1， by accident 偶然，无意中
I'm a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not
by design.
Billings
我是个穷光蛋，但我这样安慰自己：我是偶然穷起来的，并非出于有意。
——比林斯
2, in accordance with 按照，与一致
Man is a rational animal who always lose his temper when he is called upon to
act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
人是有理性的动物，但当他被要求按照理性去行动的时候，可又要大发脾气了。
——王尔德
3, according to 根据。。。。。
If there is anything in being first ,man must acknowledge the supremacy of the
goose, for according to Genesis the fowl was first created.
Nasby
即使“当第一”是有些意义的话，人就得承认鹅得最高权威，因为据创世纪所载，禽类是第一个被创造出来的嘛！（哈哈！）
4, agree with
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
当人们同意我的时候，我总觉得一定是我不对。
——王尔德
Nobody can be as unagreeable as an uninvited guest.
Kin Hubbard
没有人能够像不速之客那样使人不快。
5， make oneself agreeable to/as......as
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agree with me.
So you must make yourself agreeable to your master.
Disraeli
我认为“令人愉快的人”就是与我合得来的人。
所以你要使自己投合你的主子。（对上班族很有用啦）
6, be allowed to do
Work is work if you are paid to do it, and it's pleasure if you pay to be
allowed to do it.
Dunne
为酬劳而干的工作就是工作，付出代价才获准干的那就成为乐趣了！
——邓恩
7, Every body is ignorant, only on different subjects.
人皆会有无知，只是在不同的问题上而已。
8. What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as
we do our eyes.
Lichtenberg
倘使我们能够像开闭眼睛一样开闭耳朵的话，那将会是多么大的福气啊！（有同感）
9. lead a person astray
The advantage of rhe emotions is that they lead us astray.
情绪的好处在于引我们走入歧途！（所以一定要保持平和心态考G）
I
bow to your decision.
bow to
遵从（含绝对意义）
1, an early bird 早起者 早到者
An early bird-------The man who is always on time and
therefore waste a lot of time waiting for other people.
Evan Esar
早到的人——就是始终准时来到的人，实则要浪费许多时间来等候别人。（同意！～我经常等人等到快疯）
——伊萨尔
2， Charity begins at home 一句谚语：对人做事应先从家里做起。
Charity begins at home ,and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens
狄更斯加上后面半句，借以讽刺世人的自私。“宽以待己，严以待人”者，何其多也！
3，Commom sense is not so common.
Voltaire
普通的常识其实不那么普通。
——伏尔泰
4，complain of 诉说（痛苦）
Everyone complains of his memory , no one of his
judgement.
La Rochefoucauls
每个人都埋怨自己的记忆力，却无人埋怨自己的判断力。
——拉罗斯福哥
5，crocodile tears 鳄鱼泪，假哭，假仁慈
The rich window cries with one eye and rejoices with the
other.
Cervantes
有钱的寡妇一只眼睛在哭，一只眼睛在笑。
——塞万提斯
6，not worth a curse 不值一顾（极为鄙视的说法）
The dog that follow everybody ain't worth a curse.
会跟随任何人走的狗，不值一顾！（所以，我更喜欢猫！）
——比林斯
7，devoid of 缺乏
The three most important events of human life are
equally devoid of reason : birth, marriage, and death.
O' Malley
人生三件大事——出生，结婚以及死亡——都是全无道理可言的。
——奥马利
8，There is much difference between imitating a good man
and counterfeiting him.
B.Franklin
模仿好人与冒充好人之间大有分别！
——富兰克林
9，One of the difficult tasks in this world is to
convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.
Ed Howe
这世上困难的工作之一，就是说服女人使她明白尽管使特价品也得花钱。
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1，ready money 现金，现款
There are three faithful friends——an old wife, an old cat, and ready money.
B.Franklin
忠实的朋友有三——老妻，老猫，现款。（对不起各位爱狗的了，我把老狗改成了老猫。大家随意～ 呵—）
——富兰克林
2，for this reason 理由是
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand
everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
有些人绝不能学到什么东西，理由是，因为他们对任何事情都懂得太快！（所以，GRE学得慢也没必要太痛苦.）
——波普
3，run a risk 冒险
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk
every time he use it.
Ed Howe
一般人的判断是这么蹩脚，每下一次判断，就等一冒一次险！
4，run down 贬低，说。。。的坏话
Most men who run down women are only running down a certain woman.
Remy de Gourmont
大多数贬低女性的男人，只不过是在贬低某一个个别女人罢了。（这话还算公道诶！）
——古尔蒙
5。run over （车子等）碾过；跑过去（来）
The good old horse-and- buggy days: then you lived
until you died and not until you were just run over.
Will Rogers
那旧式马车的好日子啊！那时候，你还可以活到死，而不是活到给（汽车）碾过为止！（大家转意去理解哦～）
——罗杰斯
horse-and- buggy 是美语，“过时，旧式的”意思
6，A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom satisfied with other.
La Rochefoucauls
老是满足于自己的人，很少满意别人。
————拉罗斯福哥
7，silence is gold 沉默是金
The only golden thing women dislike is silence.
Mary W. Little
女性最不喜欢的唯一金制品就是沉默！（太绝对了吧？！ 我就喜欢自己沉默，和沉默的人。：（也许喜欢除沉默之外的一切金子的女人更像女人。）
8，a sign of ...的标志，。。。。的征兆（迹象）
She wrote far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes; that is
always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde
她昨晚口红抹得太厚，而衣裳穿得又稍嫌太薄，这常常是女人绝望的迹象。（有一定道理）
——王尔德
9, keep silence 保持沉默
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
O. Herford
从一个人所保持德沉默，就可知道他的为人。
——赫福德
其实，我知道还有一句话，就和这句差一个字，觉得也很有道理。
曰：A man is known by the company he keeps.
