泰戈尔经典

１
夏天的飞鸟，飞到我的窗前唱歌，又飞去了。
秋天的黄叶，它们没有什么可唱，只叹息一声，飞落在那里。
stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
and yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall
there with a sign.
２
世界上的一队小小的漂泊者呀，请留下你们的足印在我的文字里。
o troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.
３
世界对着它的爱人，把它浩翰的面具揭下了。
它变小了，小如一首歌，小如一回永恒的接吻。
the world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.
it becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
４
是大地的泪点，使她的微笑保持着青春不谢。
it is the tears of the earth that keep here smiles in bloom.
５
无垠的沙漠热烈追求一叶绿草的爱，她摇摇头笑着飞开了。
the mighty desert is burning for the love of a bladeof grass who
shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
６
如果你因失去了太阳而流泪，那么你也将失去群星了。
if you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
７
跳舞着的流水呀，在你途中的泥沙，要求你的歌声，你的流动呢。你肯挟
瘸足的泥沙而俱下么？
the sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing
water. will you carry the burden of their lameness?
８
她的热切的脸，如夜雨似的，搅扰着我的梦魂。
her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
９
有一次，我们梦见大家都是不相识的。
我们醒了，却知道我们原是相亲相爱的。
once we dreamt that we were strangers.
we wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
１０
忧思在我的心里平静下去，正如暮色降临在寂静的山林中。
sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among
the silent trees.

Absence to love is what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small; it inflames the great.             

  离别之于爱情好比风之于火，它能将小火熄灭，使大火熊熊燃烧.
Every man is a poet when he is in love. 每个恋爱中的人都是诗人
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. 初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇
Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it. 友谊就像陶器，破了可以修补；爱情好比镜子，一旦打破就难重圆.                                  Friendship is love without his wings. 友谊是没有羽翼的爱
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. 并非地球引力使人坠入爱河
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. 权力越大，滥用职权的危险就越大
The greatest of evils and the worst of crims is poverty.
最大的恶和最凶的罪是贫穷
The paramount duty of Congress is to stop deficiencies by the restoration of that protective legislation which has always been the firmst prop of the Treasury.
国会的最高职责是恢复始终是国家财政最坚实支柱的保护性立法，以制止财政赤字
The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment. Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. 人民是完全可以信赖的，应该让他们听到一切真实和虚伪的东西，然后作出正确的判断。倘使让我来决定，我们应该是有一个政府而不要报纸呢，还是应该有报纸而不要政府，我会毫不犹豫选择后者
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule be-gins.暴君死了，他统治也就结束；烈士死了，他的统治刚开始
There is something behind the throne greater than the king him-self. 在王座的后面还有比国王本人更伟大东西To be acquainted with the merit of ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. (Junius, Unidentified letter writer)
要了解政府的政绩只需要观察民情
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must go to those who are seeking it :the pains of power is real, its pleasures imaginary. 欲知权力带来的痛苦，去问那些当权者；欲知权力带来的乐趣，去问那些追逐权势者：权力带来的痛苦是真实的，而权力带来的乐趣只不过是凭空想象的
Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. 过分喜欢权力就会不择手段We need in politics man who have something to give, not men who have something to get. 在政治中我们需要能有所奉献的人，而不是想有所收获的人
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. 当一个人受到公众信任时，他就应该把自己看作公众的财产
When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.当社会需要重建时，试图墨守旧的蓝图重建它是徒劳无益的