英语谚语与名人名言集锦)
Theme: Family and Life
Every country has its customs.
乡有乡俗。
Do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗。
Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
我们的心目中要有国家,要有整个国家,而且只有我们的国家别无其他。
Culture itself is neither education nor law making, it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
—Henry Louis Mencken, American writer and editor
文化本身既不是教育,也不是立法,它是一种氛围,一种遗产。
——美国作家、编辑 亨利·路易斯·门肯
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
—J. H. Payne, American dramatist and acter
金窝,银窝,不如自家的草窝。
——美国剧作家、演员J. H.佩恩
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, it has to take you in.
—Robert Frost, American poet
无论何时何地家永远是向游子敞开大门的地方。
——美国诗人 罗伯特•弗罗斯特
Go where he will, the wise man is at home. His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
—Ralf Waldo Emerson, American thinker
明智者四海为家——地球是他的壁炉,蓝天是他的客厅。
——美国思想家 拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生
All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
—Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
所有幸福的家庭都十分相似;而每个不幸的家庭各有各的不幸。
——俄国文学家 L. 托尔斯泰
Husband and wife are not audience, but participant observers in each other's lives. This law of lasting love instructs us to look with instead of for love.
—Terence, Ancient Roman playwright
夫妻并非彼此生活的观众,而是参与对方生活的观察者。持久爱情的这一法则教导我们用充满爱意的眼光去看自己的伴侣,而不是用寻找爱的眼光去看。
——古罗马剧作家 泰伦斯
节选自《大学英语新概念阅读教程》(第一册)(主编 李华田 黎闯进 缪惠莲,武汉大学出版社,2012年6月)