英语赠言(2)

（单词翻译:单击）

6、For Wife and Husband

One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

When we first met we were tow people who loved each other. Now we are one person--- two lives inextricably（不分开地） entwined（缠结） and held by love.

Man's best possession is a loving wife.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

A good wife makes a good husband.

The wife is the key of the house.


7、Friend and Colleague

a friend is, as it were, a second self.

There is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity（危难时）, we know our friends.

A friend is a gift, whose worth cannot be measured except by heart.

A faithful friend is beyond price, and there is no weighing of his goodness.

The most cherished（珍惜） thing in life is friendship. The most precious thing between us is understanding.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friendship brings beauty to our days joys to our world.

Cease to struggle and you cease to live.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance（坚定不移）.

One man is no more than another if he does no more than another.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued by his manner of going.


8、For Business and Career

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

Survival of the fittest.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The maximum（最大） danger implies the maximum hope.

Great deeds are usually wrought¹ at great risks.

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

Rome was not built in a day.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

In any contest between power and patience, but on patience.

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.


9、For Success and Achievement

Congratulations on your success!

You are worth of success.

Let me offer my most sincere congratulations upon your success.

Please accept my congratulations on your success and my best wishes for your bright prospects².

Congratulations on your success and best wishes always!

Fortune follows effort.

Your diligence combined with your innate（天生的） talent indicate a dynamic future. I wish you all the best in your career.

Congratulations to you and very good wish for your success and happiness in your new position.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.


10、For Failure and Setback

Failure is the mother of success.

It is always darkest just before the day dawn.

The miserable³ have no other medicine but only hope.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

If at first don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Preference is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

If you fail, make failure a stepping stone to success.

Adversity often leads to prosperity.

The good seaman⁴ is know in bad weather.

Affliction（痛苦） and adversity make men better.

He laughs best who laughs last.

Fortune favors the bold.

For man and master of his fate.

Nothing is difficult for one who strives.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield（屈服）.

Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals⁵ it.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence⁶（坚持不懈）.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.


11、For Gift and Present

Every gift, though it may be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

Small gifts keep friendship alive.

For you, Because you are special.

A gift for someone special from all of us.

Please accept my thanks not only for the beautiful gift but also for the good wishes which you kindly⁷ sent with.