察其友，知其人 的意思。
物以类聚嘛。。
1, be too late to do
The fatality of good resolutions is that they are always
too late.
Oscar Wilde
好决心的致命伤就是为时过晚。（努力要趁早！）
2,laugh at
If it were not for rhe governmant, we should have
nothing left to laugh at in France.
Chamfort
要是没了政府，就没有什么值得我们嘲笑的东西留在法国了。^_^
3. There are only three things in the world that woman
do not understand ,and they are Liberity, Equality , and
Fraternity.
G.K.Chesterton
世上有三件女人所不了解的事情，那就是：，平等，博爱。（有道理！）
4, a white lie
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon
grow colourblind.
O'Malley
凡以为说说没有恶意的谎言是无关大体的人，不久就要成为色盲！
（指黑白不辨，恶不分）
——奥马利
5, all one's life long
Every man plays the fool once in his life, but to marry
is playing the fool all one's life long.
W.Congreve
谁也会在一生重干一次傻事，但结婚却是做了一件终其一生的傻事！（。。。。。。）
——康格瑞夫
6. A well-tied tie is a first serious step in life.
Wilde
领带结得整整齐齐，是人生严肃的第一步。（！）
——王尔德
7. Idleness is the parent of all vices.
能够无所事事过日子而不出乱子的，可也不易。（很对！）
8.Everyone lives by selling something.
R.L.Stevenson
每一个人都靠卖一些什么东西来过活。（所以人人平等！）
9. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,looks
around for a coffin.
H,L,Mencken
好讽刺者，是个闻到花香就会四处找寻棺材的人。
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1, live on
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
我可以靠上好的恭维话来活上2个月！（呵呵，，，，我可以靠上好的FRIENDSHIP活上一辈子～
谢谢狸狸支持～你来了，来看的人也会多起来，，，嘿嘿。。。asfox效应！！ ）
——马克◎吐温
2,Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love.
Ovid
让不愿游手好闲的男人陷入情网吧！（哈——哈——哈——哈。。。溺于颓废！）
——奥维德
3, To write a love letter we must begin without knowing
what we intend to say,and end without knowing what we
have written.
Rousseeau
要写一封情书，我们无需知道打算说些什么就动笔，也无需知道写了什么之后就搁笔。（：）不知道自己在写什么和写了什么的大纸条叫情书）
——卢梭
4, make a man of person 把孩子抚养
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy ,
and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frosr
做母亲的要费20年的工夫才把孩子养大成一个男子汉，到了另一个女人手上，只要二十分钟就可以把他化为一条笨汉。
——弗洛斯德
5, For a man to pretend to understand woman is bad
manners; for him really to understand them is bad
morals.
Hery James
男人装做了解女人是为不礼貌，而男人真正了解女人则为不道德。
（女人本应就是让人去爱她，而不是去理解她的——一句老话。）
6, Creditors have better memories than debtors.
B.Franklin
债主比欠债人的记忆力更佳。
——富兰克林
7,at the right moment 在最恰当的时机
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness
at the wrong time.
C.Wells
合乎时宜的错误，胜于不合时宜的机警。（错有错着嘛～）
8, pin money （丈夫给妻子的）零用钱
My wife is asking for a pin money, and the pin she wants
har eight diamonds in it.
Evan Esar
内子跟我要针线钱，而她想买的那根针是镶有8粒钻石的呢！（^_^，绝！）
——伊萨尔
9,As soon as you cannot keep anything from a woman,you
love her.
Paul Geraldy
到了你不能对一个女性隐瞒任何事情的时候，你已经是爱上了她了！
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1, If fifty million people say a foolish thing ,it is still a foolish thing.
A. France
假使五千万人讲出一件荒谬的事，那仍然是荒谬的事。
2 by all means 尽一切办法 务必
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you become happy; if you get a bad
one,you 'll become a philosopher.
Sccrates
尽一切办法结婚吧；倘使你得了一个好老婆，你就会幸福啦；倘使得了个坏的，你就会成为哲学家了。
——苏格拉底
（呵呵 这个伟大的希腊哲学家他老婆据说就是个相当凶悍的泼妇，，，，，）
3, I beg your pardon, I didn't recognize you--------- I 've changed a lot.
O. Wilde
对不起，我不认得您呢——因为我变了许多嘛。
——王尔德
（妙！）
4, mistake A for B 把A错认成B
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Ring Lardner
乐观的人，就是把鼓起发胖的部分错认为是曲线的女孩子。
——拉德纳
（呵呵～）
5,more or less 或多或少
A parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of
more or less idle people.
Walter Bagehot
所谓议会者，无非是多少有些懒惰的人们的一个大集会而已。
——八乔特
（这句我不是太明白诶～）
6,Necessity is the mother of invention , but patent right is the father.
需要是发明之母，但专利权是发明之父！
——比林斯
7, The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.
Madame de Stael
我阅人越多，就越是喜欢狗儿。
——史达尔夫人
（信任危机啊，多么可怕！！）
8, by the name of 名叫
fortitude is known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinary in
a bad one.
