Ethics
A light heart can bear everything.
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet
轻松愉快的心情能够忍受一切。
——德国诗人J. W.歌德
Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
——Sirmax Beerbohm, British writer
美丽和对知识的渴望应该成为一家。
——英国作家S.比尔博姆
Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain set.
——Francis Bacon, British philosopher
美貌就像宝石,不用装饰最好。
——英国哲学家F.培根
Beauty lives with kindness.
——William Shakespeare, British dramatist
美寓于善。
——英国剧作家W.莎士比亚
Differences—both real and imagined are invariably exaggerated in the media and in society as a whole.
——Delia M. Rios, American writer
差别——不管是真实的还是主观想象的——总是被传媒和社会夸大。
——美国作家D. M.里奥斯
Envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anybodyˊs nature.
——Oscar Wilde, British dramatist
嫉妒是很可怕的东西,它会毁坏人的天性。
——英国剧作家O.王尔德
Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.
——William Black, British poet
世上的一切生物,既非孤立生存,亦非只为自身生存。
——英国诗人W.布莱克
Fame is very much like an animal chasing his own tail who, when he captures it,does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it. Fame and the exhilarating celebrity that accompanies it, force the famous person to anticipate in his own destruction.
——Howards Melvin, Ameican essayist
声誉极像一只追逐自己尾巴的动物,抓住后除了继续追逐不舍之外,再也没有其他事做了。
声誉和随之而来的令人兴奋的赞扬迫使出了名的人担心自己的毁灭。
——美国散文家H.麦尔文
Fame turns all the lights on and while it gives power and prestige, it takes the you out of you; you must be what the public thinks you are, not what you really are or could be.
——Howards Melvin, American essayist
声誉把一切灯光打亮,一边给你权力和威望,另一边也把“你”赶出你的自身之外,你必须成
为大众意想中的你,而不是那个真实的你或可能的你。
——美国散文家H.麦尔文
He who can does, he who cannot teaches.
——George Bernad Shaw, British dramatist
能动手的做事,不能动手的教人。
——英国剧作家G.萧伯纳
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;and he who dares not is a slave.
——William Drummond,British engineer
不愿说理的人是顽固分子;不会说理的人是傻瓜;不敢说理的人是奴隶。
——英国工程师W.德拉蒙德
How differences between men and women might be used for our mutual benefit in everything from our relation with one another to a better understanding of how our brains work.
——Delia M.Rios, American writer
男女间的差异在各方面——从人际关系到加深对脑力工作方式的理解——使双方都受益。
——美国作家D. M.里奥斯
How many a pear which presents a blooming face to the world, is rotten at the core. How many an innocent looking apple, is harboring a worm in the bud. But the orange has no secret faults. Its outside is a mirror of its inside.
——Allen.A.Milne, American writer
表面鲜嫩可爱,内核变坏的梨子在这个世界上不知有多少。看上去纯净无瑕内心早就长了虫
的苹果,在这个世界上不知有多少。然而橙子却毫无缺点可以隐瞒,它的外部就是它内心的
一面镜子。
——美国作家A. A.米尔恩
I believe that fame and celebrity, influence and power, success and failure, reality and illusion are all somehow neatly woven into a seamless fabric we laughingly call reality.
——Howards Melvin, American essayist
我相信声誉和名声、影响和权力、成功和失败、现实和幻想都好像是精心纺织在一匹光洁无缝的织品之中,即我们笑称之为现实的东西。
——美国散文家H.麦尔文
I sometimes wonder whether the greater rule of all is to know how to please.
——J. B. Moliere, French writer
有时候, 我真的纳闷,莫非一切行为规范中最重要的一条就是学会怎样取悦于人吗?
——法国作家J. B.莫里哀
If the orange is going to be bad—for the best of us are bad sometimes—it begins to be bad from the outside, not from the inside.
——Allen A. Milne, American writer
如果橙子变坏——我们中间最好的人有时也会变坏——它是从外面开始坏起,而不是从内部。
——美国作家A. A.米尔恩
If you wish to lower yourself in a personˊs favor, one good way is to tell his story over again, the way we heard it.
——Mark Twain, American writer
你要想贬低自己、讨好别人,一个绝招就是把他的故事,按你所听到的样子原封不动地讲一
遍又一遍。
——美国作家马克·吐温
In almost every face and every person, they may discover fine feathers and defects, good and bad qualities.
——Benjamin Franklin, American president
人各有其面,有优缺点, 有长短处。
——美国总统B.富兰克林
Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
——George Washington, Father of the United States
努力保持那胸中圣火即称作良心的火花久燃不息。
——美国国父G.华盛顿
Men and women use their brains differently, but that their brains may actually be designed differently.
——Delia M. Rios, American writer
男女不仅用脑方式不同,而且脑结构实际上也可能不相同。
——美国作家D. M里奥斯
No artist or performer can entirely escape the lure of fame and its promise of endless admiration and respect, but there is a heavy price one must pay for it.
——Howards Melvin, American essayist
没有一位艺术家或表演家能完全逃避荣誉的引诱, 荣誉给他们带来无穷的赞扬和崇敬,但他们要付出的代价也是非常昂贵的。
——美国散文家H.麦尔文
Our enemy has made us human and civilized by forcing us to suppress our narcissistic urges and desires for the good of all.
——Howard Mel, American writer
我们的敌人迫使我们克制自己,不再自我陶醉于为所有的人谋幸福的冲动和愿望,使我们成
为普通人,开化的人。
——美国作家H.梅尔
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
——La rochefoucauld, French writer
伟人的声誉永远应以他们如何得到它来衡量。
——法国作家拉·罗什富科
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
——George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist
一个人感到羞耻的事越多,他就越体面。
——英国剧作家G.萧伯纳
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
——George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist
讲理的人使自己适应世界,不讲理的人坚持要世界适应自己,所以一切进步得靠不讲理的人
。
——英国剧作家G.萧伯纳
The emotional differences exist, at least, between the genders.
——Delia M. Rios, American writer
男女至少在情感上存在差异。
——美国作家D. M.里奥斯
Two men look out through the same bars:one sees the mud, and one the stars.
——Frederick Langbridge, British writer
两个人从同一栅栏望出去,一个人看见了泥泞,另一个人看见了星星。
——英国作家F.兰布里奇
We need enemies to help define ourselves and our lives; they help us to know who
we are not or who we do not want to be.
——Howard Mel, American writer
我们借助敌人来给我们自身和我们的生活下定义;他们帮助我们认识我们不是什么样或不想
做什么样的人。
——美国作家H.梅尔
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,he always declared that it is his duty.
——George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist
当一个笨人做一件使他感到羞耻的事,他总宣称他在执行任务。
——英国剧作家G.萧伯纳
You will never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself flowed in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
——Thomas Traherne, British poet
直到以苍穹作衣,以星辰作冠,血脉里流淌着海水, 人们才能真正享受世界的美。
——英国诗人T.特拉赫恩