Do not , for one repulse , give up the purpose that you resolved to effect .(William Shakespeare , British dramatist)
不要只因一次失败,就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。(英国剧作家 莎士比亚.W.)
Don't part with your illusions . When they are gone you may still exist , but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain , American writer)
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。((美国作家 马克·吐温)
I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man . I don't know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world .(Thomas Edison , American inventor)
我想揭示大自然的秘密,用来造福人类。我认为,在我们的短暂一生中,最好的贡献莫过于此了。 (美国发明家 爱迪生. T.)
Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal , there is no secure direction ; without direction , there is no life .( Leo Tolstoy , Russian writer)
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。
(俄国作家 托尔斯泰. L .)
If winter comes , can spring be far behind ?( P. B. Shelley , British poet )
冬天来了,春天还会远吗?( 英国诗人, 雪莱. P. B.)
If you doubt yourself , then indeed you stand on shaky11 ground .(
Ibsen , Norwegian dramatist )
如果你怀疑自己,那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。 (挪威剧作家 易卜生)
If you would go up high , then use your own legs ! Do not let yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads . (F. W . Nietzsche , German Philosopher)
如果你想走到高处,就要使用自己的两条腿!不要让别人把你抬到高处;不要坐在别人的背上和头上。(德国哲学家 尼采. F. W.)
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest , but there is seldom any money in them.( Mark Twain , American writer )
就是在我们母亲的膝上,我们获得了我们的最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想,但是里面很少有任何金钱。(美国作家 马克·吐温)
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
Alexander Dumas (Davy de La Pailleterie, French Writer)
生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。 (法国作家 大仲马. A.)
The ideals which have lighted my way , and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully 19 have been kindness , beauty and truth .(Albert Einstein , American scientist)
有些理想曾为我们引过道路,并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生,那些理想就是——真、善、美。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦 . A .)
The important thing in life is to have a great aim , and the determination to attain it. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German Poet and dramatist)
人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标,并决心实现它。(德国诗人、戏剧家 歌德 . J . M .)
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds .(Mark Twain , American writer)
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。 (美国作家 马克·吐温)
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president)
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。 (美国总统 罗斯福. F .)
When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory .(Abraham Lincoln , American statesman)
如果一个目的是正当而必须做的,则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。(美国政治家 林肯. A.)
绕口令
Mike likes to write by the bright light at night.
麦克喜欢夜晚在一盏明亮的灯下写作
Good, better, best, never let it rest, till good is better, and better is best. 好,更好,最好,永不停息,直到好变为更好,那么更好就是最好
How much dew would a dewdrop drop if a dewdrop could drop dew?
如果一颗露珠会掉下露水,那么一颗露珠会掉下多少露水呢?
The driver was drunk and drove the doctor's car directly into the deep ditch.
这个司机喝醉了,他把医生的车开进了一个大深沟里。
Sandy sniffed sweet smelling sunflower seeds while sitting beside a swift stream.
桑迪坐在湍急的小溪边尽情地品味着葵花子的香味。
A snow-white swan swam swiftly to catch a slowly-swimming snake in a lake.
湖中一只雪白的天鹅快速地游动着去追赶一条慢慢游动的蛇。
A pleasant peasant keeps a pleasant pheasant and both the peasant and the pheasant are having a pleasant time together.
一位和气的农民养了一只伶俐的野鸡,而且这位和气的农民和这只伶俐的野鸡在一起度过了一段很美好的时光。
忆读书 冰心
一谈到读书,我的话就多了!
