雅思写作在段介绍背景或给出观点时可以引用名人名言,同样在主体段证明观点时恰当使用名人名言也会使你的文章更具说服力.这里仅摘取部分名言:
It is never too late to learn. (活到老，学到老)
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.(不经灾难不知福)
To an optimist every change is a change for the better.(对于乐观者总是越变越好)
Storms make trees take deeper roots.（风暴使树木深深扎根。）
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.（只要有一颗意志坚强的心，没事不成）
Work makes the workman.（勤工出巧匠）
You have to believe in yourself . That's the secret of success .(Charles Chaplin , American actor ) 人必须相信自己，这是成功的秘诀。 (美国演员 卓别林. C
Success covers a multitude of blunders .(George Bernard Shaw , British Dramatist)
成功由大量的失望铸就。( 英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G.)
Sloth , like rust , consumes faster than labor wears .(Benjamin Franklin , American president) 懒惰像生锈一样，比操劳更能消耗身体。 (美国总统 富兰克林. B.)
Money is a good servant and a bad master .(Francis Bacon , British philosopher )
金钱是善仆，也是恶主。( 英国哲学家 培根. F. )
Happy is the man who is living by his hobby .(G. Bernard Shaw , British dramatist )
醉心于某种癖好的人是幸福的。 (英国剧作家 肖伯纳. G .)
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money ; it lies in the joy of achievement , in the thrill of creative effort .(Franklin Roosevelt , American president ) 幸福不在于拥有金钱，而在于获得成就时的喜悦以及产生创造力的激情。(美国总统 罗斯福. F.)
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be .(Abraham Lincoln ,American president ) 对于大多数人来说，他们认定自己有多幸福，就有多幸福。(美国总统 林肯. A.)
If you don't learn to think when you are young , you may never learn .(Thomas Edison , American inventor ) 如果你年轻时就没有学会思考，那么就永远学不会思考。(美国发明家 爱迪生 . T.)
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do .
(Winston Churchill , British prime minister ) 不能爱哪行才干哪行，要干哪行爱哪行。 (美国首相 丘吉尔. W.)
When work is a pleasure , life is joy ! When work is duty , life is slavery .(Maxim Gorky , Russian writer ) 工作是一种乐趣时，生活是一种享受！工作是一种义务时，生活则是一种苦役。(俄国作家 高尔基. M.)
Work banishes those three great evils : boredom , vice, and poverty. (Voltaire , French philosopher ) 工作撵跑三个魔鬼：无聊、堕落和贫穷。 (法国哲学家 伏尔基泰)
Better be unborn than untaught , for ignorance is the root of misfortune .(Plato, Ancient Greek philosopher) 与其不受教育,不如不生,因为无知是不幸的根源.(古希腊哲学家 柏拉图)
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep in their downward tendency.( Johan Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet ) 文学的衰落表明一个民族的衰落。这两者走下坡路的时间是齐头并进的。(德国诗人 歌德 . J . W .)
Saying and doing are two different things. (说和做是迥然不同的两回事)
Actions speak louder than words. (行动比语言更响亮)
From small beginnings comes great things. (伟大始于渺小)
It takes all sorts to make a world. (世界是由各种不同的人所组成的)
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.(没有恒心只有力量是完不成伟业)
