*節(jié)儉贈言
Economy is of itself a great revenue.
——Marcus Tullius Cicero
節(jié)約本身就是巨大的收益。
——西塞羅
A penny saved is a penny gained.
——Thomas Fuller
省下一分錢等于掙得一分錢。
——富勒
If you would be wealthy, think of Saving as well as of Getting.
——Benjamin Franklin
如果你想致富,那么,既要考慮獲取,也要注意節(jié)約。
——富蘭克林
Prudence requires that we shall pitch our scale of living a degree below our means, rather than up to them.
——Samuel Smiles
節(jié)儉地過日子,要求我們生活標準應低于經濟能力,而不應超出它的許可。
——斯邁爾斯
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
——William Lowndes
照看好小錢,大錢就會照看好自己。
——朗茲
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
——Benjamin Franklin
今天購入無用物,明天就得賣掉生活必需用品。
——富蘭克林
Provident men lay aside money for their families.
深謀遠慮的人為家庭貯蓄錢財。
Saving in season, spending with reason, make the good household.
及時儲蓄,合理開銷,家庭安康。
Little and often fills the purse.
小收入,若常來,積累起來錢滿袋。
Many a little makes a mickle.
滴水成河,粒米成籮。
Waste not, want not.
精打細算,不愁吃穿。
*祝賀成功
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do. Congratulations on your success!
成功的才華在于做你能做好的一切和做好你所做的一切。祝賀你取得成功!
Let me offer my most sincere congratulations upon your success.
讓我以最真誠的心愿祝賀你的成功。
Please accept my congratulations on your success and my best wishes for your bright prospects.
祝賀你的成功,衷心祝你鵬程萬里,前程似錦。
The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower.
——William Cowper
蓓蕾可能有苦味,花兒卻是甜蜜的。
——考珀
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
——Bertrand Russell
我們越是意識到我們在宇宙力量面前的渺小,人類取得的成就越是驚人。
——羅素
The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.
——Ben Sweet
的成功是成功地肯定自我。
——斯威特
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
——Joseph Addison
功成名就乃是人生在世的幸福。
——艾狄生
Success nourishes hope.
——Harold Wallace Ross
成功孕育希望。
——羅斯
*祝賀學業(yè)有成
Your diligence combined with your innate talent indicate a dynamic future. I wish you all the best in your college years.
你的勤奮加上你的天才為你展示了廣闊的前程,祝你在大學期間一切順利。
Congratulating on your great success in comprehensive exam for Ph.D.
衷心祝賀你在博士學位考試中成績優(yōu)異!
My warmest congratulations to you on receiving the scholarship to the university with my best wish for your continued success.
最熱烈地祝賀你獲得大學獎學金,并衷心祝你不斷取得成功。
*祝賀升遷
You have worked hard, and the new title is well deserved. My very best wishes to you.
你工作一向勤勉,得到榮升理所當然。我謹向你致以最美好的祝愿。
I can't think of any man who would have been a better choice. I sincerely hope you will find happiness and success in this new post.
你是出任此職的人選。我真誠地預祝你在新的崗位上工作愉快,事業(yè)成功。
Congratulations on your recent promotion. I am sure that you will find your new work enjoyable and exciting and I look forward to hearing your next success.
祝賀你榮升新職,我深信你會發(fā)覺新的工作更令人愉快,令人激動。盼望聽到你的下一個成功的喜悅。
May all go beautifully in the new position.
恭祝你在新的崗位上前程似錦。
*成功智慧
Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
——Louis Pasteur
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——巴斯德
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.
——Thomas Edison
如果你希望成功,當以恒心為良友,以經驗為參謀,以謹慎為兄弟,以希望為哨兵。
——愛迪生
To conquer we have need to dare, to dare again, ever to dare!
——Georges Jacques Danton
為了勝利,我們需要勇敢,再勇敢,永遠勇敢!
——丹東
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.
——Jean de La Bruyere
成功的捷徑是讓人們清楚地知道,你的成功符合他們的利益。
——拉布呂耶爾
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
——Benjamin Disraeli
生活中最成功的人,通常是獲得信息的人。
——迪斯雷利
Genius is one per cent inspiration and nietynine per cent perspiration.
——Thomas Edison
天才是百分之一的靈感,百分之九十九的汗水。
——愛迪生
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
——Albert Schweitzer
成功的一個大秘訣是作為一個不知疲倦的人度過人生。
——施韋策
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
——William Hazlitt
對任何目標的強烈欲望都會保證成功,因為達到目的的愿望會指出獲得成功的途徑。
——哈茲里特
*挫折贈言
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.
——R. M. Nixon
命運給予我們的不是失望之酒,而是機會之杯。因此,讓我們毫無畏懼、充滿歡愉地把握住命運。
——尼克松
The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers.
——Frances Willard
徹底獻身于自己最擅長的活動的人,是最正常、最完美的人。
——威拉德
The failures and reverses which await men-and one after another sadden the brow of youth-add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
——Henry David Thoreau
盡管失敗和挫折等待著人們,一次次地奪走青春的容顏,但卻給人生的前景增添一份尊嚴,這是任何順利的成功都不能做到的。
——梭羅
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is: not to take the risk.
