GRE写作词汇：名人名言

　　01

　　What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

　　— Dostoyevsky

　　“什么是地狱?毫无疑问是那种想爱而无法去爱的痛苦。”

　　maintain

　　【释义】v. 维护、保持、坚持、抚养They have always maintained high standards of professional conduct.

　　02

　　To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

　　— Vittorio Alfieri

　　“犯错是人之常情;但对罪行的忏悔，贤者与恶人的态度是不一样的。”

　　contrition

　　【释义】n. 悔恨The substance of the ultimate communication should reflect, in the vernacular, the personal contrition of the board of directors and of the chief executive officer.

　　03

　　There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

　　— Thoreau

　　“总有一种现实和存活的生命，无论好坏，它们都结合在一起来维护现实的存在。”

　　extant

　　【释义】adj. 尚存的，现存的So far, a total of nineteen extant and four fossil species of the genus have been described.

　　04

　　A consistent man believes in destiny; a capricious man in chance.

　　— Benjamin Disraeli

　　“一个不思进取的人相信命运;一个不甘现状的人相信机会。”

　　capricious

　　【释义】adj. 反复无常的、任性的I don't believe in random occurrences or blind chance, though I know the patterns of this world are capricious and terribly complex.

　　05

　　He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.

　　— Ambrose Bierce

　　“有困难思考的人会欣然相信。”

　　alacrity

　　【释义】n. 活泼、轻快、乐意

　　The lack of alacrity in decision-making here is, at best, curious.

　　06

　　Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.

　　— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

　　“轻者多言，大者哑口无言。”

　　loquacious

　　【释义】adj. 话多的，健谈的With a wonderful memory for detail, this talkative woman—who my father said never forgets anything—became truly loquacious.

　　07

　　Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

　　— Robert Louis Stevenson

　　“头脑里面相信的真理才是真正的真理，而不是字面上的真理。”

　　veracity

　　【释义】n. 真实、准确What gives the book its integrity are the simplicity and veracity of these recipes and the small touches—bits of history, discovery and personal reflection.

　　08

　　The horror of the twentieth century was the size of each new event and the paucity of its reverberation.

　　— Norman Miller’s

　　“二十世纪的恐怖之处在于每个新事件的规模及其反响的匮乏。”

　　paucity

　　【释义】n. 少量、少许、贫乏This was partly due to the paucity of proper technology and partly due to the lack of proper domain expertise of the managers involved.