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虽然有所分类，但是其实写作的时候不一定就这么绝对，比如，很多教育的例子可以用在学习方面。还有就是这些名言其实也是很好的Position，不一定要用来举例子，也可以作为立论点。 希望更多人的人来补足，毕竟光又一个提纲对付作文还是不够的，最好有例子，过些日子有时间的话我会把名人的事迹总结一下，大家也多帮忙阿！只有互相帮助，才能打到ETS ！ ========================================== 一.教育：（Education）这个模块孙远宝典的例子很多，大家可以参考一下 Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of children tends towards the formation of character. Hosea Ballou British cducator　 教育始于母亲膝下，孩童耳听一言一语，均影响其性格的形成。 英国教育家 巴卢 H　 Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with works, and ,need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen. Friedrich W.Nietzsche, German philosopher　 所有高尚教育的课程表里都不能没有各种形式的跳舞：用脚跳舞，用思想跳舞，用言语跳舞，不用说，还需用笔跳舞。 德国哲学家 尼采 F W　 Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. George Macaulay Trevelyan British historian　 教育造就了一大批人，他们会读书，但是不会区别什么书值得读。 英国历史学家 特里维廉 G M　 Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. Brougham, British statesman　 教育使一个民族容易领导，但是难于驱使；容易管理，却不可能奴役。 英国政治家 布罗马汉姆 I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible. Robert Moses, American state govenment officer　 我早已抛弃了这种观念：高等教育是通往成功或者幸福的必由之路。知识的“温室”并不总能生长可供食用的粮食。 美国州政府官员 摩西 R　 Let early education be a sort of a musement; you will then be bette able to find out the natural bent. Plato, ancient Greek Philosophe　 初期教育应是一种娱乐，这样才更容易发现一个人天生的爱好。 古希腊哲学家 柏拉图 The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician　 大学提供信息，但它是富于想象力地提供信息。 英国哲学家、数学家 怀特海 A N　 You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. Finley Peter Dunne, America humorous wrter　 你可以把一个人领进大学，但你却无法使他思考。 美国幽默作家 邓恩 F P　 Mistakes are an essential part of education. Bertrand Russell, Bdritish philosopher 从错误中吸取教训是教育极为重要的一部分。 英国哲学家 罗素 . B . ========================================== 学习(Learning) We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him. －Mark Twain 和我们意见相同的人，我们才喜欢听他的意见。 马克吐温 The man who agrees with everybody is not worth having anybody agree with him. Henry John Palmerston, British statesman 同意所有人的意见的人，不配得到任何人的赞同。 英国政治家 帕默斯顿.H.J. Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food for the body. Cicero, Ancient Roman state4sman and orator 学习对于头脑，如同食物对于身体一样不可缺少。 古罗马政治家、演说家 西塞罗 Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Francis Bacon, British Philosopher 历史使人明智；诗词使人灵秀；数学使人周密；自然哲学使人深刻；伦理使人庄重；逻辑辞学使人善辩。 英国哲学家 培根.F. Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. Janes Anthony Froude, British historian 从经验中学习收效很慢，而且要以错误为代价。 英国历史学家 弗路德 J.A. Experience without learning is better than learning without excperi-ence. Bertuand Russell, British philosopher and mathematician 有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。 英国哲学家、数学家 罗素.B. Experience never misleads; what you are missed by is only your judgement, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experements. Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter 经验永远不会对你做错误的引导；把你引导错的只是你自己的判断，而你的判断之所以对你发生误导的作用，乃是由于它根据那种并非借着实验而产生的经验来预料的结果。 意大利画家 达芬奇 Turn off the TV and read great books ,They open doors in your brain. Wolkomir Bichard, American writer 关掉电视，阅读伟大的著作，它会启开你的智慧之门。 美国作家 理查德,W. You can learn from everyone. Derek Boke, American president of Harvard University 你可以向任何人学习。 美国哈佛大学校长 伯克.D. A free man obtains knowledge from many sources besides books. Thomas Jefferson American president 　 一个自由的人除了从书本上获取知识外，还可以从许多别的来源获得知识。 美国总统 杰斐逊 A great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Adas Franklin. Aerican humorist 　 我的大部分知识都是这样获得的：在寻找某个资料时意外的发现了另外的资料。 美国幽默作家 富兰克林，A. Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light. Thomas Carlyle. Brithsh historian and essayist 　 知识总是从爱好开始，犹如光总是从火开始一样。 英国历史学家、散文学家 卡莱尔.T. The foundation of knowledge must be laid by reading, General principles must come from books, which, however, must be brought to the test of real life. amuel Johnson, British writer 　 读书是积累知识的基础。基本原理来源于书本，但须经实际生活的检验。 英国作家 约翰逊 .S. 　 I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. －Anatole France 我宁愿见到热心的错误，而不是冷淡的聪明。 法朗士 Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison 天才的百份之一是灵感，百分九十九是血汗。 爱迪生 If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. －Ibsen, Norwegian dramati 如果你不怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了 易卜生 ========================================== 人文（语言，艺术），科学 Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; can transfer knowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions .Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all man's actions , Do not ridicule the use of words in psychotherapy. Sigmund Freud, German Psychiatrist　 言辞具有不可思议的力量。他们能带来最大的幸福，也能带来最深的失望；能把知识从教师传给学生；言辞能使演说者左右他的听众，，并强行代替他们作出决定。言辞能激起最大强烈的情感，促进人的一切行动。不要嘲笑言辞在心理治疗当中的的用途。 德国精神分析学家 弗洛伊德 S　 Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. Honore de Balzac 至理名言，可以悍然不顾；惠然一顾，却为之心悦诚服。 人往往如此。 －巴尔札克 Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced. Len Tolstoy, Russian writer　 艺术不是手艺，它是艺术家的体验到的感情的传递。 俄国作家托尔斯泰。L　 Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought. Susanne Langer, American philosopher　 艺术是感情的模制品，犹如语言是思想的模制品。 美国哲学家 兰格 S　 A poet is born, not made. L.A.Florus, Ancient Roman poet 诗人靠天分，不是靠培养。 古罗马诗人 弗洛鲁 L A　 True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant. de Unamuno Spanish philosopher 　 真正的科学首先是教人怀疑并无知。 西班牙哲学家 乌纳 诺 In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let him hold by him-delf, add observation to observation, patient of neglect, patient of reproach , and bide his own time , happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that thia day he has seen something truly. Ralph Waldo Emersom, American thihker 学者应该高度集中精力，坚定信仰与追求，坚持缄默，继续观察。他要忍耐人们的忽视与责备，等待自己因为发现了某些真理而满怀欣喜的时机。 美国思想家 爱默生.R.W. Information is power, The information domain is the future battlefield. Cebrows Arthur, Aerican economist 信息就是力量，信息领域将是未来的战场。 美国经济学家 阿瑟，C. ========================================== 知识与想象力 This atmosphere of excitement, arising from imagination, transforms knowledge. Alfred Norty Whitehea British philosopher and mathematician 富于想象的思维可以营造出一种令人兴奋的氛围又可以转化为知识。 英国哲学家、数学家 怀特海. A. N. Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is a way of illu-minating the facts. －Alfred North Whitehead, British phillsopher and mathematician 想象不是空穴来风，不能脱离实际情况的一种方式 Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein, American scientist 　 想象力比知识更为重要。 美国科学家 爱因斯坦。A。 Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination. Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopherand mathematician 　 蠢人愚昧无知，单凭想象行事；学究则死抠知识，缺乏想象。 英国哲学家、数学家 怀特海，A. N. It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world, and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfying purpose. Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician 想象能使人理智地观察一个新世界，想象可以通过暗示令人满意的目标来使人保持对生活的热情。 英国哲学家。数学家 怀特海. A. N. ========================================== 人生（奋斗与成功，评价） We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth 　Longfellow 我们对自己的评价，以潜力为准；别人对我们的评价， 则以成就为准。 朗非罗 The world more frequently recommends the appearance of merit than merit itself. Rochefoucauld, Frcnch writer. 世人往往推崇表面的功绩，而不是推崇真正的功绩。 法国作家罗切福考尔德 The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Thomas bobington Macaulay, British historian 　 衡量一个人真正的品质，要看他在知道永远也不会被人发现的情况下做些什么。 英国历史学家麦考莱 , T. B . Time is a great judge, even in the fields of morals. H.L Mencken , American arts artic 时间是伟大的法官，即使在道德领域亦如此。 美国文艺评论家门肯。 H L Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation. Franklin Roosevelt, Averican president 永恒的真理如果不在新的社会形势下赋予新的意义，要么就不是真理，要么不是永恒的。 美国总统 罗斯福 .F. When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty little package. John Ruskin, British writer and critic 　 一个只顾自己的人不足以成大器。 英国作家、批评家 罗斯金 . J. One of the greatest pleasure in life is conversation. Logan Peasall Smith, Americen writer 生活中最大的乐趣之一是交谈。 美国作家史密斯L.P. Our life is frittered away by detail, simplify it , simplify it. David Thoreau Henry American writer 　 我们的生活都被琐事浪费掉了，简单点，简单点。 美国作家 亨利 The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge are necessary, love is in a sense more fundamental, since it will lead intelligent people to seek knowledge, in order to find out how to benefit those they love. Delight without well-wishing may be cruel; well- wishing without delight easily tends to become cold and little superior. Bertrand Russell British philosopher 　 美好生活由爱来激励，受知识指导。.....尽管爱与知识都必要，但在某种意义上爱更重要。因为爱会引导聪明的人去寻求知识，看看怎样能使他们所爱的人得益。...没有善良的愿望的喜悦可能是残酷；没有喜悦的善良容易变得冷漠和傲视一切。 英国哲学罗素，B No matter how strong you are how notable your attainments, you have endruring significance only in your relationship to others. Ziegler Edward, American writer 不管你有多么强大、你的成就多么辉煌，只有保持你与他人之间的关系，这一切才会有持久的意义。 美国作家 爱德华.Z . To make your life a sound structrure that will serve others and fulfil your own potential, you have to remember that strength, however massive , can't endure unless it has the interlocking supprt of others. Go it alone and you'll inevitably tumble. Zichler Edward, Admerican writer 要使你的生活成为有益于他人同时又能发挥你自己的潜力的牢固的建筑，你必须记住，除非与他人的支持联系在一起，否则无论多么大的力量都难以持久，单枪匹马必将一事无成。 