英语摘抄句子
The minute you think of giving up, think of the reason why you held on so long. 在你想要放弃的那一刻，想想为什么当初坚持走到了这里。
You know why it's hard to be happy? Because you find it hard to let go of the things that make you sad. 知道为什么你很难快乐么
因为你很难放下那些令你悲伤的事情。
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. 当生活给你100个伤心的原因，你就还它1000个微笑的理由。
Nobody can go back and start a new begining, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. 没有人可以回到过去重新开始，但谁都可以从今日开始，书写一个全然不同的结局。
Don't be discouraged; it's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. 别灰心,往往是最后一把钥匙才能打开锁。
It takes three seconds to say I love you, three hours to explain it, and a lifetime to prove it. 我爱你,说出来要三秒钟,解释它要三小时,却需要一辈子去证明。
The worst feeling ever is not knowing whether you should wait or give up. 最糟糕的感觉，莫过于不知道应该等待还是放弃。
True friends are the ones who always be there for you no matter how hard the situation is, and always say, I'm here. 真正的朋友是，无论有多难，都会在你身旁，对你说：“没事，有我呢”
People get up every day and tell themselves they're gonna change their life one day. But they never do. 每天，人们起床后都会告诉自己，总有一天要改变自己的生活，可是，没人。
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.生活一直都很简单，但是我们也一直都忍不住要把它变得很复杂。
There’s nothing more beautiful than a smile that struggles through tears. 世上最美的，莫过于从泪水中挣脱出来的那个微笑。
Life is too short. So, smile while you still have teeth! 人的一生何其短暂，趁你的牙齿还健在，能笑就多笑吧
To me, the past is black and white, but the future is always color.对我而言，过去平淡无奇；而未来，却是绚烂缤纷。
The face can speak a thousand emotions but it can easily mask what the heart truly feels. The happiest face may be masking the most hurting heart. 一张脸能诉说千种情绪，却很容易掩饰心情。
最快乐的面具下，也许是一颗最伤的心。
No one is in charge of your happiness, except you. 没人能决定你的幸福，除了你自己。
Don't make me wait for you just because you know I will. 别因为知道我会等你， 就把我晾在那里等。
The world is like a mirror, frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. 世界犹如一面镜子：朝着它皱眉，它就朝你皱眉；朝着它微笑，它也会对你微笑。
Life is too short to waste time on someone who is unworthy of your love. 生命如此短暂，别把时间浪费在不值得去爱的人身上。
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.任何人都可能吸引你的眼球，但只有那个最特别的人才能虏获你的心。
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. 的确只有当我们失去时，才知道曾经拥有的是什么；同样的，只有当我们拥有了才知道从前失去了什么。
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. 为我们不应做而做了的事而后悔，那伤痛只会是一阵子；但为我们应该做而没有做的事而后悔，那伤痛却是一生的。
If two past lovers can remain friends, it's either they were never in love or they still are. \\\/如果分手的恋人还能做朋友，要不从没爱过，要不还在爱着。
All ending are also beginings. 所有结局都是一个新的开始。
Don't say you love me, unless you really mean it. 请不要轻易说爱我，除非你是认真的。
If you hate me, I don't really care. I don't live to please you. 如果你讨厌我，我一点也不介意。
我活着不是为了取悦你。
The best color in the whole world is the one that looks best on you. 最适合你的颜色，才是世界上最美的颜色!Be nice to people on your way up, because you' ll meet them on your way down. 向上爬时，对遇到的人好点，因为掉下来时，你还会遇到他们。
If you do not understand my silence, you will never understand my words. 如果你不懂我的沉默，你也永远不会明白我说的话语。
If you're brave enough to say GOODBYE, life will reward you with a new HELLO. 只要你勇敢地说出再见，生活一定会赐予你一个新的开始。
Giving up doesn't mean you're weak, sometimes it means you're strong enough to let go. 放弃并不总意味着你软弱，有时反而说明你足够坚强去舍弃。
It’s not easy to change friendship into love. But it's even harder to turn love into friendship。
让友情变成爱情不是件容易的事，而让爱情变成友情却更难。
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.无论去哪儿，什么天气，记得带上自己的阳光。
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. 我只关心未来，因为我的余生都会在那里度过。
I'm not ignoring you. I'm just waiting for you to talk to me first.我不是不理你，我只是在等你先开口。
That anything can happen\\\/When you take a chance\\\/This could be the start of something new —— Start of something new。
一切都可能实现，只要你勇于冒险If you can 't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. 如果你不能应付我最差的一面，那么你也不值得拥有我最好的一面。
——Love may fade with the season, but some friendships are year round.爱情也许会随着季节的变迁而褪去，但友谊会为你全年守侯。
It's very easy to hurt someone and then say sorry,but it's really very difficult to get hurt ans say I'm fine. 伤害他人然后说“对不起”是一件很容易的事，然而，受伤害后说“我没事”却是一件很难的事。
