It's that time of year: for drinking and partying and then making New Year's resolutions. Here are 10 great New Year jokes and quotes.

又快到新年了，这正是畅饮欢聚的好时刻，也是立下新年志向的时刻。在此，我们列出了10则与新年有关的引文。

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

“你最害怕什么，去做就是了。勇于犯错，每年都是如此，永远永远。”

English author NEIL GAIMAN (1960-)

——尼尔·盖曼（1960-），英国作家

It's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

“我来这并不是因为我寂寞，也不是因为今天是除夕，而是因为如果你想要与某人共度余生， 那么你就会希望余生尽早开始。”

What BILLY CRYSTAL's character Harry¹ says to Sally (Meg Ryan) in the 1989 American romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron

这句台词是1989年诺拉·艾芙伦担任编剧的美国喜剧电影《当哈利碰上莎莉》中，男主角哈利（比利·克里斯托饰）对女主角莎莉（梅格·瑞安饰）的告白。

"Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true."

“钟声送旧，钟声迎新，响吧，幸福的钟，响彻皑皑白雪。这一年即将离去，让他去吧。钟声送伪，钟声迎真。”

In Memoriam, by ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)

选自阿尔弗雷德·丁尼生（1809-1892）诗集《悼念》

"Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

“好的新年决心不过是人们开出的空头支票罢了。”

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900), playwright² and poet

——奥斯卡·王尔德（1854-1900），剧作家，诗人

"A new heart for a New Year, always!"

“总是以崭新的精神面貌迎接新的一年。”

CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870), in The Chimes

选自查尔斯·狄更斯（1812-1870）《教堂钟声》

"Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right."

“为了新的一年，为了我们还有机会把事情做好，干杯！”

TV host OPRAH WINFREY (above, being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 by Barack Obama)

奥普拉·温弗瑞，节目主持人（2013年，由奥巴马总统授予总统自由勋章）

“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.”

“新年的目的并非是拥有新的一年，而是拥有一个新的灵魂。”

GK CHESTERTON (1874-1936), English writer, poet and lay theologian

——吉尔伯特·基思·切斯特顿（1874-1936），英国作家，诗人，世俗神学家。

"Be at War with your Vices³, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New Year find you a better man."

“与恶习作战，与邻里友好相处，在新的一年变得更加优秀。”

One of America's Founding Fathers, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, in the 1755 Poor Richard's Almanac

选自美国国父之一本杰明·富兰克林1755年作品《穷人理查德年鉴》。

"Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since."

“多年前，我曾决定再也不下新年决心了，这个决定我一直坚持到现在。”

Baseball star DAVE BEARD, seen here celebrating during a game for Oakland Athletics⁴ against Kansas City in 1981

奥克兰运动家队的棒球明星，查尔斯·大卫·比尔德1981年与堪萨斯州队的比赛时的祝词。

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

“借鉴昨天，活在今天，憧憬明天。”

ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955), the German-born physicist⁵ who developed the general theory of relativity, asked for his New Year resolution

——阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦（1879-1955），物理学家，生于德国，创立了相对论，这是他对新年志向的回答。