第五部分 友谊篇掌管整个宇宙(1)
人生道路艰难困苦,难怪婴儿出世就哭。 I wept when I was born, and every day shows why. --杰克•伦敦(Jack London) 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。 Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. --佚名(Anonymous) 人的正确功能是生活,而不是生存。 The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. --杰克•伦敦(Jack London) 梦里见到人生无比美丽,醒时发现义务即是人生。 I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty. --Ellen Sturgis Hooper 人生应为生而食,不应为食而生。
One should eat to live, not live to eat. --苏格拉底(Socrates) 活着不是为了吃饭,但吃饭是为了活着。 Live not to eat, but eat to live. --佚名(Anonymous) 我吃东西只是为了不再去想食物。 I eat merely to put food out of my mind. --辛普森(N. F. Simpson) 生活的意义并不在于活着,而在于热爱人生。 Life lies not in living but in liking. --佚名(Anonymous) 人生并不全是吃喝玩乐。 Life is not all beer and skittles. --休斯(T. Hughes) 你并不掌管整个宇宙,但你得掌管自己。
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself. --本尼特(A. Bennett) 所有人的生活里都有一部历史。 There is a history in all men's lives. --莎士比亚(Shakespeare) 有一个伟大人物使所有人都感到渺小,但是真正伟大的人却使所有人都感到伟大。 There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. --却斯特顿(G. K. Chesterton) 骄者往往早餐丰盛,午餐寒酸,晚餐声名狼藉。
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. --本杰明•富兰克林(Benjamin Franklin) 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。 Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. --巴特勒(Samuel Butler) 生活是绘画,不是做算术。 Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. --霍姆斯(O. W. Holmes) 生活是一张白纸,每个人都在上面写上自己的一两句话。
Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two. --罗尔(A. Lowell) 地球上惟一伟大的是人,人身上惟一伟大的是心灵。 On earth there is nothing great but man;in the man there is nothing great but mind. --汉密尔顿(A. Hamilton) 人的一切--面貌、衣着、心灵和思想,都应该是美好的。 Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas. --契诃夫(Chekhov) 人的善良或邪恶都存在于他自己的意志之中。 The good or ill of man lies within his own will. --爱比克泰德(Epictetus) 生逢其时,美誉自至。
He is born in a good hour that gets a good name. --佚名(Anonymous) 卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路,他寻找迄今未开拓的地域。 Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. --亚伯拉罕•林肯(Abraham Lincoln)