Trust is like a piece of paper. Once it's crumpled, it'll never be perfect again. 信任就像是一张白纸，一旦弄皱了，它就不可能再完美。
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. 友谊就像尿了裤子：任何人都能看出来，但唯有你自己才能感受到尿裤子带来的暖意Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. 不要寄希望于事情变得简单，还是期待自己能做得更好吧。
out of sight, out of mind.眼不见，心不烦I'd do anything to make you happy.Even if I'm not yours. 就算我不是你的那个谁，只要能让你幸福，我也愿意为你做任何事。
1)Stop bullshitting! 别胡说了
2)Just admit it!你就承认吧! 3)Don't tick me off. 别来惹我。
4)Are you crazy\\\/ insane?你疯了吗
5）You have lost your mind. 你简直是疯了。
6)Look, who's talking? 还有脸说别人
6)Such a cheap shot. 这么卑鄙的手段。
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. 命运不是一个机遇的问题，而是一个选择问题；它不是我们要等待的东西，而是我们要实现的东西。
The man who has made up his mind to win will never say impossible. 凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。
I felt special. Until I realize you talk to every girl like that. 我曾以为自己在你眼中是特别的。
直到我意识到，你对每个女孩聊天都那样。
I wonder what goes through your mind when you hear my name. 我很想知道，当我的名字滑过你耳朵，你脑海中会闪现些什么。
No matter how long the rain lasts, there will be a rainbow in the end. No matter how sad you may be, believe, that happiness is waiting. 不管雨下了多久，雨后都将会有彩虹，不管你有多悲伤，要坚信，幸福在等你
If I treated you the way you treated me, you would hate me.如果我用你待我的方式来待你， 恐怕你会恨死我。
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are， it is our choices。
决定我们成为什么样人的，不是我们的能力，而是我们的选择。
If two past lovers can remain friends, it's either they were never in love or they still are. 如果分手的恋人还能做朋友，要不从没爱过，要不还在爱着。
“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”获得幸福并不意味着一切都完美了，它只意味着你决定不再介意那些不完美的事情。
各位切记这句真理，幸福起来吧
A person who truly loves you will never let you go, no matter how hard the situation is. 真心爱你的人永远不会放你走，不管遇到多大的困境。
I love waking up and seeing text messages on my phone 我爱一觉醒来时，读到你发来的手机短信。
Never say goodbye when you still want to try, never give up when you still feel you can take it, never say you don't love that guy anymore when you can't let it go. 当你仍想继续，永远不要说再见；当你还能承受，永远不要说放弃；当你舍不得一个人，永远永远不要说你不再爱他（她）One of the best feeling in the world is when you're hugging the person you love, and they hug you back even tighter. 世界上最美妙的一件事是，当你拥抱一个你爱的人，他竟然把你抱得更紧。
When I wake up every morning, the greatest joy is gazing upon you and sunshine, that is the future I desire每天早上醒来，最大的愉悦就是看到你和阳光都在，这就是我想要的未来。
Your name, my heart. 你的名字、我的心事。
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we should know how to be grateful.也许在遇到最好的那个人之前，上天会安排我们先遇到很多不合适的人；所以在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，应当心存感激。
I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. 我知道再回首时，那些眼泪想来可笑；却不知再回眸时，那些欢声笑语也能叫我潸然泪下。
The world is really small, like a turn around, do not know who you meet ... ... the world is really big, like a turn around, do not know who lost ... ... 世界真的很小，好像一转身，就不知道会遇见谁……世界真的很大，好像一转身，就不知道谁会消失……Believe is one kind of love. For loving you, so I believe you. 信任也是一种爱，因为爱，所以相信。
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. 不去追逐你所渴求，你将永远不会拥有。
不开口问，回答永远是No。
不往前走，就将永远停留。
You're waiting for a train.A train that will take you far away.You know where you hope the train will take you,but you can't know for sure.But it doesn't matter,because we'll be together. 你在等一班火车,它会带你去遥远的地方。
你并不确定会带你去哪,不过不重要,因为我们会永远在一起you're too busy to call me, don't have time to check on me, late on our date, I'll understand. But if I stop loving you, it's your turn to understand.没有电话，没有问候，没有按时赴约，你太忙我明白。
如果有一天我不爱你了，轮到你明白了。
I love three things in this world: sun, moon and you. Sun for morning, moon for night, and you forever. 在这个世界上我喜欢三件事，太阳 月亮和你。
太阳是白昼，月亮是夜晚，而你 是永远。
From now on，I will expect nothing, and just take what I get． 从现在起，我将不再期待，只珍惜我所拥有的。
There are 4 steps to happiness: you ,me ,our hearts,together! 通往幸福只需要四步：你、我、我们的心、在一起。
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget. 令记忆深刻的最好方法，就是试图去忘记。
Only few people know that life is beautiful for lacking something. The so-called turning-around is that you not only miss the sun in day time but also the stars at night. 只有很少的人才懂得，人生是因为缺憾而美丽，而所谓的回头，只不过是丢掉了白天的太阳之后，又错过了夜晚的星星。
Sometimes,I just need someone to talk to. 有时候，我只是需要一个可以说话的人。
