人要知足常乐英语

Hello!A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (H.B.Adams, American historian)教师的影响是永恒的；无法估计他的影响会有多深远。(美国历史学家 亚当斯 H B)And gladly would learn, and gladly teach. (Chaucer, British poet)勤于学习的人才能乐意施教。(英国诗人 乔叟)Better be unboun than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. (Plato, Ancient Greek phiosopher)与其不受教育，不知不生，因为无知是不幸的根源。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with works, and ,need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? (Friedrich W.Nietzsche, German philosopher)所有高尚教育的课程表里都不能没有各种形式的跳舞：用脚跳舞，用思想跳舞，用言语跳舞，不用说，还需用笔跳舞。(德国哲学家 尼采 F W)Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. (Hosea Ballou British cducator)教育始于母亲膝下，孩童耳听一言一语，均影响其性格的形成。(英国教育家 巴卢 H)Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. (John Ruskin, British art critic)教育不在于使人知其所未知，而在于按其所未行而行。(英国艺术评论家 园斯金 J)Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Durant, American historian)教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。(美国历史学家 杜兰特)Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde, British dramatist)教育是令人羡慕的东西，但是要不时地记住：凡是值得知道的，没有一个是能够教会的。(英国剧作家 王尔得 O)Education has for its object the formation of character. (Herbert Spencer, British philosopher)教育是以造就人的品质为其目标。(英国哲学家 斯宾塞 H)Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (George Macaulay Trevelyan British historian)教育造就了一大批人，他们会读书，但是不会区别什么书值得读。(英国历史学家 特里维廉 G M)Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats, lrish poet)教育不是注满一桶水，而且点燃一把火。(爱尔兰诗人 叶芝 B W)Education is the chief defence of nations. (Edmund Bruke, British statesman)教育是国家的主要防御力量。(英国政治家 伯克)Education is the transmission of civilization. (Will Drant, American historian and essayist)教育传播文明。(美国历史学家、散文家杜兰特.W.)Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. (Brougham, British statesman)教育使一个民族容易领导，但是难于驱使；容易管理，却不可能奴役。(英国政治家 布罗马汉姆)Every person has two education, one which he receives from others, and one , more important, which he gives himself. (Edward Gibbon, British historian)每个人都受两种教育，一种来自别人，另一种更重要的是来自自己。(英国历史学家 吉朋 E)Example is always more efficacious than precept. (Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic)身教胜于言教。(英国作家、批评家 约翰逊 S)For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece. (Anton P.Chekhrv, Russian dramatist)一个受过教育的人，不懂外语是极不方便的。(俄国剧作家 契克夫 A P)Genius without educaton is like silver in the mine. (Benjamin Franklin, American president)未受教育的天才，犹如矿中之银。(美国总统 富兰克林 B)How much more profitable for the independent mind, after the mere rudiments of education , to range through a library at random, taking down books as the mother wit suggests! (John Henry, British Cardinal Newman)受到初步的基础教育之后，对于愿意独立思考的人来说，在图书馆里信手取下一本书来，根据个人的天赋随意涉猎，这该是多大的好处啊！(英国纽曼红衣主教 享利 J)I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible. (Robert Moses, American state govenment officer)我早已抛弃了这种观念：高等教育是通往成功或者幸福的必由之路。知识的“温室”并不总能生长可供食物用的粮食。(美国州政府官员 摩西 R)Let early education be a sort of a musement; you will then be bette able to find out the natural bent. (Plato, ancient Greek Philosophe)初期教育应是一种娱乐，这样才更容易发现一个人天生的爱好。(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)Men of privilege without power are waste material, Men of enlighten-ment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. (H.V.Dyke , American writer and ducator)享有特权而权力的人是废物。受过教育而没有影响的人是一文不值的垃圾。(美国作家、教育家 戴克 H V)Only a nation of educated people could remain free. (Thomas Jefferson, American president)只有由受过教育的人民组成的国家才能保持自由。(美国总统杰斐逊.T.)Only the educated are free. (Epictetus, Ancient Greek philosopher)只有受过教育的人才是自由的。(古希腊哲学家 爱比克泰德)Plato is dear to me , but dearer still is truth. (Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosopher)吾爱吾师，吾更爱真理。(古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德)The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. (Malcolm Forbes, American educator)教育的目的是用能工巧匠接受新思想的头脑去取代一个空虚的灵魂。(美国教育家 福布斯 M)The education of a man never completed until he dies. (Robert Edwad Lee, American educator)对一个人的教育，至死方止。