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*节俭赠言
Economy is of itself a great revenue.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero
节约本身就是巨大的收益。
--西塞罗
A penny saved is a penny gained.
--Thomas Fuller
省下一分钱等于挣得一分钱。
--富勒
If you would be wealthy, think of Saving as well as of Getting.
--Benjamin Franklin
如果你想致富，那么，既要考虑获取，也要注意节约。
--富兰克林
Prudence requires that we shall pitch our scale of living a degree below our means, rather than up to them.
--Samuel Smiles
节俭地过日子，要求我们生活标准应低于经济能力，而不应超出它的许可。
--斯迈尔斯
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
--William Lowndes
照看好小钱，大钱就会照看好自己。
--朗兹
Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
--Benjamin Franklin
今天购入无用物，明天就得卖掉生活必需用品。
--富兰克林
Provident men lay aside money for their families.
深谋远虑的人为家庭贮蓄钱财。
Saving in season, spending with reason, make the good household.
及时储蓄，合理开销，家庭安康。
Little and often fills the purse.
小收入，若常来，积累起来钱满袋。
Many a little makes a mickle.
滴水成河，粒米成箩。
Waste not, want not.
精打细算，不愁吃穿。
*祝贺成功
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do. Congratulations on your success!
成功的才华在于做你能做好的一切和做好你所做的一切。祝贺你取得成功！
Let me offer my most sincere congratulations upon your success.
让我以最真诚的心愿祝贺你的成功。
Please accept my congratulations on your success and my best wishes for your bright prospects.
祝贺你的成功，衷心祝你鹏程万里，前程似锦。
The bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower.
--William Cowper
蓓蕾可能有苦味，花儿却是甜蜜的。
--考珀
The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.
--Bertrand Russell
我们越是意识到我们在宇宙力量面前的渺小，人类取得的成就越是惊人。
--罗素
The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.
--Ben Sweet
最大的成功是成功地肯定自我。
--斯威特
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
--Joseph Addison
功成名就乃是人生在世的最大幸福。
--艾狄生
Success nourishes hope.
--Harold Wallace Ross
成功孕育希望。
--罗斯
*祝贺学业有成
Your diligence combined with your innate talent indicate a dynamic future. I wish you all the best in your college years.
你的勤奋加上你的天才为你展示了广阔的前程，祝你在大学期间一切顺利。
Congratulating on your great success in comprehensive exam for Ph.D.
衷心祝贺你在博士学位考试中成绩优异！
My warmest congratulations to you on receiving the scholarship to the university with my best wish for your continued success.
最热烈地祝贺你获得大学奖学金，并衷心祝你不断取得成功。
*祝贺升迁
You have worked hard, and the new title is well deserved. My very best wishes to you.
你工作一向勤勉，得到荣升理所当然。我谨向你致以最美好的祝愿。
I can't think of any man who would have been a better choice. I sincerely hope you will find happiness and success in this new post.
你是出任此职的最佳人选。我真诚地预祝你在新的岗位上工作愉快，事业成功。
Congratulations on your recent promotion. I am sure that you will find your new work enjoyable and exciting and I look forward to hearing your next success.
祝贺你荣升新职，我深信你会发觉新的工作更令人愉快，令人激动。盼望听到你的下一个成功的喜悦。
May all go beautifully in the new position.
恭祝你在新的岗位上前程似锦。
*成功智慧
Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
--Louis Pasteur
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
--巴斯德
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
--Thomas Edison
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。
--爱迪生
To conquer we have need to dare, to dare again, ever to dare!
--Georges Jacques Danton
为了胜利，我们需要勇敢，再勇敢，永远勇敢！
--丹东
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.
--Jean de La Bruyere
成功的最佳捷径是让人们清楚地知道，你的成功符合他们的利益。
--拉布吕耶尔
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
--Benjamin Disraeli
生活中最成功的人，通常是获得最佳信息的人。
--迪斯雷利
Genius is one per cent inspiration and nietynine per cent perspiration.
