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The man who has made up his mind to win will never say " Impossible".( Napoleon )
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能”的。(拿破仑)

 

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. ( C. Weizmann )
奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命地努力。(魏茨曼)

 

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. ( Muggeridge )
没有黑暗这种东西，只有看不见而已。(马格里奇)

 

Time is a bird for ever on the wing. ( T. W. Robertson )
时间是一只永远在飞翔的鸟。(罗伯逊)

 

If you do not learn to think when you are young, you may never learn. ( Edison )
如果你年轻时不学会思考，那就永远不会。(爱迪生)

A day is a miniature of eternity. ( Emerson )
一天是永恒的缩影。(爱默生)

 

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ( L. Blum )
品德可能仅仅在于有勇气作出抉择。(布鲁斯)

If there were less sympathy in the world,
there would be less trouble in the world.( O. Wilde )
如果世界上少一些同情，世界上也就会少一些麻烦。(王尔德)  

 

Don't waste life in doubts and fears. ( Emerson )
不要把生命浪费于怀疑与恐惧中。(爱默生)

 

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ( J. Cocteau )
对于诗人来说，最大的悲剧莫过于由于误解而受到钦佩。 (科克托)

 

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ( W. Durant )
教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。 (杜兰特)

 

In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.( W. A. White )
教育不是为了教会青年人谋生，而是教会他们创造生活。(怀特)

 

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ( W. G. McAdoo )
在争论中是无法击败无知者的。 (麦卡杜)

 

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong. ( Voltaire )
持久的争论意味着双方都是错的。 (伏尔泰)

 

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ( Chesterton )
通常人们是因为不会辩理才吵架的。 (切斯特顿)

 

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. ( Bernard Shaw )
明白事理的人使自己适应世界；
不明事理的人想使世界适应自己。 (萧伯钠)

 

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ( C. Darrow )
只要世界还存在，就会有错误，如果没有人反叛，这些错误将永远存在下去。(达罗)

 

 

 

 

根据对4万名海外投票者和英国文化协会在世界各地英语中心的学习者的调查显示，“母亲”(Mother)是英语当中最优美的单词。此项调查为庆祝英国文化协会成立70周年而举办。
英国文化协会在华作为英国大使馆文化教育处开展工作。为开展上述调查工作，英国文化协会征求了46个国家7000多名英语学习者对英语中最优美单词的意见。此外，英国文化协会还通过自己的网站在网上征求了非英语国家的意见。非英语国家中35000多人参加了投票，其中包括3500份来自中国的选票。