美国作家 爱德华.Z. There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. Francis Bacon 曾经努力而失败，与未尝试即放弃，二者不可相提并论。 培根 Jovons saw the kettle boil and cried out with the delighted voice of a child; Marshal too had seen the kettle boil and sat down silently to build an engine. John Maynard Keynes, British economist 杰文斯看见壶开了，高兴得像孩子似地叫了起来；马歇尔也看见壶开了，却悄悄地坐下来造了一部蒸气机。 英国经济学家 凯恩斯. J. M. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Joshuas Reynolds, American female essayist 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。 美国女散文家 雷诺兹. J. In almost every face and every person, they may discover fine feathers and defects, good and bad qualities. Benjamin Franklin, American rpesident 人各有其面，有优缺点， 有长短处。 美国总统 富兰克林.B. Success covers a multitude of blunders. George bernard Shaw, British ramatist 成功由大量的失误铸就。 英国剧作家肖伯纳。G. Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. Charles Montesquier, French thinker 成功常常取决于知道需要多久才能成功。 法国思想家孟德斯鸠.C. Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them. C. Weizmann. Irish president 奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命的努力。 爱尔兰总统 魏茨曼.C. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want,and if they cannot find them, they make them. George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist 在这个世界上，取得成功的人是那些努力寻找他们想要机会的人，如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。 英国剧作家肖伯纳。G Man errs so long as he strives. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet and dramatist 人只要奋斗就会犯错误。 德国诗人、剧作家 歌德.J M. It is Enterprise which builds and improves the world's possessions. Thrift may be the handmaid and nurse of Enterprise. But equally she may not. For the engine which drives Enteprise is not Thrift, but Profit. John Maynard Keynes, British economist 进取精神建造了和增加了世界上的财富。节俭可以是进取精神的仆人的护理人，同样地也可以不是。因为进取精神的动力不是节俭，而是利润。 英国经济学家 凯恩斯.J. M. The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better. No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes. He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new; and have sufficient courage and skill to face novel facts and to deal with them. Franklin Roosevelt, American president 人经过努力改变世界，这种努力可以使人类达到新的、更美好的境界。没有人仅凭闭目、不看社会现实就能割断自己与社会的联系。他必须敏感，随时准备接受新鲜事物；他必须有勇气与能力去面对新的事实，解决新问题。 美国总统罗斯福,F Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. Friedrich Schiller. Greman dramatist and poet 只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举地完成困难的事。 德国剧作家、诗人席勒.F. Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high politic position are to be valued only by the standard of pride of place and persona l profit. Franklin Roosevelt, American president 把物质财富当作成功的标准是错误的。我们应抛弃以名利为唯一标准来衡量公职和高级政治地位的错误观念。 美国总统罗斯福.F. Fame is very much like an animal chasing his own tail who, when he captures is , does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it, Fame and the exhilarating celebrity that accompanies it, force the famous person to anticipate in his own destruction.Howads Melvin, Ameican essayist 声誉极像一只追逐自己尾巴的动物，抓住后除了继续追逐不舍之外，再也没有其它方法了。声誉和随之而来的令人兴奋的赞扬迫使出了名的人担心自己的毁灭。美国散文家 麦尔文.H. ========================================== 民主，政策(Policy,Democracy):有些可以用在历史话题上。 It is a mistake to took too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill 人过于远虑，也是错误，命运的枷锁，一时只能应付一环 邱吉尔 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，F. Growth and change are the law of all life. Yesterday's answers are inadequate for today's problems ----just as the solutions of today will not fill the needs of tomorrow. Franklin Roosevelt, Averican president　 生长与变化是一切生命的法则。昨日的答案不适用于今日的问题——正如今天的方法不能解决明天的需求。 美国总统 罗斯福,F. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin Roosevelt, American president 我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来，但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。 美国总统罗斯福，F. We know nothing of what will happen in future , but by the analogy of past experience. Abraham Lincoln , American president 　 除了凭着对过去的经验加以类推之外，我们对今后的事一无所知。 美国总统 林肯 . A . You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. Norman Dorglas. British writer　 从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。 英国作家 道格拉斯.N. Delia M. Rios, Differences-----both real and imagined ---- are invariably exaggerated in the media and in society as a whole.American writer 差别——不管是真实的还是主观想象的——总是被传媒和社会夸大。 