2010年1月29日星期五

阮一峰的网络日志

阮一峰的网络日志


引言摘录之五

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 03:10 AM PST

前几天,我突然想知道,人们在twitter上都引用谁的话。

于是,我搜索了#quote标签。

我惊奇地发现,返回的搜索结果质量相当高,堪称我见过的效果最好的引言网站。人们真的在一刻不停地引用妙语警句,每分钟都会新增几十条结果。

如果你想进一步找出最受欢迎的引言,可以搜索"RT #quote"。

如果你想搜索某个主题的引言,可以加入主题词,比如"love #quote"、"war #quote"、"animal #quote"等等。

我自己非常喜欢收集妙语警句,认为这是学习他人智慧、增强表达效果的最好方法之一。将近三年前,我做过一个"引言摘录"系列()。今天,我从twitter上又摘录并翻译了一些引言,附在下面,当作这个系列的第五部分。

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51.

你有没有注意到,律师总是比当事人有更多的笑容?
—— Geo Carlin,美国喜剧演员

Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?
-- Geo Carlin

52.

愤怒(anger)只比危险(danger)少一个字母。
—— 作者未知

Anger is only one letter short of danger.
-- Unknown

53.

到头来,我们记住的不是敌人的攻击,而是朋友的沉默。
—— 马丁·路德金,美国民权运动领袖

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

54.

如果你把生活中的每件事,都拖到不得不做的时候才去做,那么你就为自己找来了许多压力。
—— Jack Canfield,美国演说家

When you constantly live your life in Have-To Land, you put yourself in a position of pressure.
-- Jack Canfield

55.

愤怒总是有理由的,但是很少有可取的理由。
—— 富兰克林,美国政治家,独立宣言起草人之一

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
-- Benjamin Franklin

56.

勇气并非因为无畏,而是因为认识到,存在比畏惧更重要的东西。
—— 作者未知

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

57.

用掉这个下午,你不可能把它带走的。
—— Annie Dillard,美国作家

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
-- Annie Dillard

58.

声称一种数据库满足ODBC规格,就好比声称电影《泰坦尼克号》可以转录在VHS录像带上。
—— Ken North,美国程序员

Saying a database is ODBC-compliant is like saying Titanic is a VHS-compliant movie.
-- Ken North

59.

良知是身体里的社会舆论。
—— H. L. Mencken,美国记者

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken

60.

英雄和普通人的区别,只在于前者比后者多勇敢了5分钟。
—— 爱默生,19世纪美国诗人

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

61.

基础研究就是,科学家不知道自己的工作有何用时所做的工作。
——冯·布劳恩,火箭科学家,导弹之父

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
-- Wernher von Braun

62.

当一个人连续失败三次或四次以后,他的所作所为体现出了他的人格。
—— James A. Michener,20世纪美国作家

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
-- James A. Michener

63.

《宪法》只保障公民有追求幸福的权利。实现幸福,还得靠你自己。
—— 富兰克林,美国独立宣言起草人之一

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin

64.

不要跟蠢货辩论。他们会让你的智力下降到同等程度,然后经验十足地痛击你。
—— 作者未知

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

65.

缺乏忠诚是导致人生失败的主要原因之一。
—— Napoleon Hill,美国畅销书作者

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.
-- Napoleon Hill

66.

生活的10%,是发生在你身上的偶然事件,剩下的90%是你对这些事件的反应。
—— John Maxwell,美国宗教演说家

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
-- John Maxwell

67.

弱者相信运气,强者相信因果。
—— 爱默生,19世纪美国诗人

Shallow men believe in luck and strong men believe in cause and effect
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

68.

小心你的思想,它们会变成言词。小心你的言词,它们会变成行动。
—— 作者未知

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions.

69.

总是做正确的事,让一些人感激,让其他人震惊。
—— 马克·吐温

Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain

70.

一切都变了。如今,人们严肃地看待喜剧演员,却把政治家当笑话看。
—— Will Rogers,美国喜剧演员

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
-- Will Rogers

71.

幸福来自于有目标的生活,而不是来自他人或物质。
—— 爱因斯坦

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
-- Albert Einstein

72.

精神萎靡就会一事无成。证明你有力量的唯一方法,就是力量没有用完。
—— 尼采

Nothing suceeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

73.

太多的人活着不是为了实现梦想,而是为了减轻恐惧。
—— Les Brown,美国演说家

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
-- Les Brown

74.

充分倾听,然后开口,否则就是愚蠢和可耻之人。
—— 《圣经》

He who answers before listening - that is his folly and his shame
-- bible Prov 18:13

75.

