Everyday English

August 2020

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
卓越不是有关技能,而是态度。
– Ralph Marston

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
天上或许会掉下头衔与地产、财产或许会找上我们,但智慧我们必须自己去找。
– Edward Young

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.
每个挑战、每个逆境,里面都藏有机会与成长的种子。
– Roy Bennett

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
被不确定所扰的人,无法专注在往胜利的道路。
– Arthur Golden

Some people dream of success, while other people get up and make it happen.
有些人有成功的梦想,其他人起身去实现它。
– Wayne Huizenga

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
不要以时钟,而是罗盘来引领你的人生。
– Stephen Covey

There is no disputing about tastes.
人各有所好。

Beware begninnings.
慎始为上。

The unexamined life is not worth living.
浑浑噩噩的生活不值得过。

Life is not all roses.
人生并不是康庄大道。

The meaning of life is that it stops.
生命之所以有意义是因为它会停止。

Nothing for nothing.
不费力气,一无所得。

Familiarity breeds contempt.
亲不尊,熟生蔑。

Out of difficulties grow miracles.
奇迹出自于困境。

Circumstances? I make circumstances!
英雄造时势。

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
对一件事情我们必先接受它,才能改变它。

Life is not a matter of a day.
人生没有不重要的一天。

Time never dies, we never part.
时光不老,我们不散。

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
做不可能的事蛮有趣的。

Other man live to eat, while I eat to live.
别人为食而生存,我为生存而食。
– Socrates

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
人生是花朵,爱情是花蜜。
– Victor Hugo

All for one, one for all.
人人为我,我为人人。
– Dumas pere

Easy come, easy go.
易得者亦易失。
– Hazlitt

Cowards die many times before their death.
懦夫在死之前就已经死过很多次了。
– William Sharkespeare

We have too much high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
我们的豪言壮语太多,而相应的行动太少。
– John Adams

Fans don’t boo nobodies.
粉丝不会向无名之辈喝倒彩。
– Reggie Jackson

The unexamined life is not worth living.
没有反省的人生不值得活。
– Plato

Every man is a poet when he is in love.
每个恋爱中的人都是诗人。
– Plato

Beauty lives with kindess.
美寓于善。
– William Shakespeare

The world has changed, and we must change with it.
世界已经变了,我们必须同时改变。
– Barack Obama

He conquers twice, who upon victory overcomes himself.
胜不骄,等于胜利了两次。
– Francis Bacon