读书使人充实英语

"Reading makes a full man" is a saying of the famous English philosopher Francis Bacon.It means that anyone who wants to be a full man must keep on reading.A full man may be defined as one who has a mind filled with ideas, or one who is stocked with knowledge. Certainly school education can fill the young minds with a certain amount of ideas and knowledge. But to think that the ideas and knowledge thus taught make a full man is a mistake. Evidently, no one can say that he is a full man because he is a graduate of a middle school or even a university.Then can such ideas and knowledge be obtained through experience? Indeed, from experience we get new ideas and knowledge. But to suppose that ideas and knowledge thus acquired make a full man is also a mistake. A carpenter's experience is different from a smith's and a smith's is different from a barber' s. Obviously, the statement that experience can make a full man does not hold water, either.Thus, we see that the real factor by which a full man is made includes not only education and experience, but also reading. By reading scientific books, we are informed of many facts; by reading geography, we know the earth's surface, forms, physical features, etc.; by reading history, we are told of the growth of the nations. It is by reading that we can learn many things without actually seeing or hearing them.Therefore, no matter how high our education may be or how much experience we may have, we cannot become a full man unless we keep reading.

这句话可以说是对培根《论读书》中的那句明言的解释,但是原话是：Readingmakethafullman;conferenceareadyman;andwritinganexactman.请欣赏英语大师王佐良的译文：读书使人充实,讨论使人机智,笔记使人准确。

