死亡Death/Immortality[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-15 06:22:41

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I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen

 

I don't want to achieve immortality1 through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen

 

It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune2.
-- Woody Allen

 

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston

 

What I look forward to is continued immaturity3 followed by death.
-- Dave Barry

 

Glory is fleeting4, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko

 

He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown

 

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha5

 

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase6 our good deeds.
-- Buddha

 

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus

 

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz

 

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale

 

He had decided7 to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller

 

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty8 God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
-- Patrick Henry

 

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings9 of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully10 flower in heaven.
-- Russell M. Nelson, LDS Church News, April 1992 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

 

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion

 

How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died

 

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing11 for.
-- Tom Robbins

 

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval12.
-- George Santayana

 

I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
-- Seen on a bumper13 sticker

 

Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.
-- Wil Shriner

 

Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber

 

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf

 

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata

 

Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Department of Public Aid

 

 


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1 immortality hkuys     
n.不死，不朽
参考例句：
  • belief in the immortality of the soul 灵魂不灭的信念
  • It was like having immortality while you were still alive. 仿佛是当你仍然活着的时候就得到了永生。
2 tune NmnwW     
n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整
参考例句：
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
3 immaturity 779396dd776272b5ff34c0218a6c4aba     
n.不成熟；未充分成长；未成熟；粗糙
参考例句：
  • It traces the development of a young man from immaturity to maturity. 它描写一位青年从不成熟到成熟的发展过程。 来自辞典例句
  • Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. 不成熟就是不经他人的指引就无法运用自身的理解力。 来自互联网
4 fleeting k7zyS     
adj.短暂的，飞逝的
参考例句：
  • The girls caught only a fleeting glimpse of the driver.女孩们只匆匆瞥了一眼司机。
  • Knowing the life fleeting,she set herself to enjoy if as best as she could.她知道这种日子转瞬即逝，于是让自已尽情地享受。
5 Buddha 9x1z0O     
n.佛；佛像；佛陀
参考例句：
  • Several women knelt down before the statue of Buddha and prayed.几个妇女跪在佛像前祈祷。
  • He has kept the figure of Buddha for luck.为了图吉利他一直保存着这尊佛像。
6 erase woMxN     
v.擦掉；消除某事物的痕迹
参考例句：
  • He tried to erase the idea from his mind.他试图从头脑中抹掉这个想法。
  • Please erase my name from the list.请把我的名字从名单上擦去。
7 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
参考例句：
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
8 almighty dzhz1h     
adj.全能的，万能的；很大的，很强的
参考例句：
  • Those rebels did not really challenge Gods almighty power.这些叛徒没有对上帝的全能力量表示怀疑。
  • It's almighty cold outside.外面冷得要命。
9 seedlings b277b580afbd0e829dcc6bdb776b4a06     
n.刚出芽的幼苗( seedling的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Ninety-five per cent of the new seedlings have survived. 新栽的树苗95%都已成活。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • In such wet weather we must prevent the seedlings from rotting. 这样的阴雨天要防止烂秧。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
10 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地
参考例句：
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
11 killing kpBziQ     
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
参考例句：
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
12 interval 85kxY     
n.间隔，间距；幕间休息，中场休息
参考例句：
  • The interval between the two trees measures 40 feet.这两棵树的间隔是40英尺。
  • There was a long interval before he anwsered the telephone.隔了好久他才回了电话。
13 bumper jssz8     
n.(汽车上的)保险杠；adj.特大的，丰盛的
参考例句：
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。

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