中英双语阅读精句分享 Day 1

1.If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive ['bi:haɪv].

  如欲采蜜，勿蹴蜂房。

2.For “the great aim of education,”said Herbert Spencer,“is not knowledge but action.”

  原因正如赫伯特·斯宾塞所说的：“教育的最大目的，不是寻求知识，而是实际的行动。”

笔记：这就是我经常对学生强调“学以致用”的原因。

3.Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

  各人自扫门前雪，休管他人瓦上霜。

笔记：这句中文高频句在外文著作中被引用，值得一背！

4.There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

  天底下就只有一个办法，能够让任何一个人去做任何一件事。你是否曾静下心来思考过这个办法呢？是的，只有一个办法，那就是使这个人自己想要做这件事。

笔记：这句话让笔者想到了之前积累的另一句——“If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”

5.Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

  请记住：一个人的名字对那个人来说是所有语言中最甜蜜、最重要的声音。

6.If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically[ɪm'fætɪklɪ]. Remember the old proverb, “by fighting you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.”

  如果是你自己错了，越早承认越好，并且强调是你错了。请记住有句老话：“越争得到的越少，越让得到的越多，会比想象的还多。”

笔记：这强调的也是一种“舍得”，so less is more.

7.Make the other person feel important-- and do it sincerely.

  使别人感觉到自己很重要——并且真诚地这样做。

8.William James said:“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”He didn’t speak,mind you, of the “wish” or the “desire” or the “longing” to be appreciated. He said the “craving” to be appreciated.

  威廉·詹姆斯也曾说过：“人类天性中最深层的本质就是渴望受到别人的赞扬。”他并没有使用“愿望”、“欲望”甚至“热望”等词语来表述，而是说了“渴望”受到别人的赞扬。

笔记：这句莫名适合做词义辨析，哈哈！

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