——English Adages——

[English]: Life is sweet.

[Chinese]: Life is beautiful.

[English]: Life is fine and enjoyable, yet you must learn to enjoy your fine life.

[Chinese]: Life is fine, but you must learn how to enjoy your fine life.

[English]: Life is real, life is earnest.

[Chinese]: Life is real, life is sincere.

[Source]: H.W. Longfellow Longfellow (USA) Poet)

[English]: Life is compared to a voyage.

[Chinese]: Life is compared to a voyage.

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[English]: Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.

[Chinese]: Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.

[English]: Life means struggle.

[Chinese]: Life is struggle.

[English]: Life is but a hard and tortuous journey.

[Chinese]: Life is a difficult and tortuous journey. / There is no smooth road in life.

[English]: Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.

[Chinese]: Life is like a horse, if you don’t ride it, it will ride you.

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[English]: Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

[Chinese]: Life is a big canvas, and you should try to paint a colorful picture.

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[English]: Life is like music. It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

[Chinese]: Life is like music. , you must use musicality, emotion and intuition to compose. You cannot just act according to the rhythm.

[English]: Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

[Chinese] : Life is a painting, not arithmetic.

[Source]: O.W.Holmes Holmes

[English]: Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word or two.

[Chinese]: Life is a blank piece of paper, everyone writes his word or two on it.

[Source]: A. Lowell Lowell

[English]: On earth there is nothing great but man; in the man there is nothing great but mind.

[Chinese]: The only great thing on earth We are human beings, and the only great thing in humans is their soul.

[Source]: A.Hami

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[English]: Everything ought to be beautiful in a human being: face, and dress, and soul, and ideas.

[Chinese]: Everything in a human being-- --Appearance, clothing, heart and thoughts should all be beautiful.

[Source]: Chekhov

[English]: All things in their being are good for something.

[Chinese]：The good or ill of man lies within his own will

[中文] ]: A person's goodness or evil exists in his own will.

[Source]: [Ancient Greece] Epictetus

[English]: He is born in a good hour who gets a good name.

[Chinese]：Born at the right time, good reputation comes naturally.

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[English]: Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

[Chinese]: Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

[Source] ：T.Fuller Fuller

[English]: Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limitless.

[Chinese]: Live like this, As if your life span is eternal. To work like this, as if your energy is endless.

[Source]: S.Bernhardt Bernhardt (French actress)

[English]: To live Life remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

[中文]：Life is an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

[ Source]: H.Ellis Ellis

[English]: Life is a foreign language: All men mispronounce it.

[Chinese]: Life is a foreign language, everyone mispronounces it. I can't pronounce it well.

[Source]: C.D. Morley

[English]: Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

[Chinese]: Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

[Source]: A. Herzen (Russian writer, philosopher)

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[English]: I wept when I was born, and every day shows why.

[Chinese]: The road to life is difficult and difficult, no wonder babies cry when they are born. / I was born, cry More than that, the sun and the moon know why.

[English]: Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people.

[Chinese]: Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. .

[English]: The

proper function of man is to live, not to exist.

[Chinese]：The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.

[Source]: Jack London Jack London (American novelist)

[English]: I slept and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

[Chinese]: See life in dreams Incomparably beautiful, when you wake up, you find that duty is life.

[English]: One should eat to live, not live to eat.

[Chinese]: Life should eat to live. , should not live for food.

[Source]: Socrates Socrates

[English]: Live not to eat, but eat to live.

[Chinese]: Don’t live to eat, but eat to live.

[English]: I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

[Chinese]: I Eating just to stop thinking about food.

[Source]: N.F. Simpson Simpson

[English]: Life lies not in living but in liking.

[Chinese]: The meaning of life is not to live, but to love life.

[English]: The unexamined life is not worth living.

[Chinese]: Unexamined Life is not worth living.

[Source]: Socrates

[English]: Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

[Chinese]: Life is like an onion: you can only peel it off layer by layer, and sometimes you have to shed tears.

[Source]: C .Sandburg Sandburg

[English]: Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold.

[Chinese]: Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold.

[Chinese]: Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold. It's about playing the cards in your hand well.

[Source]: J.Billings

[English]: Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions form insufficient premises .

[Chinese]: Life is an art, and sufficient conclusions must be drawn from insufficient premises.

[Source]: S.Butler Butler

[English]: Life is not all beer and skittles.

[Chinese]: Life is not just beer and skittles. /Life is not all about eating, drinking and having fun.

[Source]: T.Hughes Hughes (British writer)

[English]: For man is man and master of his fate.

[Chinese]: Man is man , are the masters of their own destiny.

[Source]: A. Tennyson Tennyson

[English]: You are

not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

[Chinese]: You are not in charge of the entire universe, but you have to be in charge of yourself.

[Source]: A. Bennett Bennett

[English]: There is a history in all men's lives.

[Chinese]: There is a history in all men's lives.

[Source]: Shakespeare Shakespeare

[English]: There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

[Chinese ]: There is only one place in the universe that you can definitely improve, and that is yourself.

