11、子。A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.一个人可以失败许多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。On lifes earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.生活在顽强战斗中，只有每天不屈不挠奋勇向前的人才能取得胜利。Follow the river and youll get to the sea.沿着河走，一定能走到海边。All r
12、ivers run into the sea.条条江河归大海。Conditions are changing and the time, and to adapt ones thinking to the new conditions, one must study.情况是在不断地变化，要使自己的思想适应新的情况，就得学习。Science must not be a selfish pleasure. Those who have the good fortune to be able to devote themselves to scientific pursuits must be fi
13、rst to place their knowlege at the service of humanity.科学绝不是一种自私自利的享乐。有幸能够致力于科学研究的人，首先应该拿自己的学识为人类服务。There is no royal road to seicee, and to only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.在科学上没有平坦的大道，只有不畏劳苦沿着陡峭山路攀登的人，才有希望达到光辉的顶点。A str
14、ong climbing-rope, made by twisting together confidence, determination and perseverance, can help you scale the summits of knowledge and science.信心、决心和恒心拧成一根坚实的攀绳，能助你达到知识和科学的高峰。That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.好书使人开卷有所求，闭卷有所获。Be as careful of the books you
15、read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.选书应和交友一样谨慎，因为你的习惯和性格受书籍的影响不亚于受朋友的影响。No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.没有比读书更便宜的娱乐，也没有比读书更持久的欢乐。Knowledge is like the spring water undergroundthe deeper you dig, the clearer is the water.知识好象地下的泉水，掘得越深越清澈。Knowledge requires repeated explorations, and farmland needs intensive cultivation.知识需要反复探索，土地需要辛勤耕耘。Histories make men wise;