--Thomas Edison
天才是百分之一的灵感，百分之九十九的汗水。
--爱迪生
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
--Albert Schweitzer
成功的一个大秘诀是作为一个不知疲倦的人度过人生。
--施韦策
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
--William Hazlitt
对任何目标的强烈欲望都会保证成功，因为达到目的的愿望会指出获得成功的途径。
--哈兹里特
*挫折赠言
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.
--R. M. Nixon
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧、充满欢愉地把握住命运。
--尼克松
The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers.
--Frances Willard
彻底献身于自己最擅长的活动的人，是最正常、最完美的人。
--威拉德
The failures and reverses which await men-and one after another sadden the brow of youth-add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do.
--Henry David Thoreau
尽管失败和挫折等待着人们，一次次地夺走青春的容颜，但却给人生的前景增添一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的。
--梭罗
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is: not to take the risk.
--Kierkegaard
在一个人生命的初始阶段，最大的危险就是不冒风险。
--克尔恺郭尔
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
--Thomas Fuller
黎明前总是最黑暗的。
--富勒
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
--Vauvenargues
只根据自己的想法去行动，是人们容易犯的错误。
--沃维纳格
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.
--Thomas Paine
我喜欢那种在困境中微笑，从忧伤中获得力量，通过反思变得勇敢的人。
--潘恩
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
--William Shakespeare
唯有希望才能拯救不幸者。
--莎士比亚
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
--Goethe
在任何情况下，满怀希望胜于绝望。
--歌德
Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
--J. Anderson
只要坚韧不拔，失败十九次之后，第二十次就会成功。
--安德森
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed──there is so little competition!
--Elbert Hubbard
全心全意地做你的工作，你就会成功──就此而言，几乎没有竞争。
--哈伯德
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
惊涛骇浪，方显出英雄本色。
He laughs best who laughs last.
谁笑到最后，谁笑得最好。
*把握机遇
He who seizes the right moment. is the right man.
--Goethe
谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。
--歌德
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
--Benjamin Disraeli
生活中最重要的事情是懂得何时抓住机遇，其次便是懂得何时放弃好处。
--迪斯累里
Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters, adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
--Francis Bacon
幸运中并非不掺杂各种担心与烦恼，而厄运中也并非不存在欣慰与期望。
--培根
*挑战命运
Fortune shows her power when there is no wise preparation for resisting her.
--Niccolo Machiavelli
没有向命运抗争的明智准备，命运便会显示其威力。
--马基雅维利
To bear is to conquer our fate.
--Thomas Campbell
忍耐就能征服命运。
--坎贝尔
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
--Jonathan Winters
如果你的幸运之舟不向你驶来，那你就朝它游过去吧。
--温特斯
Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
--Thackeray
大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时你被打败，不断地挑战，它总会屈服的。
--萨克雷
*奋斗金言
Cease to struggle and you cease to live.
--Thomas Carlyle
生命不止，奋斗不息。
--卡莱尔
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--Alfred Tennyson
要奋斗、要探索、要发现，而不要屈从。
--丁尼生
Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
--Swetchine
只有强者才懂得斗争；弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。
--斯威特切尼
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
--Gustave Flaubert
人的一生中，最辉煌的时刻并非是功名成就那一天，而是从悲叹与绝望中产生对人生的挑战，从而勇敢地向未来迈进的那些日子。
--福楼拜
Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
--Horace
磨难显露才华，好运隐匿天资。
--贺拉斯
Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
--Thomas Heywood
作好最坏的准备，那么最好的情况就会来临。
--海伍德
He that can have patience, can have what he will.
--Benjamin Franklin
有耐心者才能实现其志向。
--富兰克林
There is nothing which has not been bitter before being ripe.
--Syrus
没有艰苦奋斗，便没有成功。
--西鲁斯
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
--Benjamin Franklin
能量加毅力可以征服一切。
--富兰克林
*祝愿康复
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
健康是这样的东西，它使你感到现在是一年之中最好的时光。
--亚当斯
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
--John Wanamaker
没有时间娱乐的人，迟早要腾出时间生病。
--沃纳梅克
A great big wish that you'll soon be back in tip-top condition.