Stern
目的良好叫坚毅，目的不好则叫固执。
——思恩特
（烤g 可以叫坚毅也可以叫固执。：（ ）
9, A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
George D. Prentice
直率的主张未必就是明明白白的事实。
（注意BARE 与NAKED 是相关的同义词哦！）
1，I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
S.Butler
我不在乎撒谎，但我憎恨不正确。
2, A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Carolyn Wells
内疚是发明之母。
（干了坏事，为了掩饰自己的所为，就会绞尽脑汁来撒谎，我看就这个意思吧～）
Laziness is the mother of invention.（懒惰是发明之母）
3,the naked truth 真相
there are those who so dislike the nude that they find
something indecent in naked truth.
F.H.Bradiley
有些人是这么厌恶裸体，以至连赤裸裸的事实也觉得有些淫亵。
4, of.....a nature 属于。。。。。性质的
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady
and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last
through a whole life-time, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
友谊的神圣热情是那么甜蜜而稳固，忠实，而持久的性质。如果不开口借钱，那是可以持续一辈子的。
——马克。吐温
（西方人很忌讳朋友间借钱这样的事呢～～～～下句 金钱上没有困难的朋友才是真朋友 也一样。）
5,in need 穷，处于困境（经济上）
A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed.
呵呵 大家都看出它出自哪里了吧？ 就是那句患难见朋友。
6,pins and needles 使人发麻 好似针刺得感觉
Every rose has it thorn : you never find a woman without
pins and needles.
Douglas Jerrold
蔷薇朵朵均有刺；女人无一不带针。（真理啊！！！——）
——杰罗尔德
7,have a nice time
Believe that the aim of life is to have a nice time,go
to nice place and meet nice people.
Mikes
你该相信：人生的目的在于过一个美好的时光，到美好的地方去，见见美好的人们。
（此话倒是有点道理，可是，，，，，，它是在讽刺NICE在一般人口中用得过多～ 呵呵）
8,be nothing 不橱 不属任何宗派
To avoid criticism, do nothing ,say nothing, be nothing.
E.Hubbard
为了避免受到批评，最好是：别做事，别说话，别橱！（所以，不必管什么批评，看不惯之类所谓评价）
9,now that 既然 由于
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now
that we have seen how it is made.
Don Herold
我们今后将会比以前更少信历史了，忧郁我们已看到它是怎样编造出来的。
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1， If you pick up a starving cat and make him prosperous, he will not bite you;
that is the principal difference between a cat and a man.
Mark Twain
如果你拾起一只濒于饿死的猫，并使之重获生机的话，它准不会咬你；这就是猫与人之间的主要区别。
——马克。吐温
（很抱歉，这里我又将狗换成了猫！ 这话，很经典。）
2,plead to 恳求
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second,demands the third,takes the
fourth, accepts the fifth——and endures all the rest.
H.Rowland
男人是，冷不防地作第一吻，恳求第二吻，要求第三，取得第四，接受第五。。。。然后受其余！
——罗兰
（得到了的就不在是最好的——这就是男人 哼）
3,prior to 在，，，之前的
The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy in troduction to a tedious
book.
W.Mizner
临近结婚的那几天，就像一本枯燥的书籍的精彩序言。
——米兹纳
（但愿是危言耸听）
4,provide for 为。。。。作准备
The only way a woman can provide for herself decently is to be good to some man
that can afford to be good to her.
Bernard Shaw
女人为自己能过个安乐日子作准备的唯一办法，就是好好地对待一个能充分体贴她的男人！
——萧伯纳
（咖啡，我祝福你～）
5.In reality 实际上
Most of those who call themselves artists are in reality picture dealers,only
they make the pictures themselves.
大部分自称为画家者，实际上是画商，只不过那些画是他们自己画的罢了。
——巴特勒
（一般，画家是活不了自己的，哎！）
6,a woman's reason 女人的道理，不成理由的理由
I have no other but a woman's reason; Ithink him so because I think him so.
Shakespeare
我有的只是女流之见：我认为他是这样，就是因为我认为他是这样。（我也一样这样！）
——莎士比亚
7,last resort 最后一招
With a man,a lie is a last resort;with woman ,it's First Aid.
Gelett Burgess
就男人来说，撒谎是最后一招；就女人说来，那是第一急就法！
——伯吉斯
8, Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as
one goes on.
Baron Lytton
人生就如当众作小提琴独奏，而且是边演奏边学习这种乐器！
——里顿男爵
（这话我很欣赏～）
9,have a pull 有门路
It's only the people with push who have a pull.
Thomas Robert Dewar
只有有冲劲的人才能乘胜而起！！
——迪由尔
1，My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Abrahan Lincoln
我父亲教导我做工作，可他没有教导我爱工作。
——林肯
(学校也一样）
2, lose one's temper
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
人们为了替自己的嗜好辩护，是会大发脾气的！
——爱默生
（我会）
3,An exaggeration is a truth that has lose its temper.
Gibran
夸张，是失却了抑制的事实。
——吉布兰
4, There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.
Henry David Thoreau
当今有的是哲学教授，却没有哲学家！
——梭洛
（拜托庸俗是很难的 哲学家的日子是孤寂的）
5, We have two ears and one mouth that we may listen the more and talk the less.
ZEno
我们有2只耳朵和一个嘴巴，为的是我们多听一些而少说一些。
——赛诺
6,I am as bad as the worst but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
我跟最坏的一样坏，但谢天谢地，我也跟最好的一样好。
——会特曼
（经典啊！！！）
7,be torn between
She was torn between love and booty.
Baldwin
她对爱情与金钱，觉得难以取舍！
——鲍尔温
（很多女孩都是这样的～）
8,Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
_Wilde
人生是一件极其重大至于不可以认真地谈谈的事情。
——王尔德
9,The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it
found out by accident.
