【读名言学英语】 修辞 英语排比佳句(5)
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排比是英语名言佳句中常用的写作手法。采取排比结构,能增强表达气势,使
平淡无奇的文字变得震撼人心,内容上更富哲理。
排比是把结构相同或相似,语气一致,意思密切关联的句子排列起来,是一种
富于表现力的修辞方法,多用于说理或抒情。用排比说理可以把论点阐述的更严密
更透彻:用排比抒情,可以把感情抒发的淋漓尽致。用排比来叙事写景,能使层次
清楚、描写细腻、形象生动。
英语中的采取排比结构的佳句,大多由三、四个单句或分句构成。下面我们来
欣赏几句精彩的排比佳句:
People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did.
But people will never forget what you made them feel.
——Maya Angelou
人们会忘记你所说,
忘记你所做,
但会铭记你给他们的感觉。
——马娅·安杰洛
It is true that
you may fool all the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
——Abraham Lincoln
你可以一时骗过所有的人,
也可以在所有时间里骗过一些人,
但不能在所有时间里骗过所有的人
——亚伯拉罕·林肯
A man must be
big enough to admit his mistakes,
smart enough to profit from them,
and strong enough to correct them.
——John C. Maxwell
一个人
要足够大度能承认自己的错误,
要足够聪明能从错误中受益,
要足够坚强能纠正错误。
——约翰·C·麦克斯韦
We make them cry who care of us.
We cry for those who never care of us.
And we care for those who will never cry for us.
我们总让在乎我们的人为我们哭泣;
我们总为那些永远不会在乎我们的人哭泣,
并且在意那些永远不会为我们哭泣的人们。
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
失去的财富可以靠勤奋换来,
失去知识可以靠学习得来,
失去的健康可以靠节制或药物得来,
但是失去的光阴一去不复返。
—— 塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯
Life is short, live it.
Love is rare, grab it.
Anger is bad, dump it.
Fear is awful, face it.
Memories are sweet, cherish it
——Emily Tesic
人生苦短,用心生活。
真爱不多,好好把握。
生气无益,及早抛弃。
恐惧很糟,勇敢面对。
甜蜜记忆,好好珍惜。
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