Apologizing;does't always mean that you are wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value your relationship more than your ego. 道歉并不总意味着你是错的，而对方是正确的。
有时它只是意味着相对自我而言，你更珍惜你们之间的关系。
Get some rest and stay warm,love and kisses to you,goodnight. 别忘了休息，注意保暖，爱并吻你，晚安。
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. 我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。
To forgive is not to forget, nor remit, but let it go; to be lonely is not because you have no friends, but no one is living in your heart. 宽恕,原谅并不代表忘记,也不代表赦免,而是放自己一条生路;孤单不是有没有朋友,而是有没有人住在你心里。
Did you konw that:when people appear in your dreams,It's because that person wants see you. 知道吗
那个人出现在你梦中，是因为那个人想见你。
One day someone will walk into your life, then you realize love was always worth waiting for. 有一天那个人走进了你的生命，你就会明白，真爱总是值得等待的。
英语句子摘抄
. Typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent is the American antelope, or pronghorn.1.美洲羚羊，或称叉角羚，是该大陆典型的草原动物。
2. Of the millions who saw Haley's comet in 1986, how many people will live long enough to see it return in the twenty-first century.2. 1986年看见哈雷慧星的千百万人当中，有多少人能够长寿到足以目睹它在二十一世纪的回归呢
3. Anthropologists have discovered that fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise are universally reflected in facial expressions.3.人类学家们已经发现，恐惧，快乐，悲伤和惊奇都会行之于色，这在全人类是共通的。
4. Because of its irritating effect on humans, the use of phenol as a general antiseptic has been largely discontinued.4.由于苯酚对人体带有刺激性作用，它基本上已不再被当作常用的防腐剂了。
5. In group to remain in existence, a profit-making organization must, in the long run, produce something consumers consider useful or desirable.5.任何盈利组织若要生存，最终都必须生产出消费者可用或需要的产品。
6. The greater the population there is in a locality, the greater the need there is for water, transportation, and disposal of refuse.6.一个地方的人口越多，其对水，交通和垃圾处理的需求就会越大。
7. It is more difficult to write simply, directly, and effectively than to employ flowery but vague expressions that only obscure one's meaning.7.简明，直接，有力的写作难于花哨，含混而意义模糊的表达。
8. With modern offices becoming more mechanized, designers are attempting to personalize them with warmer, less severe interiors.8.随着现代办公室的日益自动化，设计师们正试图利用较为温暖而不太严肃的内部装饰来使其具有亲切感。
9. The difference between libel and slander is that libel is printed while slander is spoken.9.诽谤和流言的区别在于前者是书面的，而后者是口头的。
10. The knee is the joints where the thigh bone meets the large bone of the lower leg.10.膝盖是大腿骨和小腿胫的连接处。
11. Acids are chemical compounds that, in water solution, have a sharp taste, a corrosive action on metals, and the ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes red.11.酸是一种化合物，它在溶于水时具有强烈的气味和对金属的腐蚀性，并且能够使某些蓝色植物染料变红。
12. Billie Holiday's reputation as a great jazz-blues singer rests on her ability to give emotional depth to her songs. (give something to something)12. Billie Holiday's作为一个爵士布鲁斯乐杰出歌手的名声建立在能够赋予歌曲感情深度的能力。
13. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of what is conceived to be reality.13.理论在本质上是对认识了的现实的一种抽象和符号化的表达。
14. Long before children are able to speak or understand a language, they communicate through facial expressions and by making noises.14.儿童在能说或能听懂语言之前，很久就会通过面部表情和靠发出噪声来与人交流了。
15. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once nothing butcacti and sagebrush could live.15.受当代灌溉(技术设施)之赐，农作物在原来只有仙人掌和荞属科植物才能生存的地方旺盛的生长。
摘抄简单的英语句子，有翻译，短的
Though I avoid seeing you, I still miss you. 虽然对你避而不见，可是心里仍然想念。
其实，有一种想念，叫避而不见。
If you love ， love deeply. If you abandon, please thoroughly. Don't be ambiguous, it'sharmful to both. 若爱，请深爱;若弃，请彻底;不要暧昧，伤人伤己。
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. 多给别人一些体谅，多为别人考虑一点，那将让一切截然不同。
Can I hold your hand. No. But why? Because it'll hurt when you let go.-我可以牵你的手么?-不可以。
-给个理由先。
-因为，有天你一旦放手，它们就会受伤。
Regardless of the situation we face, our attitude is our choice. So smile as you walk away and move on from negative people and their actions.不管我们面对怎样的环境，我们的态度就是我们的选择。
所以请远离那些消极的人和事，微笑着离开 Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will, rather than of means, that man fails to succeed. (La Rocheforcauld) 事情很少有根本做不成的;其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。
