2023年12月31日发(作者：买什么牌子的手机好)

英语名人名言20句单词详解

1. People often say that motivation doesn't last.

Well, neither does bathing ---

that's why we recommend it daily―― Zig Ziglar

motivation: 鼓励；鼓舞；派生词：

动词 motivate; 名词 motive; 形容词 motivational;

recommend: 推荐；派生词：recommendation

2. Circumstance does not make the man;

it reveals him to himself.--James Allen

circumstance：境遇；环境；派生词：形容词 circumstantial

reveal:显示；展现；派生词：revealable; revealer

3. I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.

I challenge you to join the ranks of those people

who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

--Anthony Robbins

masterpiece: 杰作

rank:阶层

4. Our greatest glory is not in never failing

but in rising up every time we fail.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

glory:荣耀；派生词：形容词 glorious;

5. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life.

Be happy now.

Don't wait for something outside of yourself

to make you happy in the future.

Think how really precious

is the time you have to spend,

whether it's at work or with your family.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.

--Earl Nightingale

precious: 珍贵的；

savour: 品尝；品评

6. Far better it is to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs,

even though chequered by failure,

than to take rank with those poor souls

who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,

because they live in the grey twilight

that knows neither victory nor defeat.

――Theodore Roosevelt

mighty:强大的；有力的；

triumph:胜利

chequered (= checkered): 充满变数的；沉浮的；

twilight:黄昏

7. We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

---Aristotle

excellence: 优秀；派生词：excellent

（这个单词本身不难，难的是让优秀成为一种习惯）

8. Twenty years from now you will be

more disappointed by the things

that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbour.

Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover. --Mark Twain

bowline:张帆索；

harbour：港口

9. Ah, but a man's reach should

exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

--Robert Browning

exceed:超出；超越

grasp:抓住；获得

10.: Desire is the starting point of all achievement,

not a hope, not a wish,

but a keen pulsating desire,

which transcends everything.

--Napoleon Hill

achievement:成就

keen:热切的

pulsating:搏动的

transcend:超越

11. People become really quite remarkable

when they start thinking that they can do things.

When they believe in themselves

they have the first secret of success.

--Norman Vincent Peale

remarkable:了不起的

12. What we can or cannot do,

what we consider possible or impossible,

is rarely a function of our true capability.

It is more likely a function of our beliefs

about who we are.---Anthony Robbins

capability: 能力；派生

词 形容词 capable

13. Every human has four endowments-

self-awareness, conscience, independent will

and creative imagination.

These give us the ultimate

The power to choose, to respond, to change.

--Stephen Covey

endowment: 天赋；天资

conscience:良知

ultimate: 最终的；副词 ultimately；

名词 ultimatum：最后通牒

14. All the breaks you need in life wait

within your imagination.

Imagination is the workshop of your mind,

capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment

and wealth.--Napoleon Hill

accomplishment:成就；派生词：动词 accomplish

15. All successful people men and women

are big dreamers.

They imagine what their future could be,

ideal in every respect, and then

they work every day toward their distant vision,

that goal or purpose. ---Brian Tracy

vision: 远见；派生词：形容词 visionary

16. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself.

Whatever has to be done,

it's always your choice.

Wayne Dyer

miserable: 可怜的；悲惨的

17. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers.

In every moment of our existence,

we are in that field of all possibilities

where we have access to an infinity of choices.

--Deepak Chopra

essentially: 本质地；派生词：

形容词 essential；名词 essence

infinite: 无限的；派生词 名词 infinity

access: 进入；达到； have access to 是习惯用语

18. If you deliberately plan on

being less than you are capable of being,

then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for

the rest of your life.--Abraham H. Maslow

deliberately：故意地；派生词：

形容词 deliberate；名词deliberation

19. Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon

who you are or what you have,

it depends solely upon what you think.

--Dale Carnegie

solely: 单独地；完全地

20. Self-pity gets you nowhere.

One must have the adventurous daring to

accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities

and undertake the most interesting game

in the world -- making the most of one's best.

--Harry Emerson Fosdick

self-pity:自怜

adventurous:喜欢冒险的；

bundle:捆；包（编辑：胡慧）