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CHAPTER 12 QUOTES IDIOMS 引语与习语 ________________________________________________________________________________ 编者提示： 笔译和口译中有时会遇到习语、诗句、名言。多多背一些习语、诗句、名言，对笔译，口译和口语都有好处。 SECTION I: 中外领导人演讲常用引语、诗句、名言精选 不怕慢，只怕站。 Do not fear going slow, only fear standing still. 化干戈为玉帛。 beat swords into ploughs 欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。 We widen our views 3 hundred miles by ascending one flight of stairs . 会当凌绝顶，一览众山小。 When reaching the great peak (of Mount Tai) , we hold all mountains in a single glance . 结交一言重，相期千里至。 Friends are as good as their words , they travel a thousand li to keep a rendezvous . 桃李不言，下自成蹊。 Peaches and plums do not have to talk , the world beats a path to them . 君子敏于行而讷于言。 The gentlemen are speedy as a worker and cautious as a speaker . 实事求是 Seek truth from the facts 不到黄河心不死。 Until all is over ambition never dies . / Never say die . 路曼曼其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。 My way ahead is long ; I see no ending ; yet high and low Ill search with my will unbending . 安不忘危，治不忘乱。 In security , we should never forget the dangers and in times of peace , we should always beware of the potential for chaos . 海不辞水，故能成其大。 The ocean never turns away streams , so it becomes wide and deep . 山不辞土石，故能成其高。 The mountain never turns away stones , so it becomes towering and strong . 同舟共济 Help one another , for we are all in the same boat 天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。 Like Weather , ones fortune may change by the evening . 治大国如烹小鲜。 Running a large country is like cooking a small fish . 先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐。 To worry before the common people worries ; to enjoy only after the people can enjoy . 已所不欲，勿施于人。 What you do not wish upon yourself , extend not to others . 不耻下问 Never hesitate to ask a lesser person 自求多福 / 天助自助者 He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness . 天下为公