书城成功励志青春阅读——名人智慧之光(双语)
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第32章 时间篇(2)

Make use of time if you love eternity, yesterday cannot be recalled; tomorrow cannot be assured;only today is yours, which if you procrastinate, you lose, and which lost is lost forever. One today is worth two tomorrow.

——Anatole France, French novelist and critic

如果你爱永恒,就该很好地利用时间,昔日不再来;明天难保证;把握住今天,稍耽误它也

会逝去;失去的将不再复返。一个今天抵得上两个明天。

——法国小说家、文艺评论家A.法朗士

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B.富兰克林

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you have got to start young.

——Fred Astaire, American dancer

老年和其他事物一样,要使之成功,必须从年轻时开始。

——美国舞蹈家F.阿斯泰厄

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A.叔本华

Procrastination is the thief of time.

——Edward Young, British poet

拖延即偷窃时间。

——英国诗人E.杨格

The best way to suppose what may come is to remember what is past.

——George Halifax, British statesman

推测将要发生什么,最好的方法是记住已经发生了什么。

——英国政治家G.哈利法克斯

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

——Mark Twain, American writer

黄金时代在我们前面而不在我们背后。

——美国作家马克 · 吐温

The simple life is not necessarily living in a cabin, cultivating beans; it is refusing to let our lives be frittered away by detail.

—— Richard Wolkomir,American writer

朴实无华的生活并不是必须住在木屋里,种植豌豆,它只不过是不让我们的生命一点一滴地

浪费掉。

——美国作家R. 沃克摩

The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

——Samuel Johnson, British writer

时光之流不停顿地冲刷着其他诗人们的那些易摧毁的塑像,但是在莎士比亚的巨像面前,却一晃而过,不损分毫。

——英国作家S.约翰逊

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W. 莎士比亚

There is an important trick in this timeusing formula, you must get into your work quickly.

——John Erskine, Americaneducator and musician

利用时间的准则有个重要的诀窍:你必须迅速投入工作。

——美国教育家、音乐家J.埃尔斯金

Time cures sorrows and squabbles because we all change, and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended is the same.

——Blaise Pascal, French mathematicianand philosopher

时间可以去除忧虑和争吵,因为我们大家都在改变, 不再与从前一样。触犯者和被触犯者

都已经不是从前的那个人了。

——法国数学家、哲学家B.帕斯卡尔

Time drops in delay, like a candle burnt out.

——William Butler Yeats, Irish writer

时间点点滴滴地消失,犹如蜡烛慢慢燃尽。

——爱尔兰作家W. B.叶芝

Time is a bird forever on the wing.

——T.W.Robertson, British dramatist

时间是一只永远飞翔的鸟。

——英国剧作家T. W.罗伯逊

Time is a great judge, even in the fields of morals.

——H.L Mencken,American arts critic

时间是伟大的法官,即使在道德领域亦如此。

——美国文艺评论家H. L.门肯

Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell.

——Leonhard Frank, German novelist

时间是个多才多艺的表演者。它能飞,能大步前进,能治愈一切创伤,即使消逝,也能留下

影响。

——德国小说家L.弗兰克

Time is money.

——Benjamin Franklin, American president

时间就是金钱。

——美国总统B. 富兰克林

Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

——Edward Moore, British dramatist

时间在飞逝中仍然带给她更多的真理,使她意识到青春丢失的东西。

——英国剧作家E. 穆尔

Time tames strongest grief.

——Walt Kelly, British picture storybook painter

时间能冲淡巨大的悲伤。

——英国连环画画家W.凯利

Weep no more, no sigh, nor groan. Sorrow calls no time thats 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J.富莱奇

Write it on your heart that every day is the best of the year.

——Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker

铭记在心:每一天都是一年中最好的日子。

——美国思想家R.W.爱默生

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

——Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman

青年鲁莽犯错,中年奋斗不止,老年后悔无穷。

——英国政治家B.迪斯雷里