——Kierkegaard
在一個人生命的初始階段,的危險就是不冒風險。
——克爾愷郭爾
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
——Thomas Fuller
黎明前總是最黑暗的。
——富勒
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
——Vauvenargues
只根據自己的想法去行動,是人們容易犯的錯誤。
——沃維納格
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.
——Thomas Paine我喜歡那種在困境中微笑,從憂傷中獲得力量,通過反思變得勇敢的人。
——潘恩
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
——William Shakespeare
唯有希望才能拯救不幸者。
——莎士比亞
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
——Goethe
在任何情況下,滿懷希望勝于絕望。
——歌德
Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
——J. Anderson
只要堅韌不拔,失敗十九次之后,第二十次就會成功。
——安德森
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed──there is so little competition!
——Elbert Hubbard
全心全意地做你的工作,你就會成功──就此而言,幾乎沒有競爭。
——哈伯德
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
驚濤駭浪,方顯出英雄本色。
He laughs best who laughs last.
誰笑到最后,誰笑得。
*把握機遇
He who seizes the right moment. is the right man.
——Goethe
誰把握機遇,誰就心想事成。
——歌德
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
——Benjamin Disraeli
生活中最重要的事情是懂得何時抓住機遇,其次便是懂得何時放棄好處。
——迪斯累里
Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters, adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
——Francis Bacon
幸運中并非不摻雜各種擔心與煩惱,而厄運中也并非不存在欣慰與期望。
——培根
*挑戰(zhàn)命運
Fortune shows her power when there is no wise preparation for resisting her.
——Niccolo Machiavelli
沒有向命運抗爭的明智準備,命運便會顯示其威力。
——馬基雅維利
To bear is to conquer our fate.
——Thomas Campbell
忍耐就能征服命運。
——坎貝爾
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
——Jonathan Winters
如果你的幸運之舟不向你駛來,那你就朝它游過去吧。
——溫特斯
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
——Thackeray
大膽挑戰(zhàn),世界總會讓步。如果有時你被打敗,不斷地挑戰(zhàn),它總會屈服的。
——薩克雷
*奮斗金言
Cease to struggle and you cease to live.
——Thomas Carlyle
生命不止,奮斗不息。
——卡萊爾
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
——Alfred Tennyson
要奮斗、要探索、要發(fā)現(xiàn),而不要屈從。
——丁尼生
Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
——Swetchine
只有強者才懂得斗爭;弱者甚至失敗都不夠資格,而是生來就是被征服的。
——斯威特切尼
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
——Gustave Flaubert
人的一生中,最輝煌的時刻并非是功名成就那一天,而是從悲嘆與絕望中產生對人生的挑戰(zhàn),從而勇敢地向未來邁進的那些日子。
——福樓拜
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
——Horace
磨難顯露才華,好運隱匿天資。
——賀拉斯
Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
——Thomas Heywood
作好最壞的準備,那么的情況就會來臨。
——海伍德
He that can have patience, can have what he will.
——Benjamin Franklin
有耐心者才能實現(xiàn)其志向。
——富蘭克林
There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe.
——Syrus
沒有艱苦奮斗,便沒有成功。
——西魯斯
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
——Benjamin Franklin
能量加毅力可以征服一切。
——富蘭克林
*祝愿康復
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
——Franklin Pierce Adams
健康是這樣的東西,它使你感到現(xiàn)在是一年之中的時光。
——亞當斯
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
——John Wanamaker
沒有時間娛樂的人,遲早要騰出時間生病。
——沃納梅克
A great big wish that you'll soon be back in tip-top condition.
深深地祝愿你早日痊愈,健康無比!
Sure hope and pray you'll be fit and strong and with us again before too long. Get well soon!
衷心為你的健康祈禱,愿你很快與大家歡聚,祝你早日康復!
May every hour of every day bring you some small pleasure. May each day bring you closer to the very best of health.
愿每日每時都給你帶來小小生活樂趣,愿每日每時都給你帶來更多健康。
*慰問遭災
There is nothing which human courage will not undertake, and little that human patience will not endure.
——Samuel Johnson
人的勇氣能承擔一切重負;人的耐心能忍受絕大部分痛苦。
——塞·約翰遜
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
——Beaumont
遭受嚴重的災難,是人的真正試金石。
——鮑蒙特
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, whatever reason, turn his back on life.
——Eleanor Roosevelt
人生應該生氣勃勃,我們應該始終對世界充滿好奇。無論發(fā)生了什么,都要直面人生。
——羅斯福夫人
Words are helpless things sometimes when it comes to expressing oneself on a sorrowful event like this. I can only tell you that you are in my heart and thought.
在這樣悲慘的事情上,要表白心,言語顯得那樣蒼白無力,我只想告訴你,你在我心坎上,在我的思念中。
May you find comfort in knowing that we are near, and so are friends who love you.
愿你知道我們與你心心相印而感到安慰,朋友們愿與你休戚與共。
*慰唁
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
——D. H. Lawrence
逝世的好人并沒有死亡。他們仍在一旁注視并幫助我們。
——勞倫斯
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
——D. H. Lawrance
死是偉大激情的純潔、美麗的終結。
——勞倫斯
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.
——Marcel Proust
對我們來說,人死后不會立即消逝,他們仍沐浴在一種生命的光輝中,在人們的思念中永生。
——普魯斯特
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
——Henry Longfellow
悲傷與沉默的力量是巨大的,堅強的忍耐力是神圣的。
——朗費羅
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well-used brings happy death.