Lamb
我梭知道德最大的乐趣，是暗中做一件好事，然后让它偶然被人发现！
——兰母
（我现在正在做的事～菠萝等下我去最近每天傍晚我去的地方去诶，佛说不可预说，一说就错。所以我只好住了）
1，a shower of rain 倾盆大雨
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would
have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold
他为人是那么大慈大悲，再倾盆大雨中会给鸭子打伞！
——杰罗尔德
（呵呵～ 为什么不是猫呢？）
a shower of questions (ivitations,presents,etc)
（一连串的质问，请贴，赠品。。。。）
2，should never do 绝不应做
Murder is always a mistake;one should never do anything
that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Oscar Wilde
杀人始终是一则过失：人决不应该做出不能在晚饭后谈的事情。
（美国通俗口语中把刊载在早报上有关杀人报道中的凶手叫
a man for breakfast）
3, We have two kinds of morality side by side : one
which we preach but do not practice, and another which
we practice but seldom preach.
B.Russel
我们有2种道德并行不悖：其一是口讲尔不实行的，其二是实行而很少讲及的。
——罗素
4.shower off 炫耀 卖弄
In England only uneducated people show off their
knowledge,nobody quotes Latin and Greek authors in the
course of a conversation, unless he has never read them.
George Mikes
在英国，只有没受过教育的人才会炫耀自己的学识，没有人会在会话中引用拉丁或希腊的作者，除非他从未念过他们的著作。
——米克什
（。。。。。英国人）
5.feel small 觉得无地自容 觉得难为情
Some men never feel small. but these are the few men who
are.
G.K.Chesterton
有些人决不知道难为情为何物，这些人正是为数不多的卑鄙小人！
6.could sooner....than
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
Louis XIV
朕调解整个欧洲较诸调解2个女人更快！
——路易十四
（嘿嘿。。。。。。女人是最难搞定的诶）
7, The only time most women give their orating husbands
undivided attentions is when the old boys mumble in
their sleep.
Wilson Mizner
大多数女人对丈夫的说话最专心倾听的，就是丈夫在睡梦中咕哝的话～！
——米兹纳
（哈哈。。。。。。笑昏了）
8, the soul of 。。。。的精髓
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
Maugham
不规矩是打趣话的精髓！
——毛母
（^_^，大家有时间去 战友涂鸦墙 去溜达一圈就身临其境了 呵呵）
9,spend time doing
A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about
himself that you can't talk about yourself.
Eli Perkins
令人厌烦的人，是把那么多时间去讲他自己的事情而不容你讲自己事情的人～
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1，God created the flirt as soon as He made the fool.
Victor Hugo
上帝一造成傻子之后，就马上创造了调情卖俏之徒。
——雨果
2,England and Ireland have lived a cat and dog life of
it.
英格兰和爱尔兰一直是冰炭不相容的。
3,give the spleen
Some men give their blood to their country : others
their spleen.
Gelett Burgess
既有人为国捐躯，亦有人捐出脾气。
——伯吉斯
4,Diplomacy: lying in state.
O.Herford
外交——等于堂而皇之地撒谎。
——赫福德
（有些擅长交际的人也一样～）
5,Consider the postage stamp : its usefulness consists in the ability to stick
to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
想想那邮票吧；其用途在于它能粘住一样东西直至达到目的地！
——比林斯
（做事可以像邮票，做人要是像邮票，会很惨，因为你是邮票，别人不一定是邮票，也不一定需要邮票。：（ ）
6,take up 开始，着手（研究，工作。。。。）
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up
to the net.
F.P.Adams
中年始于：当你要开始打高尔夫球则嫌太年轻，要打篮球又嫌太老之时。
——亚当斯
7,sumpathize with 同情
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend ,but it requires a very
fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde
谁都能够同情朋友的痛苦，但如同情朋友的成，就要有非常高贵的品格了。
——王尔德
8,All my life, affection has been showered upon me,
and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Bernard Shaw
我的一生，爱情一直有如阵雨般倾注于我身上，而我的每一步都是不管它而自迈向前的。
——萧伯纳
（希望我也能做到！）
9,Next to the pleasure of making a new mistress is that of
being rid of old one.
_WYCHERLY
仅次于找到新情人之乐的，是甩掉旧的一个。
1，The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done
is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
这世界近来进展得这么快，致使有人说是不可能做到得事，话尤未毕，通常已经有人在做了。
——埃。哈伯德
2, The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them.
O'Malley
政治家剪羊毛，政客则连羊皮也剥掉。
——奥马利
3,There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that
is not being talked about.
Oscat Wilde
这世上只有一件事比让人家讲闲话更糟糕，那就是人家不讲闲话。
——王尔德
4,The church has always been willing to swarp off treasures in heaven for cash
down.
Ingersoll
教会一直是乐于以天上的宝物来交换地上的现金的。
——英格索尔
5,make sure of 查明，把。。。。弄清
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Horace Walppole
最明智的预言者会把事件弄清楚。
——沃波尔
6,take in 接受，收容，吸收
Home is the place where,when you have to go there,thay have to take you in.
Robert Frost
家庭，是当你不能不回去的时候不能不收容你的地方。
——弗洛斯特
7,commit suicide 自杀
The fellow that tries to commit suicide with a razor , and fails ,would fail at
anything.
Kin Hubbard
用剃刀试图自杀而不成者，将一事无成！
——金。哈伯德
8,tie the knot 结婚
A man will joyfull pay a lawyer five hundred dollars for untying the knot that
he bergrudged a clergyman fifty dollars for tying.
