死亡Death/Immortality[英语名人名言]_名人名言

死亡Death/Immortality[英语名人名言]

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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