Love songht is good, but given unsought is better. 找寻来的爱情是美好的，但不经找寻而赋予的爱情是更为美好。
Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. 人生很有意思。
最终，那些最深的痛楚变成了你最强大的力量。
Don’t let something that doesn’t matter cause you to lose something that does. 别让那些不重要的事来影响你，从而让你失去那些真正重要的东西。
Section of sentiments can bring the big pain to you, once brought to you excessively many greatly joyful.~~~ 一段感情能给你带来多大痛苦，就曾给你带来过多大快乐。
A man has only one heart, but there are two atrium. A live happy; A lived sorrow. Don't laugh too loudly, or you will wake the flank of sorrow.一个人只有一个心脏，却有两个心房。
一个住着快乐;一个住着悲伤。
不要笑得太大声，不然会吵醒旁边的悲伤。
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. 真正的朋友会在整个世界都离你远去的时候，仍然与你并肩。
I fear that one day,you will tell me that you've given me up and then wish me happiness.我怕终有一天你要对我说，你已放下我，祝我幸福。
Freedom is not letting you do whatever you wanna but teaching you not to do the things you don't wanna do. 自由不是让你想做什么就做么，自由是教你不想做什么，就可以不做什么。
Life is sad at times, but it is up to you to make your own life happy.生活有时是令人沮丧的，但你可以努力让自己的过得开心。
My indifference is the pride that you don't understand.——我的冷漠，是你读不懂的骄傲 Worrying never stops the bad stuff from happening. It just keeps you from enjoying the good——忧虑并不能阻止不好的事情发生，它只能阻止你享受生活中的美好! If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.总在乎其他人怎么看你， 那你会一直是他人的奴隶。
Miracles will happen to those who believe in miracles.~~~ 相信奇迹的人，才能见证奇迹。
Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。
Whenever you feel weak， remember those who make you strong and whenever you start to doubt yourself， remember those who believe in you。
当你感觉无力时，想想那些让你变得坚强的人;当你开始怀疑自己时，想想那些相信你的人。
A true relationship is like a river, the deeper it gets, the less noise it makes. 真正的感情如河流，越深，越平静。
Sometimes, tears is sign of unspoken happiness. And smile is sign of silent pain. 眼泪，有时候是一种无法言说的幸福。
微笑，有时候是一种没有说出口的伤痛 。
Don’t hurry say have no choice， perhaps， next intersection will meet hope. 不要急着说别无选择，也许、下个路口就会遇见希望。
Maybe the so-called happy ending is to have endless hope,never give up and move on.也许所谓的幸福结局，就是抱着永不放弃的希望，继续前行。
Sometimes, the person you want the most, is the person you're best without.~~~有时候，你最想得到的人，其实是你最应该离开的人。
On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind. ~~~ 地球上唯一伟大的是人，人身上唯一伟大的是心灵。
In fact，the happiest fairy tale is no more than the simple days we have together.其实全世界最幸福的童话，不过是一起度过柴米油盐的岁月…… Take risks. If you win; you will be happy. If you lose; you will be wise.冒险一试是值得的。
如果赢了，你会得到快乐;如果输了，你会得到智慧。
It only takes one negative comment to kill a dream. Remember that next time. 只是一句打击人的话，就能灭掉一个人内心的梦想。
英文摘抄
The furthest distance in the world 界上最遥远的距离 泰戈尔 The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not between life and death 不是生 But when I stand in front of you 而是 我就站在你面 Yet you don’t know that I love you 你却不知道我爱你 The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not when I stand in front of you 不是 我就站在你面前 Yet you can’t see my love 你却不知道我爱你 But when undoubtedly knowing the love from both 而是 明明知道彼此相爱 Yet cannot be together 却不能在一起 The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not being apart while being in love 不是 明明知道彼此相爱 却不能在一起 But when painly cannot resist the yearning 而是 明明无法抵挡这股思念 Yet pretending you have never been in my heart 却还得故意装作丝毫没有把你放在心里 The furthest distance in the world 世界上最遥远的距离 Is not when painly cannot resist the yearning 不是 明明无法抵挡这股思念 yet pretending you have never been in my heart 却还得故意装作丝毫没有把你放在心里 but using one’s indifferent heart 而是 用自己冷漠的心对爱你的人
英文美句摘抄40个 带汉语翻译
楼主好～这些都是名句哈～挺值得抄的，我编了序号THOUGHT 思想篇1. If winter comes , can spring be far behind ?( P. B. Shelley , British poet )冬天来了，春天还会远吗
( 英国诗人, 雪莱. P. B.)2. If you doubt yourself , then indeed you stand on shaky11 ground .(Ibsen , Norwegian dramatist )如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。
(挪威剧作家 易卜生)3. If you would go up high , then use your own legs ! Do not let yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads . (F. W . Nietzsche , German Philosopher)如果你想走到高处，就要使用自己的两条腿