[Source]: A. Huxley

[English]: The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

[Chinese]：The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that someone loves us.

[Source]：[法]V.Hugo 雨Fruit

English]: Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.

[Chinese]: Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.

[Chinese]: Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.

[Source]: R.Peters

[English]: The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

[Chinese]: The important thing in life is to establish a great goal and have the determination to achieve it.

[Source]: Goethe

[English]: None is of freedom or life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew.

[中文]：Only those who conquer life and seize freedom every day deserve to enjoy life or freedom.

[Source] : [Netherlands] Erasmus

[English]: What makes life dreary is the want of motive.

[Chinese]: Without purpose, life will be dull. .

[Source]: George Eliot George Eliot

[English]: Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

[Chinese]: Don't think that winning is everything. What's more important is to have faith. If you don't have faith, what's the point of winning?

[Source]: Lane Kirkland Lane Kirkland

[English]: He will shoot higher who shoots at the moon than he who aims at a tree.

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Text]: He who aims at the moon will always shoot higher than he who aims at the tree. / Aim high and achieve good results.

[English]: Hitch your wagon to a star.

[Chinese]: Hitch your carriage to the stars. / Be ambitious.

[English]: We are not born for ourselves.

[Chinese]: What people have As long as you live, you should be man useful to the people. /Be useful to the people all your life.

[Chinese]: Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

[Chinese]: Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

[Chinese]: Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Life is valuable only if you live for others.

[Source]: A. Einstein

[English]: He is unworthy to live who lives only for himself.

[Chinese]: People who only live for themselves are not worthy of living in the world.

[English]: Make yourself necessary to someone.

[Chinese]: Make yourself the person that others need.

[Source]: R.W. Emerson Emerson

[English]: Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his boundless sense of responsibility in his work and his boundless warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people.

[中文]: Comrade Bethune’s spirit of not benefiting himself but only benefiting others is reflected in his attitude towards all comrades and the people. Extreme responsibility in work, extreme enthusiasm for comrades and the people.

[Source]: Mao Zedong Mao Zedong

[English]: 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.

[中文]: I want to reveal the secrets of nature and use them for benefit Humanity. I think that in our short life, there is no better contribution than this.

[Source]: Edison Edison

[English]: Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

[Chinese]: Brilliant genius disdains to take the road traveled by others. He seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

[Source]: Lincoln Lincoln

[English]: To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

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Chinese]: Live to be useful, that's what life is all about.

[Source]: Holmes Holmes

[English]: Only when one plunges into the powerful current of the times will one's life shine brilliantly.

[中文]：Only when a person joins the great tide of the times will his life shine brilliantly.

[English] ：Man can only be free through mastery of himself.

[Chinese]：Only through mastery of oneself can one be liberated.

[Source]: S.E. Morison Morrison

[English]: One man, no man.

[Chinese]: Individuals are small.

[English]: Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

[Chinese]: Only by looking backward can we understand life; but to live well, we must look forward.

[Source]: Kierkegaard Erkegaard

[English]: While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will. And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living.

[Chinese] : As long as there is an area of ??knowledge and will that has not yet been conquered, and as long as people can think and act freely, life is worth living.

[Source]: A. Austin Austin (British writer)

[English]: Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

[Chinese]: Don’t be afraid that your life will come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

[Chinese]: Don’t be afraid that your life will come to an end, but rather fear that you Life never really begins.

[Source]: J.H. Newman Newman

[English]: We are here to add what we can you to life, not to get what we can from it.

[Chinese]: We are here to add something to life as much as we can, not to get everything we can from life.

[Source]: W. Osler Osler

[English]: Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.

[Chinese]: Ten percent of life depends on how you shape it, and ninety percent depends on how you treat it.

[Source]: I. Berlin Berlin

[English]: The great use of life is to spend it for some thing that overlasts it.

[中文]：The great use of life is to spend it for something that overlasts it.

[Source]: W.James James

[English]: Better do more daily, trivial, ordinary

and practical work that is needed by the people, than say a thousand empty words that may be sweet to the ear.

[中文]：Do more that the people need, daily, small, ordinary and Practical work is better than a thousand beautiful words.

[English]: Life is made up of little things.

[Chinese]: Life is made up of many little things. Composed.

[English]: No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.

[Chinese]: No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else.

[Chinese]: No man is useless in this world who lightens the burden of someone else. Everyone is useful.

[Source]: C. Dickens

[English]: Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.

[Chinese]: The measure of life is thoughts and actions, not time.

[Source]: J. Lubbock Lubbock

[English]: The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.

[Chinese]: The value of life does not lie in how many days we can live, but in how we use these days.

[Source]: Montaigne Montaigne

[English]: Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.

[Chinese]: Choose a life of action, and It is not a life of showing off.

[Source]: [Ancient Rome] C.Nepos 内pos

[English]: The first step is as good as half over.

[Chinese]: The first step is the most critical step.

[English]: Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.

[Chinese]: Even though the river winds somewhere safe to sea. Despite all the dangers, you can still meander into the sea.

