Ideals are like the stars — we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.

［注解］语出Carl Schurz，美国政治家舒尔茨。

［译］理想好像星星，不能摘到，但我们犹如水手，可借它指引航向。

Ideal is the beacon.

Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life.

［注解］语出Leo Tolstory，俄国作家托尔斯泰。

［译］理想是指路明灯。

没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；没有方向，就没有生活。

Idle folks lack no excuses.

［译］懒汉辩解，何患无辞。

Idleness is the key of beggary, and the root of all evil.

［译］懒惰是行乞的敲门砖，是万恶的根源。

Idleness is the mother (root) of all evil.

(or Idleness is the parent of all vice.

)［注解］斯迈尔斯还说：It is the idleness that is the curse of men, not labour.

”祸根不是劳动，而是懒惰。

［译］懒惰是万恶之源。

Idleness rusts the mind.

(or Idleness makes the wit rust.

)［注解］rust生锈，使弱。

比喻懒惰使人笨，让人的头脑迟钝。

［译］人不勤变笨；刀不磨变钝。

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

［译］初试不成功，努力勿懈怠。

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

［注解］指希望的重要性。

在困难重重、日子难过之时，使我们不灰心丧志、放弃奋斗的，就是内心抱有对事情否极泰来的希望。

［译］人若无希望，心碎肝肠断；人靠希望活着。

If we want light, we must conquer darkness.

［译］我们要光明，就得征服黑暗。

If you don't aim high you will never hit high.

［译］不立大志，难攀高峰。

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

［注解］语出Joshua Reynolds，美国女散文家雷诺兹。

［译］如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。

If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie upon thorns when old.

［注解］指人如果年轻时躺在玫瑰上，老年时就会躺在荆棘上。

［译］年轻图享受，老来倍受苦。

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

［注解］源自拉丁语。

run after two hares”意指做徒劳无益之事。

比喻一心二用，将一事无成。

［译］同时追两兔，全都抓不住；脚踏两只船，必定都落空。

If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.

［注解］语出Thomas Edison，美国发明家爱迪生。

［译］如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。

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

［注解］语出Winston Churchill，英国政治家丘吉尔。

［译］我没有什么能奉献的，只有热血、辛劳、眼泪与汗水。

In all things, it is better to hope than to despair.

［译］凡事抱希望为佳，不应悲观失望。

In for a penny, in for a pound.

(As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

)［注解］意指一旦介入某事，不管出现多大的阻力或困难，都要坚持到底，决不半途而废。

同义谚语还有：Over shoes, over boots.

”［译］一个钱也干，十个钱也干，一旦开始就要干到底；一不做，二不休。

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

［译］人生如下棋，多谋得胜利。

In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.

［译］在人生的搏斗中，只有日日前进、不屈不挠的人才能获胜。

In life's ocean, a man who fears difficulties can only reap the scum and rubbish floating on the surface of the ocean, but a man who can bear hardships reaps pearls and other treasures lying deep in the bottom of the ocean.

［注解］scum泡沫，浮渣。

［译］在生活的海洋中，畏难的人收获的总是水面上的泡沫和垃圾，而吃苦的人收获的却是海底深处的珍珠瑰宝。

In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.

［译］成功之时应谨慎，忧患之时得忍耐。

Into each life some rain must fall.

Some days must be dark and dreary.

［译］每个人一生都会逢上阴雨，有些日子必然阴暗而沉闷。

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

［注解］语出Mark Twain，美国作家马克·吐温。

［译］就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了我们最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有任何金钱。

It is better to die when life is a disgrace.

［译］宁为玉碎，不为瓦全。

It is dogged that (as) does it.

［注解］dogged顽强的，坚持不懈的。

［译］坚持就是胜利。

It is easy to open a shop but hard to keep it always open.

［译］创业容易守业难。

It is great to be great, but it is greater to be human.

［注解］语出W.

Rogers，美国幽默家罗杰斯。

［译］成为伟人是美好的，做一个真正的人更美好。

It never will rain roses.

When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.

［注解］语出G.

Eliot，英国小说家艾略特。

［译］天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。

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