孟子的名言警句英语版

孟子的名言警句英语版

无论是在学校还是在社会中，大家都知道一些经典的名言吧，名言具有概括自然有力，言简意赅的特点。你还在找寻优秀经典的名言吗？以下是小编精心整理的孟子的名言警句英语版，供大家参考借鉴，希望可以帮助到有需要的朋友。

孟子的名言警句英语版

1. While there is excess fat meat in your kitchen and well-fed horses in your stables, you leave your people going hunger with corpuses of starvelings lying about in the wild. This is like heading the brute beasts in their man-eating frenzy!

庖有肥肉，厩有肥马，民有饥色，野有饿殍。此率兽而食人也！

2. The benevolent are invincible. (今用：The virtuous are invincible.)

仁者无敌。

3. Respect your own elders and extend such respect to those of others; cherish your own young and extend such cherishment to those of others.

老吾老，以及人之老；幼吾幼，以及人之幼。

4. I am good at fostering my great noble spirits.

我善养吾浩然之气。

5. Either calamity or bliss comes merely at one’s own choice.

祸福无不自己求之者。

6. All men have the heart of mercy.

人皆有不忍人之心。

7. A just cause enjoys abundant support while an unjust cause finds little help.

得道者多助，失道者寡助。

8. The favorable opportunity does not help as much as the favorable terrain; the favorable terrain does not help as much as the group morale.

天时不如地利，地利不如人和。

9. Do not try to confine the people with closed borders; do not try to defend the state with deep mountain valleys; do not try to display force with sharp weapons.

域民不以封疆之界，固国不以山溪之险，威天下不以兵革之利。

10. What the superior favors will receive excessively enthusiastic responses from his subordinates.

上有好者，下必有甚焉者矣。(今用：上有所好，下必甚焉。)

11. No riches or honors may induce him to corrupt; no poverty or lowliness may cause him to waver; no might or force may compel him to submit. Such would be what we call a great man.

富贵不能淫，贫贱不能移，威武不能屈，此之谓大丈夫。

12. Without compasses and angle squares, no square or circle can ever be drawn.

不以规矩，不能成方圆。

13. A man must have humiliated himself before others will humiliate him.

夫人必自侮，然后人侮之。

14. Men have such a defect as to be too eager to assume the role of teacher.

人之患在好为人师。

15. Impiety lies in three facts, and having no posterity is the worst of all.

不孝有三，无后为大。

16. When the sovereign regards his subjects as his hands and feet, they will regard him as bosom and heart; when the sovereign looks upon his subjects as dirt and weed, they will look upon him as a foe.

君之视臣如手足，则臣视君如腹心；君之视臣如土芥，则臣视君如寇仇。

17. Compassion is a feeling shared by all men.

恻隐之心，人皆有之。

18.The sense of shame is a feeling shared by all men.

羞恶之心，人皆有之。

19.Reverence is a state of mind shared by all men.

恭敬之心，人皆有之。

20.The perceptivity of right and wrong is the conscience shared by all men.

是非之心，人皆有之。

21.Fish is my favorite and so is the bear paw. If I could not enjoy both of them, I would give up fish and choose the bear paw. Life is what I desire and so is righteousness. If I could not keep both of them, I would give up life and choose righteousness.

鱼，我所欲也，熊掌亦我所欲也；二者不可得兼，舍鱼而取熊掌者也。生亦我所欲也，义亦我所欲也；二者不可得兼，舍生而取义者也。

22. All men can be sages like Yao and Shun.

人皆可以为尧舜。

23.Before Heaven lays a grand mission on a man, it will first distress him in the spirit and exhaust him in the body, causing him to suffer from hunger and poverty, and subverting every bit of his effort, with which to inspire his ambition, forge his endurance, and remedy his defects in capacity.

天将降大任于是人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为，所以动心忍性，曾益其所不能。

24.(A state) survives adversity and perishes amid leisure.

生于忧患而死于安乐。

25. When in adversity, maintain personal integrity for your own sake; in time of success, try to better the whole world as well.

穷则独善其身，达则兼善天下。

26. (One of a man’s best delights is to) gather a talented crowd from across the land to render instruction.

(人生一乐，) 得天下英才而教育之。

27. Try not to be ashamed of anything when facing either Heaven or men.

仰不愧于天，俯不怍于人。

28.To give all credit to a book is worse than not to have it at all.

