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1、智者的较量：名言的交错配列艺术交错配列（Chiasmus）是指在两个不同的并列句子中，第二个是第一个的颠倒排列 (a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases)。一个著名的例子是西塞罗的“吃饭是为了活着，但活着并不是为了吃饭。” 本月的集锦是从最著名的格言和名言中评选出交错配列之冠。裁判不是别人，正是你们自己。仔细聆听这些格言，然后在下面为你支持的队伍投票。 第一轮 总统队 约翰肯尼迪: 因此，我的美国朋友们：别问你们的国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你能为你们的国家做些什么。And so, my fellow
2、 Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.亚伯拉罕林肯：迄今，关于世界的历史，人们一直说强权即公理，现在应该让我们，让我们这个时代，来颠倒这种说法，让我们说：公理即强权。It has been said of the worlds history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right
3、 makes might.罗纳德里根：各国不相互怀疑是因为它们拥有武装,而它们拥有武装是因为它们相互怀疑。Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.毛泽东：政治是不流血的战争,战争是流血的政治。Politics is war carried out without bloodshed, while war is politics carried out with bloodshed.约翰肯尼迪: 人类不结束战争,战争就会结束
4、人类。Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.比尔克林顿：因为我们完全拥有这个国家，我们会用先例的权利来领导它，但要有准备，在必要时，我们创造权利的先例。As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.亚伯拉罕林肯：你可以一时骗过所有的人，也可以在所有时间里骗过一些人
5、，但不能在所有时间里骗过所有的人。It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cant fool all of the people all the time.乔治蓬皮杜： 政治家是将自己放到他为国家服务的位置上的政客，而政客是将自己放到国家为他服务的位置上的政治家。A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of th
6、e nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.吉米卡特：美国没有发明人权，其实，人权造就了美国。America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense . human rights invented America.富兰克林D罗斯福: 我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来，但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。 We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can bu
7、ild our youth for the future.伍德罗威尔逊9：我宁愿在终将成功的事业中遭受失败，也不愿在必定失败的事业里享受成功！I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose! 第二轮 思想家队 弗朗西斯培根：若一确信而始者，将止于怀疑；而一怀疑而始者，将止于确信。If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be conte
8、nt to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.老子：祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏。Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.巴鲁克斯宾诺莎：害怕时不会没有期望，期望时也不会没有害怕。Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.伯纳德巴鲁克：不要在乎那些介意我们的人，也不要介意那些在乎我们的人。Those who mind dont matter, and t
9、hose who matter dont mind.本杰明迪斯雷利：行动不会总是带来幸福但不付出行动就肯定不会有幸福。Action may not always bring happiness . but there is no happiness without action.莱奥纳多达芬奇： 绘画是看得见听不着的诗，而诗是听得见却看不着的绘画。Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.哈维洛克艾利斯：魅力是女人的力量，正如力量是
10、男人的魅力。Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm.西塞罗： 不受教育的天赋才能要比没有天赋才能的教育更容易培养出尊敬与高尚的人。Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.孔子：君子易事而难说也；小人难事而易说也。The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to p
11、lease . The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.埃里希弗洛姆：幼稚的爱遵循这样的原则：“我去爱是因为我被爱。” 成熟的爱遵循这样的原则：“我被爱是因为我去爱。” 不成熟的爱是：“我爱你是因为我需要你。”成熟的爱是：“我需要你是因为我爱你。”Infantile love follows the principle: I love because I am loved. Mature love follows the principle: I am loved because I love. Immature l
12、ove says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.艾尔弗雷德诺思怀特海：进步的艺术是：在变化中有秩序，在秩序中有变化。The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.杰佛逊戴维斯：不要对谦卑者傲慢，也不要对傲慢者谦卑。Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
13、 第三轮 作家队 齐格齐格拉尔：你不必开始于伟大，但你必须开始去伟大。You dont have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.W萨默塞特毛姆：赴晚宴时，要吃的聪明，不用吃的太好；要说的好，不用说的太聪明。At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.托马斯赫胥黎: 尽可能广泛地涉猎各门学问，并且尽可能深入地择一钻研。Try to learn something about ev
14、erything and everything about something.菲利普斯布鲁克斯：不要祈求能力所能胜任的任务，要祈求能胜任任务的能力。Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.西里尔康诺利：为自我而不是迎合公众的写作，要胜于迎合公众而不是为自我的写作。Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.F司各特菲茨杰拉德： 你
15、不写作时因为你想要说些什么，你写作时因为你不得不说些什么。You dont write because you want to say something; you write because youve got something to say.G.K却斯特顿： 一个渴求知识的人去读一本书，一个懒散的人拿一本书来读，这两者之间有很大的区别。There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.山姆尤因：你在工作中所投入的时间量并不算数，真正算数的是你在一定时间中所投入的工作量。Its not the hours you put in your work that count, its work you put in the hours.埃德加沃森豪：男人让衣服适合他，女人让自己适合衣服。A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.海伦罗兰：对女人来说，第一吻只是开始的结局；对男人来说，这却是预示结局的开始