H.Rowland
当牧师为他结合姻缘之时舍不得付出50块钱的人，却为了要律师解除婚姻而会高高兴兴地付上500块！
——罗兰
9,kill time 消磨时间
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
Bernard Shaw
学者是以学习来消磨时间地懒汉。
——萧伯纳
1，by Goerge 真的 的确
I am only an average man but , by George , I work harder
at it than the average man.
T.Roosevelt
我只不过是一个普普通通的人,但我的确比普通人做得更勤奋.
---------罗斯福
（勤能补拙是良训）
2,get off
He will do almost anything for the poor ,except get off
their backs.
Tolstoi
他几乎愿意为穷人做任何事情，从他们背上下来则除外！
——托尔斯泰
（剥削就这么回事儿）
3,The man who gets on best with women is the one who
knows best how to get on without them.
Pierre Charles Baudelaire
跟女人相处得最得法的男人，也就是最于没有他们时也过得很好的人。
（是真的吗？）
4, It's as hard to get a man to stay home after you 've
married him as it was to get him to go home before you
married him.
Helen Rowland
结婚后，要男人呆在家里，正如未婚前要他回家去一样难！
——罗兰
（hoho）
5,The best way to keep your friends is not to give them
away.
Wilson Mizner
维持友好的最佳办法就是不要把朋友出卖！
——米兹纳
6,go by rhe major vote 由多数决定 服从多数
We go by the major vote , and if the majority are in
sane, the same must go to the hospital.
Horance Mann
我们是服从多数的，假使这多数是疯的，没疯的就得进疯人院！
（同感）
7,go too far 做（讲）得过分
Tact consists in knowing
how far we may go too far.
Jean Cocteau
机智在于知道自己可以过分到什么程度。
——科克托
8,Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad
for the reputation.
T.R.Dewar
忏悔可能对灵魂有好处，但对声誉则有损无减！
（怎样的人才会去忏悔？）
9,Isn't your life extremely flat with nothing whatever
to grumble at?
W.S.Gilbert
若无事可以抱怨，你的生活岂不是过于平淡了吗？
（讨厌抱怨，而最近经常抱怨，难道我真的是过得太平淡所以就要抱怨？？ 烦恼～ 忘却的是无法忘却的烦恼～）
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1,I have been a selffish being all my life , in
practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
我生平是个利己的人，虽然只在实践上而非原则上如此。
2.in pose
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is writen
in poetry and remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols
结婚，是一本第一章以诗篇开始，而其余各章则以散文完成的书。
3.present a person with a thing
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to
cover his intelletual nakedness.
R.M.Hutchins
大学毕业生被授予一张羊皮文凭来遮掩其皮毛知识。
（大学毕业的程度真的仅仅只是一些皮毛诶。。。。所以需要一纸文凭来遮羞～～～）
4,I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many
ignorant men are sure of.
C.Darrow
5. every now and then 不时
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride,
and every now and then one of them puts his head out and
embarrasses us.
O.W.Holmes
遗传是一辆公共汽车，其中坐着我们的全部祖先，他们中不时会有一个伸出头来使我们感到为难。
——霍姆斯
（哈哈哈）
6.talk nonsense 胡说八道
I express many absurd opinions,but I am not the first
man to do it; American freedom consists largely in
talking nonsense.
Ed Howe
我发表不少谬论，但我不是第一个这样干的人，美国的，多半是存乎瞎说八道之中的。
——埃德。豪
7,none so .....as 没有一个这么。。。。的人
There id none so blind as those who won't fee.
O.Herford
没有比无心给小帐者更盲目的人了
（听不懂诶。。。。。）
8,have the merit of 有。。。。的绩，长处，优点
Plagiarists,at least, have the merit of preservation.
Benjamin Disraeli
抄袭者，至少也可记保存文物的一。
——迪斯雷利
9,mean to do 打算做。。。。 本应是为。。。。的
Wonmen are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde
女人本应就是让人去爱她，而不是去理解她的。
（女人难以琢磨就等于不用去理解吗？ 呵呵）
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1, He is indebted to his memory for his jests and
to his imagination for his facts.
R.B. Sheridan
他的诙谐有赖于记忆力，而其事实则有赖于想象力。
（诙谐是模仿别人得到的，而创造才真正出自人本身～～！）
2，The wife should be inferior to the husband; that is the only way to insure
equality between the two.
Martial
妻子是应该比丈夫差一点，这才是保证俩人之间平等的唯一途径！
（对比我差的男生，我一般都欺负他，嘿嘿。。。。 ^_^）
3, One In ten
A women on time is one in nine.
Addison Mizner
守时的女性，九居其一。
（太绝对了吧？？？让女生等等女生就知道滋味了 ^_^）
4，Mosr contemporary books give the impression of having been manufactured in a
day,out of books read the day before.
Nicholas Chamfort
大部分的当代书籍给人的印象时：那是从头一天阅读过的书籍里以一天时间制造出来的！
（快餐时代啊。。。。。。。。）
5，with impunity
There should be more in America liberity than the privilege we enjoy of
insulting the President with impunity.
O'Malley
美国应该有比 侮辱总统而不守惩罚 更大的！
：）：）：）
我们呢？连。。。。都没有。：P
6,We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
La Rochefoucauld
我们常常是为了可以不受惩罚的做坏事而做好事。
（有道理！）
7，The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.
Kin Hubbard
最难的事，是为一个认识的人写介绍信。
（可想而知，我们的推荐信是怎么写出来的，咳～～～）
8，Intuition is reason in a hurry.
H . Jackson
直觉是匆匆赶来的理性。
（可我的直觉却是慢慢升起的感性～）
9，Hurry up and come to viisit me before we get too old to hear each other swear.