深深地祝愿你早日痊愈，健康无比！
Sure hope and pray you'll be fit and strong and with us again before too long. Get well soon!
衷心为你的健康祈祷，愿你很快与大家欢聚，祝你早日康复！
May every hour of every day bring you some small pleasure. May each day bring you closer to the very best of health.
愿每日每时都给你带来小小生活乐趣，愿每日每时都给你带来更多健康。
*慰问遭灾
There is nothing which human courage will not undertake, and little that human patience will not endure.
--Samuel Johnson
人的勇气能承担一切重负；人的耐心能忍受绝大部分痛苦。
--塞·约翰逊
Calamity is man's true touchstone.
--Beaumont
遭受严重的灾难，是人的真正试金石。
--鲍蒙特
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, whatever reason, turn his back on life.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
人生应该生气勃勃，我们应该始终对世界充满好奇。无论发生了什么，都要直面人生。
--罗斯福夫人
Words are helpless things sometimes when it comes to expressing oneself on a sorrowful event like this. I can only tell you that you are in my heart and thought.
在这样悲惨的事情上，要表白心，言语显得那样苍白无力，我只想告诉你，你在我心坎上，在我的思念中。
May you find comfort in knowing that we are near, and so are friends who love you.
愿你知道我们与你心心相印而感到安慰，朋友们愿与你休戚与共。
*慰唁
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
--D. H. Lawrence
逝世的好人并没有死亡。他们仍在一旁注视并帮助我们。
--劳伦斯
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
--D. H. Lawrance
死是伟大激情的唯一纯洁、美丽的终结。
--劳伦斯
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.
--Marcel Proust
对我们来说，人死后不会立即消逝，他们仍沐浴在一种生命的光辉中，在人们的思念中永生。
--普鲁斯特
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
--Henry Longfellow
悲伤与沉默的力量是巨大的，坚强的忍耐力是神圣的。
--朗费罗
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well-used brings happy death.
--Leonardo da Vinci
充实的一天会带来甜蜜的睡眠，而充实的一生会带来平静而安祥的长逝。
--达·芬奇
He will be long remembered for his steadfast service to his host of friends and to the community.
人们将永远记住他始终为他朋友和社会所做的好事。
Time endears and cannot fade the memories that love has made. May the memories of your loved one bring you comfort.
时间使记忆更甜蜜，爱造成的记忆永不会消失，愿你对亲人的怀念，给你带来慰藉。
*礼品赠言
Every gift, though it may be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
--Pindar
不论什么礼物，只要带着深情爱意，薄礼也要胜千金。
--品达
For you, because you are special.
这份特殊的礼物献给特别的你。
Expected gifts are a pleasure to receive, but unexpected remembrances are even a greater joy.
收到预期中的礼物令人快慰，但得到意想不到的纪念品更令人无比欢欣。
Words are not enough to express the depth of my gratitude for the gift which you so kindly sent me on the occasion of my graduation.
言语难以表达我的深切谢意，谢谢你在我毕业之际馈赠的礼品。
Thank you for the pleasure your wedding gift brought and for your good wishes.
感谢你的结婚礼品给我们带来欢愉，感谢你对我们无比美好的祝愿。
*送书赠言
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
--Martin Farquhar Tupper
好书乃至友，情谊永不渝。
--塔珀
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
--Louisa May Alcott
一本好书能开卷引人入胜，终卷使人得益非浅。
--奥尔科特
Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.
--Samuel Smiles
书籍具有不朽的魅力。它是人类活动的最持久的成果。
--斯迈尔斯
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, are a large world, both pure and good.
--William Wordsworth
梦与书属于不同的世界，而我们知道，书是一个更广阔的世界，它们既纯洁而又美好。
--华兹华斯
Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.
--Samuel Smiles
书籍把我们引入最美好的环境，使我们与各个时代的伟大智者促膝谈心。
--斯迈尔斯
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors; and the most patient of teachers.