——Leonardo da Vinci
充實的一天會帶來甜蜜的睡眠,而充實的一生會帶來平靜而安祥的長逝。
——達·芬奇
He will be long remembered for his steadfast service to his host of friends and to the community.
人們將永遠記住他始終為他朋友和社會所做的好事。
Time endears and cannot fade the memories that love has made. May the memories of your loved one bring you comfort.
時間使記憶更甜蜜,愛造成的記憶永不會消失,愿你對親人的懷念,給你帶來慰藉。
*禮品贈言
Every gift, though it may be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
——Pindar
不論什么禮物,只要帶著深情愛意,薄禮也要勝千金。
——品達
For you, because you are special.
這份特殊的禮物獻給特別的你。
Expected gifts are a pleasure to receive, but unexpected remembrances are even a greater joy.
收到預期中的禮物令人快慰,但得到意想不到的紀念品更令人無比歡欣。
Words are not enough to express the depth of my gratitude for the gift which you so kindly sent me on the occasion of my graduation.
言語難以表達我的深切謝意,謝謝你在我畢業(yè)之際饋贈的禮品。
Thank you for the pleasure your wedding gift brought and for your good wishes.
感謝你的結婚禮品給我們帶來歡愉,感謝你對我們無比美好的祝愿。
*送書贈言
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
——Martin Farquhar Tupper
好書乃至友,情誼永不渝。
——塔珀
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.——Louisa May Alcott
一本好書能開卷引人入勝,終卷使人得益非淺。
——奧爾科特
Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.
——Samuel Smiles
書籍具有不朽的魅力。它是人類活動的最持久的成果。
——斯邁爾斯
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, are a large world, both pure and good.
——William Wordsworth
夢與書屬于不同的世界,而我們知道,書是一個更廣闊的世界,它們既純潔而又美好。
——華茲華斯
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.
——Samuel Smiles
書籍把我們引入最美好的環(huán)境,使我們與各個時代的偉大智者促膝談心。
——斯邁爾斯
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors; and the most patient of teachers.
——Charles W. Eliot
書籍是人類最寧靜和永恒的朋友,是最善解人意和智慧的顧問,是最有耐心的良師益友。
——埃利奧特
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
——Henry David Thoreau
有多少人由一本書的閱讀而開始其人生的新時期啊!
——梭羅
*送花贈言
Flowers …… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
——Emerson
鮮花自豪地向世人顯示,美的光彩具有超凡的價值。
——愛默生
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.
——Ruskin
愛美是一切健康人性的本質部分。
——羅斯金
If love were what the rose is, and I were like the leaf.
——Algernon Charles Swinburne
如果愛情是美麗的玫瑰,我愿作生命相隨的綠葉。
——斯溫伯恩
*送藝術品贈言
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
——Somerset Maugham
人人喜愛的藝術具有真正偉大的意義。僅為某一群體所喜愛的藝術只是一種玩物。
——毛姆
There is no comfort in adversity, more sweet than art affords.
——Amphis
世上沒有任何一種東西比藝術會給身處逆境的人帶來更多的安慰與甜蜜。
——阿姆菲斯
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
——Bernard Shaw
如果沒有藝術,粗俗的現(xiàn)實世界將變得令人難以忍受。
——蕭伯納
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
——Victor Hugo
音樂表達的是無法說出卻又不可沉默的東西。
——雨果
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
——Perly Bysshe Shelley
詩歌是最快樂、尚的心靈最美好、最幸福的時刻的記錄。
——雪萊
*惜時贈言
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
——Charles Robert Darwin
敢于浪費自己生命中一個小時的人,尚未發(fā)現(xiàn)生命的價值。
——達爾文
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
——Benjamin Franklin
你熱愛生命嗎?那么別浪費時間,因為生命是由時間組成的。
——富蘭克林
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
——Samuel Smiles
失去的財富可以靠勤奮恢復,失去的知識可以靠學習恢復,失去的健康可以靠節(jié)制或藥物恢復,但是失去的光陰一去不復返。
——斯邁爾斯
Seize this day! Begin now! Each day is a new life. Seize it. For in today already walks tomorrow.
——Darid Guy Powers
把握住今天!現(xiàn)在就開始!每天是一次新的生命,抓住它,因為在今天中已經走進了明天。
——鮑爾斯
Life is long if you know how to use it.
——L. A. Seneca
只要你善于利用時間,生命是夠長久的。
——塞內加
*豁達贈言
To forgive is human, to forget divine.
——James Grand
寬容是人性的,而忘卻卻是神性的。
——格蘭
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
——George Sand
幸福在于自知擁有幸福。
——喬治·桑
My motto is: contented with little, yet wishing for more.
——Charles Lamb
我的座右銘是:滿足于一點,但是希望有更多。
——蘭姆
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can.
——Adam Smith
每個人都應盡可能輕松自如地生活。
——亞當·斯密
Life has its ups and downs.
——Gaius Petronius Arbiter
人生一世有起有落。
——阿比特
*祝賀喬遷
Hearty greetings on your setting down in your newly built house.
最衷心地祝賀你在新屋安居!
I hasten to congratulate you on your moving into your new residence.
