关于New Year的英语名言

武夷山 辑译

 

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

青年的时候，你在除夕夜可以闹半夜，不睡觉。到了中年，你即使在除夕夜也得熬夜工作，睡不了觉。

Bill Vaughan(1915-1977,美国作家)

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

乐观主义者在除夕夜熬到半夜，是为了亲见新年的到来；悲观主义者熬到半夜，是为了确信旧年的离去。

Bill Vaughan

 

Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.

许多人盼望新年，是为了使自己有个重温老习惯的机会。

Anonymous（无名氏）

 

I'm a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.

我又老了点儿，又明白了点儿，又胖了点儿，但总体上还是糊里糊涂。

Robert Paul

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man".

战胜恶习，睦邻友好，让每一个新年看见一个更棒的你。

- Benjamin Franklin（本杰明. 富兰克林）

 

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

人们为圣诞节和新年之间到底吃什么好而发愁，其实更应该关注的是从新年到圣诞节之间吃什么。

~Author Unknown (无名氏)

 

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.

新年将带来新挑战，不论我们敢不敢接受；新年将带来新机会，不论我们能不能抓住。

~Michael Josephson（1942－ ，美国法学教授、伦理学专家）

 

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
发下誓愿不落实，是弱者；

以为发誓就管用，是傻瓜。

~F.M. Knowles（1913－1997，美国成人教育家）

 

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

度过除夕的唯一合适方式有两种：要么与朋友在一起平静地过，要么在窑子里喧闹着过。不然，当除夕夜已央，聚会的人群双双对对离去时，总会有孤独的人以泪洗面。

~W.H. Auden（奥登，1907－1973，英国著名诗人）

 

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