作者：阳明学院 蔡思慧

作者简介：15级英语专业，曾获校口译大赛一等奖、校英语写作大赛二等奖，曾获省政府奖学金、校一等奖学金

笔记内容概述：外研社英语阅读大赛是B类竞赛，应该每学年的上学期都会举办的。其中有一道题是英语格言和作者匹配的题目，很多同学面对这个题目都是瞎猜，因为英语格言范围真的很广，不知道怎么备赛。这份文件就是主要针对这个题目的。我整理了外研社提供的一些格言，一些真题模拟题的格言，还有自己找的。2017年整理的，2017年的阅读大赛五题里面考了三题呢。这个比赛的获奖比例还可以，但是越往上竞争就越大，0.1分就可能导致不能进入决赛。所以抓住这几题大部分人都在瞎猜的题，就非常有竞争力啦！

 

              1 Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

              Donald Trump

               

              2 Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you,well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follows it.

              Ralph Waldo Emerson

               

              3 Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

              Albert Einstein

               

              4 A day is a miniature of eternity.

              Ralph Waldo Emerson

               

              5 The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

              Jean Cocteau（让 谷多，法国人， 1946年导演Beauty and Beast）

               

              6 In Education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

              W.A. White（英国外交家）

               

              7 There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

              Malcolm Muggeridge（马尔科姆 蒙格瑞奇， 英国记者，作家，批评家）

               

              8 Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a chioce.

              Leon Blum（莱昂 布鲁姆，法国政治家，三次任法国首相）

               

              9 As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

              Clarence Darrow（克拉伦斯 丹诺， 美国律师，因thrill killers Leopold and Loeb案的出色辩护而出名）

               

              10 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the new world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unresonable man.

              George Bernard Shaw

               

              11 At twenty years of age, the will reigns;  at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.       

              Benjamin Franklin

               

              12 If you would go up high,  then use your own legs!   Do not let yourselves carried aloft(adv. in the air or off the ground);  do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads.            

              F.W  Nietzsche ,/'ni:tʃə/ German philosopher, 尼采

               

              13 You have to believe in yourself.  That's the secret of success.            

              Charlie Chaplin

               

              14 Behind every successful man, there is a lot of unsuccessful year.             

              Bob Brown，澳大利亚前政客

               

              15 Great works are performed  not by strength but by preseverance.          

              Samuel  Johnson, British writer and critic

               

              16 The first wealth is health.                   

              Ralph Waldo Emerson

               

              17 I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. 

              Winston Churcill

               

              18 I think success has no rules, but you.can learn a great deal from failure. 

              Jean Kerr，Irish-American author, best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies

               

              19 Gods determine what you're going  to be.

               Julius Erving, 朱利叶斯 欧文，前美国职业篮球运动员，绰号Dr. J

               

              20 What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

               George Eliot, 乔治 艾略特（笔名），Marry Anne，英国小说家

               

              21 If winter comes, can spring be far behind. 

              P.B.Shelley, British poet

               

              22 If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

               Herry Wadsworth Longfellow利·沃兹沃斯·朗费罗，美国浪漫主义诗人

               

              23 Energy and persistence conquer all things.

              Benjamin Frankin

               

              24 The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

              George Bernard Shaw

               

              25 An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

              Robert Louis Stevenson，苏格兰作家，代表作《金银岛》

               

              26 Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

              Leo Tolstoy 列夫托尔斯泰

               

              27 Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exists, but you have ceased to live.

              Mark Twain

               

              28 A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

              John Burroughs 美国博物学家、散文家、环保运动中的重要人物

               

              29 A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.      

              J.Barrymore

               

              30 Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

              Oscar Wilde

               

              31 Do not, for one repulse,give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.   

               William Shakespeare, British dramatist

               

              32 To choose time is to save time.  

              Francis Bacon, British philosopher

               

              33 Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will, rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.  

              La Rocheforcauld, French writer

               

              34 Do you love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.

              Benjamin Franklin, American president.

               

              35 Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. 

              John Ruskin，the leading English art critic of the Victorian era

               

              36 Genius only meas hard-woking all one's life.  

              Mendeleev, Russian chemist

               

              37 The man who has made up he's mind to win will never say impossible.

               Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor

               

              38 There is no such thing as a great willpower. 

              Honore de Balzac, French writer, 巴尔扎克

               

              39 A strong man will struggle with the storm of fate.

              Thomas Addison