读书乐

上卷：修养篇

                                 【外表】

Beauty vanishes like a vapour.

美貌消散如云烟。

斯波福特夫人

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.

                                                                Thomas  Browne (1605-1682)

如此众多的脸庞中，居然没有完全相似的，真是不可思议。

The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers.

                                                                 Cicero (106BC — 43BC)

表情是思想的写照，眼睛是心灵的窗户。

As a rough rind sometimes covers the sweetest fruit, so a rough exterior often conceals a kindly and hearty nature.

                                                                   Samuel Smiles ( 1812 – 1904)

如同粗糙的果皮可以包裹最甜蜜的水果一样，粗俗的外表往往掩盖着善良和诚挚的本性。

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

                                                                  Margaret Wolfe Hunger ford

情人眼里出西施。

[注]

a) Everyone to his taste.

           人各有所好。

b) One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

兴趣爱好因人而异 

  Beauty is everlasting, and dust is for a time.

    Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972)

美是永恒的，尘埃是暂时的。

If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Robert Browning (1812 – 1889)

只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好东西。

She walks in beauty, like the night

           Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

           Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

                                                         Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)

她的美丽

        像万里无云, 星光灿烂之夜;

她的容颜和眼睛

包容了人世间最美的一切。

                              【教育】

And gladly would be learn, and gladly teach.

Chaucer (1340 – 1400)

勤于学习的人才能乐于施教。

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

                                                        B.F.Skinner (1904 – 1990)

教育得以存在是因为学过的知识会忘却。

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance — wheel of the social machinery.

                                                        Horace Mann (1796 – 1859)

教育是人类社会状况的重要均衡器 — 社会机构的稳定力量。人类起源以来的所有发明创造不可与其相提并论。

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

                                                         Henry Peter Brougham (1778 – 1868)

教育使一个民族易于引导，难于驾御；易于管理，但不可能奴役。

The purpose of education is to replace an empty-mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

教育的目的是用能接受新思想的头脑去取代一个空虚的灵魂。

The roots of education is bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

                                                        Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

求知道路千辛万苦，知识硕果芬芳香甜。

      【书籍】

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

                                                        Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810 – 1889)

好书乃至友，情谊永不渝。

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

                                                          Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925)

所有的书不是梦想就是利剑，你可以用言语去圆梦，也能用言语去刺击。

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)

一切好书都有共性，它们源于生活，高于生活。当你读完一本这样的书以后，你会沉醉其中，进入角色，融于好与坏、狂喜、悔恨与遗憾、人民、场所与气侯之中。

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors; and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot ( 1834 – 1926)

To be continued soon...