Idiom %26 Proverbs.ppt

Appreciating the Beautiful Sentences What the mind can conceive, it can achieve. “同志们好！” “首长好！” “同志们辛苦了！” “为人民服务！” Salute you, everyone! Hail to the Commander! Salute you for your dedication! We serve the people! 苏格拉底的启示? By?all?means?marry,?if?you?get?a?good?wife,?youll?be?happy;?if?you?get?a?bad?one,?youll?become?a?philosopher?---?Socrates? 务必要结婚，娶个好女人，你会很快乐，娶个坏女人，你会成为哲学家（苏格拉底的老?婆是著名的悍妇）?  Marriage?is?an?institution?in?which?a?man?loses?his?bachelors?degree?and?the?woman?gets?her?masters.? 婚姻是这样一所学校：男人失去了学士学位，女人获得了硕士学位（bachelor也有单身汉的意思，master也有征服者的含义） 双关语有不可译，也有能翻译的 Marriage is an institution where a man loses his bachelor’s degree and a woman gets her master’s status. institution 机构；bachelor 单身汉，光棍，学士； master 主人，硕士 婚姻是这么一座寺庙——男人进庙当不成“真和尚”，女人进庙却成了“老佛爷”。 对联也有译得好的 假作真时真亦假，无为有处有还无。 When false is taken for true, true becomes false; If non-being turns into being, being becomes non-being. (杨宪益、戴乃迭译） I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat and tears. I can resist anything but temptation. Anticlimax 我是县委书记， 派来的， 专门搞妇女 工作的。 Appreciating the Beautiful Sentences My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. -------John F. Kennedy We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --------The Declaration of Independence (July 4th, 1776) It is a wide-spread popular American belief that every cowboy can dream of becoming a great man even the president of the country. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ------Hemingway The way to heaven is through hell. --