☆ 没有什么比得上有朋在远方更使地球显得如此巨大,他构成了纬度和经度。
[33] You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging everyone else's. ①V+O+C结构;② 副词可以限定形容词或介词短语。
☆ 承认别人的天地,自己的天地会更广阔。
[34]Success can be only one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed。
☆ 成功只能是幸福的一个组成部分。如果为了获得成功而牺牲所有其他的成分,就太得不偿失了。
9. 平行结构
[35] It is easier to do one’s duty to others than to one’s self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
☆ 向他人尽责比对自己尽责要容易。如果你向他人尽责,你就被认为是可信赖的。如果你向自己尽责,你就会被认为自私。
[36] If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing,if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate,it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing。
☆ 如果科学发现不是纯粹的喜事,如果它赋予了人类不仅是创造还有毁灭的力量,它同时就向人性提出了最大的挑战和最大的考验。
[37] I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purpose my opponent’ s youth and inexperience。
☆ 我不会把年龄作为这次竞选的一个问题,我不打算为了政治目的而利用对手的年轻和缺乏经验。【重要语法结构:V+O+C 和 V+A+O】
[38] There is one thing more important than knowing self,it is governing self.There is one thing better than crushing impulse,it is using impulse。
☆ 有一件事比自知受重要,即自制。有一件事比压制冲动更可取,即利用冲动。
[39] Two illusions fostered by higher education are that what is taught corresponds to what is learned,and that it will somehow pay of in money.
☆ 高等教育造成了两种错觉,一是教的东西就等于学到的东西, 二是它总会通过某种方式以金钱回报。
10. 多重宾语从句
[40] Too often we forget that genius,too,depends upon the data within its reach,that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison’s inventions。
☆ 我们确实是经常忘记,天才也依赖于所能得到的资料,就连阿基米德都无法设计出爱迪生的发明。