A close mouth catches no flies.病从口入。 A constant guest is never welcome.常客令人厌。 Actions speak louder than words.事实胜于雄辩。 Adversity leads to prosperity.穷则思变。 Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.逆境出人才。 A fair death honors the whole life.死得其所，流芳百世。 A faithful friend is hard to find.知音难觅。 A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.吃一堑，长一智。 A fox may grow gray, but never good.江山易改，本性难移。 A friend in need is a friend indeed.患难见真情。 A friend is easier lost than found.得朋友难，失朋友易。 A friend is never known till a man has need.需要之时方知友。 A friend without faults will never be found.没有十全十美。A good beginning is half done.良好的开端是成功的一半。 A good beginning makes a good ending.善始者善终。 A good book is a good friend.好书如挚友。 A good fame is better than a good face.美名胜过美貌。 A good husband makes a good wife.夫善则妻贤。 A good medicine tastes bitter.良药苦口。 A good wife health is a man's best wealth.妻贤身体好是男人最大的财富。 A great talker is a great liar.说大话者多谎言。 A hedge between keeps friendship green.君子之交淡如水。 A joke never gains an enemy but loses a friend.戏谑不能化敌为友，只能使人失去朋友。 A leopard cannot change its spots.积习难改。 A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth.说谎者即使讲真话也没人相信。 A light heart lives long.静以修身。 A little body often harbors a great soul.浓缩的都是精品。 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.一知半解，自欺欺人。 A little pot is soon hot.狗肚子盛不得四两油。 All are brave when the enemy flies.敌人逃窜时，人人都成了勇士。 Bad news has wings.好事不出门，坏事传千里。 Barking dogs seldom bite.吠犬不咬人。 Beauty lies in the love's eyes.情人眼里出西施。 Be swift to hear, slow to speak.听宜敏捷，言宜缓行。 Better late than never.不怕慢，单怕站。 Better to ask the way than go astray.问路总比迷路好。 Between friends all is common.朋友之间不分彼此。 Birds of a feather flock together.物以类聚，人以群分。 Blood is thicker than water.血浓于水。 Blood will have blood.血债血偿。 Books and friends should be few but good.读书如交友，应求少而精。 Business is business.公事公办。 Business is the salt of life.事业是人生的第一需要。 By reading we enrich the mind, by conversation we polish it.读书使人充实，交谈使人精明。 Cannot see the wood for the trees.一叶障目，不见泰山。 Care and diligence bring luck.谨慎和勤奋才能抓住机遇。 Caution is the parent of safety.小心驶得万年船。 Cheats never prosper.骗人发不了财。 Children are what the mothers are.耳濡目染，身教言传。 Choose an author as you choose a friend.择书如择友。 Come what may, heaven won't fall.做你的吧，天塌不下来。 Complacency is the enemy of study.学习的敌人是自己的满足。 Confidence in yourself is the first step on the road to success.自信是走向成功的第一步。 Constant dripping wears away a stone.水滴石穿，绳锯木断。 Content is better than riches.知足者常乐。 Count one's chickens before they are hatched.蛋未孵先数雏。 Courtesy on one side only lasts not long.来而不往非礼也。 Creep before you walk.循序渐进。 Cry for the moon.海底捞月。 Custom is a second nature.习惯是后天养成的。 Custom makes all things easy.有个好习惯，事事皆不难。 Diamond cuts diamond.强中自有强中手。 Do as the Romans do.入乡随俗。 Do as you would be done by.己所不欲，勿施于人。 Doing is better than saying.与其挂在嘴上，不如落实在行动上。 Do it now.机不可失，时不再来。 Do nothing by halves.凡事不可半途而废。 Don't claim to know what you don't know.不要不懂装懂。 Don't have too many irons in the fire.不要揽事过多。 Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.不要小题大做。 Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.今日事，今日毕。 Don't put the cart before the horse.不要本末倒置。 Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.不要自找麻烦。 Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.不要班门弄斧。 Do well and have well.善有善报。 Each bird love to hear himself sing.孤芳自赏。 Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.早睡早起身体好。 Easier said than done.说得容易，做得难。 Easy come, easy go.来也匆匆，去也匆匆。 There is a skeleton in the cupboard.家家有本难念的经。 There is kindness to be found everywhere.人间处处有温情。 There is no general rule without some exception.任何法规均有例外。 There is no medicine against death.没有长生不老药。 There is no place like home.金窝银窝不如咱的狗窝。 There is no royal road to learning.书山有路勤为径，学海无涯苦作舟。 The style is the man.字如其人。 The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.人言可畏。 The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.水能载舟，亦能覆舟。 The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.清者自清，浊者自浊。 The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel.螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后。 The world is a ladder for some to go up and others to go down.世界如阶梯，有人上有人下。 The world is but a little place, after all.海内存知己，天涯若比邻。 Think twice before you do.三思而后行。 Things at the worst will mend.否极泰来。 Time and tide wait for no man.时不我待。 Time cures all things.时间是医治一切创伤的良药。 Time flies.光阴似箭。 Time is money.时间就是金钱。 Time lost cannot be won again.时光流逝，不可复得。 Time past cannot be called back again.时间不能倒流。 Time tries all.路遥知马力，日久见人心。 Tit for tat is fair play.人不犯我，我不犯人；人若犯我，我必犯人。 To err is human.人非圣贤，孰能无过。 To know everything is to know nothing.什么都知道，一如什么都不知道。 To know oneself is true progress.人贵有自知之明。 Tomorrow never comes.我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。 Too much familiarity breeds contempt.过分熟悉会使人互不服气。 Too much knowledge makes the head bald.学问太多催人老。 Too much liberty spills all.自由放任，一事无成。 Too much praise is a burden.过多夸奖，反成负担。 To save time is to lengthen life.节约时间就是延长生命。 Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋。 Troubles never come singly.福无双至，祸不单行。 Truth never grows old.真理永存。 Turn over a new leaf.洗心革面，改过自新。 Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it.鹬蚌相争，渔翁得利。 Two heads are better than one.一个好汉三个帮。 Two of a trade seldom agree.同行是冤家。 Two wrongs do not make a right.别人错了，不等于你对了。 Unity is strength.团结就是力量。 Unpleasant advice is a good medicine.忠言逆耳利于行。 Until all is over one's ambition never dies.不到黄河心不死。 Venture a small fish to catch a great one.吃小亏占大便宜。 Virtue is fairer far than beauty.美德远远胜过美貌。 Walls have ears.小心隔墙有耳。 Wash your dirty linen at home.家丑不可外扬。 Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.滴水穿石。 Wealth is nothing without health.失去健康，钱再多也没用。 We know not what is good until we have lost it.好东西，失去了才明白。 Well begun is half done.好的开始，是成功的一半。 We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.井干方知水可贵。 We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.欲求完美无缺的朋友必然成为孤家寡人。 We should never remember the benefits we have offered nor forget the favor received.自己的好事别去提，别人的恩惠要铭记。 Wet behind the ears.乳臭未干。 Whatever you do, do with all your might.不管做什么，都要一心一意。 What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.儿时所学，终生难忘。 What's done cannot be undone.生米煮成熟饭了。 What's lost is lost.失者不可复得。 What we do willingly is easy.愿者不难。 When in Rome, do as the Romans do.入国问禁，入乡随俗。 When everybody's somebody then nobody's anybody.人人都伟大，世间没豪杰。 When sorrow is asleep, wake it not.伤心旧事别重提。 When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.新仇旧恨，齐上心头。 When the fox preaches, take care of your geese.黄鼠狼给鸡拜年，没安好心。 When wine is in truth, wit is out.酒后吐真言。 Where there is a will, there is a way.有志者事竟成。