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英语名人名言: The Future 未来
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  • The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    Alan Kay

    I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

    Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

    In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

    Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)

    The future will be better tomorrow.

    Dan Quayle (1947 - )

    The future is much like the present, only longer.

    Dan Quisenberry

    A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

    Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate1 State of Mind, 1954

    Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense2 of a great future.

    Henry Luce

    The future is an opaque3 mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

    Jim Bishop4, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959

    We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain5 the future now.

    John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

    The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

    John Sladek

    A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.

    Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 08-20-08

    Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

    Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations6, 200 A.D.

    When you relinquish7 the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

    Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman

    Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

    Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

    The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

    Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

    I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

    Robert Fulford

    The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

    Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic8", 1960

    Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

    Robin9 Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994

    If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

    The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943

    Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

    W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage10', 1915

    The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

    William Gibson (1948 - )

    The future ain't what it used to be.

    Yogi Berra (1925 - )

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    1 passionate [ˈpæʃənət] rLDxd   第8级
    adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的
    参考例句:
    • He is said to be the most passionate man. 据说他是最有激情的人。
    • He is very passionate about the project. 他对那个项目非常热心。
    2 defense [dɪ'fens] AxbxB   第7级
    n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
    参考例句:
    • The accused has the right to defense. 被告人有权获得辩护。
    • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers. 战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
    3 opaque [əʊˈpeɪk] jvhy1   第7级
    adj.不透光的;不反光的,不传导的;晦涩的
    参考例句:
    • The windows are of opaque glass. 这些窗户装着不透明玻璃。
    • Their intentions remained opaque. 他们的意图仍然令人费解。
    4 bishop [ˈbɪʃəp] AtNzd   第8级
    n.主教,(国际象棋)象
    参考例句:
    • He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all. 他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
    • Two years after his death the bishop was canonised. 主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。
    5 disdain [dɪsˈdeɪn] KltzA   第8级
    n.鄙视,轻视;v.轻视,鄙视,不屑
    参考例句:
    • Some people disdain labour. 有些人轻视劳动。
    • A great man should disdain flatterers. 伟大的人物应鄙视献媚者。
    6 meditations [ˌmedɪˈteɪʃənz] f4b300324e129a004479aa8f4c41e44a   第8级
    默想( meditation的名词复数 ); 默念; 沉思; 冥想
    参考例句:
    • Each sentence seems a quarry of rich meditations. 每一句话似乎都给人以许多冥思默想。
    • I'm sorry to interrupt your meditations. 我很抱歉,打断你思考问题了。
    7 relinquish [rɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃ] 4Bazt   第8级
    vt.放弃,撤回,让与,放手
    参考例句:
    • He was forced to relinquish control of the company. 他被迫放弃公司的掌控权。
    • They will never voluntarily relinquish their independence. 他们绝对不会自动放弃独立。
    8 attic [ˈætɪk] Hv4zZ   第7级
    n.顶楼,屋顶室
    参考例句:
    • Leakiness in the roof caused a damp attic. 屋漏使顶楼潮湿。
    • What's to be done with all this stuff in the attic? 顶楼上的材料怎么处理?
    9 robin [ˈrɒbɪn] Oj7zme   第10级
    n.知更鸟,红襟鸟
    参考例句:
    • The robin is the messenger of spring. 知更鸟是报春的使者。
    • We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin. 我们看见了一只知更鸟,知道春天要到了。
    10 bondage [ˈbɒndɪdʒ] 0NtzR   第10级
    n.奴役,束缚
    参考例句:
    • Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage. 奴隶主们有时允许奴隶为自己赎身。
    • They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief. 他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人。

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