Everyday English

March 2020

You will love again the stranger who was your self.
你将会再次爱上这个陌生人–从前的自己。

Everybody who walks a day on this planet is a survivor.
每个还能在这个星球上呼吸的人都是幸存者。

Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed.
我只要自由,为希望自由我却觉得羞愧。

One smile passed from stranger to stranger will lighten the whole world.
人人都以微笑示人,那么这一道光芒就能照亮全世界。

Consider this thought when next you feel tempted to nurse a grievance: that life is too short to be little!
下次你心生怨言时,想想这一点:人生苦短休斤斤计较。

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man.
优于别人并非高尚。

Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples.
快乐好似扔入池子里的一颗石头,会激起不断扩散的阵阵涟漪。

The main purpose of history is to create a better world.
历史的主要目的是创造一个更加美好的世界。

Self-control is essential to happiness and usefulness.
自制是快乐及有为不可或缺的部分。

To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance.
懊悔过错而至不再重犯的地步方是真正的后悔。

The best is yet to be.
最好的日子还在后头。

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
只有经过黑夜,才能到达黎明。

Think carefully before you act.
三思而后行。

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

We are gaining something or losing something every day.
我们每日皆有得有失。

To decline is to accept the other alternative.
拒绝其实就是接受另一种选择。

She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.
她在美中徜徉,仿佛夜晚皎洁乌云,繁星漫天。

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
己所不欲,勿施于人。

Life is colorful because it is full of change.
生活是多彩的,因为它充满了变化。

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
一般来说,人们担忧看不到的大于看得到的。
– Julius Caesar, Roman Leader

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
如果你不喜欢某件事,去改变它。如果你不能改变它,改变你的态度。不要抱怨。

When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.
当我觉得我没有办法再继续时,我逼我自己继续走下去。我的成功是基于坚持,而非运气。
– Estee Lauder, Entrepreneur

I believe you can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough people get what they want.
我相信你可以得到生命中你所想要的一切,如果你帮助足够的人得到他们所想要的。
– Zig Ziglar, Motivational speaker

I might have been born in a hovel, but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
我可能是之前是出生于一个肮脏简陋的地方,但我已下定决心要与风及星星一起旅行。
– Jacqueline Cochran, Aviator

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
商讨审议是众人的事;行动,却是一个人的事。
– Charles de Gaulle, Statesman

If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.
假若你没有犯错,你就是不够努力。
– Vince Lombardi, American football Coach

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
绝不要忘记你工作的精神会决定你的工作是有效或徒劳。
– Adelaide Hasse, Librarian

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
高等的人怪自己,次等的人怪别人。
– Don Shula, Football Coach

Luck is not chance, it’s toil. Fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
幸运不是偶然,而是靠苦力,命运昂贵的微笑是赚来的。
– Emily Dickinson, Poet

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
我们最大的敌人,我们最常遇到的敌人,就i在我们的心里。
– Thomas Paine, Statesman

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
一个好的目标就像是一种费力的运动,它会拓展你的潜能。
– Mary Kay Ash, Cosmetics Pioneer