美国作家 里奥.D.M. Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be im-portant. George Eliot, British novelist 人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物 的人惹出来的。 英国小说家 艾略特.G. My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. John Kennedy, American president 美国同胞们，不要问国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你们能为国家做些什么。全世界的公民们，不要问美国将为你们做些什么，而要问我们共同能为人类的自由做些什么。 美国总统 肯尼迪.J. Assuredly, the most gifted man errs who, in dealing with humanity, depends upon his own insight and intelligence and discards the moral law of society, created by respect for the individual, and those principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, the basis of our civilization, and the essence of Christianity. Ferdinand foch, Frcnch marshal 的确，在处理人的问题时，如果只依赖个人的见识与才智，抛弃为尊重个人而制定的社会道德法律，抛弃作为 我们文明基础和基督教要素的自由、平等、博爱的原则，那么，即使是最有天才的人，也肯定会犯错误。 法国元帅福煦F. It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that deeps freedom alive. In a free country there will always be coflicting ideas, and this is a source of strength. Thomas Jefferson. American president 使自由保持活力是冲突而不是绝对的一致。在一个自由的国家里总会有各种相冲突的思想，而这正是力量的源泉。 美国总统杰斐逊 .T. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power. Woodrow Wilson, American president 自由的历史是限制政府权力的历史。 美国总统威尔逊.W。 That freedom and order are not incompatible ;that reverence is the maid of knowledge; that free discussion is the life of truth, and of true unity in a nation. 自由与秩序并非必然互相排斥，知识高于威严，自由讨论是真理的生命，也是国家真正团结统一的生命。 The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Burke Edmund, British statesman 权力越大，滥用职权的危险就越大。 英国政治家 埃德蒙.B. The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment,Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson, American president 人民是完全可以信赖的，应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西，然后作出正确的判断。倘使让我来决定，我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会毫不犹豫选择后者。 美国总统 杰斐逊.T. When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan. John Stuart Mill, BAritish economist 当社会需要重建时，试图墨守旧的蓝图重建它是徒劳无益的。 英国经济学家 穆勒.J.S. For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa.Charles E. Wilison American president of GN 多少年业，我始终认为对国家有利的事对我们通用汽车公司也有利，反之亦然。 美国通用汽车公司总裁 威尔逊 C.E.　 I don'nt know who my grandfather was. I' m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln, American prisident 我不知道我爷爷是什么样的人，我更关心的是，他的孙子会成为什么样的人。 美国总统 林肯.A. Democracy means not "I am as good as you are "but you are as good as I am ." Theodore Parker, American theologian 民主的含义不是“我和你一样好”，而是“你和我一样好”。 美国神学家 帕克。.T. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; great man are almost always bad man… There is no worse heresy than that the office sactifies the holder of it. Lord Acton, British historian 权力导致腐败，绝对权力绝对导致腐败。伟人几乎都不是完人……再也没有比神化掌权者更坏的异端邪说了。 英国历史学家 阿克顿爵士 Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondly on institutions such as courts of justice and police. Albert Einstein, American scientist 人类一切和平合作的基础首先是相互信任， 其次才是法庭和警察一类的机构。 美国科学家 爱因斯坦.A. The world makes history, and scholars write it, ——one half truly and the other half as their prejudices blur and distort it. Wendell Phillip. American leader against slavery 　 世界创造性历史，学者把历史写下来——一半真实，另一半却因学者的偏见而被模糊或歪曲。 美国废奴运动领袖 菲利普斯 .W. 　 Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in . William Shensto, British poet 人们通常会发现，法律就是这样一种的网，触犯法律的人，小的可以穿网而过，大的可以破网而出，只有中等的才会坠入网中。 英国诗人 申斯通 W No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. Thomas Jefferson, America president　 没有哪个社会可以制订一部永远适用的宪法，甚至一条永远适用的法律。 美国总统 杰斐逊 T　 The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them , since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them. Mark Twain, American writer　 自然法即神灵法，只是用来约束每一个个体的法律，我们必须坚定地拒绝遵守。我们应该坚定地遵守忽视神灵法的规章制度，因为规章制度赋予我们和平、比较好的政府和稳定，因而对我们来说，规章制度比神灵法更好，因为如果我们采用神灵法的话，他会将我们陷入迷惑、无序和无政府状态。 美国作家 马克．吐温