Mark Twain
趁我们还没老到互相咒骂之前，赶快来看我吧！
——马克。吐温
（是啊。。。。。。。。）
1，fall due (付款等）到期
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
W.R.Inge
担忧，是在麻烦事到期之前所付的利息。
：（
2，Noise proves nothing ften
a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had
laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
嗓子大证明不了什么事情：只不过生下一只蛋的母鸡也常会咯咯大叫好像它是生了个小行星似的。
——马克。吐温
（今天早上和我妈争吵了几句，这话就当送给我自己吧！：（）
3，make an effort to do 努力做。。。。
Love is the effort a man make to be satisfied with only
one woman.
Paul Geraldy
恋爱，是男人准备只以一个女人来满足自己的努力。
（也许很不中听，但是事物的真相～失望）
4，be entitled to 有权，有资格
Treating your adversary with
respect is giving him an advantage to which he is
not entitled.
S.Johnson
郑重对待敌手，等于予之以并无资格承受的好处。
（同感！）
5，In love ,one always begins by
deceiving oneself,and one
always ends
by deceiving others ; that os what the world calls
romance.
Oscar Wild
在恋爱上，人常以自欺开头，而以欺人告终；这就是是世上所谓的罗曼史。
——王尔德
（发现他说的好些话都非常有哲理。。。。叹！所谓爱情难道就真的是这样？？）
6，Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
La Rochefoucauld
机智有时可以使我们做出失礼的行为而不受惩罚。
（就像一休常常做的事）
7,The end of the human race will be that it will
eventually die of civilization.
R.W.Emerson.
人类的陌路可能是：终归死于文明。
——爱默生
8，Don't pull all your eggs in one basket.
切勿孤注一掷。
（别把所有的财产集中投资在一个事业上）
9，end by doing 终于。。。。，以什么告终
Man begins by making love and ends by loving a
woman;woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving
love.
Remy de Gourmont
男人始于向女人求爱，而终于爱女人。女人则始于爱男人，而终于爱恋爱。
（让我想起一句话：LOVE IS LIKE A WAR:EASY TO BEGIN BUT VERY HARD
TO STOP. 意思是说恋爱好像战争，动手容易，住手难。）
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1，forever and ever
In America, the President regins for four years , and journalist governs forever
and ever.
Oscar Wilde
在美国，总统统治四年，而新闻界则统治万世。
——王尔德
2，To err is human 人孰无过
To err is human ，to frgive ,divine.
Alexander Pope
犯错是人性，宽恕是神性。
3,To eat is human; to digest, divine.
Mark Twain
求食在人，消化在天。
（马克吐温的幽默！）
4，Once made equal to man,woman becomes his superior.
Socrates
一旦与男人取得平等，女人就会反居其上了。
——苏格拉底
5，exempt from 免除，没有缺点等
No one is exampt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemmly.
Montaigne
谁也难免会讲些废话，错就错在把废话一本正经地讲。
蒙太奇
6，A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells
好挖苦人的人，是在心目中戴上单片眼镜看世事的人。
7，at the expense of 以。。。。为牺牲
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
Swift
两个女人，若非以第三者为牺牲，则殆无相好之时。
8，Two 's company,three 's none.
两人成伴，三人不欢。
9，Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formitable at very small
expense.
S.Johnson
批评，是人们可以所费极微却可以成为一言九鼎之人的一种学问。
1，hire out
l;awyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Martial
律师，是把自己的言辞与愤怒出租给人的人。
2,The living are the dead on holiday.
Maeterlinck
活人在假期也成了死人。
（像我这样的人很有同感，尤其一个人的时候）
3，Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
La Rochefoucauld
伪，是恶向所表示的敬意！
4，Some persons can be everywhere at home;others can sit musingly at home and be
everywhere.
George D.Prentice
有些人可以四海为家而无拘无束，也有些人可以静坐家中而神游四海。
：）
5，The trouble with marriage is rhat, while every woman is at heart a mother,
every man is at heart a bachelor.
E.V.Lycas
婚姻生活的烦恼是，每个女人内心都以母亲自居，而男人内心却以独身汉自居。
（比如我家）
6，I haven't got as much money as some folks,but I've got as much impudence as
any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Josh Billings
我没有某些人那么多钱，但我有不下于他们的厚颜无耻，而这是仅次于金钱的东西呢！
7，Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us ,and not
remember how many times we have told to the same person?
La Rochefoucauld
为什么我们记得发生在自己身上的事情的最微小的细节，而记不起对同一个人把这件事讲过多少遍？
（是应该反省！这个毛病我也有呢～～辛苦了那个听我抱怨的人）
8，When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies,for you may recover.
Ambrose Bierce
当你有病之际，赶快宽恕你的仇人吧，因为你会复原的。
（宽容和仇恨只在一念之间～）
9，Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools ,because they have to
say something,
Plato
聪明人说话，是因为有话要说。而蠢人则只因为不得不开口。
——柏拉图
（我有时会当蠢人～而觉得这样也是聪明～叹！）
1，He did not think that it was necessary to make a hell
of rhis world to enjoy paradise in the next.
William Beckford
他认为不必为了来生得到享受而把今生化为地狱。
2，There are people who would never have fallen in love
if they had never heard of love.
La Rochefoucauld
如果从未听过有恋爱这么一回事，有些人是决不会坠入爱河的吧！
（想都想不到的事，更别提做到！）
3，Anybody can make history; only a great man can write
it.
Oscar Wilde
谁都可以做出永垂史册的事情，但唯有伟人才可以将之撰写出来。
4，It is the trade of lawyers to question everything,
yield nothing,and to talk by the hour.
