英語的優美句子有哪些

　　She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

　　—J. D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

　　她什麼也沒做，只是靜靜地倚靠在陽臺上，便佔據了整個宇宙。

　　——傑羅姆·大衛·塞林格，《我認識的那個女孩》

　　Thus, have I had thee as a dream doth flatter. In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.

　　―Sonnets of William Shakespeare-Sonnet 87

　　我曾擁有你，像一個美夢。在夢裡稱王，醒來卻是一場空。

　　——莎士比亞十四行詩第87

　　He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

　　—Leo Tolstoy，Anna Karenina

　　他走下來，努力著不去看她，就好像她是太陽。但是，就像太陽，他不需要去看都能感到她的存在。

　　——列夫托爾斯泰《安娜卡列尼娜》

　　It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

　　—Aldous Huxley, Island

　　你太過努力了，周圍的黑暗會矇蔽了你。放輕鬆一點，學會用淡定的態度去對待周遭的事情。當你惶恐不安時，請學會平靜心態。該發生的事情終會悄然發生，你要做的，只是去輕鬆地應對。

　　——阿道司·赫胥黎《島》

　　All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow。

　　—Leo Tolstoy，Anna Karenina

　　屬於生命的 一切多樣性，一切魅力，一切美好，都是由光和影構成的。

　　——列夫托爾斯泰《安娜卡列尼娜》

　　But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

　　—Ernest Miller Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

　　人不是為失敗而生的。一個人可以被毀滅，但不能給打敗。

　　——歐內斯特·米勒爾·海明威 《老人與海》

　　A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

　　—George Martin，A Song of Ice and Fire

　　好腦筋需要書本，就如同寶劍需要磨刀石。

　　——喬治·馬丁《冰與火之歌》

　　Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

　　—Nelle Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

　　我從不喜歡閱讀，直到我開始擔心我會無法閱讀。就像一個人從來不在意呼吸這件事。

　　——哈珀·李，《殺死一隻知更鳥》

　　Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

　　—Francis Bacon, the Essays of Bacon

　　有一技之長者鄙讀書，無知者羨讀書，唯明智之士用讀書，然書並不以用處告人，用書之智不在書中，而在書外，全憑觀察得之。

　　——弗蘭西斯·培根 《培根隨筆》