[English]: Goals determine what you are going to be.

[Chinese]: Goals determine what kind of person you will become.

[Source]: Julius Erving Julius Erving

[English]: Young people must equip themselves for life's duties and guard against its temptations.

[ Chinese]: Young people must enrich themselves to fulfill the responsibilities that life has given them, while resisting the temptations of life.

[English]: Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

[Chinese]: Living without a goal is like sailing without a compass.

[English]: All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.

[中文] ]: All human wisdom can be boiled down to two things--waiting and hoping.

p>[Source]: Alexandre Dumas Pere (French writer)

[English]: Ideals are like the stars--we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.

[Chinese]: Ideals are like stars - we can never reach them, but like sailors, we use them to guide our voyage.

[Source]: C.Schurz Ci (American politician)

[English]: Hope is life and life is hope

[Chinese]: Hope is life, life is hope.

[English]: If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

[Chinese]: People live by hope.

[English]: While there is life there is hope.

[Chinese]: He that lives in hope dances without.

[Source]: British proverb

[English]: He that lives in hope dances without music.

[Chinese]: People who live in hope dance without music.

[English]: Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

[Chinese]: Life is always full of hope. / As long as there are people, there is hope.

[English]: I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.

[Chinese]: I tell You, hopeless sadness is emotionless.

[Source]: E.B. Browning Mrs. Browning (British poet)

[English]: Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

[Chinese]: Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad dinner.

[Source]: F. Bacon Bacon

[English]: Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

[Chinese]: Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

[English]: He who has never hoped can never despair.

[Chinese]: He who has never hoped can never despair.

[ Source]: Bernard Show Bernard Shaw

[English]: When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

[Chinese]: When a man's heart begins to fight, he has The value.

[Source]: R.Browning Browning

[English]: He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life.

[Chinese]: People who rely on chance make their lives like gambling on the lottery.

[English]: Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief

happiness which this world affords.

[Chinese]: Hope itself is a kind of happiness, perhaps the main happiness that this world can provide.

[Source]: S. Johnson Johnson

[English]: Hope is bad for the happy man, and good for the unhappy.

[Chinese]: Hope is bad for the happy man, and good for the unhappy. Good people are good.

[Source]: L.Tolstoy

[English]: You never know your luck.

[Chinese] : Chance generally favors the prudent.

[Chinese]: Luck usually favors careful consideration. Author.

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[English]: The wish is father to the thought.

[Chinese]: Thinking comes from wish. /心When you have desires, your brain has thoughts.

[Source]:

[English]: Man is not made for defeat.

[Chinese]: Creation Man is not born for failure. / Man is not born for failure.

[Source]: E. Hemingway Hemingway

[English]: Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

[Chinese]：Don’t work hard for success, work hard to be a man of value.

[Source]： A.Einstein Einstein

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[English]: Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

[Chinese]: What we are most proud of is not that we never fall, but that we get up every time we fall.

[Source]: O. Goldsmith \ Goldsmith

[English]: Popularity? It's glory's small change.

[Chinese]: Fame? It's just a fraction of glory.

[Source]: V. Hugo Hugo

[English]: There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

[Chinese] : There is only one kind of success, and that is to be able to spend your life in your own way.

[Source]: C. Morley Morley

[English]: It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

[Chinese]：It is not enough to be industrious, ants are also industrious. It depends on why you are industrious.

[Source]: H.D.Thoreau

[English]: Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the gr

eat magic trick of human existence.

[Chinese]: The greatest magic trick of human existence is to seize eternity from fleeting things.

[English]: We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

[Chinese]: We must accept disappointment, because it is finite, but we must never lose hope, because it is infinite.

[Source]: Martin Luther King.Jr. Martin Luther King

[English]: Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.

[Chinese]: With cold eyebrows and a thousand fingers, one bows his head and is willing to serve as a ox.

[Source]: Lu Xun 鲁兴

[English] ：Take little, but give (or offer) much.

[Chinese]：Take less, but give more.

[English]：The cow eats grass but gives milk.

[Chinese]: What the cow eats is grass and what he squeezes out is milk.

[Source]: Lu Xun Lu Xun

[English]: A man's life is limited, but there is no limit to serving the people. I will dedicate my limited life to the limitless job of serving the people.

[中文]：Human life is limited, but there is no limit to serving the people. Serving the people is unlimited. I will devote my limited life to unlimited service to the people...

[Source]: Lei Feng Lei Feng

[ English]: You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.

[Chinese]: You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.

[Source]: Charles ChaplinCharlie Chaplin

[English]: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any thing.

[Chinese]: Always bear in mind: you The determination to succeed is of paramount importance.

[Source]: Abraham Lincoln Abraham. Lincoln

[English]: Even a small star shines in the darkness.

[Chinese]: No matter how small a star is, it will still shine.

[Source]: Finnish proverb

[English]: Be concerned about the affairs of state before others, and enjoy comfort after others. Be the first to feel concern about state affairs and the last to enjoy yourself.