Jefferson
律师的生意是，质问一切事情，得不出任何结果，而说话要按钟点收费。
5，Abstainer : A weak person who yields to the temptation
of denying himself a pleasure.
Bierce
戒酒（烟）者，是屈服于要他放弃乐趣得诱惑的弱者～
（任何事情都是相对的～正确也一样～我认为—）
6，Give the devil his due, but be very careful that there
ain't much due him.
Josh] Billings
对坏人的好处也得公平对待，但要非常小心，可别又过分了。
7，Vanity dies hard; in some obstinates cases it outlives
the man.
R.L.Stevenson
虚荣是个老不死，而其顽梗难治者，人死犹存。
8，Savage we call them because their manners differ from
ours.
Benjamin Franklin
我们之所以称之为野蛮人，是以为他们的规矩跟我们的不同。
（所谓的强盗逻辑。而其实人人都有强盗逻辑，不是吗？）
9，Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense wifh
necessaries.
O.W.Holmes
请赐给我们以人生的奢侈品吧，我们将会扔掉一切必需品的！
（人都是热爱诱惑的～）
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1,Take the humbug out of this world , and you haven't
much left to do bussiness with.
Josh Billings
把老千们从这个世界上轰出去之后，就没剩几个可以跟你来往做生意的了～！
奸商）
2，If everybody minded thei own business, the world would
go round a greater deal faster than it does.
倘若每一个人都只管自己的事情的话，这世界就会比现在转动得快多了。
（有道理！）
3，America's best buy for a nickel is a telephone call to
the right man.
Ilka Chase
在美国以一枚镍币可购得的最核算的东西，是打电话找到要找的人。
4，A man 's ideal woman is the one he passes with a
worshipful bow--------when he's on his way to call on
the other woman.
Helen Rowland
男人心目中理想的女人，正是当他正去会另一位女子的路上遇见她时不禁仰慕地给她行礼的女人。
（可是这样又有什么意义呢？终究还是要各行其路～ 生活不是小说～不是吗？叹！）
5，Bad manners simply indicate that you care a good deal
more the food than for the society at the table.
Gelett Burgess
用膳时的失态，只不过在表示你关心食物远远甚于关心同席的人。
6，Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom
never remember birthdays and the other never forgets
them.
Nash
结婚时两类人的结合——一个时从记不起彼此的生日，另一个则正好相反。
（不懂）
7，Everybody has something;a man has dandruff,and a woman
has cold
feet.
Ed Howe
人总有所长：男人头皮多，女人胆子小。
8，As to marriage or celibacy,let a man take which course
he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrate
要结婚还是独身，让男人照自己的意愿去做吧，可他一定要后悔的。
9，If a little knowledge is dangerous ,where is the man
who has so much as to be out of danger?
T.H.Huxley
假如知识不多是危险的话，试问有谁可以有多至脱离危险的知识？
——赫胥黎
（话很绕啊。。。。—）
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1，No man need a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
E.Hubbard
没有人比刚刚度过一个假期的人更需要假期。
（哈）
2，Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Helen Rowland
切勿信任丈夫而使之过分远离，更勿信任独身汉而使之过分亲近。
（有道理，，，，，各位MM小心啊～ 我也一样 哈哈）
3，Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face
after another to find his own.
L.P.Smith
别取笑青年人的装模作样；他们不过是为了求得自我而去逐一试装出每一种面孔罢了～
4，The trouble with most women is their trouble with most men.
大多数女性的麻烦是她们赫大多数男人之间的麻烦。
5，The good die yong--------because they see it's no use living if you 've got to
be good.
Barrymore
好人早死——因为他们觉悟到：既然你要当好人，活着也没用!
6.A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
舌锋，是唯一越用越快的刀锋。
欧文
7，Pessimism ,when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett
悲观主义，当你习惯了它以后，就和乐观主义一样惬意了。
（同感）
8，People who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait
for them.
E.V.Lucas
迟到者常比不得不等候他们的人们显得分外兴高采烈。
^_^
就像我等我的那些老同学，我等成了苦瓜，她们倒是鲜花～
9，The most effective water power in the world --------woman's tears.
世界上最有效的水力是——女人的眼泪！
（给所有爱掉眼泪的mm！）
If some people didin't tell you , you 'd never know they 'd been away on a
vacation.
Kin Hubbard
如果那些人不告诉你的话，你就不会知道他们曾经去度假
（这是对那些在某地度过假期而自豪的人的讽刺～）
Take not God's name in vain ; select a time when it will have effect.
Ambrose Bierce
切勿随便亵渎上帝之名，惟择其有效之时机则无不可。
（在欧美～ 诅咒，谩骂之时多用GOD之名，实际上平时是不便乱用的～）
Youth is a wonderful thing; what crime to waste it on children.
Bernard Shaw
青春是美妙难再的东西，把它浪费在孩子身上，岂非一大罪过。
萧伯纳
我母亲就是一个例子。她把她的青春安然度过，嫁了一个不懂珍惜她的人，养了一个和她作对的我。
无法对家庭产生任何激情，无法信任，无法爱，这是留给了我的她的后遗症。
那就漂泊下去吧～
1，be out of favour with
Vanity keeps persons in favour with themselves who are out of favour with all
others.
Shakespeare
虚荣使人得宠于己，而失宠于人。
——莎士比亚
（最近，我常有这种感觉——这个社会就是由虚荣构成的～）
2，I found a friend in a supposed enemy.
我发觉原来设想的仇人原来是朋友～
（这句送给淡绿最好了～呵呵～ 我一直把他当成仇人～他总说出一些让我难堪又为我好的句子～谢谢你，淡绿～）
3，To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.
