英语的优美句子有哪些

　　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

　　她什么也没做，只是静静地倚靠在阳台上，便占据了整个宇宙。

　　——杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格，《我认识的那个女孩》

　　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

　　我曾拥有你，像一个美梦。在梦里称王，醒来却是一场空。

　　——莎士比亚十四行诗第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

　　他走下来，努力着不去看她，就好像她是太阳。但是，就像太阳，他不需要去看都能感到她的存在。

　　——列夫托尔斯泰《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

　　你太过努力了，周围的黑暗会蒙蔽了你。放轻松一点，学会用淡定的态度去对待周遭的事情。当你惶恐不安时，请学会平静心态。该发生的事情终会悄然发生，你要做的，只是去轻松地应对。

　　——阿道司·赫胥黎《岛》

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

　　—Leo Tolstoy，Anna Karenina

　　属于生命的 一切多样性，一切魅力，一切美好，都是由光和影构成的。

　　——列夫托尔斯泰《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

　　人不是为失败而生的。一个人可以被毁灭，但不能给打败。

　　——欧内斯特·米勒尔·海明威 《老人与海》

　　A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

　　—George Martin，A Song of Ice and Fire

　　好脑筋需要书本，就如同宝剑需要磨刀石。

　　——乔治·马丁《冰与火之歌》

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

　　—Nelle Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

　　我从不喜欢阅读，直到我开始担心我会无法阅读。就像一个人从来不在意呼吸这件事。

　　——哈珀·李，《杀死一只知更鸟》

　　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

　　有一技之长者鄙读书，无知者羡读书，唯明智之士用读书，然书并不以用处告人，用书之智不在书中，而在书外，全凭观察得之。

　　——弗兰西斯·培根 《培根随笔》