57、Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. ----- Pollok
不忘過去的痛苦,才能倍感今天的幸福。-----波洛克
sorrow means a feeling of sadness or distress caused esp. by loss, disappointment or regret, grief.悲傷,悲痛,懊喪,悔恨。
sorrow后常跟的介詞有at/for/over.例如:sorrow at somebody’s death因某人去世而悲傷。sorrowing over his child’s death因他孩子夭折而悲傷。
我們再來看一下這個單詞的另一個固定搭配:
more in sorrow than in anger:with more regret than anger for what was done.感到遺憾,倒并不生氣。例如:It was more in sorrow than in anger that he criticized his former colleague.他批評以前的同事,并非出于氣憤而是為他惋惜。
這句格言選自蘇格蘭宗教詩人波洛克的"時間的進程"。
58、One good turn deserves another.
善有善報/以德報德
Turn,在這里做名詞,解釋為(幫助或損害別人的)舉動,行為:do somebody a good (bad) turn.做一件有利(損)于某人的事。除此以外,turn還可以做動詞,比如:turn a somersault翻跟斗;turn somebody against another使某人與另一人作對;turn a street corner沿街角拐彎。
再來學(xué)習(xí)幾個關(guān)于turn的詞組:turn upside down,顛倒,弄亂。Don’t turn our arrangements upside down.別把我們的安排搞亂了;Turn on the tears,一下子流起淚來;On the turn,正在轉(zhuǎn)變中;To the turn of a hair絲毫不差地。
Deserve, to have earned something by good or bad actions or behavior,應(yīng)受;值得。Deserve punishment ( a reward )應(yīng)受處罰(獎賞);deserve to be mentioned值得一提。