在你喬遷新居之際,我獻上對你的最熱忱的祝愿!
*生活金言
All human wisdom is summed up in two words──wait and hope.
——Alexandre Dumas Pere
人類所有的智慧可以歸結為兩個詞──等待和希望。
——大仲馬
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
——Mrs Humphry Ward
每人都會留下一個故事,這個故事比他發(fā)現(xiàn)時更優(yōu)美。
——漢弗萊·沃德夫人
The secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand other things well.
——Hugh Walpole
人生的秘訣在于對任何事物都要充滿興趣。
——沃波爾
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
——Gilbert Chesterton
為人處世的知識只能在社會上而不是在書齋里獲得。
——切斯特頓
Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
——Thomas Carlyle
說話是銀,而沉默是金。
——卡萊爾
In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
——《Bible》
智慧越多,憂傷越多;知識增長,煩惱也增長。
——《圣經》
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
——Benjamin Franklin
不要去預見煩惱,擔心可能永遠不會發(fā)生的事情。置身于明媚的陽光之中吧。
——富蘭克林
Our life is just like travelling with minds as the tour guide, without the tour guide, all will stop, the aim will be lost and strength will disappear.
——Goethe
我們的生活就像旅行,思想是導游者,沒有導游者,一切都會停止,目標會喪失,力量也會化為烏有。
——歌德
Life is not a 100-yard dash, but more a cross-country run. If we sprint all the time, we not only fail to win the race, but never last long enough to reach the finish line.
——John F Kennedy
生活不是百米沖刺,而是越野長跑。如果始終拼命沖刺,我們不僅贏不到勝利,甚至不能堅持到終點。
——肯尼迪
While we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
——Emerson
與高于自己的人交流思想,我們不會變得年老,只會變得年輕。
——愛默生
One should always be a little improbable.
——Oscar Wilde
一個人應該永遠保持一點神秘感。
——王爾德
Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; corruption wins not more than honesty.
——William Shakespeare
愛你自己要愛在最后;珍惜那些恨你的人一片真心;誠實比獻媚更能幫你取勝。
——莎士比亞
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
——Bernard Shaw
我們如果不能創(chuàng)造幸福,我們便沒有權力去享受幸福,正如我們如果不能創(chuàng)造財富,便沒有權力去享用財富一樣。
——蕭伯納
*圣誕贈言
May the wonder and magic of Christmas fill your heart and home with joy.
祝您圣誕開心如意,合家歡天喜地!
Wishing you peace, joy and happiness through Christmas and the coming year.
在圣誕和新年到來之際,祝你安康、歡樂和幸福。
At Christmas and always, may peace fill your heart, beauty fill your world, and contentment fill your days.
圣誕的祝愿,平日的希冀,愿你的心境時時祥和,愿你的世界無限美麗,愿你的一切稱心如意。
Hope all your Christmas dreams come true!
愿你所有的圣誕夢都會成真!
Here are two thoughts to remember, whatever the season may be I will always be wishing you happiness, and you will always be special to me! Merry Christmas!
日月光華,我總有兩個美好的心愿縈繞心懷:愿你永遠幸??鞓罚改阌肋h是我的特別需要。敬祝圣誕快樂!
May warmest wishes, happy thoughts and friendly greetings come at Christmas and stay with you the whole year through.
愿溫馨的祝愿、幸福的思念和友誼的祝賀在圣誕佳節(jié)來到你身邊,在新的一年與你時時相伴。
May your Christmas be filled with special moment, warmth and happiness, the joy of loved ones near, and may the blessings of the day last throughout the year.
愿你的圣誕節(jié)充滿溫馨、幸福和親人相聚的喜悅。愿佳節(jié)的祝福與你來年的每時每刻同在。
To wish you the special gifts of Christmas──joy, peace and love.
贈送給你的圣誕禮物最特別──歡樂、安寧和愛情。
*新年贈言
Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to you all my good wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
恭賀新禧!真誠地祝愿你身體健康,事業(yè)昌盛!
With many good wishes for the holidays and the coming year!
敬祝節(jié)日快樂,新年事事稱心如意!
The Festive season is with us once again, and I would like to wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year.
歡樂的節(jié)日又一次來臨,恭祝你新年快樂,生意興隆。
May your Holiday Season be a joyous one and may each day of the New Year bring you a full measure of success and happiness!
愿你節(jié)日快樂,愿新年的每一天都給你帶來豐碩的成果和無限的幸福!
The greatest happiness in life is to feel peaceful; The greatest happiness in life is to possess friends. May you have all happiness in your life.
生活中的幸福就是平安祥和;生活中的歡樂便是擁有朋友;愿你享有生活中的一切幸福和歡樂!
On the occasion of the New Year, may my wife and I extend to you and your wife our sincere greetings, wishing you a happy year, your career greater success and your family happiness.
值此迎新辭舊之際,我和我的夫人謹向你們伉儷致以真誠的祝賀。祝你們新年快樂,事業(yè)有成,家庭幸福。
At such a wonderful moment, I send you a gentle and warm care and wish: May every day be brilliant for you!
在這美好的時刻,捎送一份溫馨的關愛和祝福,祈愿你所有的日子無比燦爛。
Here is too much happiness and joy for both of you now and in the years to come.
祝你福樂盈溢,鴻運翩至!