不要让别人把你抬到高处；不要坐在别人的背上和头上。
(德国哲学家 尼采. F. W.)4. It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest , but there is seldom any money in them.( Mark Twain , American writer )就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了我们的最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有任何金钱。
(美国作家 马克•吐温)5. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.Alexander Dumas (Davy de La Pailleterie, French Writer)生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。
(法国作家 大仲马. A.)6. The ideals which have lighted my way , and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully 19 have been kindness , beauty and truth .(Albert Einstein , American scientist)有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是——真、善、美。
(美国科学家 爱因斯坦 . A .)7. The important thing in life is to have a great aim , and the determination to attain it. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German Poet and dramatist)人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。
(德国诗人、戏剧家 歌德 . J . M .)8. The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds .(Mark Twain , American writer)具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。
(美国作家 马克•吐温)9. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president)实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。
(美国总统 罗斯福. F .)10. When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory .(Abraham Lincoln , American statesman)如果一个目的是正当而必须做的，则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。
(美国政治家 林肯. A.)SUCCESS 成功篇11. Achievement provides the only real pleasure in life .( Thomas Edison , American inventor)有所成就是人生唯一的真正乐趣。
( 美国发明家 爱迪生. T. )12. But has the last word been said ? Is all hope to be lost ? Is the defeat final No !(Charles De Gaulle , French president )但是难道败局已定，胜利已经无望
不，不能这样说
(法国总统 戴高乐. C.)13. I succeeded because I willed it ; I never hesitated .(Bonaparte Napoleon , French emperor )我成功是因为我有决心，从不踌躇 。
(法国皇帝 拿破仑. B .)14. If you wish to succeed , you should use persistence as your good friend , experience as your reference , prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry. (Thomas Edison , American inventor )如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友、以经验为参谋、以谨慎为兄弟、以希望为哨兵。
(美国发明家 爱迪生. T.)15. Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily . (Friedrich Schiller , German Dramatist and poet).只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举地完成困难的事。
(德国剧作家、诗人 席勒. F.)16. Power invariably means both responsibility and danger .(Theodore Roosevelt , American president)实力永远意味着责任和危险。
(美国总统 罗斯福. T.)17. Success covers a multitude of blunders .(George Bernard Shaw , British Dramatist)成功由大量的失望铸就。
( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)18. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want , and if they cannot find them .they make them. (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )在这个世界上，取得成功的人是那些努力寻找他们想要机会的人，如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。
( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)19. You have to believe in yourself . That's the secret of success .(Charles Chaplin , American actor )人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。
(美国演员 卓别林. C.)HEALTH 健康篇20. A light heart lives long .( William Shakespeare , British dramatist )豁达者长寿。
(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)21. Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy , wealthy and wise .(Benjamin Franklin , American president )早睡早起会使人健康、富有和聪明。
(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)22. Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin Franklin , American president)懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。
(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)23. The first wealth is health .( Ralph Waldo Emerson , American thinker )健康是人生第一财富。
(美国思想家 爱默生. R. W.)HAPPINESS 幸福篇24. A lifetime of happiness ! No man alive could bear it ; it would be hell on earth .(G. Bernard Shaw ,British dramatist )终身幸福
这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的，那将是人间地狱。