(美国教育家，李 R E)The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter. (J.Agell, Amercian psychologist)教育最主要的目的，不是教你挣得面包，而是使每一口面包都香甜。(美国心理学家 安吉尔 J)The object of educator is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. (R.Hutchins, American educator)教育的目的在于能让青年人毕生进行自我教育。(美国教育家 哈钦斯 R)The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristtle, Ancient Greek Philosopher)教育的根是苦的，但其果实是甜的。(古希腊哲学家 亚里士多德)The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. (Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician)大学提供信息，但它是富于想象力地提供信息。(英国哲学家、数学家 怀特海 A N)We should put aside and postpone all other reforms; that we have but one task-----the istruction of the people, the diffusion of education, the ecourgement of science----on that day a great step will have then been taken in our rgenerion. (Leon Gambetta, French educator)我 们应该把一切改革先放下。我们只有 一项任务，就是教育人民，普及知识、倡导科学。这一天到来之时，便是我们振国兴邦之日。(法国教育 爱甘必大 L)What is in a name ?That which we call a rose by any other name would smell and sweet. (William Shakespeare, British dramatist)名字有什么关系？把玫瑰花叫做别的名称，它还是照样芳香。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W)What sculpture is to a block of marble , education is to the soul. (Joseph Adison, British writer)教育之于心灵，犹如雕刻之于大理石。(英国作家 阿狄生 J)You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. (Finley Peter Dunne, America humorous wrter)你可以把一个人领进大学，但你却无法使他思考。(美国幽默作家 邓恩 F P) Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. (Horace, ancient Roman poet)苦难显才华，好运隐天资。(古罗马诗人 贺拉斯)Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to. (Lucius Annaus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)差不多任何一种处境——无论是好是坏——都受到我们对待处境的态度的影响。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Hellen Keller, American writer)虽然世界多苦难，但是苦难总是能战胜的(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it. (Hugh Black, American writer)水果不仅需要阳光，也需要凉夜。寒冷的雨水能使其成熟。人的性格陶冶不仅需要欢乐，也需要考验和困难。(美国作家 布莱克 H)Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Leonhard Frand , German novelist)我可以拿走人的任何东西，但有一样东西不行，这就是在特定环境下选择自己的生活态度的自由。(德国小说家 弗兰克 L)Every tragedy makes heroes of common people. (Normna Stephens, American writer)每场悲剧都会在平凡的人中造就出英雄来。(美国作家 斯蒂芬斯 N)He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. (F.C.Comford, British writer)自己甘愿受辱的人，受污辱也活该。(英国作家 科福德 F C)I find life an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others. (Helen Keller,Ameican writer)我发现生活是令人激动的事情，尤其是为别人活着时。(美国作家 海伦·凯勒)I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.(Jack London, American novelist)我一生下来就开始哭泣，而每一天都表明我哭泣的原因。(美国小说家 杰克·伦敦)If you want to live your whole life free from pain如果你想一生摆脱苦难You must become either a god or else a coupes你就得是神或者是死尸Consider other men's troubles想想他人的不幸That will comfort yours你就能坦然面对人生Menander, Ancient Athenian playwriter古雅典剧作家 米南德In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. (George Bernad Shaw, British dramastist)对于害怕危险的人，这个世界上总是 危险的。(英国剧作家 肖伯纳 G)It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (William Somerset Maugham, British novelist)说苦难能使人格得到升华，这是不确切的；幸福有时倒能做到这一点，而苦难常会使人心胸狭窄，产生复仇的心理。(英国小说家 毛姆 W S)Let us suggest to the person in crisis that he cease concentrating so upon the dangers involved and the difficultie，and concentrate instead upon the opptunity---for there is always opportunity in crisis. (Seebohm Caroline, British physician)让我们建议处在危机之中的人：不要把精力如此集中地放在所涉入的危险和困难上，相反而要集中在机会上——因为危机中总是存在着机会。(英国医生 卡罗琳 S)Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent. (Lucius Annaeus Seneneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher)小困难，大声叫嚷；大困难，闷声不响。(古罗马哲学家 尼加 L A)Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.(James Russell Lowell, American poetess and critic)灾难就像刀子，握住刀柄就可以为我们服务，拿住刀刃则会割破手。(美国女诗人、批评家 洛威尔 J R)No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us. (B.T.Washington, American educator)除了我们自己以外，没有人能贬低我们。如果我们坚强，就没有什么不良影响能够打败我们。