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如何创作格言?
武夷山
我记不清了,是我读过一篇文章题目叫How to coin an aphorism:Changing words or position of words(如何创作格言:改变单词或单词的位置)呢,还是我自己做了如上这样一句话的总结。下面是一些格言的实例,请注意其中单词的改换、单词的位置和句子的结构。
Love makes time pass.
Time makes love pass.
----Eurepides(欧里庇得斯),古希腊三大悲剧大师之一
热恋使时光飞逝。
时间使恋情消逝。
Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends with one. Motherly love begins with oneness and leads to separateness.
----Erich Fromm,出生于德国的著名美国社会心理学家、心理分析师和哲学家
情爱始于分离,终于一体。母爱始于一体,通向分离。
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
----美国前总统肯尼迪
我们永远不要由于恐惧而去谈判,但是我们绝不害怕谈判。
Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.
----Henri Frederic Amiel,1821-1881,瑞士哲学家、诗人和批评家
人只有头脑聪明才成为人,但是,人只有心地善良才算是人。
(鲍得海博主的译法:人因为智慧而成长为人,但只有心灵使其真正成人!)
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
----美国开国之父之一富兰克林
结婚之前要睁大双眼,婚后要半睁半闭。
We study ourselves 3 weeks, we love each other 3 months, we squabble 3 years, we tolerate each other 30 years, and then the children start all over again.
----Hippolyte Taine,1828-1893,法国批评家和历史学家
我俩互相琢磨了3个星期,相爱了3个月,争吵了三年,互相忍受了30年,然后,我们的孩子又开始重复这一周期。
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
----Theodor Reik,1888-1969,美国著名心理学家
在我们这个文明中,男人害怕自己不够男人,而女人害怕自己只被视为女人。
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the antients, it will be cried up as erudition.
----Charles Caleb Colton,1780-1832,英国牧师和作家
如果我们盗用今人的思想,就会被贬为剽窃;如果盗用古人的思想,却会被夸为博学。
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