(英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)25. Happiness is form courage .( H. Jackson , British writer )幸福是勇气的一种形式。
(英国作家 杰克逊. H.)26. Happy is the man who is living by his hobby .(G. Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )醉心于某种癖好的人是幸福的。
(英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G .)27. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money ; it lies in the joy of achievement , in the thrill of creative effort .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president )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。
(美国总统 罗斯福. F.)28. Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen , as by little advantages that occur every day .(Benjamin Franklin ,American president).与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。
(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)29. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be .(Abraham Lincoln ,American president )对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。
(美国总统 林肯. A.)30. The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not . (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )痛苦的秘密在于有闲功夫担心自己是否幸福。
(英国剧作家 肖伯纳 . G .)31. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved .(Victor Hugo , French novelist )生活中最大的幸福是坚信有人爱我们。
( 法国小说家 雨果. V .)32. There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence .(Jean Jacques Rousseau, French thinker )人间最大的幸福莫如既有爱情又清白无暇。
( 法国思想家 卢梭. J . J. )33. To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune .(Bonaparte Napoleon , French emperor )要真正了解一个人，需在不幸中考察他。
(法国皇帝 拿破仑. B .)34. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it . (George Bernard Shaw , British dramatist)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。
(英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G. )TIME 时间篇35. At twenty years of age , the will reigns; at thirty , the wit ; and at forty , the judgment .(Benjamin Franklin ,American president)二十岁时起支配作用的是意志,三十岁时是机智,四十岁时是判断。
(美国总统 富兰克林 . B.)36. Do you love life ? Then do not squander time ; for that's the stuff5 life is made of .(Benjamin Franklin , American president )你热爱生命吗
那么，别浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。
(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)37. Each moment in history is a fleeting time , precious and unique .(Richard Nixon , American president )历史巨轮飞转，分分秒秒的时间都十分宝贵，也独具意义。
(美国总统 尼克松. R.)38. Fish and visitors smell three days .( Franklin Benjamin , American president )鱼放三天发臭，客住三天讨嫌。
(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)39. I am a slow walker , but I never walk backwards .(Abraham Lincoln , American president)我走得很慢，但是我从来不会后退。
(美国总统 林肯. A.)40. If you want to understand today , you have to search yesterday .(Pearl Buck , American female writer )想要懂得今天，就必须研究昨天。
(美国女作家 赛珍珠)41. In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist)迁延蹉跎，来日无多，二十丽姝，请来吻我，衰草枯杨，青春易过。
(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)42. Never leave that until tomorrow , which you can do today . (Benjamin Franklin , American president )今天的事不要拖到明天。
(美国总统 富兰克林. B. )43. Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time ; a man of talent tries to use it . (Arthur Schopenhauer , German philosopher )普通人只想到如何度过时间，有才能的人设法利用时间。
(德国哲学家 叔本华. A. )44. The golden age is before us , not behind us . (Mark Twain , American writer )黄金时代在我们面前而不在我们背后。
( 美国作家 马克•吐温)45. The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist )人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。
(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)46. Time is money .( Benjamin Franklin , American president)时间就是金钱。
(美国总统 富兰克林. B.)47. To choose time is to save time .( Francis Bacon , British philosopher )合理安排时间就是节约时间 。
( 英国哲学家 培根. F.)48. We always have time enough , if we will but use it aright. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet )只要我们能善用时间,就永远不愁时间不够用。
(德国诗人歌德. J.W.)49. Weep no more , no sigh , nor groan. Sorrow calls no time that's gone .(John Fletcher , British dramatist )别哭泣，别叹息，别呻吟；悲伤唤不回流逝的时光。
(英国剧作家 弗莱沏. J.)
