关于“新年”的英语名言

武夷山 辑译

Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, 
Whispering 'it will be happier'...” 
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

希望

在来年的门槛上微笑

呢喃道：

“明年会更好……”

----丁尼生，英国诗人

“For last year's words belong to last year's language 
And next year's words await another voice.” 
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

去年的语言辖着去年的语词

明年且待新翻杨柳枝。

----诗人艾略特，《四个四重奏》

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” 
― Neil Gaiman 

我希望在即将到来的一年里，你敢于犯错误。

因为如果你打算犯错误，就说明你打算做新的事，尝试新事物，学习，生活，推动自己，改变自己，改变世界。你将做从未做过的事，更重要的是，你将“做点事”。

因此，这就是我对你，对我们所有人，也是对我自己的期望。犯一些新错误，犯一些荣耀的、令人吃惊的错误，犯一些从未有人犯过的错误。不要畏葸不前，不要止步，不要担心做得不是足够好，或做得不完善，无论涉足什么：艺术、爱情、工作、家庭或生活。

无论你害怕做的是什么事，就做这件事。

敢于犯错误，明年以至永远。

― Neil Gaiman，英国著名小说家，1960年生

Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” 
― Brad Paisley

明天，是365页的本子的第一个空白页。写好这一页。

― Brad Paisley，美国乡村音乐歌手，1972年生

“I would say happy new year but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder. ” 
― Robert Clark

我倒是想说“新年快乐”，但新年并不快乐；今年与去年一个样，只是比去年更冷。

― Robert Clark，美国演员，1987年生

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.” 
― G.K. Chesterton, A Chesterton calendar

设立新年的目的并不是我们要过崭新的一年，而是：我们应该有新的灵魂，新的鼻子，新的脚，新的脊梁，新的耳朵，新的眼睛。一个具体的人若是在新年里不痛下决心，他就根本不会下任何决心。一个人若是未打算以从头再来的姿态做事，他就肯定做不好事。

----英国文豪切斯特顿

Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.” 
― Walter Scott

每个时代都认为，

新诞生的那年

最适合发出欢庆节日的呼喊。

― Walter Scott（1771-1832），苏格兰文学家