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sat备考资料 格言 In the eyes of youth we see a flame, but in the eyes of the aged we see light. Victor Hugo 在年轻人的眼中我们看到火焰，不过在老年人的眼中我们看到光。 Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Douglas MacArthur 没有谁仅仅由于生活了若干年变老。人们变老只是由于放弃了自己的理想。 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana 对于出生和死亡都无计可施，惟有享受二者之间的间歇。 Truth is the daughter of time. Leonardo da Vinci 真理是时间的女儿。 Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. H. Surine 真理犹如外科手术。手术可能很疼，但很有效。 Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. Richard Whately 人人都希望真理在自己一边，但不是每个人都希望自己在真理一边。 The moment you step into the world of facts, you step into the world of limits. G. K. Chesterton 一旦踏入事实的世界，立即踏入限度的世界。 No rule so general, which admits not some exception. Borton 没有一条规律普遍到不容许某种例外。 There is no mistake so great as that of being always right. Samuel Butler 没有什么错误比永远正确更错。 It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau 说真话需要两个人－一个说，另一个听。 Truth is the bottom of a bottomless well. T. William 真理是无底之井的井底。 As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings 尽管真理相当罕见， 但它永远供过于求。 Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn’t. Mark Twain 事实比小说还离奇。小说不得不忠实于种种可能，事实则不必。 A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. Rabindranath Tagore 只有逻辑的头脑犹如全是刀刃的刀，会导致使用刀的手流血。 Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Voltaire 要判断一个人，看他的回答不如看他所提出的问题 Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner 教育是学过的东西被忘掉后尚存的东西。 Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light. Thomas Carlyle 热爱永远是知识的开端，犹如火是光的开端。 He that has acquired learning and not practiced what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed. Said 学到了知识而不运用犹如耕地而不播种。 The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Robertson Davies