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柏拉图在西方哲学的历史地位几乎无人能企及，他的著作和思想对后世有着极其巨大的影响。在西方哲学的各个学派中，很难找到没有吸收过他的著作的学派。有的哲学史家认为，直到近代，西方哲学才逐渐摆脱了柏拉图思想的控制。
下面摘选出柏拉图的20句名言，希望这位伟大哲人的思想能激励我们奋斗不息。
1 The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by
yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Victory:胜利
Conquer:征服;战胜
Vile:可鄙的;
2. To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated
and disciplined way.
Educated:有教养的
Disciplined:训练有素的;有纪律的
3. Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Rhetoric:修辞学
4. Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Affair:事情;事件
Anxiety:焦虑
5. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat
of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Exhort:勉励;劝诫
Combat:战斗
Earthly:世俗的
Conflict:冲突;争斗
6. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my
inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Accident:偶然
7. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Neglect:
Lame:瘸腿的
8. It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a
sojourn.
Sojourn:(书面语)逗留
9. Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the
mind.
Acquire:获取
Compulsion: 强迫
10. Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of
the Gods.
Amazement:惊奇; 动词amaze
11. No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Ordinance:命令
12. He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of
age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a
burden.
Disposition:性情;气质
13. All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with
greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his
natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Superior:优良的;高级的
Meddle:干涉
Occupation:职业
14. Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you
cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop
without cultivation.
prosperous: 富足的;繁荣的;
Abundant:充裕的
Cultivation:耕耘; 动词 cultivate
15. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world
to another.
Astronomy:天文学
Compel:促使;驱使
16. Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
Hindrance:阻碍
17. Courage is a kind of salvation.
salvation:救赎;拯救
18. For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Nurture:培养
Implant:注入
Constitution:性格;素质
19. People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as
a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Nourish:滋养
Stunt:阻碍
Wilt:凋零
20. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of
reverence.
Bequeath:遗赠
Reverence:尊敬 |
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发表于 2016-7-9 23:51:36