18.Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Calamity:灾难
Cheerfulness:快乐
Insensibility:无动于衷;麻木
19.Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Temperance:节制
20.The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance
Outward:外表的
Inward:内在的
Significance:实质;重要
21.The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Essence:本质
22.The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Circumstances:环境
23.The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Initial:初始的
Deviation:偏离
Multiply:大大增加
Thousanfold:一千倍
24.The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Awareness:
Contemplation:深思
Survival:生存
25.The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Sum:综合
26.The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Inequality:不平等;不公正
27.The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Permanently:永久地;长期地
Resemble:模仿
Intoxication:陶醉;衍生词:动词intoxicate
28.We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Wax:蜡
Impress:盖印
29.What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Anxious:着急的;
Moral:道德的
Disposition:气质
Virtue: 美德
30.Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Ripen:使成熟
31.Wit is educated insolence.
Wit:幽默
Educated: 有教养的;受过教育的
Insolence:无礼;粗鲁(编辑:胡慧)
来源:考试大-英语四级考试责编:pyy 纠错
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