人生就像骑自行车。只有向前进,才能保持平衡。
—— 爱因斯坦

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
-- Albert Einstein

76.

评价自己的时候,不要用已经取得的成就,而要用力所能及、却没有做到的事情。
—— John Wooden,美国棒球教练

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
-- John Wooden

77.

英雄气概就像象棋里的卒。它们向前攻,可能会遭到迎头痛击,但也可能开创胜局。
—— 歌德,德国诗人

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
-- Johann von Goethe

78.

离家多年,你终于回到故乡,这才发现你想念的不是这个地方,而是你的童年。
—— Sam Ewig,美国棒球运动员

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
-- Sam Ewig

79.

如果你费心打扮自己,你往往就会以貌取人。难怪衣冠楚楚的家伙都是蠢货。
—— 作者未知

When you try to dress nice it is SO hard not to judge people. No wonder every one nicely dressed is an arse.

80.

人格并非与生俱来,必须自己去争取,不断向上游前进。随波逐流,不可能到达那里。
—— Dale Turner,美国音乐家

Character is not a gift. It is a conquest & its kingdom lives upstream. You never get there by drifting.
-- Dale Turner

81.

如果我们都雇佣比自己矮的人,这里就会变成一家侏儒公司。
—— David Ogilvy,英国广告专家

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
-- David Ogilvy

82.

冷漠的人不可能推动世界前进。
—— 作者未知

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

83.

网球运动最让人沮丧的地方是,不管你打得多好,都比不上一堵墙。
—— Mitch Hedberg,美国喜剧演员

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
-- Mitch Hedberg

84.

伟大的成就刚开始时,不过是一两人之梦想。
—— James Allen,19世纪英国作家

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time but a dream.
-- James Allen

85.

逻辑带你从A点到达B点,想象力带你去任何地方。
——爱因斯坦

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
-- Albert Einstein

86.

多想一会,考虑一下别人,世界就会不同。
—— 小熊维尼,动画角色

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
-- Winnie the Pooh

87.

坏心情就像飞过头顶的鸟群,别让它们在那里筑巢就行了。
—— 作者未知

Bad negative thoughts are like birds flying overhead, just dont let them build a nest there.

88.

最伟大的写作风格,就是让文字彻底消失,只看到写作的内容。
—— 霍桑,美国小说家,《红字》的作者

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

89.

如果你有一个好主意,那就径直去做,因为事后道歉比事前得到允许,容易得多。
—— 格蕾丝·霍珀,美国计算机科学家

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
-- Grace Murray Hopper

90.

你可以失败很多次,但是当你开始责怪他人时,你才真正开始失败。
—— 约翰·巴勒斯,19世纪美国学者

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
-- John Burroughs

91.

所有明日之花朵,都是今日播种的。
——印度谚语

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
-- Indian Proverb

92.

全部身心投入一项工作,因为太阳光只有聚焦,才能点火。
—— 贝尔,电话发明人

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
-- Alexander Graham

93.

教育的目的,是让空洞的思想变成开明的思想。
——Malcolm Forbes,《福布斯》杂志创始人

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-- Malcolm Forbes

94.

全身心投入和善用时间的能力,决定了一切。
—— 艾柯卡,美国企业家

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
-- Lee Iacocca

95.

有些人渴望永生,但是一遇到下雨的午后,他们就不知道该干什么。
—— Harvey H. Potthoff,美国宗教活动家

Some people who yearn for endless life don't even know what to do with a rainy afternoon.
—— Harvey H. Potthoff

96.

只有写成文字,并且签过名,你才可以说出口。
—— Earl Wilson,美国众议员

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
-- Earl Wilson

97.

罕见的不是天赋,而是甘愿跟随天赋、尝尽人间甘苦的勇气。
-- 艾瑞卡·容,美国当代畅销书作家

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place it leads.
-- Erica Jong

98.

鸟儿歌唱,并非因为它知道答案,而是因为它有一支歌。
—— 作者未知

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song

99.

要么你赢,要么你得到了教训。
—— 罗伯特·清崎,美国商人,《富爸爸,穷爸爸》的作者

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.
-- Robert Kiyosaki

100.

直到你为那些永远无法回报你的人们做出奉献时,你的生活才开始有意义。
—— 作者未知

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
-- Anonymous

101.

所谓现代战争,就是你什么也没做,就已经成了一条死狗。
——海明威,20世纪美国作家

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
-- Ernest Hemingway

102.

傻瓜才会害怕无法避免的事情。
——普布利柳斯,公元前一世纪罗马作家

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
-- Publilius Syrus

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