英文格言警句 (18)友谊与爱情(3)

Don't try to win a friend by presenting gifts. 不要靠馈赠去获取朋友, You should instead contribute your sincere love and learn how to win others' heart through appropriate ways. 你必须奉献你诚挚的爱,学会怎样用正当的方法来赢得别人的心。 Socrates, ancient Greek philosopher 苏格拉底,古希腊哲学家 Some components of a thriving friendship are honesty, naturalness, thoug...

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智慧人生篇章 (50)奥运拉近你我

On the train yesterday I sat next to a family with some very excited children who were off on holiday. You couldn't help being caught up in their sense of excitement and anticipation. I know just how they feel. I keep wanting to say: Are we there yet? For the past five years as head of Multi-faith Chaplaincy for the London Organising Committee I've seen the Olympic s...

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入睡美文(30)赛吉颂

赛吉(Psyche):亦译作普绪克或普赛克,希腊神话中的心灵之神,人类灵魂的化身,以少女的形象出现,与小爱神厄罗斯(Eros)——罗马神话中的丘比特(Cupid)相爱。本诗中的男孩即厄罗斯。 丨Ode to Psyche 《赛吉颂》 O Goddess! Hear these tuneless numbers, wrung 女神呵!请听这些不成调的韵律 By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, 由倾心的执着和亲切的回忆所促成 And pardon that thy secrets...

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入睡美文(16)偶然

Fortuitousness 偶然 徐志摩经典诗歌 I am a cloud in the sky, 我是天空里的一片云, A chance shadow on the wave of your heart. 偶尔投影在你的波心 Don't be surprised, 你不必讶异, Or too elated; 更无须欢喜 In an instant I shall vanish without trace. 在转瞬间消灭了踪影。 We meet on the sea of dark night, 你我相逢在黑夜的海上, You on your way, I on mine. 你有你的,我有我的,...

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莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第29篇

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, 面对命运的抛弃,世人的冷眼, I all alone beweep my outcast state 我唯有独自把飘零的身世悲叹。 And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries 我曾徒然地呼唤聋耳的苍天, And look upon myself and curse my fate, 诅咒自己的时运,顾影自怜。 Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, 我但愿,愿胸怀千般心愿, Featured like him, like ...

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美文阅读 (70)爱 永不太迟(2)

He said he just wanted someone to go out to dinner with and spend time with. 伯父说,他只是想有个人一起出去吃饭,一起消磨时光。 We were happy for them but had no idea how it would turn out. 我们很为他们俩高兴,却不知道结果会如何。 They were both almost eighty-seven years old. 他们俩都将近87岁高龄。 They were like love-birds and spent as much time together as they could. 他们...

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智慧人生篇章 (72)珍爱生命,远离毒品

Some of the parents I know with teenage children who use cannabis are fairly relaxed about what's happening. 在我认识的父母中,有些并不在意孩子吸食大麻。 "It isn't doing any harm", one tells me, "Alcohol's much worse." “这又没什么害处,”其中一人跟我说,“酒精比这可怕多了。” Others would really like their children to stop but are at their wits e...

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莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第59篇

If there be nothing new, but that which is 假如天下无新东西,万古如斯, Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled, 那么我们的大脑多么容易痴迷, Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss 尽管想发明创造用心良苦, The second burden of a former child! 到头来免不了是依样画葫芦。 O, that record could with a backward look, 啊,但愿有历史记载供我追溯, Even of five hundred cour...

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莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第5篇

Those hours that with gentle work did frame, 时光老人曾用精雕细刻 The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, 刻出这众目所归的美颜, Will play the tyrants to the very same, 也会对它施暴虐于某一天, And that unfair which fairly doth excel: 叫倾国之貌转眼丑态毕现。 For never-resting Time leads summer on, 因为那周流不息的时光将夏季 To hideous winter and confounds him there, 带...

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莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第95篇

How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame 你让羞耻变得多么可爱清甜, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, 让它像虫儿深埋在玫瑰芯儿中间, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name! 使含苞欲放般的美名蒙上了污点, O, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose! 呵,你筒直让罪行戴上了柔美的花环! That tongue that tells the story of thy days, 那条专揭你个人隐私的不烂之舌 M...

