英文名言翻译讲解集合.docx

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through的宾语，看其形态便知都是动名词短语others = other old ideasWilliam 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 cant 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 = securitythat = (that) you know you can do itMae 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 developmentCarl Gustav Jung /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 unconscious(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) 35th 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 not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country is a frequently quoted line from his Inaugural Address.(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 都是truths的同位语从句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, 3rd 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, 1st U.S. President; 5-dollar bill Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President; 10-dollar bill Alexander Hamilton, 1st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; 20-dollar bill Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President; 50-dollar bill Ulysses S. Grant, 18th 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 mans 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 itQuoted from Letter to Henry Pierce (1859)Abraham Lincoln: (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States, who led American through the Civil War (1861-1865) and end slavery in the U.S. with The Emancipation Proclamation (解放奴隶宣言)(1862), and regarded among the top 3 greatest Presidents in U.S. history. The Gettysburg Address (葛底斯堡演说)(1863) by Lincoln is one of the greatest and most quoted speeches in U.S. history, in which he advocated a “government of the people, by the people, for the people”(民有、民治、民享). Lincoln was the first Republic president of the U.S., and also the first American President to be assassinated.(Lincolns name and image appear in numerous places in the U.S. including the Lincoln Memorial (林肯纪念堂) in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Lincoln $5 bill and the Lincoln cent, Lincolns sculpture on Mount Rushmore (拉什莫尔山，总统山) (the other 3 sculptures on Mount Rushmore are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt.)8. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.Martin Luther King Jr.自由不会由压迫者自愿送上门；自由必须由被压迫者去争取。 小马丁路得金voluntarily = willinglythe oppressed = the oppressed peopleQuoted from The Letter from Birmingham City Jail (从伯明翰市监狱发出的信)Martin Luther King Jr.: (1929-1968) American clergyman, social activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1964, now frequently referenced as a human rights icon and best remembered for his leading part in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott (蒙哥马利罢车运动) and his I Have a Dream speech in the 1963 March on Washington (华盛顿大游行).(The third Monday of January each year is celebrated as the Martin Luther King Day in the U.S., which was first observed in 1986.)9. Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe生活属于活着的人，活着就要准备适应变化。 约翰沃尔夫冈冯歌德the living = the living peoplehe who lives = a living personJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe /jo:han vlfa fn :t/: (1749-1832) German writer, one of the key figures of German literature and well known in world literature. His well known literary works include the drama Faust (浮士德) and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (少年维特的烦恼).10. In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. Benjamin Disraeli在进步的国家，变化总在发生且定会发生。 本杰明迪斯雷利progressive = supporting new ideasconstant = happening regularly or all the timeQuoted from Speech on Reform Bill of 1867 (1867)Benjamin Disraeli: (1804-1881) British Conservative statesman, twice British Prime Minister, Britains first and thus far only Prime Minister of Jewish heritage.11. Life is like a dogsled team. If you aint the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Lewis Grizzard生活就像雪橇犬队，不做领头狗，所见永不变（永居人后）。 刘易斯格利扎德aint = arent, isnt or am notthe scenery never changes = the only scenery you see is the rear end of the lead dogLewis Grizzard: (1946-1994) one of the most popular Southern humorist writers of the latter half of the 20th century America. His best-known titles include Elvis Is Dead and I Dont Feel So Good Myself and Daddy Was a Pistol and Im a Son of a Gun.12. I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.Emily Bront我生活中做过梦，那些梦一直萦绕我心，改变着我的思想；它们钻啊钻入我心深处，似酒弥散于水，变换着我心灵的颜色。 艾米莉勃朗特wine 葡萄酒（葡萄酿造的餐酒，区别于啤酒、白酒、气泡酒，详见Western Culture: Alcoholic Drinks）Quoted from Wuthering Heights (呼啸山庄)Emily Bront/brnti/: (1818-1848) English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. She was the second eldest of the Bront sisters, who were notable figures in English literature, between Charlotte, author of Jane Eyre (简爱) and Anne, author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (女房客).13. Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. (Possible Worlds: And Other Essays, 1927) J.B.S. Haldane 现在，我自己倒觉得宇宙不仅比我们想象得怪异，而且怪异得超乎想象。 霍尔丹John Burdon Sanderson Haldane: (1892-1964) British geneticist and evolutionary biologist, one of the founders (along with Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright) of population genetics (群体遗传学) with his series of papers on A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection and his book The Causes of Evolution (1932).(Haldane was a communist. In his last years, he became an Indian citizen after he moved to India, where he died from cancer.)14. The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. James Jeans宇宙开始看起来象一个伟大思想而非一架大型机器。(The Mysterious Universe, 1930) 金斯Sir James Hopwood Jeans: (1877-1946) En