我自从会认字后不到几年,就开始读书。倒不是4 岁时读母亲教给我的商务印书馆出版的国文教科书第一册的“天,地,日,月,山,水,土,木”以后的那几册,而是7 岁时开始自己读的“话说天下大势,分久必合,合久必分……”的《三国演义》。
那时我的舅父杨子敬先生每天晚饭后必给我们几个表兄妹讲一段《三国演义》,我听得津津有味,什么“宴桃园豪杰三结义,斩黄巾英雄首立功”,真是好听极了,但是他讲了半个钟头,就停下去干他的公事了。我只好带着对于故事下文的无限悬念,在母亲的催促下,含泪上床。 此后我决定咬了牙拿起一本《三国演义》来,自己一知半解地读了下去,居然越看越懂,虽然字音都读得不对,比如把“凯”念作“岂”,把“诸”念作“者”之类,因为就只学过那个字一半部分。
谈到《三国演义》我第一次读到关羽死了,哭了一场,便把书丢下了。第二次再读时,到诸葛亮死了,又哭了一场,又把书丢下了,最后忘了是什么时候才把全书读到分久必合的结局。 这时就同时还看了母亲针线笸箩里常放着的那几本《聊斋志异》,聊斋故事是短篇的,可以随时拿起放下,又是文言的,这对于我的作文课很有帮助。时为我的作文老师曾在我的作文本上,批着“柳州风骨,长吉清才”的句子,其实我那时还没有读过柳宗元和李贺的文章,只因那时的作文,都是用文言写的。
因为看《三国演义》引起了我对章回小说的兴趣,对于那部述说“官逼民反”的《水浒传》大加欣赏。那部书里着力描写的人物,如林冲——林教头风雪山神庙一回,看了使我气愤填胸!武松、鲁智深等人,都有其自己极其生动的风格,虽然因为作者要凑成三十六天罡七十二地煞勉勉强强地满了一百零八人的数目,我觉得也比没有人物个性的《荡寇志》强多了。
《精忠说岳》并没有给我留下太大的印象,虽然岳飞是我从小就崇拜的最伟大的爱国英雄。在此顺便说一句,我酷爱古典诗词,但能够从头背到底的,只有岳武穆的《满江红》“怒发冲冠”那一首,还有就是李易安的《声声慢》,她那几个叠字:“寻寻觅觅,冷冷清清,凄凄惨惨戚戚……”写得十分动人,尤其是以“寻寻觅觅”起头,描写尽了“若有所失”的无聊情绪。 到我11 岁时,回到故乡的福州,在我祖父的书桌上看到了林琴南老先生送给他的《茶花女遗事》,使我对于林译外国小说,有了广泛的兴趣,那时只要我手里有几角钱,就请人去买林译小说来看,这又使我知道了许多外国的人情世故。
《红楼梦》是在我十二三岁时候看的,起初我对它的兴趣并不大,贾宝玉女声女气,林黛玉的哭哭啼啼都使我厌烦,还是到了中年以后,再拿起这部书看时,才尝到“满纸荒唐言,一把辛酸泪”,一个朝代和家庭的兴亡盛衰的滋味。
总而言之,统而言之,我这一辈子读到的中外的文艺作品,不能算太少。我永远感到读书是我生命中最大的快乐!从读书中我还得到了做人处世的“独立思考”的大道理,这都是从“修身”课本中所得不到的。
我自1986 年到日本访问回来后即因伤腿,闭门不出,“行万里路”做不到了,“读万卷书”更是我唯一的消遣。我每天都会得到许多书刊,知道了许多事情,也认识了许多人物。同时,书看多了,我也会挑选,比较。比如说看了精彩的《西游记》就会丢下烦琐的《封神传》,看了人物如生的《水浒传》就不会看索然乏味的《荡寇志》,等等。对于现代的文艺作品,那些写得朦朦胧胧的,堆砌了许多华丽的词句的,无病而呻,自作多情的风花雪月的文字,我一看就从脑中抹去,但是那些满带着真情实感,十分质朴浅显的篇章,那怕只有几百上千字,也往往使我心动神移,不能自己!
书看多了,从中也得到一个体会,物怕比,人怕比,书也怕比,“不比不知道,一比吓一跳。”
因此,有某年的六一国际儿童节,有个儿童刊物要我给儿童写几句指导读书的话,我只写了九个字,就是: (15)读书好,好读书,读好书。
Introduction: Albert Einstein
Though he described himself as a "mathematical ignoramus," Albert Einstein's thinking was so complex that accomplished members of the scientific community still struggle to wrap their minds around the meaning and implications of his theories. Born in Germany in 1879, the frizzy-haired physicist conducted some of his most important research in Princeton, New Jersey, where he spent the later years of his life. Perhaps best known for his Theory of Relativity and his equation E=mc2, Einstein's work revolutionized the field of theoretical physics and made him a celebrity throughout the globe.
As he presented Einstein at Medal Day exercises, Dr. Frederick Palmer, Jr. of The Franklin Institute's Committee on Science and the Arts said: "The romance of his achievement has been such that mathematical physics has become popular with the public."
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955), German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his bold hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is perhaps the most well-known scientist of the 20th century.