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美文阅读 (76)今夜我可以写出最哀伤的诗篇

Tonight I can write the saddest lines 今夜我可以写出最哀伤的诗篇 Write, for example, “the night is shattered and blue stars shiver in the distance." 写,譬如说,“夜缀满繁星,那些星,灿蓝,在远处颤抖。” The night wind revolves in the sky and sings 晚风在天空中回旋歌唱。 Tonight I can write the saddest lines 今夜我可以写出最哀伤的诗篇。 And I loved her, and sometimes she ...

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美文阅读 (64)不要哭泣

Talk to me softly. 轻轻地告诉我。 There's something in your eyes! 你眼中有千言万语! Don't hang your head in sorrow. 不要低头悲伤。 And please don't cry! 也请不要哭泣! I know how you feel inside. 我知道你心里的感受。 I've, I've been there before. 我也曾经和你一样。 Something's changing inside you! 你心中已起变化! And don't you know? 难道你不知道...

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入睡美文(2)面朝大海 春暖花开

《面朝大海 春暖花开》 From tomorrow on, I will be a happy person; Grooming, chopping, and traveling all over the world. 从明天起,做一个幸福的人 喂马,劈柴,周游世界 From tomorrow on, I will care foodstuff and vegetables, I have a house, towards the sea, with spring flowers blossoming. 从明天起,关心粮食和蔬菜 我有一所房子,面朝大海,春暖花开 From tomorrow on, I will write t...

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泰戈尔诗歌精选 (81)吉檀迦利76

Day after day, O lord of my life, shall I stand before thee face to face. 过了一天又是一天,呵,我生命的主,我能够和你对面站立吗? With folded hands, O lord of all worlds, shall I stand before thee face to face. 呵,全世界的主,我能合掌和你对面站立吗? Under thy great sky in solitude and silence, with humble heart shall I stand before thee face to face. 在广阔的天空下,严静...

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莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第94篇

They that have power to hurt and will do none, 他们本有能耐害人却没有害人的心, That do not do the thing they most do show, 他们有很想做的事却没有做的闲情。 Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, 他们让它者动心,自己却磐石般安静, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, 冷漠不动,视诱惑如怕火烧身。 They rightly do inherit heaven's graces 惟他们能继承上天的美质, And...

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美文阅读 (101)装满吻的盒子

The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. 有这样一个故事,爸爸因为三岁的女儿浪费了一卷金色的包装纸而惩罚了她。 Money was tight and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. 家里很缺钱,当孩子想要用包装纸装饰一个挂在圣诞树上的盒子时,爸爸生气了。 Never...

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美文阅读 (122)好吧 我们不再一起漫游

So we'll go no more a-roving 好吧,我们不再一起漫游 So late into the night 消磨这幽深的夜晚 Though the heart still be as loving 尽管这颗心仍旧迷恋 And the moon still be as bright 尽管月光还那么灿烂 For the sword outwears its sheath 因为利剑能够磨破剑鞘 And the soul outwears the breast 灵魂也把胸膛磨得够受 And the heart must pause to breathe 这颗心呵,它得停下来呼吸 And l...

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美文阅读 (162)漂泊的心

I haven't ever really found a place that I can call home 从未有一个我称之为家的地方 I never stick around quite long enough to make it 我总是没能停留够久 I apologize that once again I'm not in love 再次抱歉我没能爱上你 But it's not as if I mind that your heart ain't exactly breaking 我并不在乎你有没有为此心碎 It's just a thought, only a thought 其实那只是...

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莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第83篇

I never saw that you did painting need 从来不觉得你需要画眉敷粉, And therefore to your fair no painting set; 所以我从来不往你脸上贴金; I found, or thought I found, you did exceed 我发现或自以为发现,你的丰采 The barren tender of a poet's debt; 使诗人们报恩的颂词更美妙十分。 And therefore have I slept in your report, 于是我忙里偷闲暂停把你歌唱, That you yourself being ...

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智慧人生篇章 (65)人生需要间歇

Whatever happened to the silly season? 今年的新闻饥荒期是怎么回事? You know, that time of the year when the wisdom of the 1st century poet Horace is adopted by news editors, 新闻饥荒期,众所周知,就是每年记者们对公元1世纪的诗人贺拉斯说过的一句至理名言进行实践的一段时期。 "Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans, it's lovely to be silly at the right moment&...

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