尽信书，则不如无书。

29.The people come first, the state regime the next, and the state ruler the lightest.

民为贵，社稷次之，君为轻。

30.The best way to foster goodness at heart is to reduce personal desires.

养心莫善于寡欲。

【拓展延伸】

孟子的故事

长于论辩，是孟子散文的重要特征。孟子曾说：“予岂好辩哉？予不得已也。（我哪里是喜欢辩论？我是不得已啊。）”

孟子对齐宣王说：“我听说，大王看到一头牛即将被宰杀了祭钟，于心不忍，就让人用一只羊代替它。不知道有没有这件事呢？” 然而，这样一位不喜辩论的`孟夫子，却是我国历史上赫赫有名的雄辩家。他的著作言辞犀利，气势磅礴，展现了精湛的语言艺术。下面，我们就去领略一下孟子的精彩论辩。

齐宣王说：“有这事。”

孟子说：“百姓们都认为大王吝啬，但我知道您是不忍心啊。”

齐宣王惊讶地说：“有这样的事？齐国虽小，我怎么会连一头牛都舍不得！我是不忍心看到牛哆嗦颤抖的样子，才用羊换下它。”

孟子笑着说：“这正是仁心的流露啊。有这样的心意，就足以称王天下了。”

齐宣王不解地问：“为什么有这种心理就能称王呢？”

孟子反问道：“如果有人说：‘我能举起三千斤的重量，却举不起一根羽毛；我能看清楚飞鸟身上的细毛，却看不见一大车柴草。’大王会相信吗？”

齐宣王不假思索地说：“当然不信。”

孟子接着说：“举不起一片羽毛，是不肯花力气；看不见一车柴草，是不肯用眼力。大王您没有称王天下，是不去做，而不是不能做啊。”

齐宣王问：“不能做和不去做，有什么不同吗？”

孟子说：“如果是挟起泰山去跳北海这样的事，说‘我不能’，是确实不能；替长者按摩这样的事，说‘我不能’，就是不去做，而不是不能做。大王没有统一天下，是替长者按摩之类的情形啊。”

怎么样，这段论辩精彩吧？假如你是齐宣王，此刻是不是已经为孟子折服了呢？为什么孟子的说理能让人信服？

大家有没有注意到，孟子很善于打比方。以上文的故事为例，他用“挟泰山以超北海”“为长者折枝”来分别比喻“不能做”和“不去做”，使两者的区别一目了然。这些贴切的比喻，让原本抽象的道理变得生动形象、富有趣味性，很容易被听者接受。

孟子还善于抓住对方心理。要知道，齐宣王并不热衷于王道、仁政一类的主张，怎么才能引起他的谈话兴趣呢？孟子就从以羊代牛的小事出发，站在齐宣王的立场上，先肯定齐宣王的仁心，这样就从心理上拉近了双方的距离，为下文的说理赢得了宝贵时机。

有关孔子,孟子,老子,孙子,等人的英语介绍

Confucius was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher,whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese,Korean,Japanese,and Vietnamese thought and life.

His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality,correctness of social relationships,justice and sincerity.These values gained prominence in China over other doctrines,such as Legalism (法家) or Taoism (道家) during the Han Dynasty.Confucius' thoughts have been developed into a system of philosophy known as Confucianism (儒家).It was introduced to Europe by the Jesuit Matteo Ricci,who was the first to Latinise the name as "Confucius."

His teachings may be found in the Analects of Confucius (论语),a collection of "brief aphoristic fragments",which was compiled many years after his death.Modern historians do not believe that any specific documents can be said to have been written by Confucius,but for nearly 2,000 years he was thought to be the editor or author of all the Five Classics such as the Classic of Rites (editor),and the Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋).

人物介绍：

孟子（战国时期儒家代表人物）

孟子（约公元前372年—公元前289年），名轲，字子舆，邹国（今山东邹城东南）人。战国时期哲学家、思想家、教育家，是孔子之后、荀子之前的儒家学派的代表人物，与孔子并称“孔孟”。

孟子宣扬“仁政”，最早提出“民贵君轻”思想，被韩愈列为先秦儒家继承孔子“道统”的人物，元朝追封为“亚圣”。

孟子的言论著作收录于《孟子》一书。其中《鱼我所欲也》、《得道多助，失道寡助》、《寡人之于国也》和《生于忧患，死于安乐》等篇编入中学语文教科书中。