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我也总结了一些 不是很多 只作为补充 此外我会每天更换签名档 一天一贴名言 呵呵 同时也希望大家一起来补充 名言 和名人事迹 1. To spend too much time in study is sloth. ------Sir Francis Bacon. 2. If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone --------Thomas Hardy 3. Art is man’s nature. --------Edmund Burke 埃德蒙 伯克 4. Ask counsel of the Ancient, what is best; but of Moderns, what is fittest. --------Thomas Fuller 托马斯 福勒 5. Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times --------Flaubert 福楼拜 6. Nothing is repeated, and everything is unparalleled --------Goncourt brothers 龚古尔兄弟 7. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all case. --------Jung 荣格 8. The most universal quality is diversity. --------montaigne 蒙田 9. There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions; and if they didn’t have passions , there would be no need for government --------voltaire 伏尔泰 10. To worship the people is to be worshiped. --------Sir Francis Bacon 11. Being a general calls for different talents from being a soldier. --------Livy 李维 12. We receive three educations, one from our parent, one from our schoolmasters and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. --------Montesquieu 孟德斯鸠 13. Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. --------Plato 伯拉图 14. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. --------John Dewey. 约翰 杜维 15. There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. --------Charles Sanders Pierce 查尔斯 桑德斯 皮尔斯 16. People only see what they are prepared to see. ---------Emerson 爱默生 17. The more I read, the more I mediate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enable to affirm that I know nothing ---------Voltaire 伏泰尔 18. learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous ---------Confucius 知道是谁吗? 呵呵 孔子啊 (学尔不思则罔; 思尔不学则殆)     Sisyphus : a king of Corinth, condemned in Hades forever to roll uphill ahuge stone that always rolled down again. Represent the endless travail. Sandman : in nursery lore, a mythical person supposed to make children sleepy by casting sand in their eyes. Frankenstein : the title character in Mary W. Shelley's novel Frankenstein who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed; a monstrous creation; especially : a work or agency that ruins its originator Yeats : William Butler 1865*1939 Irish poet & dramatist; awarded 1923 Nobel prize for literature for his poems; leader of Irish literary revival with poems, essays, plays; best known poems include *The Wild Swans at Coole,* *Sailing to Byzantium,* *The Second Coming,* etc Maya : a Mayan language of the ancient Maya peoples recorded in inscriptions Pythagorean theorem : a theorem in geometry: the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equals the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides Adam Smith : writer of the Wealth of Nations. Goethe Bach Supposition : the hardest supposition that none has thoroughly prove it. Archimedes阿基米德: Greek mathematician & inventor; known especially for work in mechanics; discovered principle of buoyancy; wrote treatises on volumes of spheres and cylinders, value of pi, etc. Galileo 伽利略：Italian astronomer & physicist; discovered law of uniform acceleration of falling bodies; discovered that moon shines with reflected light; denounced for advocating Copernican system; was later tried by Inquisition (1632) and forced to recant Newton 牛顿：Mathematician & physicist; author of Principia (1687), one of the seminal works of modern science; laid the foundation of calculus; expanded human understanding of color and light; formulated three fundamental laws of mechanics, leading to the law of gravitation Hegel 黑格尔: 1770－1831 German philosopher; his dialectic process for reconciling opposites influenced Existentialists, Marx, etc. Socrates: Greek philosopher; developer of philosophical thought concerned with the analysis of the character and conduct of human life; famous for his injunction *know thyself; * remembered for his conviction on charges of impiety and death by drinking poisonous hemlock. Roosevelt: the 32nd president and the only president elected for 4th terms (1933-45); developed reforms and projects known as the New Deal. Under his sagacious leadership, America successfully walked out the shadow of Recession and conquered the notorious fascism in the Second World War. And according to a poll conducted at Harvard in 1950, Roosevelt is highly renowned as one of the greatest president of American, ranking only after Washington and Lincoln. Washington: 1st president of the U.S. (1789-1797); established many precedents that permanently shaped the character of the office of president; universally regarded as father of his country. Abraham Lincoln: 16th president of the U.S. (1861-65); successfully preserved the Union during the American Civil War; issued Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in rebelling states; made famous address dedicating cemetery at Gettysburg; assassinated five days after end of Civil War. Jefferson: chief author of Declaration of Independence (1776); 3d president of the U.S. (1801*09); purchased Louisiana from France, sent Lewis and Clark to explore it; prohibited importation of slaves; instrumental in founding U. of Virginia. From him we can see the importance initially laid upon education. He required his progenies to carve such epitaph on his tombstone as ‘chief author of Declaration of Independence; author of the Freedom Law of Religion in Virginia; Father of the Virginia Uni.’ Without mentioning of his presidency. It reflected vividly what a status of education in Jefferson’s heart and this status was inherited by his successors. It is why American’s being super power of the world today. Pasteur: French chemist & microbiologist; did pioneer work in the study of microorganisms and their effects; developed method of inoculating against anthrax and chicken cholera; developed cure and prevention for rabies; developed the germ theory of disease that disentangled human from the superstition that disease are a curse cast by god. In 1852: the famous novel “Uncle Tom’s cabin” written by Mrs. Stowe. Its publication made a great stir in the northern states and it was so welcomed that eight power presses ran day and night to keep up with the demand. Many readers were greatly surprised and deeply moved by the novel’s description of the slave’s miserable life and inhuman treatment. Slavery was the very root of social cruelty. The novel played a very important role in mobilizing public opinion against slavery. When present Lincoln met Mrs. Stowe, he said to her: “you are the little woman that wrote the book that made the Great War.” In 1862: Abraham Lincoln announced the famous Emancipation Proclamation. It provided that all slaves in the rebelling states were freed they were welcome to join the armed forces of the North. The Proclamation declared the abolition of slavery—an objective of the war in addition to the declared objective of saving the Union. About Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln played a very important role in the war. Without his firmness, far sightedness, wise leadership, warmth and generosity, American history would have been rewritten. In 1864, he was elected president for the second term. His career reflects common American belief that everyone could become rich, successful and famous through hard work with all his intelligence and ability. The American civil war was an epoch-making event in American history. It was a bourgeois revolution in nature, a continuation and expansion of the war of independence. It was a struggle of life and death between two social systems, between the progressive and the backward, between the one that would push history forward and the one that drag history to the old times. It was the broad mass who secured the victory with life and blood. They played a very important role in influencing the progress and the outcome of the war.   1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolated pure radium. This is one of the most exciting detective stories of the modern era, unfolded wooden shed on the outskirt of Paris at the turn of the century. There Pierre and Marie labored for many years, tracking down isolating, and examining the source of radioactivity. The long and twisting trail finally led to the discovery of two new element, radium and polonium. 1903: Wright brothers make aviation history with the first successful flight of a self-powered heavier-than-air craft. 1905: Einstein made special theory of relativity “I have no special gift-I am only passionately curious.” Albert Einstein once said. This quiet, modest man with a passion for truth proved a system of equation that overturn some of our most basic assumptions about the nature of universe. His theories of relativity joined time, space, matter, and energy in ways never before imagined. 1906: An unpublicized Christmas eve program broadcast music and human voice for the first time, heralds the beginning of a new era in communication. 1913: Igor Stravinsky’s passionate and unconventional ballet score “the rite of spring” takes Paris by storm, giving music and dance a new dimension. Most music critics were outraged. They attacked Nijinsky as a man “devoid of ideas and even common sense.” Few critics appreciated the “rite of spring” to be ahead of time though the score shocked early audience. 