1、A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
——Joseph Addison(美国作家艾迪生)
2、If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。
——Benjamin Franklin(美国总统富兰克林)
3、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend,
experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以
——Thomas Edison(美国发明家爱迪生)
4、Health is certainly more valuable than money,
because it is by health that money is procured.
健康当然比金钱更为重要，因为我们所赖以获得金钱的就是健康。
——Samuel Johnson(英国作家约翰逊)
5、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。
——Henry David Thoreau(美国作家梭罗)
6、Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。
——Albert Einstein(美国科学家爱因斯坦)
7、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——Louis Pasteur(法国化学家巴斯勒)
8、All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。
——Voltaire(法国思想家伏尔泰)
9、There is a great different between exposure of
the mind and that of the body.
表露思想和展露身体之间存在极大的不同。
——William Hazlitt(英国批评家散文家哈滋里特)
10、To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,
and the true success is to labor.
怀着希望去旅行比抵达目的地更愉快;而真正的成功在于工作。
——Robert Louis Stevenson(英国作家史蒂文森)
11、The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.
一个人越伟大，对表扬和奉承就越反感。
——John Burroughs(美国博物学家巴勒斯)
12、I might say that success is won by three things:
first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
可以说成功要靠三件事才能赢得：努力，努力，再努力。
——Thomas Hardy(英国诗人小说家哈代)
13、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
成功常常取决于知道需要多久才能成功。
——Charles Montesquieu(法国思想家孟德斯鸠)
14、Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举的完成困难的事。
——Friedrich Schiller(德国剧作家诗人席勒)
15、You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
你必须相信自己，这是成功的关键。
——Charles Chaplin(美国演员卓别林)
16、A man can succeed at almost anything for which
he has unlimited enthusiasm.
无论何事，只要对它有无限的热情你就能取得成功。
——C. M. Schwab(美国实业家施瓦布)
17、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”.
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。
——Bonapart Napoleon(法国皇帝拿破仑)
18、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
——Emerson(美国思想家爱默生)
20、Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
but the chalice of opportunity.
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。
——Richard Nixon(美国总统尼克松)
21、Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命的努力。
——C. Weizmann(爱尔兰总统魏茨曼)
22、It never will rain roses.
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。
——G. Eliot(英国小说家艾略特)
23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善;如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。
——Joshuas Reynolds(美国散文家雷诺兹)
24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。
——Samuel Johnson(英国作家和评论家约翰逊)
25、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。
——Mendeleyev(俄国化学家门捷列耶夫)
26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的;其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。
——(La Racheforcauld(法国作家罗切福考尔德)
27、Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服地。
——W.M Thackeray(英国小说家萨克雷)
28、All that you do, do with your might; t
hings done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。
——R.H. Stoddard(美国诗人斯托达德)
29、A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。
——J.Burroughs(美国博物学家巴勒斯)
30、You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
——Norman Douglas(英国作家道格拉斯)
31、The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。
——Franklin Roosevelt(美国总统罗斯福)
32、The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。
——Mark Twain(美国作家马克?吐温)
33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,
and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(德国诗人、剧作家歌德)
34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物的人惹出来的。
——George Eliot(英国小说家艾略特)
35、If you doubt yourself,
then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。
——Ibsen(挪威剧作家易卜生)
36、Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的`方向;
没有方向，就没有生活。 ——Leo Tolstory(俄国作家托尔斯泰)
37、Ideal are like the stars ——- we never reach them ,
but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
理想犹如天上的星星，我们犹如水手，虽不能达到天上，
但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。
——Carl Schurz(美国政治家舒尔茨)
38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生应该树立目标，否则你的精神会白白浪费。
——R. Peters(美国法学家彼得斯)
39、Don't part with yourxxxs, When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。
——Mark Twain(马克 吐温)
40、Do not, for one repulse,
give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。
——Willian Shakespeare(莎士比亚)
41、Between the ideal and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。
——Thomas Stearns Eliot(T.S.爱略特)
42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要有一个人还有所追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。
——J. Barrymore(巴里穆尔)
43、Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realises itself through changes.
如果仅仅就变化论变化，则只是变动不羁，倏忽即逝;这是低能的表现，真正了解变化在于把握住在变化中完成自身的永恒目标。
——John Dewey 约翰·杜威
44、Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
变化是生活的法则。只盯着过去或眼前的人注定失去未来。
——John F.Kennedy 约翰·弗·肯尼迪
45、Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.
天才悄无声息地诞生，性情却在生命之河里逐渐形成。
——Goethe 歌德
46、With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything.
一个人既自傲又胆怯，将永远一事无成。
——Joseph Roux 约瑟夫·鲁
47、If there is anything that we wish to change the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
假如我们想让孩子在某个方面有所改变，我们应首先检验一下，看看我们自己是否最好在这一方面变一变。
——Jung 荣格
48、The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
你能留给孩子的最好财产莫过于允许他完全独立自主地摸索自己的道路。
——Isadora Duncan 伊莎多拉·邓肯
49、Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
人最大的优点是尽可能多地驾驭外部环境，尽可能少地让环境约束自己。
——Goethe 歌德
50、Don't wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
不要等候最好的条件或者最佳时机，它们永远不会降临。
——Janet Erskine Stuart 珍尼特·厄斯金·斯图亚特
1. 不用说…… It goes without saying that … = (It is) needless to say (that) …
= It is obvious that …
例：不用说早睡早起是值得的。
It goes without saying that it pays to keep early hours.
2. 在各种……之中，…… Among various kinds of …， … /= Of all the …， …
例︰在各种运动中我尤其喜欢慢跑。
Among various kinds of sports， I like jogging in particular.