--Charles W. Eliot
书籍是人类最宁静和永恒的朋友，是最善解人意和最具智慧的顾问，是最有耐心的良师益友。
--埃利奥特
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
--Henry David Thoreau
有多少人由一本书的阅读而开始其人生的新时期啊！
--梭罗
*送花赠言
Flowers ... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
--Emerson
鲜花自豪地向世人显示，美的光彩具有超凡的价值。
--爱默生
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.
--Ruskin
爱美是一切健康人性的本质部分。
--罗斯金
If love were what the rose is, and I were like the leaf.
--Algernon Charles Swinburne
如果爱情是美丽的玫瑰，我愿作生命相随的绿叶。
--斯温伯恩
*送艺术品赠言
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
--Somerset Maugham
人人喜爱的艺术具有真正伟大的意义。仅为某一群体所喜爱的艺术只是一种玩物。
--毛姆
There is no comfort in adversity, more sweet than art affords.
--Amphis
世上没有任何一种东西比艺术会给身处逆境的人带来更多的安慰与甜蜜。
--阿姆菲斯
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
--Bernard Shaw
如果没有艺术，粗俗的现实世界将变得令人难以忍受。
--萧伯纳
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
--Victor Hugo
音乐表达的是无法说出却又不可沉默的东西。
--雨果
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
--Perly Bysshe Shelley
诗歌是最快乐、最高尚的心灵最美好、最幸福的时刻的记录。
--雪莱
*惜时赠言
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
--Charles Robert Darwin
敢于浪费自己生命中一个小时的人，尚未发现生命的价值。
--达尔文
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
--Benjamin Franklin
你热爱生命吗？那么别浪费时间，因为生命是由时间组成的。
--富兰克林
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
--Samuel Smiles
失去的财富可以靠勤奋恢复，失去的知识可以靠学习恢复，失去的健康可以靠节制或药物恢复，但是失去的光阴一去不复返。
--斯迈尔斯
Seize this day! Begin now! Each day is a new life. Seize it. For in today already walks tomorrow.
--Darid Guy Powers
把握住今天！现在就开始！每天是一次新的生命，抓住它，因为在今天中已经走进了明天。
--鲍尔斯
Life is long if you know how to use it.
--L. A. Seneca
只要你善于利用时间，生命是够长久的。
--塞内加
*豁达赠言
To forgive is human, to forget divine.
--James Grand
宽容是人性的，而忘却却是神性的。
--格兰
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
--George Sand
幸福在于自知拥有幸福。
--乔治·桑
My motto is: contented with little, yet wishing for more.
--Charles Lamb
我的座右铭是：满足于一点，但是希望有更多。
--兰姆
It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can.
--Adam Smith
每个人都应尽可能轻松自如地生活。
--亚当·斯密
Life has its ups and downs.
--Gaius Petronius Arbiter
人生一世有起有落。
--阿比特
*祝贺乔迁
Hearty greetings on your setting down in your newly built house.
最衷心地祝贺你在新屋安居！
I hasten to congratulate you on your moving into your new residence.
在你乔迁新居之际，我献上对你的最热忱的祝愿！
*生活金言
All human wisdom is summed up in two words──wait and hope.
--Alexandre Dumas Pere
人类所有的智慧可以归结为两个词──等待和希望。
--大仲马
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
--Mrs Humphry Ward
每人都会留下一个故事，这个故事比他发现时更优美。
--汉弗莱·沃德夫人
The secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand other things well.
--Hugh Walpole
人生的秘诀在于对任何事物都要充满兴趣。
--沃波尔
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
--Gilbert Chesterton
为人处世的知识只能在社会上而不是在书斋里获得。
--切斯特顿
Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
--Thomas Carlyle
说话是银，而沉默是金。
--卡莱尔
In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
--《Bible》
智慧越多，忧伤越多；知识增长，烦恼也增长。
--《圣经》
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
--Benjamin Franklin
不要去预见烦恼，担心可能永远不会发生的事情。置身于明媚的阳光之中吧。
--富兰克林
Our life is just like travelling with minds as the tour guide, without the tour guide, all will stop, the aim will be lost and strength will disappear.
