Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. (Mark Twain, American writer) 不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

Cease ：1）停，终止，息。 cease from quarrelling 停止吵闹。 The rain has ceased. 雨停了。

2）：停止，结束。 cease payment 停止支付。 Cease fire! 【军事】〔命

令〕停火，停止射击。 cease out 绝迹。 cease to be (sth.) 不再是(某事物)。 cease to exist 不再存在，死亡；灭亡。 ★cease (to do; doing) 是书面语，现在普通说 stop (doing).

I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I don't know of any better service to offer for the short time we are in the world。(Thomas Edison , American inventor)

我想揭示大自然的秘密，用来造福人类。我认为，在我们的短暂一生中，最好的贡献莫过于此了。(美国发明家 爱迪生)

Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal, there is no secure direction; without direction, there is no life。(Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer) 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。(俄国作家 托尔斯泰)

beacon 1.(作为信号的)烽火，篝火。2.信号所，望楼；灯塔，信标。3.警标，界标

4.【交通】指向标；【物理学】标向波；〔比喻〕警告，指南。5.动词，照亮；〔比喻〕警告，鼓励。

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?(P. B. Shelley, British poet)冬天来了，春天还会远吗？(英国诗人 雪莱)

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground。(Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist)

如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。(挪威剧作家 易卜生)

If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not let yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads. (F. W . Nietzsche , German Philosopher)

如果你想走到高处，就要使用自己的两条腿！不要让别人把你抬到高处；不要坐在别人的背上和头上。(德国哲学家 尼采)

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest, but there is seldom any money in them。(Mark Twain, American writer)

就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了我们的最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有任何金钱。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. Alexander Dumas (Davy de La Pailleterie, French Writer)

生活没有目标就像航海没有指南针。(法国作家 大仲马)

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty and truth。(Albert Einstein, American scientist)

有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是——真、善、美。 (美国科学家 爱因斯坦)

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet and dramatist)

人生重要的事情就是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。(德国诗人、戏剧家 歌德)The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds。(Mark Twain, American writer)

具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。(美国作家 马克·吐温)

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today。(Franklin Roosevelt, American president)

实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。(美国总统 罗斯福)

When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to it are also lawful and obligatory。(Abraham Lincoln , American statesman)

如果一个目的是正当而必须做的，则达到这个目的的必要手段也是正当而必须采取的。(美国政治家 林肯)

双语：让你保持积极态度的英文句子

1.The first step is always the hardest

有时候要开始新的事物可能有些难度。如果你以前从没有学过英语的话，你可能会面对恐惧感。然而，一旦你开始了学习，你就一定不会后悔！

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

有时在没有成功的时候放弃而不是继续坚持是非常简单的。但不要失去学习英语的信心！每个人都有各自的学习方式，只要付出一点努力学习，你就能找到适合你的学习方式。

3.No pain, no gain

不劳无获。学习英语看起来象是个艰巨的任务，但是只要付出一点，你就会得到相当大的收获！

4.Don't cry over spilled milk

覆水难收。可能你还在后悔过去浪费了许多时间而没有学习英语，但是取而代之，更着眼于你的将来－一个讲英语的将来。

5.Make hay while the sun shines

你应该把握时间和机遇去做你想做的事。难道现在还不是从Englishtown课程中得到最大收获的时间吗？

6.Practice makes perfect

不要因为不能马上成为某事物的专家而失望。有时你可能并没有感觉到英语的进步，但是只要你更多的操练，你的英语就一定能更流利。

7.There's more than one way to skin a cat

条条大陆通罗马。你可能是因为没有时间去上课而放弃了英语学习。如果是这样的话，看一下Englishtown的在线学习课程－你可以在任何时间任何地点获得同样好的学习效果。

8.You reap what you sow

一份耕耘，一份收获。每个人都希望获得成功，但是要确定你是否付出了努力并认真的学习了英语！

9.Two heads are better than one

两个人一起比单打独斗要有效的的多。为什么不参加一堂口语课或找一位学习伙伴共同操练英语呢？

10.Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today

不要再拖延了，今天能完成的事就今天做。对于职场的成功英语从来没有象现在这样至关重要过－现在就是学习英语的最佳时间!

双语：经典人生哲理

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.

当爱到了终点,软弱者哭泣,精明者马上去发现另外一个,聪明的早就预备了一个.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

没有伟大的艺术家是看事物真实的样子,如果他这样那他就不再是艺术家

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit 我提供给你们的是你们没勇气去犯的罪

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about

总是善待别人的人对什么都不在意

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人,我们是才华横溢的失败者的国度,可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的讲演者

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

痛苦的审判是那些虚伪的祝福

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

情感的好处就是让我们误入歧途

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

请不要射击钢琴师,他已经尽力了.

The heart was made to be broken

心是用来碎的

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. 公众是惊人地宽容,可以原谅一切除了天才

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

宗教会死亡,当他们需要证实是真的时候,科学是死亡宗教的记录

Why was I born with such contemporaries

为什么我会和这么多同代人一块出生呢?

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

诗歌可以拯救一切除了印刷错误

Only the shallow know themselves.

只有影子才懂他们自己

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

摆脱诱惑的唯一方式是被被诱惑,我能抗拒一切除了诱惑.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation

不满是进步中的人或民族的第一步

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. 我喜欢和自己说,因为节约时间和预防争论

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit

格言是智慧耐用的替代品

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

梦想家能发现用月光铺就的道路,惩罚是他比所有人提前看到曙光

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

每个圣人都有过去,每个罪人都有未来

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

活着是世上最珍贵的,大多数人只是存在,仅此而已.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

我没什么好宣告的,除了我的天才

I like men who have a future and women who have a past

我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. 悲观主义者是那种有机会选两种不幸而全都选择的人

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

社会仅仅以一种精神概念而存在,真实的世界仅仅是个体的

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

什么叫愤世嫉俗者?一个知道每个事物价格而不知道价值的人

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

我喜欢人甚于原则,我还喜欢没原则的人甚于世界上的一切