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1. 祈使句

Never say die.永不言败。 it's a piece of cake.那只是小菜一碟。

Be still and have your will. 不动声色，事方有成。

Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear, and tell not all you know.

不要为所能为,不要花尽所有,不要全信所闻,不要言尽所知。

2.否定句

An honest man never does anything underhand. 明人不做暗事。

The tragedy（n.悲剧, 惨案, 悲惨, 灾难） of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.

生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦，而在于人们错过了什么。 (卡莱尔Carlyle)

No way is impossible to courage. 勇士面前无险路.

3.疑问句

What is a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: to be himself.

 一个人的首要职责是什么,答案很简短,就是做好他自己。

If there is no future for our country, where can we look for our individual love and happiness?

Remember that time is money. Do you love life? Then do not squander（浪费） time, for that is stuff life is made of.

4.并列句

First think, and then speak.

You’re never too old to change, learn a new job, start over, or try something new.

Lift is long to the miserable, but short to the happy.

5.名词性从句

Character is what you are in the dark.

Love is like wine, friendship is a flower, and blood relations water. Whether we can own love and friendship is all predestined.

Who goes light travels fast.

Life is choice: always choose to do what you will remember ten years from now.

6.状语从句

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.（让步）

Treat your time as if someone is paying for it.（方式）

You can be as big, or as little, as you wish to be. Your self-image, the way you see yourself will determine which one you will be.（方式）

As you make your make, so you must lie on it.（原因）

A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.（条件）

As long as you live, you should be a man useful to the people.（条件）

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.（地点）

A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can’t talk about yourself（结果）

The family you came from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.（比较）

Busiest men find the most time.

The greatest talkers are the least doers.

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.

定语从句

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Happy is the man who is contented with his lot.

Don’t expect people to do things which you would not do yourself.

倒装句

There is no place like home.

As a man is, so his company.

From words to deeds is a great space.

强调结构

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

It is the unforeseen that always happen.

The fool does think he is wise, but the wise knows himself to be a fool.

主谓一致

Each man has his limitation.

Opportunities do not wait.

That thing which is rare is dear.

第三人称

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Age has nothing to do with years. Some men are born old, but some never grow old.

Experience is the best teacher.

动词结构

含有时态的名言

一般现在时

The pessimist says: “ I’ll believe when I see it.” The optimist says: “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

一般过去时

The greatest artist was once a beginner.

一般将来时

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without faults.

现在进行时

It is no use saying “we are doing our best.” You have to succeed in doing what is necessary.

过去进行时

I felt life was beauty while I was dreaming then I woke and found life was duty.

将来进行时

I won't be hesitating about my life when I get up tomorrow.

现在完成时

You must reap what you have sown.

过去完成时

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

将来完成时

By the time you go to the classroom I will have previewed the text from top to bottom.

过去完成进行时

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and felt that this I had been waiting long for.

现在完成进行时

if I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention that to any other talent.

将来完成进行时

By the end of the month I will have been depending on my parents for twenty years．

含有情态动词的名言

The cleverest housewife cannot cook a meal without rice. 巧妇难为无米之炊。

A good marksman may miss. 智者千虑,必有一失。

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. 我们必须接受有限的失望，但我们绝不可失去无限的希望。（Martin Luther King马丁·路德·金）

Books and friends should be few but good. 读书如交友,应求少而精。

3.含有被动语态的名言

一般现在时

Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.

一般过去时

Rome was not built in a day.

一般将来时

Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.

现在完成时

the most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

情态动词 A man must not be judged by his appearance, just as the ocean cannot be measured in gallons.

含虚拟语气的名言

Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

If things were to be twice, all would be wise.

含不定式的名言

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Not to advance is to go back.

含动名词的名言

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.

Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

含现在分词的名言

Diligence is the path leading to happiness.

Running water does not get stale.

Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

含过去分词的名言

The overturned cart ahead is warning to the carts behind.

Don’t go off half-cooked. Take time for wise planning. But don’t take forever.

Don’t live on the borrowed opinions of the other men.

词法

含所有格的名言

A man’s story is no story, hear both sides.

Children are the parents’ riches.

A strong man will struggle with storms of fate.

含名词复数的名言

Lookers-on see more than players.

New-born calves don’t fear wolves.

Behind the mountains there are people to be found.

含形容词的名言

Good medicine tastes bitter to the mouth, but is good for a disease.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Let the dead bury the dead.

含副词的名言

Pleasant hours fly fast.

Lightly come, lightly go.

Courtesy on one side lasts not long.

含代词的名言

A fall into a pit, a gain in your wit.

Everything is good for something.

Happy as a lark, gentle as a dove, that’s the kind of girl everyone will love.

含it的用法的名言

Be slow to make a promise, but swift to keep it.

Although it rains, not throw away your watering pot.

It is hard to please all.

含介词的名言

Better rely on yourself than look to others for help.

If I have seen further than most men, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

基础句型

含系表结构的名言

If you work hard enough, your dreams will come true.

Now is now, and then was then.

All shall be well, Jack shall have Jill.

含主谓结构的名言

A man can die but once.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Truth will prevail.

含动宾结构的名言

True love shows itself in time of need.

The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.最好的马儿要人驯,最伶俐的孩子要教。

A word spoken is past recalling.

含双宾语结构的名言

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of himself again.

Give me a chance, and I will take on the world.

含宾补结构的名言

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.