1. 词语含义的理解
[1] Common sense is the measure of the possible;it is composed of experience and prevision;it is calculation applied to life。
☆ 常识是对可能性的衡量;它由经验和预见构成;它是应用在生活中的度量衡。
[2] If the failures of this world could realize how desperate half the present-day geniuses once felt，they would take heart and try again。
☆ 世上的失败者若能了解到当今的天才曾经有半数一度感到过多绝望，他们就会振作精神，再次努力。
[3] Intellectual endowments，internal drive，diligent working attitude and indomitable spirit all are prerequisites of the success of scientific research。
☆ 聪明的天资、内在的动力、勤奋的工作态度和不屈不挠的精神，这些都是科学研究成功的前提。
2. 反义词的理解
[4] The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the would to himself。
☆ 明白事理的人使自己适应世界，不明事理的人硬要世界适应自己。
3. 派生词的理解
[5] Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man。
☆ 越来越多的工具和越来越多的闲暇是使人们获得文明的两个要素。
[6] To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
☆ 为做一件事情考虑太久常常做不成这件事。
[7] We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are。
☆ 不幸和幸福被我们同样夸大了。我们从不像我们所说的那么痛苦，也从不那么快乐。
4. 比喻含意的理解
[8] Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe—you can’t take a taxi。
☆ 创新是未开交的区域，你要到达那儿，只能独自去闯，不能搭便车。
5. 对比关系的理解
[9] It may be more comfortable to never make mistakes，but those men who， in their urge to be right once，make a thousand mistakes，are more useful to humanity。
☆ 永不犯错固然很好，但那些为了一次正确，而不惜犯一千次错误的人对大类更有用。
[10] Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire。
☆ 绝大多数艺术家需要长久的学习和实践，而最有用的艺术，即取悦人的艺术，自需要有此愿望。
[11] Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
☆ 真正的勇气是在开始之前你就知道已经败了，但仍然着手去做，而且不管发生什么事都把它做到底。
[12] It is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is，but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
☆ 在知道自己的责任时时尽责往往并不困难，但弄清责任何在常常极其费力。
[13] It is not money，as is sometimes said，but the love of money—the excessive，selfish，covetous love of money，that is the root of all evil。
☆ 全钱并非如人们有时所说的那样是万恶之源。对金钱的追求一过度的、自私的、贪婪的追求，才是真正的根源。
[14] What is called a great master is a person who sees with his own eyes what others have seen， but he can find beauty in the common sights. →V+A+O
☆ 所谓大师就是这样的人，他以自己的眼睛看别人看到过的东西，但是能够从常见的东西中发现美。
[15] The drop of rain makes a hole in the stone，not by violence，but by the frequency of falling。
☆ 滴水穿石靠的不是强力，而是不断的下落。
[16] The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them，but to be indifferent to them. That’s the essence of inhumanity。
☆ 我们对作为同类的其他人所犯下的最大罪过不是憎恨，而是漠不关心，那是不近人情的本质。
6. 修饰语的范围
短定语须前置，理解为包孕句
[17] All truth，in the long run，is only common sense clarified。
☆ 从长远来看，所有的真理都只是已被澄清的常识。
[18] I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom。
☆ 我认为英雄就是了解与他们的自由伴随而来的责任程度的人。
[19] Friendship is really the most sacred，which merits not only special worship but also eternal praise。
☆ 友谊实在是最神圣的东西，不仅值得特别尊敬，而且值得永远赞颂。
[20] The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
☆ 人的真正价值，首先取决于他在多大的程度和怎样的意义上获得自我的解放。
[21] Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history。
☆ 渴望是智力创造，艺术创作及大类历史上一切最美好的事物的根本条件。
[22] There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed，especially if he sees that all those around him live in the same way。
☆ 没有什么环境是人所不能适应的，尤其是在看到周围的人都以相同方式生活时。
[23] Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
☆ 我们得谈得最少的，恰恰是我们想得最多的，这不是挺奇怪的吗?
[24] If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he imagined，he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours。
☆ 一个人如果充满信心地向梦想的方向前进，努力实践所想像的生活，他就会迎来平常想不到的成功。