Economy is of itself a great revenue.
——Marcus Tullius Cicero
節(jié)約本身就是巨大的收益。
——西塞羅
A penny saved is a penny gained.
——Thomas Fuller
省下一分錢等于掙得一分錢。
——富勒
If you would be wealthy, think of Saving as well as of Getting.
——Benjamin Franklin
如果你想致富,那么,既要考慮獲取,也要注意節(jié)約。
——富蘭克林
Prudence requires that we shall pitch our scale of living a degree below our means, rather than up to them.
——Samuel Smiles
節(jié)儉地過日子,要求我們生活標準應低于經濟能力,而不應超出它的許可。
——斯邁爾斯
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
——William Lowndes
照看好小錢,大錢就會照看好自己。
——朗茲
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
——Benjamin Franklin
今天購入無用物,明天就得賣掉生活必需用品。
——富蘭克林
Provident men lay aside money for their families.
深謀遠慮的人為家庭貯蓄錢財。
Saving in season, spending with reason, make the good household.
及時儲蓄,合理開銷,家庭安康。
Little and often fills the purse.
小收入,若常來,積累起來錢滿袋。
Many a little makes a mickle.
滴水成河,粒米成籮。
Waste not, want not.
精打細算,不愁吃穿。
*祝賀成功
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do. Congratulations on your success!
成功的才華在于做你能做好的一切和做好你所做的一切。祝賀你取得成功!
Let me offer my most sincere congratulations upon your success.
讓我以最真誠的心愿祝賀你的成功。
Please accept my congratulations on your success and my best wishes for your bright prospects.
祝賀你的成功,衷心祝你鵬程萬里,前程似錦。
The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower.
——William Cowper
蓓蕾可能有苦味,花兒卻是甜蜜的。
——考珀
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
——Bertrand Russell
我們越是意識到我們在宇宙力量面前的渺小,人類取得的成就越是驚人。
——羅素
The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.
——Ben Sweet
的成功是成功地肯定自我。
——斯威特
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
——Joseph Addison
功成名就乃是人生在世的幸福。
——艾狄生
Success nourishes hope.
——Harold Wallace Ross
成功孕育希望。
——羅斯
*祝賀學業(yè)有成
Your diligence combined with your innate talent indicate a dynamic future. I wish you all the best in your college years.
你的勤奮加上你的天才為你展示了廣闊的前程,祝你在大學期間一切順利。
Congratulating on your great success in comprehensive exam for Ph.D.
衷心祝賀你在博士學位考試中成績優(yōu)異!
My warmest congratulations to you on receiving the scholarship to the university with my best wish for your continued success.
最熱烈地祝賀你獲得大學獎學金,并衷心祝你不斷取得成功。
*祝賀升遷
You have worked hard, and the new title is well deserved. My very best wishes to you.
你工作一向勤勉,得到榮升理所當然。我謹向你致以最美好的祝愿。
I can't think of any man who would have been a better choice. I sincerely hope you will find happiness and success in this new post.
你是出任此職的人選。我真誠地預祝你在新的崗位上工作愉快,事業(yè)成功。
Congratulations on your recent promotion. I am sure that you will find your new work enjoyable and exciting and I look forward to hearing your next success.
祝賀你榮升新職,我深信你會發(fā)覺新的工作更令人愉快,令人激動。盼望聽到你的下一個成功的喜悅。
May all go beautifully in the new position.
恭祝你在新的崗位上前程似錦。
*成功智慧
Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
——Louis Pasteur
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——巴斯德
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.
——Thomas Edison
如果你希望成功,當以恒心為良友,以經驗為參謀,以謹慎為兄弟,以希望為哨兵。
——愛迪生
To conquer we have need to dare, to dare again, ever to dare!
——Georges Jacques Danton
為了勝利,我們需要勇敢,再勇敢,永遠勇敢!
——丹東
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.
——Jean de La Bruyere
成功的捷徑是讓人們清楚地知道,你的成功符合他們的利益。
——拉布呂耶爾
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
——Benjamin Disraeli
生活中最成功的人,通常是獲得信息的人。
——迪斯雷利
Genius is one per cent inspiration and nietynine per cent perspiration.
——Thomas Edison
天才是百分之一的靈感,百分之九十九的汗水。
——愛迪生
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
——Albert Schweitzer
成功的一個大秘訣是作為一個不知疲倦的人度過人生。
——施韋策
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
——William Hazlitt
對任何目標的強烈欲望都會保證成功,因為達到目的的愿望會指出獲得成功的途徑。
——哈茲里特
*挫折贈言
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.
——R. M. Nixon
命運給予我們的不是失望之酒,而是機會之杯。因此,讓我們毫無畏懼、充滿歡愉地把握住命運。
——尼克松
The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers.
——Frances Willard
徹底獻身于自己最擅長的活動的人,是最正常、最完美的人。
——威拉德
The failures and reverses which await men-and one after another sadden the brow of youth-add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
——Henry David Thoreau
盡管失敗和挫折等待著人們,一次次地奪走青春的容顏,但卻給人生的前景增添一份尊嚴,這是任何順利的成功都不能做到的。
——梭羅
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is: not to take the risk.