英语美文摘抄
希望与幻想不同。
希望是很有可能实现的未来，幻想是不大可能实现的希望。
在我们的生活中，常常破灭的不是希望而是幻想。
我们常常为实现不了的愿望而痛苦，是因为我们把幻想当成了希望。
因此当人在对一件事情的希望破灭之后，便会把希望转移到另一件事情上。
转移的过程，往往是一个痛苦又无可奈何的过程。
因为转移是在无奈的情况下发生的，在情形有了某种改变之后，人往往会在心中重又燃起对以前的希望之火。
《希望是什么》 希望是什么
希望是失败者对成功的一种渴求；希望是死对生的一种企盼；希望是寒冬对春的一种向往。
希望是什么
希望是人生的钟摆，须臾停止不得；希望是太阳升起的地方，光芒四射。
如果低下头表示失望，那么昂起头便是希望。
希望的路，千条万条；希望的河，处处可入海洋。
希望是什么
是优美动听的歌；是奇丽无比的小诗；是令人神往的意境；是朝露、晚虹、是阳光。
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希望是你，你就是希望
《希望》 这以前，我的心也曾充满过血腥的歌声：血和铁，火焰和毒，恢复和报仇。
而忽而这些都空虚了，但有时故意地填以没奈何的自欺的希望。
希望，希望，用这希望的盾，抗拒那空虚中的暗夜的袭来，虽然盾后面也依然是空虚中的暗夜。
在最悲伤的时刻，不能忘记信念。
最幸福的时刻，不能忘记人生的坎坷。
《人生就是奋斗》 人生不是铺满玫瑰花的途径，每天都是奋斗。
每个人的人生过程，是继续不断在奋斗的，人生的目的是争取胜利与光荣。
人自呱呱坠地以至衰老，无时无刻不是在奋斗状态中。
我们看那一部名人传记，他们事业的成功，没有不是经过奋斗而来，就一般平庸的生活，也莫不是从奋斗中得来。
《奋斗的意义》 人的心理常常容易受到伤害的原因之一，就是要求事事都合理公平。
所以才会有不少人产生“社会上都凭关系背景，我奋斗又有什么用”的观点。
其实，把事事都公平作为人类的理想而为之奋斗是应当的，但若把公平当成现实的，则很幼稚。
因为在现实世界里，不存在绝对的公平。
不少年轻人遇到不公平的事，往往爱发牢骚、抱怨，甚至有的人还将“不公平”作为自己消极无为、逃避现实的托词而不努力，结果丧失了许多转变命运的机会。
《生命。
健康》 最好的医生是自己,最好的的药物是时间,最好的的心情是宁静,最好的的保健是笑容,最好的运动是步行。
欢乐是长寿的妙药,勤奋是健康的灵丹,运动是健康的投资,长寿是健康的回报,相逢莫问留春术,谈泊宁静比药好。
金钱难买健康,健康大于金钱,金钱难买幸福,幸福必有健康,生命的幸福不在名利在健康,身体的强壮不在金钱在运动。
《什么是心理健康》 健康是人类生存极为重要的内容，它对于人类的发展，社会的变革，文化的更新，生活方式的改变，有着决定性的作用。
那么，一个人怎样才算健康呢
1948年世界卫生组织明确规定：健康不仅是身体没有疾病，而且应当重视心理健康，只有身心健康、体魄健全，才是完整的健康。
可见心理健康是人的健康不可分割的重要部分。
《睡眠与记忆》 “睡眠是神经科学中一个比较神秘的现象，人为什么要睡眠一直是个谜。
生理心理学家曾经持续剥夺动物的睡眠，结果三周后动物就死亡了，在对死亡动物大脑解剖中也没有看到明显的损伤。
人类睡眠是一个主动的过程，研究发现睡眠和大脑的信息整理有关系。
如果普通人连续几天不睡，记忆损伤确实会比较严重。
” 《习惯了一个人》 习惯了一个人上街去 , 漫步在街道上 , 看着路人的脚步, 细细品着属于自己的快乐与凄情 , 没有曾经的嬉笑 , 没有往日的气息, 心中竟有一无所有的轻松 . 习惯了一个人在房间里沉吟 ，想想朋友，想想逝去的繁华与热闹，想想所谓的爱情，我在乎吗 ?我又能不在乎吗? 习惯了一个人看着照片 ，我不喜欢照片，我喜欢的是欢笑，有什么关系呢?只是我都听不到照片里的笑声了，但能陪在我身边的唯有它。
习惯了一个人看着茫茫的夜空，满天的星星，让自己的失落漫漫荡漾，恣意的流淌，一闪一闪，直到把自己湮没，只是远处的乌云飘来了。
习惯了一个人睡觉，再没有牵挂，再没有心悸，享受着只属于自己的被窝，享受着只属于自己的温度，在梦中肆无忌惮的放任着自己，白日的彷徨与精彩都是在昨天了，惯太多一个人的习惯会让自己习惯。
习惯了一个人的日子。
有很多收集泪水的时光。
无数次的颓废和徘徊，直到可以直接落在另一个人的肩膀…… 习惯了一个人的音乐。
一个人的音乐是心灵最深处地呻吟。
也许只有自己才听得懂，可是却依然希望把未来的世界来打动。
音符里是一份含泪的沧桑，无限的困惑，痴迷的绝望……相信吧，总会有一个人了听你的绝唱!习惯了一个人! 《一代枭雄曹操》 曹操好兵法，著有几十万字的兵书。
他所著的《孙子略解》开创了整理注释《孙子》十三篇的先河，丰富和发展了中国古代军事理论。
曹操兵以义动的战争观，因事设奇、任势制胜的诡诈论，注重后勤保障和加强水军建设的远见，颇受后世推崇。
100个英语单词摘抄
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A great many people, when they speak of home, tend to associate it with a certain atmosphere, certain physical surroundings, and certain emotional attitudes within themselves. This sentimentality toward home is something that has come down to us from the past. Many modern people do not have it, and I think it is a good thing that they do not.许多人在谈到家的时候往往将它和某种气氛,某种环境及内心的某些情感态度联系在一起.这种对家的依恋情感古已有之,代代相传.许多现代人不再有了,我认为这是件好事.In the old days life was difficult. Enemies could attack you and kill or rob you, and you had little protection against them. People did not live in well-built houses where doors could be locked. They did not have the protection of an organized police force or telephones which could summon the police instantly. How did this influence the way people felt about home? Small family groups clung tightly together for protection against beasts and against other men. Only the bravest went beyond the small family area. Even in the Middle Ages only the most daring went to lands beyond sea. The human pursuit of security conditioned men to love their homes. I am sure that this feeling must have been very strong among the early settlers of the United States who were obliged, by famine and oppression, to take the plunge and go to the new land where they knew no one and where they were subject to Indian attack. We can see this even today in the attitudes of minority groups who, because of a feeling of insecurity, still preserve cohesive family ties.在遥远的过去，人们生活十分艰难．敌人可能会攻击你，杀害你或抢动你的财富，而你却毫无还手之力．人们并不住在可以锁门闭户的构造坚固的房子里．他们没有一支有组织的警察队伍的保护，也不能随时打电话报警．这些怎样影响人们对于家的感情呢
