1、carpe diem.seize the day, boys. make your lives extraordinary.
抓紧时间，孩子们，让你的生命不同寻常。
2、to fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme and figures of speech, then ask two questions: 1) how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered and 2) how important is that objective?
《英语诗歌五百年》序言：要完全理解诗歌，wǒ men首先必须了解它的格调、韵律、修辞手法，然后提两个问题：第一，诗主题如何艺术地实现;第二，诗主题的重要性。第一个总是解决的是诗歌的艺术性。第二个问题回答的是诗歌的重要性。
3、only in their dreams can men be truly free.
惟有在梦中，人们才是真正自由的。
4、learn to think for yourselves again. no matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
学会自己思考，学会欣赏文学和语言。不管别人怎么说，文学和语言的确能改变世界。
5、we don't read and write poetry because it's cute. we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. and the human race is filled with passion. and medicine, law, business, engineering -- these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. but poetry, beauty, romance, love -- these are what we stay alive for.
wǒ men读诗、写诗并不是因为它们好玩，而是因为wǒ men是人类的一分子，而人类是充满激情的。没错，医学、法律、商业、工程，这些都是崇高的追求，足以支撑人的一生。但诗歌、美丽、浪漫、爱情，这些才是wǒ men活着的意义。
6、we weren't a greek organization. we were romantics. we didn't just read poetry, we let it drip from our tongues like honey. spirits soared, women swooned and gods were created.
wǒ men是一群浪漫主义者。wǒ men不仅仅是念诗，诗从wǒ men舌间滑落，就像蜜糖。情绪高涨，女人亢奋，灵魂驰骋。
7、i went to the woods because i wanted to live deliberately … i wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life! to put to rout all that was not life… and not when i came to die, discover that i had not lived…
我步入丛林，因为我希望活得有意义 … 我希望活得深刻，汲取生命所有的精髓! 把非生命的一切全都击溃 … 以免在我生命终结时，发现自己从来没有活过 …
8、just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way.
当你认为你知道某件事时，必须再以不同角度看它。
9、even though it may seem silly or wrong, you must try!
即使那看来似乎愚笨或错误，你们都必须试试。
10、now, when you read, don't just consider,what the author thinks,consider what you think.
当你阅读时，别只想到作者的见解，想想你的见解。
11、 boys, you must strive to find your own voice. because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all。
孩子们，你们必须努力寻找自己的声音，因为你越迟开始寻找，找到的可能性就越小。
12、because the longer you wait to begin,the less likely you are to find it at all.
因为你等候起步的时间愈长，便愈不可能找到它。
13、thoreau said, “most men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
梭罗说，“大多数人都生活在平静的绝望中。”
14、don't be resigned to that. break out!
别听任此事发生。要突破!
15、robert frost said, two roads perged in a wood and i took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
劳勃佛洛斯特说过，树林里两条岔路，我选择人走得比较少的那条路，那里有天壤之别。
16、if you noticed, everyone started off with their own stride, their own pace.
你们若是注意，每个人都是以自己的步幅行走。
17、now, i didn't bring them up here to ridicule them.
我叫他们上前不是为了嘲弄他们。
18、i brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity:
我让他们上前是为了说明“一致”的重点。
19、the difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others.
在他人面前坚护自己信念的困难所在。
20、i would've walked differently.
我本可以走得与众不同。
21、we all have a great need for acceptance.
wǒ men都非常需要被认同。
22、but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own
但你们必须相信自己的信念独一无二。
23、even though others may think them odd or unpopular
纵使别人可能认为它奇异或者不入流。
24、even though the herd may go, that's bad.
纵使庸俗的大众可能会说，好烂。
25、to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted
与逆境不屈抗争，以无畏的气势面对敌人。
26、to be a sailor of the world bound for all ports.
做世界的水手，游遍所有的港口。
27、oh, i live to be the ruler of life, not a slave.
我要做生活的主宰，而非奴隶。
28、to mount the scaffolds. to advance to the muzzles of guns wit perfect nonchalance.
走上绞刑台，行至枪口，我安之若泰。
29、oh, to have life henceforth the poem of new joys.
让今后的生命如喜悦的诗。
30、let it fill your soul.
让它充满你的灵魂。
31、i sound… my barbaric… yawp…over the rooftops of the world.
我听见我那野蛮原始的呐喊越过世界的屋脊。
32、i close my eyes, and this image floats beside me.
我闭上眼睛，他的影像在我身边飘动。
33、because we are food for worms lads. because, believe or not, each one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold and die.
因为wǒ men都是凡人，孩子们。因为信不信由你，这间房子里的每个人总有一天都要停止呼吸，僵冷，死亡。
34、i would like you to step forward over here, and peruse some of the faces from the past. you've walked past them many times, but i don't think you've really looked at them. they're not that different from you, are they? same haircuts……full of hormones. just like you. invincible just like you fell. the world is their oyster. they believe they're destined for great things just like many of you. their eyes are full of hope, just like you.
我要你们向前到这儿来，细细玩味过去的面孔，你们经过这儿无数次，但从未真正看过他们，和你的差异并不大，对吧?同样的发型，和你们一样精力旺盛，和你们一样不可一世，世界都在他们的掌握之中，他们认为注定要成就大事，和大多数的你们一样，他们的双眼充满了希望，和你们一样。
35、did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? because you see, gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. but if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. go on, lean in. listen, you hear it? carpe…hear it? …carpe, carpe diem. seize the day, boys, make your lives extraordinary.
他们是否虚度时光，到最后一无所成?因为各位所见到的……这些男孩现在都已化为尘土了，如果你们仔细倾听，便能听见他们在低声耳语，附耳过去，仔细听，听见了?carpe…听见了吗?carpe… carpe diem 及时行乐，孩子们，让你的生命超凡脱俗。
36、 (alfred lord tennyson)come my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset. and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;-- one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield。
(丁尼生)来吧，我的朋友/寻找更新世界尚为时不晚/我决心已定，要驶过夕阳尽头/尽管wǒ men不再有昔日的伟力，可以震天撼地/wǒ men仍有着，同样的英雄的心/时间和命运，使它衰老/但坚强意志仍在/让wǒ men去奋斗，去探索，去发现/永不屈服
37、just when you think you know something, you have to look at it in another way. even though it may seem silly or wrong, you must try! now, when you read, don't just consider what the author thinks. consider what you think。
一旦觉得自己懂得，就必须换一种角度来看。这可能显得有些荒唐，或者愚蠢，但必须试一下。同样读书的时候，不要只想作者怎么看，想想你自己怎么看。
38、for me, sport is actually a chance for us to have other human beings push us to excel。
对我来说，运动只是一种让其他人把wǒ men推向极致的机会。
39、to be a sailor of the world, bound for all ports。
做一个世界的水手，游遍所有的港口。
40、now, when you read, don't just consider what the author thinks consider what you think.
当你阅读时 别只想到作者的见解，想想你的见解 /
