英文名言翻译讲解集合

1.

Security

can

only

be

achieved

through

constant

changes,

through

discarding

old

ideas

that

have

outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

—

William O. Douglas

安全必须通过不断变革方可实现，必须摒弃过 时无用的旧观念，并改变其他旧观念以适应现实。

—

威廉·道格拉斯

discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness

和

adapting others to current facts

都是

thr ough

的宾语，看其形态便知——都是动名词短语

others = other old ideas

William

Orville

Douglas:

(1898-1980)

United

States

Supreme

Court

Associate

Justice,

a

fervent

supporter of civil rights, conservation, and civil liberties.

(Douglas was the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court (1939-1975).)

2.

Your real security is yourself.

You know you can do it, and they can

’

t ever take that away from you.

—

Mae

West

真正的安全在于自己。相信自己能保护自己，别人就 不能夺去你的安全感

。

—

梅·威斯特

it = security

that = (that) you know you can do it

Mae West:

(1893-1980) American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.

(Interestingly,

Mae

West

was

a

common

nickname

for

the

inflatable

life

preserver

that

was

popular

during World War II era with US and British Air Force servicemen. The nickname was originated due to

the fact that someone wearing the inflated life preserver often appeared to be as physically-endowed

as the actress Mae West.)

3.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

—

Carl Jung

只在不过分妨碍生活时，

保 障和安全才才有意义。

—

卡尔·荣格

cramp = prevent the development

Carl Gustav Jung

/’

ɡ

ustaf ‘ju

?

/: (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of

analytical

psychology

known

as

Jungian

psychology.

Jung

emphasized

understanding

the

psyche

through exploring the worlds of

dreams, art, mythology, religion and philosophy.

His most notable

ideas include the concept of psychological archetypes (

心理原型

), the collective uncon scious(

集体无

意识

)

and

synchronicity

(

共时性，即有意义的巧合

).

His

best

known

works

are

Psychology

of

the

Unconscious

(

《无意识心理学》

)(1912) and

Psychological Types

(

《心理类型》

)(1921).

(Jung was a friend and collaborator of Sigmund Freud (

佛洛伊德

) for 6 years before he broke from the

latter, who influenced Jung during his intellectually formative years.)

4.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

—

John F. Kennedy

别让恐惧阻挡我们追求希望。

—

约翰·肯尼迪

John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

(1917-1963, assassinated) 35

th

U.S. President (Democratic), a Pulitzer Prize

winner.

Events during his administration include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the

building

of

the

Berlin

Wall,

the

Space

Race,

the

African

American

Civil

Rights

Movement

and

early

events

of

the

Vietnam

War.

His

economic

programs

launched

the

country

on

its

longest

sustained

expansion since World War II.

–

ask what you can do for

your country

(Kennedy was the second-youngest President (months

after Theodore Roosevelt), the first President

born

in

the

20th

century,

the

first

and

only

Catholic

president,

the

only

President

to

have

won

a

Pulitzer Prize, and the youngest President to die.)

5.

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.

—

Thomas Jefferson

我们认为下述真理是不言而喻（不证自明 ）的：人人生而平等，造物主赋予他们若干不可剥夺的

权利，其中包括生存权、自由权和 追求幸福的权利。

—

托马斯·杰斐逊

hold = have a particular opinion or belief (

这个 意思时

hold

不能用进行时态

)

that all men

…

, that they are endowed

…

, that among these are

…

truths

的同位语从句

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unalienable = inalienable = that cannot be taken from you

不可让与的；不可剥夺的

among these are

…

= including

…

Quoted from

The Declaration of Independence

(

《独立宣言》

) (July 4, 1776).

(Read and listen to the

declaration here on Blackboard)

Thomas Jefferson:

(1743-1826) one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States of

America, 3

rd

President of the U.S., principal author of

The Declaration of Independence

, and founder of

the University of Virginia.

(Jefferson is featured on the obverse(

正面

) of the U.S. 2-dollar bill.

Figures on the obverses of other

U.S. dollar bills are: 1-dollar bill

–

George Washington, 1

st

U.S. President; 5-dollar bill

–

Abraham Lincoln,

16

th

U.S. President; 10-dollar bill

–

Alexander Hamilton, 1

st

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; 20-dollar bill

–

Andrew Jackson, 7

th

U.S. President; 50-dollar bill

–

Ulysses S. Grant, 18

th

U.S. President; 100-dollar bill

–

Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S.)

6.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man

’

s freedom.

You can be

free only if I am free.

—

Clarence Darrow

在此世界，保障他人之自由，方可保障己身之自由；我自由时，你方自由。

—

克莱伦斯·丹诺

Clarence

Darrow:

(1857-1938) American

lawyer

and

leading

member

of

the

American

Civil Liberties

Union

(

美国公民自由联盟

),

defender

of

the

weaker

and

fighter

for

freedom,

best

known

for

the

Leopold and Loeb Trial and the Scopes Monkey Trial.

7.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

—

Abraham Lincoln

不予他人自由者，自己亦不得享有自由。

—亚伯拉罕·林肯

deserve it not = do not deserve it

Quoted from

Letter to Henry Pierce

(1859)