01)As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent(后悔). ——Socrates
是结婚还是要独身,让男士自己去选择吧,他肯定是要后悔的。
02)A woman is like your shadow—follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. ――Chamfort
女人好比影子——追她,她就跑;离开她,就跟上来。
03)True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. –Rochefoucauld
真爱就像幽灵,人人都谈论,可少有人见过。
04)If men knew all that women think, they’d be twenty times more daring. –A. Karr
要是男的知道女的怎样想,他们的胆子会大上二十倍。
05)If a man wants his wife to pay attention to what he says, he addresses his remarks to another woman.
要想让妻子注意听,就冲着别的女士说。
06)Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates. –A . L. Lowell
大学里满是知识;新生入校时带来一点点,而毕业生走时啥也没带走,知识就这么积聚下来了。
07)We always like those who admire us but we do not always like those whom we admire. – La Rochefoucauld
我们总是喜欢赞美我们的人,却未必喜欢我们所赞美的人。
08)A woman must choose: with a man liked by women, she is not sure; with a man disliked by women, she is not happy. – A. France
女性总得作出选择:和女性都喜欢的男性在一起,她放心不下;和女性都不喜欢的男性在一起,她高兴不起来。
09)It’s a funny thing when a man hasn’t got anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. – Robert Frost
单身汉无忧无虑,却去结了婚,真是怪事。
10)Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me. –Anatole France
不要把书借给别人,因为没有谁会还书;我书室里的那些藏书都是别人借给我的。
11)A woman has two views of a secret. Either it’s not worth keeping, or it’s too good to keep.
对于保守秘密,女人有两种看法:要么是秘密不值得一守,要么是秘密守住了就太可惜了。
12)Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentlemen. –Herbert Spencer
婚姻:一种仪式。在这种仪式上,给女士手指上戴上指环,而给男士鼻子上套上鼻环。