(美国教育家 华盛顿 B T)No pain , no palm; no thorns , no throne ; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. (William Penn, British admiral)没有播种，何来收获；没有辛劳，何来成功；没有磨难，何来荣耀；没有挫折，何来辉煌。(英国海军上将 佩恩 W)Optimists always picture themselves accomplishing their goals. (Lucius Anaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman philosopher)乐观主义者总是想象自己实现了目标的情景。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)Perhaps you can't control your job, but you may be able to make other changes in your life. (Alan Loy Mcginnis ,British writer)或许你不能支配自己的工作，但你能够使生活发生转变。(英国作家 麦金尼斯 A L)Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth discover virtue.顺境时显现恶习，逆境时凸现美德Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation. (John Kennedy, American president)从希望中得到欢乐，在苦难中保持坚韧。(美国总统 肯尼迪 J)Sweet are the uses of adversity.(William Shakspeare,British Playwriter)苦尽甘来。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W)The chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity. (Burejer, British writer)中文的“危机”分为两个字，一个意味着危险，另外一个意味着机会。(英国作家 布瑞杰)The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.(James Russell Lowell, American Poetess and critic)最难忍受的不幸是那些从未来临的不幸。(美国女诗人、评论家 洛威尔 J R)The more you fight something, the more anxious you become ---the more you're involved in a bad pattern, the more difficult it is to escape. (Seebohm Caroline, British Physician)你越是为了解决问题而拼斗，你就越变得急躁——在错误的思路中陷得越深，也越难摆脱痛苦。(英国医生 卡罗琳 S)The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle, British essayist and historian)生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦，而在于人们错过了什么。(英国散文家、历史学家 卡莱尔 T)The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer)对于过去不幸的记忆，构成了新不幸。(西班牙作家 塞万提斯 M)Tough--minded optimists approach problems with a can-do philosophy and emerge stronger from tragedies. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Ancient Roman Philosopher)意志坚强的乐观主义者用“世上无难事”人生观来思考问题，越是遭受悲剧打击，越是表现得坚强。(古罗马哲学家 西尼加 L A)Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.(H.J.Kaier, American businessman)困难只是穿上工作服的机遇。(美国实业家 凯泽 H J)We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others. (La Rochefoucauld, French writer)我们都有足够的力量来忍受别人的不幸。(法国作家 拉罗什富科)We shall defend ourselves to the last breath of man and beast. (William II, King of England)只要一息尚存，我们就要为保卫自己而战。(英国皇帝 威廉二世) All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. (John Locke, British Philosopher)人都会犯错误，在许多情况下，大多数仍是由于欲望或兴趣的引诱而犯错误的。(英国哲学家 洛克.J.)Character is what you are in the dark. (D. L Moody. USA churchman)暗处最能反映一个人真正品格。(美国教士 穆迪.D.L)Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce, RSA dramatist)勇气是一架梯子，其他美德全靠它爬上去。(美国剧作家 卢斯.C.B.)Despite all the life danger, with one selfless act from one common person, someone is saved, A hero is made. (Norman Stephens, USA writer)不管一切危险，由于一个普通人的无私行动，有人得救了，英雄就应运而生。(美国作家 斯蒂芬斯.N.)Distrust can be contagious. But, so can trust. (Robbins Stacia, British writer)不信任有传染性。但是信任也如此。(英国作家 斯达卡.R.)Fame is the chastisement of meit and the punishment of talent. (Nicolas Chamfort, French writer)盛名殊誉是德才之忌。(法国作家 尚福尔.N.)God was constructed out of mankind's need for hope, for purpose, for meaning:an invisible protector and conscientious father. (Howards Mel. USA writer)人类出于对希望、目标意义的需要而造出了神：一位冥冥之中的保护者和尽责的养育者。(美国作家 梅尔.H.)He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars; general good is the plea of the scoundrel , hypocrite and flatterer. (William Black, British poet)行善总是具体的、特定的；抽象的、笼统的行善是恶棍、伪君子和献媚者的托辞。(英国诗人 布莱克.W.)I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. (Ernest Hemingway, USA writer)我只知道所谓道德是指你事后觉得好的东西，所谓不道德是指你事后觉得不好的东西。(美国作家 海明威.E.)If you would convince others ,you seem open to conviction yourself. (Philip Dormer Chesterfield, British statesman)要说服别人，先得说服自己。(英国政治家 切斯特菲尔德.P.D.)If your morals make you dreary. depend upon it, they are wrong. (Robert Louis Stevenson, British novelist)如果你的品行使你郁郁寡欢，那么，这些品行无疑是错误的。