--Goethe
我们的生活就像旅行，思想是导游者，没有导游者，一切都会停止，目标会丧失，力量也会化为乌有。
--歌德
Life is not a 100-yard dash, but more a cross-country run. If we sprint all the time, we not only fail to win the race, but never last long enough to reach the finish line.
--John F Kennedy
生活不是百米冲刺，而是越野长跑。如果始终拼命冲刺，我们不仅赢不到胜利，甚至不能坚持到终点。
--肯尼迪
While we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
--Emerson
与高于自己的人交流思想，我们不会变得年老，只会变得年轻。
--爱默生
One should always be a little improbable.
--Oscar Wilde
一个人应该永远保持一点神秘感。
--王尔德
Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; corruption wins not more than honesty.
--William Shakespeare
爱你自己要爱在最后；珍惜那些恨你的人一片真心；诚实比献媚更能帮你取胜。
--莎士比亚
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
--Bernard Shaw
我们如果不能创造幸福，我们便没有权力去享受幸福，正如我们如果不能创造财富，便没有权力去享用财富一样。
--萧伯纳
*圣诞赠言
May the wonder and magic of Christmas fill your heart and home with joy.
祝您圣诞开心如意，合家欢天喜地！
Wishing you peace, joy and happiness through Christmas and the coming year.
在圣诞和新年到来之际，祝你安康、欢乐和幸福。
At Christmas and always, may peace fill your heart, beauty fill your world, and contentment fill your days.
圣诞的祝愿，平日的希冀，愿你的心境时时祥和，愿你的世界无限美丽，愿你的一切称心如意。
Hope all your Christmas dreams come true!
愿你所有的圣诞梦都会成真！
Here are two thoughts to remember, whatever the season may be I will always be wishing you happiness, and you will always be special to me! Merry Christmas!
日月光华，我总有两个美好的心愿萦绕心怀：愿你永远幸福快乐，愿你永远是我的特别需要。敬祝圣诞快乐！
May warmest wishes, happy thoughts and friendly greetings come at Christmas and stay with you the whole year through.
愿温馨的祝愿、幸福的思念和友谊的祝贺在圣诞佳节来到你身边，在新的一年与你时时相伴。
May your Christmas be filled with special moment, warmth and happiness, the joy of loved ones near, and may the blessings of the day last throughout the year.
愿你的圣诞节充满温馨、幸福和亲人相聚的喜悦。愿佳节的祝福与你来年的每时每刻同在。
To wish you the special gifts of Christmas──joy, peace and love.
赠送给你的圣诞礼物最特别──欢乐、安宁和爱情。
*新年赠言
Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to you all my good wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
恭贺新禧！真诚地祝愿你身体健康，事业昌盛！
With many good wishes for the holidays and the coming year!
敬祝节日快乐，新年事事称心如意！
The Festive season is with us once again, and I would like to wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year.
欢乐的节日又一次来临，恭祝你新年快乐，生意兴隆。
May your Holiday Season be a joyous one and may each day of the New Year bring you a full measure of success and happiness!
愿你节日快乐，愿新年的每一天都给你带来丰硕的成果和无限的幸福！
The greatest happiness in life is to feel peaceful; The greatest happiness in life is to possess friends. May you have all happiness in your life.
生活中最大的幸福就是平安祥和；生活中最大的欢乐便是拥有朋友；愿你享有生活中的一切幸福和欢乐！
On the occasion of the New Year, may my wife and I extend to you and your wife our sincere greetings, wishing you a happy year, your career greater success and your family happiness.
值此迎新辞旧之际，我和我的夫人谨向你们伉俪致以真诚的祝贺。祝你们新年快乐，事业有成，家庭幸福。
At such a wonderful moment, I send you a gentle and warm care and wish: May every day be brilliant for you!
在这美好的时刻，捎送一份温馨的关爱和祝福，祈愿你所有的日子无比灿烂。
Here is too much happiness and joy for both of you now and in the years to come.
祝你福乐盈溢，鸿运翩至！
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