英文谚语和名言（英语谚语与名人名言集锦）
英文谚语和名言（英语谚语与名人名言集锦）——Otto JespersonThe essence of language is human activity.入乡随俗。Every country has its customs.乡有乡俗。
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英汉对照】英语谚语与名人名言集锦：Language Culture and Communication
When in Rome do as the Romans do.
入乡随俗。
Every country has its customs.
乡有乡俗。
The essence of language is human activity.
——Otto Jesperson
语言的本质是人类活动。
——丹麦语言学家 耶斯佩森
Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.
——Somerset British general
粗略地说，文化指的是我们做而猴子不做的任何事情。
——英国将军 萨默塞特
Culture itself is neither education nor law making it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
—Henry Louis Mencken American writer and editor
文化本身既不是教育，也不是立法，它是一种氛围，一种遗产。
——美国作家、编辑 亨利·路易斯·门肯
Words are like leaves and where they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
——Alexander Pope British poet
言词就像树叶，树叶最茂密的地方很难找到丰硕的理智之果。
——英国诗人 蒲柏
Words may be false and full of arts sighs are the natural language of the heart.
——Thomas Shadwell British dramatist
言语可以是谎言并带有技巧；叹息才是心灵的自然流露。
——英国剧作家 沙德韦尔
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
—William Blake English poet
原谅敌人比原谅朋友更容易。
—— 英国诗人 威廉·布莱克
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
—Albert Einstein American scientist
任何一种人与人之间的和平合作首先是基于相互信任基础上的，其次才是基于诸如法庭、警察等制度上的。
——美国科学家 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.——P. B. Shelley British poet
伟大的诗篇即是永远喷出智慧和欢欣之水的喷泉。
——英国诗人 雪莱
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
——P. B. Shelley
诗歌是最快乐、最高尚的心灵，最美好、最幸福的时刻的记录。
——英国诗人 雪莱
Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.
——Mark Twain American novelist
幽默被人正确地解释为"以诚挚表达感受，寓深思于嬉笑"。
——美国小说家 马克·吐温
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation；the two keep in their downward tendency.
——Johan Wolfgang von Goethe German poet
文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时间是齐头并进的。
——德国诗人 歌德
节选自《大学英语新概念阅读教程》（第三册）（主编 李华田，武汉大学出版社，2012年6月）