3. 就我的看法……;我认为……
In my opinion， …
= To my mind， …
= As far as I am concerned， …
= I am of the opinion that …
例：In my opinion， playing video games not only takes much time but is also harmful to health.
就我的看法打电动玩具既花费时间也有害健康。
4. 随着人口的增加…… With the increase/growth of the population， …
随着科技的进步…… With the advance of science and technology， …
例：With the rapid development of Taiwan‘s economy， a lot of social problems have come to pass.
随着台湾经济的快速发展许多社会问题产生了。
5. ……是必要的 It is necessary (for sb.) to do / that …
…… 是重要的 It is important/essential (for sb.) to do / that …
…… 是适当的 It is proper (for sb.) to do / that …
……是紧急的 It is urgent (for sb.) to do / that …
例：It is proper for us to keep the public places clean.
It is proper that we (should) keep the public places clean.
我们应当保持公共场所清洁。
6. 花费 spend … on sth. / doing sth. …
例：我们不应该在我们不感兴趣的事情上花太多的时间。
We shouldn‘t spend too much time on something we aren‘t interested in.
7. how 引导的感叹句
例：那至少可以证明你很诚实。
At least it will prove how honest you are.
8. 状语从句
A)如果你不……，你就会…… If you don‘t …， you‘ll …
例︰If you don‘t keep working hard， you‘ll lose the chance.
如果你不坚持努力工作，你就会失去这次机会。
B) 如此 ……，以至于…… so … that …
例：At that moment， I was so upset that I wanted to give up.
当时，我非常伤心，最后都想放弃了。
9. 宾语从句
我认为，…… / 我认为……不 I think / I don‘t think that …
我想知道是否…… I wonder whether …
例：He doesn‘t think I should stop him joining the club.
他认为我不应该阻止他参加这个俱乐部。
10. Since + S + 过去式， S + 现在完成式。
例：Since he went to senior high school， he has worked very hard.
自从他上高中，他就一直很用功。
1. Our world is full of happiness. 世界上充满了幸福。
2. Everybody is eager to happiness, feeling so well being of everyone. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are love parents.人人都渴望得到幸福，人人都在感受幸福，生活中，最高的幸福就是拥有对父母的爱。
3. This is a small thing, but in my heart it is a big happiness.这虽然只是一件小事，但是在我的心里却是一个很大的幸福。
4. No rose without a thorn. 玫瑰都有刺。(没有十全十美)
5. Content is happiness. 知足常乐。
6. Happiness is always around us.幸福都在我们周围。
7. Love, give me happiness. There is still a long way for me to run. I believe that working hard will bring me a bright future; we will be the happiest people. 爱，给我幸福。 我还有很长的路要走。我坚信努力工作能给我带来光明的前途，我们将会是最幸福的人。
8. Our happiness from everything in life. 我们的幸福来自于生活中的每一件事。
9. Two brainstorming can usually think better than one and faster, too. 三个臭皮匠赛过诸葛亮。
10. Mother’s love is like a circle, it has no beginning and no ending.母爱像一个圈，它没有起点也没有终点。
11. Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。
12. Time waits for no man. 时间不等人。
13. Laugh and the world laugh with you. Weep and you weep alone. 笑，全世界陪你一起笑。哭，你一个人哭。
14. It is easy to say things, but it is difficult to do them. / Easier said than done. 说起来容易做起来难。
15. What’s more 更多的是….
16. No pains, no gains. 没有付出，就没有回报。
17. There are many beautiful flowers in the world, but in parent’s eyes, their children are the most beautiful of all.世界上有许多漂亮的花，但是在父母的眼里，他们的孩子是最漂亮的。
18. As the saying goes, you don’t know that happiness is until you lost it. 俗话说:直到失去了，你才直到幸福是什么。
19. Bacon said: “knowledge is power.” 培根说:“知识就是力量。”
20. Where there is a will, there is a way. 有志者事竟成。
21. If you take a nap now, you will only have a dream. If you study hard now, you will achieve your dream (your dream will come true).如果你此时打盹，你将做梦。如果你此刻努力学习，你将梦想成真。
22. I just couldn’t believe my eyes. 我只是不能相信我的眼睛。
23. Time is valuable, we should cherish time.时间是宝贵的，我们应该珍惜时间。
24. Never give up during the difficult days and better time are sure to come some day. 在困境中绝不放弃，美好的日子总会到来。
25. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? 冬天来了，春天还会远吗?
26. Nobody is perfect, but everyone is different from others.人无完人，但每个人又有不同。
27. Parents are our first teachers. They teach usually lessons of life. 父母是我们的第一任老师，他们教我们人生的课程。
28. Life is like a piece of white paper, on which we may draw the newest and finest pictures. 生活就像一张白纸，我们可以在上面描绘出最新、最好的图片。
29. Hope is always around us. 希望总会有的。
30. Happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. 如果你用心感受，幸福就在我们周围。
31. As an old saying goes: “it’s never too late to learn.” 老话说:“活到老学到老。”
32. The man who laughs last laughs best. 笑到最后的才是笑得最好的.。
33. Thought is the key which opens the door of the world. 想象是打开时间之门的钥匙。
34. How time flies! 光阴似箭。
35. Time is money. 一寸光阴一寸金。
36. No one can call back yesterday. 没有人能让昨日重现。
37. Nothing is impossible in the world if you put your heart on it. 世上无难事，只怕有心人。
38. Nothing is impossible if you work hard. 如果你努力学习，一切皆有可能。
39. Our life is full of moving stories among which there are the most beautiful stars shining in our life.我们的生活充满了令人感动的故事，它们就像是最美的星星在我们的生命当中闪耀。
40. Life is wonderful. And I also have lots of wonderful memories in my wonderful life. 生活是精彩的，在精彩的生活中我也有很多精彩的回忆。