1946: the computer revolution The success of ENIAC, the first electronic computer, leads to machines that will produce the most rapid social and economic revolution in history. 1953: Two scientists at Cambridge University announced their discovery of the structure DNA. The arts of 1945-1956 Alberto Giacometti, his attenuated figures evoked the spiritual isolation of modern man. The recurrent feeling in Giacometti’s work is one of isolation, conveyed by figures so attenuated that they seem on the point of disappearing and yet so precisely fragile that they seem to imbue the space around them with a feeling of encroachment. Background: the horrors of World War II had made a mockery of the political sloganeering of the 1930’s. And the new threat of nuclear annihilation that dominated the postwar decade made what should be a tranquil period an anxious and agonizing time. 1969: in one of the truly momentous steps in human history, the voyage of Apollo 11 lands the first man safely on the moon.       补充一些欧洲名人 Pericles 伯里克利，periclean，古希腊最伟大的政治家，建Parthenon，参与the Peloponnesian War Marcus Porcius Cato, 加图，古罗马政治家，演说家，第一位重要的拉丁散文作家 Frankish 法兰克王国 Rollo 罗伦，北欧海盗，诺曼底公国创建者 Hasting 九世纪北欧海盗首领 Duke Willian of Normandy, the Conqueror, Willan 1st. 英王，诺曼底公爵，征服者威廉一世 Crusade 十字军东征，十字军 Jerusalem 耶路撒冷 Martin Luther, 宗教改革家，不是美国那个，是德意志人，抗罗宗创始人 John Milton 失乐园等三部史诗的作者 Patrick Henry 美国独立战争期间演说家及领袖，弗吉尼亚军总司令及州长 Maximilien Robespierre 罗伯斯庇尔 法国大革命领袖 Georges Jacques Danton 丹东 法国大革命领袖 Napoleon Bonaparte 拿破仑       what's more 希腊神话中部分人名 Hades 哈德斯 Minos 米诺斯 Rhadamanthus 拉达曼提斯 Aeacus 爱考士 Orpheus 奥菲斯 Hesiod 赫西奥德，最早的史诗诗人之一 Homer 荷马 Palamedes 帕拉穆德斯，腓尼基文化的化身 Achilles 阿喀流斯 Achilles' Heel Ajax 埃阿斯 Telamon 忒拉蒙 Odysseus 奥德休斯，拉丁文作Ulysses John Brown 美国废奴主义领袖，后因叛乱罪受审，处绞刑，他的事迹及惨死加速了南北战争的到来 Emancipation Proclamation 解放黑奴宣言 Wendell Phillips 美国废奴运动领袖，演说家 Garrison 美国废奴运动领袖 Frederick Douglass 美国废奴运动领袖 John Albion Andrew 美国废奴运动领袖 Robert Lee 美国内战中南军名将,但反对奴隶制 John Warwick Daniel 美国内战中南军名将 Otto von Bismarch 铁血宰相俾斯麦，we Germans fear God,and nothing else in the world Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎 天演论作者，进化论者 Ferdinand Foch 一战名将，法军总参谋长及协约国顾问，法军元帅，同时有大不列颠元帅及波兰元帅军衔，曾打败德军名将鲁道夫 Woodrow Wilson 美国总统，凡尔赛三巨头之一 Theodore Roosevelt 西奥多.罗斯福 the Miracle of Dunkirk 敦刻尔克大撤退 Mohandas Karamchand Ganhdi 圣雄甘地 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 弗兰克林.罗斯福，雅尔塔三巨头之一 Charles de Gaulle 戴高乐 由于是自己总结的，没时间打详细资料，请见谅，不过这些人在西方很出名，资料很好找的

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Quotes from Famous People ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If life gives you lemons, make some sort of fruity juice. - Conan O'Brien I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, "Whoa, I'm way too high!" - Bruce Baum You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither. - Steve Martin Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. - Sue Murphy When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? - Robin Williams The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job.适 But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house. - Jeff Foxworthy Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. - Woody Allen I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget. - Michael McShane What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad. - Dave Barry I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. - Tom Clancy Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. - Rodney Dangerfield Should I really care what kind of beer frogs recommend? - Dennis Miller If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringley Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. - Dave Barry A new cologne is coming out. It's for cowboys, and it's made from cow's manure. That way the women will be on you like flies! - Bill Maher Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. - Robin Williams On my gravestone, I want to say "I told you I was sick." - Tom Waits A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Laurence J. Peter Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. - Rita Coolidge Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. - Roseanne I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. The always say because it's such a beautiful animal. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then." - Margaret Smith They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. - Billy Crystal You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, "My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!" - Dave Barry The difference between being in a relationship and being in prison is that in prisons they let you play softball on the weekends. - Bobby Kelton According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful. - Jay Leno I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. - Lily Tomlin At 38 years, I finally got me the woman that said those six words I wanted all my life to hear: "My dad owns a liquor store." - Mark Klein I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it. - Bill Cosby In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder BraIs that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women's breasts? - Jay Leno I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences. - Brian Kiley A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh!" - Conan O'Brien The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house. - Jeff Foxworthy I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. - Elayne Boosler The problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams In high school, I wanted to be a feminist, but my boyfriend wouldn't let me. - Denise Munro If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base. - Dave Barry Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp. - Bob Ettinger My mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' - Paula Poundstone A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh! - Conan O'Brien Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize I could be eating a slow learner. - Lynda Montgomery I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, "Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west." - Richard Jeni If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. - Johnny Carson Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." - Paul Rodriguez In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower? - Warren Hutcherson I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. - Lily Tomlin Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire? - Marsha Warfield Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. - Oscar Wilde Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. - Tim Allen We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, "You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms." - Elayne Boosler Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem? - Jay Leno The post office says they're raising the price of stamps by one cent because they need to upgrade their equipment. Apparently, they're going from semi-automatics to uzis... - Conan O'Brien Men look at women the way men look at cars... Everyone looks at Ferraris. Now and then we like a pickup truck, and we all buy station wagons... - Tim Allen There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know... Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked." - Jerry Seinfield I was a vegetarian until I started leaning towards sunlight. - Rita Rudner Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. - Tim Allen AT&T is now offering a new service that allows you to pay your bills through your TV screen by using your remote control. So instead of saying, "The check's in the mail," people are going to say, "Hey, I wanted to pay, but I couldn't find the remote." - Jay Leno You make the beds, you do the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again. - Joan Rivers A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers! - Jay Leno Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see it shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. - Tim Allen Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code.....he turned himself in. - Rita Rudner If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. - George Carlin That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked... - Bill Cosby I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor After making love I said to my girl, "Was it good for you too?" And she said, "I don't think this was good for anybody." - Garry Shandling If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. - Dick Cavett Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. - Lewis Grizzard