(英国小说家 斯蒂文森.R.L.)It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (Magaret Mead, USA humanist)一个有待解决的问题是：基于是害怕无休止的惩罚而产生的行为是被视作有道德的呢，还是应该被视作懦弱的？(美国人文学家 米德.M.)It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way. (John Morley, British statesman)人不仅要做好事，更要以正确的方式做好事。(英国政治家 莫利.J.)Lying disguises our mortality, our inadequacies, our fears and anxieties, our loneliness in the midst of the crowd. We yearn for the comfort of familiar lies to create a more amenable reality. (Howards Mel, USAwriter)说谎掩盖了人死的必然性、缺陷、恐惧、焦虑和在熙熙攘攘的人群中所感到的孤独。耳熟能详的谎言会创造一个较易应付的现实。 人渴望从这些谎言中得到安慰。(美国作家 梅尔.H.)Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness. (Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher)道德确实不是指导人们如何使自己幸福的教条，而是指导人们如何配享有幸福的学说。(德国哲学家 康德.I.)Morality is the custom of one's country ;cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country. (Samuel Brttler, British writer)道德是一个人所在国家的风俗习惯：在吃人的国家里，吃人是合乎道德的。(英国作家 勃特勒.S.)Morality is the herd instinct in the individual. (German Philosopher)道德是个人心目中的群居本能。(德国哲学家 尼采.F.)Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. (Leon Nlum, French statesman)道德可能仅仅在于有勇气作出抉择。(法国政治家 布鲁姆.L.)Mutual forgiveness of each vice, such are the gates of Paradise. (William Black, British poet)相互宽容对方的缺点，乃是通向天堂之门。(英国诗人 布莱克.W.)No mourality can be founded on authority, even if the authouity were divine. (A. J. Ayer. USA writer)道德不可能建立在权威的基础上，即使这种权威是至高无上的。(美国作家 艾尔.A.J.)Nothing is easier than to deceive one's self. (Demothenes, Ancient Greek statesman)再没有什么比欺骗自己更容易的了。(古然希腊政治家 德摩西尼)Personality is to man what perfume is to a flower. (C C Schwab. US A Businessman)品格之于人，犹如芳香之于花。(美国实业家 施瓦布 C .C.)Plain living and high thinking. (william Wordsworth, British poet)生活要朴素，情操要高尚。(英国诗人 德莱顿.， J)Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. (william shakewspeare British dramalist)如果送礼的人不是出于真心，再贵重的礼物也会失去它的价值。(英国剧作家 莎 士比亚. W)There is , however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. (E Burke, British statesman)克制也有个限度，超过了限度就不再是美德。(美国政治家 伯克 . E.)Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. (William shakespeare, British dramatist)美德是勇敢的，善良从来无所畏惧。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.)We all tell lies——little lies, big lies, necessity lies in order to insure social and psychological peace and comfort. (Howard Mel, USA writer)所有的人说 的谎——小谎、大谎、善意的谎——都是为确保社会安宁、心理舒适采取的必要手段。(美国作家 梅尔， H.)We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. (Euripides , ancient Creek dramatist.)我们懂得善，我们理解善，但是我们无法实现善。人的勇气就是坚信自己的希望能够实现，并为之进行不屈不挠的努力。(法国作家 赖奇特 J. P)Wherever true valor is found, true modesty will there abound. (William Gillbert, British dramatist and poet)真正的勇敢，都包含谦虚。(英国剧作家、诗人 吉尔伯特.W.)Words may be false and full of arts ,sighs are the natural language of the heart. (Thomas Shadwell, British dramatist)言语可以是谎言并带有技巧；叹息才是心灵的自然流露。(英国剧作家 沙德韦尔.T.)

a content mind, a contentlife 知足常乐

All time is no time when it is past.光阴一去不复返。 A lazy youth, a lousy age.少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.-Shakespeare 宁为聪明的愚夫，不作愚蠢的才子。－莎士比亚 A light heart lives long . 豁达者长寿。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达到的目的。In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth’s a stuff that will not endure . 迁延蹉跎，来日无多，二十丽姝，请来吻我，衰草枯杨，青春易过。The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long . 人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。Don’t gild the lily. 不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足The empty vessels make the greatest sound . 满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。The course of true love never did run smooth. 真诚的爱情之路永不会是平坦的。

“知足常乐”更多地译为A contented mind is a perpetual feast.

人们常说要知足常乐，但是过度的安于现状就会失去前进的动力，这样最终会被社会淘汰 ！It is often said to be contented, but excessive complacency will lose momentum, which will eventually be eliminated by the society!

What are the odds so long as you are happy. -英语谚语"知足常乐"

people should content with one's lot.