小小家庭的成员紧密团结，聚在一起，共同抵御野兽和敌人．只有最勇敢的人才离开小小的家族管辖区．甚至在中世纪也只有最勇敢的人才敢涉足海外．人类对安全的追求决定了人们对家的热爱．我相信，美国的早期定居者对此一定深有感触．他们被饥茺压迫得走投无路，只好毅然决定冒险来到这个举目元亲．易爱印第安人攻击的陌生的地方．甚至今天，我们从少数民族团体的态度也可以看出这一点．由于缺乏安全感，他们仍然保持着富有凝聚力的家庭纽带．Today, thanks to modern transportation and well-organized societies, thousands of people willingly and eagerly leave the surroundings where they were born, and the oftener they do so, the less sentiment they are likely to have for those surroundings. I lived in England for three years, and I noticed that boys and girls left their parents’ homes and lived in dwellings of their own. There they could just telephone and ask an agency to provide them with a house or an apartment, which was their home. How has the meaning of this word home been altered by such activity? What does home mean to those people or to families who often move about, living in first one hotel and then another? I believe that for them home means a place where they can have privacy.今天，由于有了现代交通和组织良好的社会，成千上万的人们愿意并且渴望离开他们出生的环境．而且，他们离家外出越频繁，对出生的环境的情感就可能越少．我曾经在英国，他们只需拿起电话，要求一家房地产经销处提供一幢房子或一个套间，那就是他们的家了．家这个词的意义是如何被这种行为改变的呢
家对于那些经常流动，从一家旅馆到另一家旅馆居住的人们或家庭成员又意味着什么呢
我认为，家对他们来说是一个离群独外不受干扰的地方．This idea of home as being a place of privacy is emerging in my country, Saudi Arabia, where the young are abandoning their parents’ homes to live their own life. As for me, the atmosphere and surroundings of the place where my parents live have no sentimental attachment. Home is where I can shut the door and be by myself. At the moment it is a room in Eaton Hall. When I left my parents several years ago, I was anxious to leave. You might call it unfeeling, but that was the way I felt. On the day of my departure for the United States, my grandmother sobbed and wept. My father, however, indicated that he understood how I felt. “Son,” he said, “I am not sorry that you are leaving us. I only hope that you make the most of your time.在我的国家沙特陈拉伯，年轻人放弃父母的家去过他们自己的生活．这种把家作为私人独处这地的看法正在我的国家形成．我对父母居住之地的气氛，环境没有眷恋的情感．家就是一个我能关起门来独处的地方．现在我的家就是伊登宿舍的一个房间．几年前当我离开父母时，我没有恋恋不舍，巴不得快快离开．你也许会觉得这是无情无义，然而那确实是我的感受．我离家去美国寻卫，祖母呜咽，泪流不止．但我的父亲却表时他能理解我的心情．”孩子”他说”我对于你的离去并觉得悲伤．我只希望你能充分利用时间．” Youth Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young. When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80. ·第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选） Three Days to See All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do. Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill. I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. ·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选） Companionship of Books A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age. Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them. A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good. Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe. The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.