Benjamin Franklin
要找出一个年青姑娘的缺点，只要对她的女朋友称赞她就行了。
——富兰克林
（：）女人无非爱慕虚荣～ 可难道男的就不了吗？）
4，fly from
A women is like your shadow------folow her ,she flies; fly from her,she follows.
Chanmfort
女人好比影子——追她，她就跑；离开她，就跟上来。
尚福尔
（我反对这句话～ 如果一个女人真的爱你，无论你追还是离开，她都会爱你如同爱她自己的生命～ 上帝保佑你遇见一个爱你的女人～）
5，floods of words
Here comes the orator, with his flood of woods and his drop of reason.
Benjamin Franklin
来了个演讲大家，他是口若悬河，仅有点滴道理～
6，Time and tied wait for no man,but a woman will.
岁月不待男人而女人会等待他～
7，flesh and blood 血肉之躯
The one cruel fact about heroes is that they are made of flesh and blood.
H.A.Jones
有关英雄豪杰的残酷事实之一是，他们也是由血肉之躯造成的人。
（做人难，还是做英雄难？）
8，There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going,when
they seem going they come : diplomats ,woman, and crabs.
John Hay
似来还去，似去还来的生物有三：外交官，女人，蟹。
（呵呵，，，无语）
9，To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.
L.Y.L
为了强迫我自己去多赚些钱，我决心多花一些。
——漪菱
1, The youth of America is their oldest tradition ; it
has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde
青春在美国是最古老的传统，流传至今已有三百年了。
hehe....
2，If children grew up according to early indications,we
should have nothing but genius.
Goethe
倘使小孩儿们是按早期的迹象长大的话，那我们就只会有天才而不会有其他东西了。
——歌德
时刻保持自己的年轻状态～！！好奇心！！心灵纯洁度！！（晕了。。。）
3，Isn't your life extremely flat with nothing whatever
to grumble at?
W.S.Gilbert
若无事可以抱怨，你的生活岂不是过于平淡了吗？
因此抱怨就大方点
没什么丢人的！
4，A woman marries the first time for love ,the second
time for companionship,the third time for support,and
the rest of the time just from habit.
Helen Rowland
女人头一次结婚是为了爱，第二次是为了可以有个伴儿，第三次是为了得到供养，以后几次就只是因为习惯了。
——罗兰
罗兰说的是一般女人吧？
我想要是一个女人能结婚这么多次，一定是个仙～ 呵呵
女孩们要珍惜自己第一次嫁人的机会哦～～就算瞎了眼嫁错了人，也不要让自己变成魔鬼哈～～要嫁就越嫁越好！只有我们能将自己打折！
看下句——
5，a grass widow 离婚了的女人
Grass widow :the angel a man loved ,the human being he
married, and the devil he divorced.
离婚了的女人：是男人曾经爱过的天使，娶之为妻的人，分了手的魔鬼。
——还是罗兰！
罗兰的谬论
或者，从此可以推论出男人都是魔鬼。哈。。。。
6，There are books of wihich the books and covers are by
far the best parts.
Charles Dickens
有些书，往往其装潢是最好的部分
——狄更斯
现在这样的书随处可见～
7，The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his
own bluff.
Ambrose Bierce
人摔得最疼的一跤，是给自己的吓唬绊倒！
真正的坚强足以阻挡任何磨砺。加油。
8，When the blind lead the blind,they both fall
into-------matrimony.
Farquhar
瞎子带着瞎子，一起掉进——结婚去！
哈哈。。。。最近我好多老同学结婚～ 我就送了这句给他们 呵呵
幸福的瞎子 ：）
9，One should forgive one's enimies,but not before they
are hanged.
Heinrich Heine
人是应该宽恕自己的敌人的，但要在他们被吊死之后。
——海涅
想不到吧，连抒情诗写得那么柔美的海涅都说出这么决绝的话～
“心胸狭窄”如我，我坚决认同这句话。
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1，There are terrible temptations which it requires strength and courage to yield
to.
Oscar Wilde
有些极坏的诱惑 是需要力量和用去来向它屈服的
王尔德
比如爱情，比如睡懒觉 呵呵
2，A woman forgives only when she is in the wrong.
女人只会在自己错的时候才宽恕别人。
难道这不对吗？这有时是女人的自我保护意识～
3，If you are in the right,argue like a man; if you are in the wrong,like a
woman.
假如你是对的，就像个男子汉般辩论吧；假如你是错的，就像个女若般争辩吧。
这话不无道理，男女适用。
4，There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are
yesterday and tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette
谁也用不着担忧的日子有二，那就是昨天和明天。
和我正好相反。唉，我该努力活在今天了！！
5，He is not worth my while.
Galsworth
他不值得我与之较量。
这句话我经常说
呵呵 注意，是“他”不是“她”
6，The honeymoon is not over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to
stifle our yawns.
Rowland
在我们不住叹气并开始住呵欠之前，蜜月是还未度过的哪。
罗兰
。。。。还是不要结婚好～ 蜜月？希望是在西藏～ ：）
7，Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world,and none of
his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
萧伯纳是个大好人：普天下无一敌人，而且，也没有一个朋友喜欢他。
晕了。。。这句谁给我解答一下？
8，There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the
sins of the week.
H.W.Beecher
有许多的人以为礼拜日是用来抹掉整个星期的罪过的一块海绵。
怪不得那么多洋人都勤于做礼拜。。。。
9，Man has his will,but woman has her way.
O.W.Holmes
男人自行其是 ，但女人自行其道