——Kierkegaard
在一個人生命的初始階段,的危險就是不冒風險。
——克爾愷郭爾
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
——Thomas Fuller
黎明前總是最黑暗的。
——富勒
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
——Vauvenargues
只根據自己的想法去行動,是人們容易犯的錯誤。
——沃維納格
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.
——Thomas Paine我喜歡那種在困境中微笑,從憂傷中獲得力量,通過反思變得勇敢的人。
——潘恩
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
——William Shakespeare
唯有希望才能拯救不幸者。
——莎士比亞
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
——Goethe
在任何情況下,滿懷希望勝于絕望。
——歌德
Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
——J. Anderson
只要堅韌不拔,失敗十九次之后,第二十次就會成功。
——安德森
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed──there is so little competition!
——Elbert Hubbard
全心全意地做你的工作,你就會成功──就此而言,幾乎沒有競爭。
——哈伯德
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
驚濤駭浪,方顯出英雄本色。
He laughs best who laughs last.
誰笑到最后,誰笑得。
*把握機遇
He who seizes the right moment. is the right man.
——Goethe
誰把握機遇,誰就心想事成。
——歌德
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
——Benjamin Disraeli
生活中最重要的事情是懂得何時抓住機遇,其次便是懂得何時放棄好處。
——迪斯累里
Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters, adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
——Francis Bacon
幸運中并非不摻雜各種擔心與煩惱,而厄運中也并非不存在欣慰與期望。
——培根
*挑戰(zhàn)命運
Fortune shows her power when there is no wise preparation for resisting her.
——Niccolo Machiavelli
沒有向命運抗爭的明智準備,命運便會顯示其威力。
——馬基雅維利
To bear is to conquer our fate.
——Thomas Campbell
忍耐就能征服命運。
——坎貝爾
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
——Jonathan Winters
如果你的幸運之舟不向你駛來,那你就朝它游過去吧。
——溫特斯
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
——Thackeray
大膽挑戰(zhàn),世界總會讓步。如果有時你被打敗,不斷地挑戰(zhàn),它總會屈服的。
——薩克雷
*奮斗金言
Cease to struggle and you cease to live.
——Thomas Carlyle
生命不止,奮斗不息。
——卡萊爾
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
——Alfred Tennyson
要奮斗、要探索、要發(fā)現(xiàn),而不要屈從。
——丁尼生
Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
——Swetchine
只有強者才懂得斗爭;弱者甚至失敗都不夠資格,而是生來就是被征服的。
——斯威特切尼
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
——Gustave Flaubert
人的一生中,最輝煌的時刻并非是功名成就那一天,而是從悲嘆與絕望中產生對人生的挑戰(zhàn),從而勇敢地向未來邁進的那些日子。
——福樓拜
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
——Horace
磨難顯露才華,好運隱匿天資。
——賀拉斯
Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
——Thomas Heywood
作好最壞的準備,那么的情況就會來臨。
——海伍德
He that can have patience, can have what he will.
——Benjamin Franklin
有耐心者才能實現(xiàn)其志向。
——富蘭克林
There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe.
——Syrus
沒有艱苦奮斗,便沒有成功。
——西魯斯
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
——Benjamin Franklin
能量加毅力可以征服一切。
——富蘭克林
*祝愿康復
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
——Franklin Pierce Adams
健康是這樣的東西,它使你感到現(xiàn)在是一年之中的時光。
——亞當斯
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
——John Wanamaker
沒有時間娛樂的人,遲早要騰出時間生病。
——沃納梅克
A great big wish that you'll soon be back in tip-top condition.
深深地祝愿你早日痊愈,健康無比!
Sure hope and pray you'll be fit and strong and with us again before too long. Get well soon!
衷心為你的健康祈禱,愿你很快與大家歡聚,祝你早日康復!
May every hour of every day bring you some small pleasure. May each day bring you closer to the very best of health.
愿每日每時都給你帶來小小生活樂趣,愿每日每時都給你帶來更多健康。
*慰問遭災
There is nothing which human courage will not undertake, and little that human patience will not endure.
——Samuel Johnson
人的勇氣能承擔一切重負;人的耐心能忍受絕大部分痛苦。
——塞·約翰遜
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
——Beaumont
遭受嚴重的災難,是人的真正試金石。
——鮑蒙特
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, whatever reason, turn his back on life.
——Eleanor Roosevelt
人生應該生氣勃勃,我們應該始終對世界充滿好奇。無論發(fā)生了什么,都要直面人生。
——羅斯福夫人
Words are helpless things sometimes when it comes to expressing oneself on a sorrowful event like this. I can only tell you that you are in my heart and thought.
在這樣悲慘的事情上,要表白心,言語顯得那樣蒼白無力,我只想告訴你,你在我心坎上,在我的思念中。
May you find comfort in knowing that we are near, and so are friends who love you.
愿你知道我們與你心心相印而感到安慰,朋友們愿與你休戚與共。
*慰唁
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
——D. H. Lawrence
逝世的好人并沒有死亡。他們仍在一旁注視并幫助我們。
——勞倫斯
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
——D. H. Lawrance
死是偉大激情的純潔、美麗的終結。
——勞倫斯
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.
——Marcel Proust
對我們來說,人死后不會立即消逝,他們仍沐浴在一種生命的光輝中,在人們的思念中永生。
——普魯斯特
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
——Henry Longfellow
悲傷與沉默的力量是巨大的,堅強的忍耐力是神圣的。
——朗費羅
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well-used brings happy death.
——Leonardo da Vinci
充實的一天會帶來甜蜜的睡眠,而充實的一生會帶來平靜而安祥的長逝。
——達·芬奇
He will be long remembered for his steadfast service to his host of friends and to the community.
人們將永遠記住他始終為他朋友和社會所做的好事。
Time endears and cannot fade the memories that love has made. May the memories of your loved one bring you comfort.
時間使記憶更甜蜜,愛造成的記憶永不會消失,愿你對親人的懷念,給你帶來慰藉。
*禮品贈言
Every gift, though it may be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
——Pindar
不論什么禮物,只要帶著深情愛意,薄禮也要勝千金。
——品達
For you, because you are special.
這份特殊的禮物獻給特別的你。
Expected gifts are a pleasure to receive, but unexpected remembrances are even a greater joy.
收到預期中的禮物令人快慰,但得到意想不到的紀念品更令人無比歡欣。
Words are not enough to express the depth of my gratitude for the gift which you so kindly sent me on the occasion of my graduation.
言語難以表達我的深切謝意,謝謝你在我畢業(yè)之際饋贈的禮品。
Thank you for the pleasure your wedding gift brought and for your good wishes.
感謝你的結婚禮品給我們帶來歡愉,感謝你對我們無比美好的祝愿。
*送書贈言
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
——Martin Farquhar Tupper
好書乃至友,情誼永不渝。
——塔珀
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.——Louisa May Alcott
一本好書能開卷引人入勝,終卷使人得益非淺。
——奧爾科特
Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.
——Samuel Smiles
書籍具有不朽的魅力。它是人類活動的最持久的成果。
——斯邁爾斯
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, are a large world, both pure and good.
——William Wordsworth
夢與書屬于不同的世界,而我們知道,書是一個更廣闊的世界,它們既純潔而又美好。
——華茲華斯
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.
——Samuel Smiles
書籍把我們引入最美好的環(huán)境,使我們與各個時代的偉大智者促膝談心。
——斯邁爾斯
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors; and the most patient of teachers.
——Charles W. Eliot
書籍是人類最寧靜和永恒的朋友,是最善解人意和智慧的顧問,是最有耐心的良師益友。
——埃利奧特
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
——Henry David Thoreau
有多少人由一本書的閱讀而開始其人生的新時期啊!
——梭羅
*送花贈言
Flowers …… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
——Emerson
鮮花自豪地向世人顯示,美的光彩具有超凡的價值。
——愛默生
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.
——Ruskin
愛美是一切健康人性的本質部分。
——羅斯金
If love were what the rose is, and I were like the leaf.
——Algernon Charles Swinburne
如果愛情是美麗的玫瑰,我愿作生命相隨的綠葉。
——斯溫伯恩
*送藝術品贈言
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
——Somerset Maugham
人人喜愛的藝術具有真正偉大的意義。僅為某一群體所喜愛的藝術只是一種玩物。
——毛姆
There is no comfort in adversity, more sweet than art affords.
——Amphis
世上沒有任何一種東西比藝術會給身處逆境的人帶來更多的安慰與甜蜜。
——阿姆菲斯
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
——Bernard Shaw
如果沒有藝術,粗俗的現(xiàn)實世界將變得令人難以忍受。
——蕭伯納
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
——Victor Hugo
音樂表達的是無法說出卻又不可沉默的東西。
——雨果
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
——Perly Bysshe Shelley
詩歌是最快樂、尚的心靈最美好、最幸福的時刻的記錄。
——雪萊
*惜時贈言
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
——Charles Robert Darwin
敢于浪費自己生命中一個小時的人,尚未發(fā)現(xiàn)生命的價值。
——達爾文
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
——Benjamin Franklin
你熱愛生命嗎?那么別浪費時間,因為生命是由時間組成的。
——富蘭克林
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
——Samuel Smiles
失去的財富可以靠勤奮恢復,失去的知識可以靠學習恢復,失去的健康可以靠節(jié)制或藥物恢復,但是失去的光陰一去不復返。
——斯邁爾斯
Seize this day! Begin now! Each day is a new life. Seize it. For in today already walks tomorrow.
——Darid Guy Powers
把握住今天!現(xiàn)在就開始!每天是一次新的生命,抓住它,因為在今天中已經走進了明天。
——鮑爾斯
Life is long if you know how to use it.
——L. A. Seneca
只要你善于利用時間,生命是夠長久的。
——塞內加
*豁達贈言
To forgive is human, to forget divine.
——James Grand
寬容是人性的,而忘卻卻是神性的。
——格蘭
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
——George Sand
幸福在于自知擁有幸福。
——喬治·桑
My motto is: contented with little, yet wishing for more.
——Charles Lamb
我的座右銘是:滿足于一點,但是希望有更多。
——蘭姆
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can.
——Adam Smith
每個人都應盡可能輕松自如地生活。
——亞當·斯密
Life has its ups and downs.
——Gaius Petronius Arbiter
人生一世有起有落。
——阿比特
*祝賀喬遷
Hearty greetings on your setting down in your newly built house.
最衷心地祝賀你在新屋安居!
I hasten to congratulate you on your moving into your new residence.
在你喬遷新居之際,我獻上對你的最熱忱的祝愿!
*生活金言
All human wisdom is summed up in two words──wait and hope.
——Alexandre Dumas Pere
人類所有的智慧可以歸結為兩個詞──等待和希望。
——大仲馬
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
——Mrs Humphry Ward
每人都會留下一個故事,這個故事比他發(fā)現(xiàn)時更優(yōu)美。
——漢弗萊·沃德夫人
The secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand other things well.
——Hugh Walpole
人生的秘訣在于對任何事物都要充滿興趣。
——沃波爾
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
——Gilbert Chesterton
為人處世的知識只能在社會上而不是在書齋里獲得。
——切斯特頓
Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
——Thomas Carlyle
說話是銀,而沉默是金。
——卡萊爾
In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
——《Bible》
智慧越多,憂傷越多;知識增長,煩惱也增長。
——《圣經》
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
——Benjamin Franklin
不要去預見煩惱,擔心可能永遠不會發(fā)生的事情。置身于明媚的陽光之中吧。
——富蘭克林
Our life is just like travelling with minds as the tour guide, without the tour guide, all will stop, the aim will be lost and strength will disappear.
——Goethe
我們的生活就像旅行,思想是導游者,沒有導游者,一切都會停止,目標會喪失,力量也會化為烏有。
——歌德
Life is not a 100-yard dash, but more a cross-country run. If we sprint all the time, we not only fail to win the race, but never last long enough to reach the finish line.
——John F Kennedy
生活不是百米沖刺,而是越野長跑。如果始終拼命沖刺,我們不僅贏不到勝利,甚至不能堅持到終點。
——肯尼迪
While we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
——Emerson
與高于自己的人交流思想,我們不會變得年老,只會變得年輕。
——愛默生
One should always be a little improbable.
——Oscar Wilde
一個人應該永遠保持一點神秘感。
——王爾德
Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; corruption wins not more than honesty.
——William Shakespeare
愛你自己要愛在最后;珍惜那些恨你的人一片真心;誠實比獻媚更能幫你取勝。
——莎士比亞
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
——Bernard Shaw
我們如果不能創(chuàng)造幸福,我們便沒有權力去享受幸福,正如我們如果不能創(chuàng)造財富,便沒有權力去享用財富一樣。
——蕭伯納
*圣誕贈言
May the wonder and magic of Christmas fill your heart and home with joy.
祝您圣誕開心如意,合家歡天喜地!
Wishing you peace, joy and happiness through Christmas and the coming year.
在圣誕和新年到來之際,祝你安康、歡樂和幸福。
At Christmas and always, may peace fill your heart, beauty fill your world, and contentment fill your days.
圣誕的祝愿,平日的希冀,愿你的心境時時祥和,愿你的世界無限美麗,愿你的一切稱心如意。
Hope all your Christmas dreams come true!
愿你所有的圣誕夢都會成真!
Here are two thoughts to remember, whatever the season may be I will always be wishing you happiness, and you will always be special to me! Merry Christmas!
日月光華,我總有兩個美好的心愿縈繞心懷:愿你永遠幸??鞓罚改阌肋h是我的特別需要。敬祝圣誕快樂!
May warmest wishes, happy thoughts and friendly greetings come at Christmas and stay with you the whole year through.
愿溫馨的祝愿、幸福的思念和友誼的祝賀在圣誕佳節(jié)來到你身邊,在新的一年與你時時相伴。
May your Christmas be filled with special moment, warmth and happiness, the joy of loved ones near, and may the blessings of the day last throughout the year.
愿你的圣誕節(jié)充滿溫馨、幸福和親人相聚的喜悅。愿佳節(jié)的祝福與你來年的每時每刻同在。
To wish you the special gifts of Christmas──joy, peace and love.
贈送給你的圣誕禮物最特別──歡樂、安寧和愛情。
*新年贈言
Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to you all my good wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
恭賀新禧!真誠地祝愿你身體健康,事業(yè)昌盛!
With many good wishes for the holidays and the coming year!
敬祝節(jié)日快樂,新年事事稱心如意!
The Festive season is with us once again, and I would like to wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year.
歡樂的節(jié)日又一次來臨,恭祝你新年快樂,生意興隆。
May your Holiday Season be a joyous one and may each day of the New Year bring you a full measure of success and happiness!
愿你節(jié)日快樂,愿新年的每一天都給你帶來豐碩的成果和無限的幸福!
The greatest happiness in life is to feel peaceful; The greatest happiness in life is to possess friends. May you have all happiness in your life.
生活中的幸福就是平安祥和;生活中的歡樂便是擁有朋友;愿你享有生活中的一切幸福和歡樂!
On the occasion of the New Year, may my wife and I extend to you and your wife our sincere greetings, wishing you a happy year, your career greater success and your family happiness.
值此迎新辭舊之際,我和我的夫人謹向你們伉儷致以真誠的祝賀。祝你們新年快樂,事業(yè)有成,家庭幸福。
At such a wonderful moment, I send you a gentle and warm care and wish: May every day be brilliant for you!
在這美好的時刻,捎送一份溫馨的關愛和祝福,祈愿你所有的日子無比燦爛。
Here is too much happiness and joy for both of you now and in the years to come.
祝你福樂盈溢,鴻運翩至!