Between the ideal and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Falls the shadow.
Thomas Stearns Eliot,
British Poet and critic
理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。 英国诗人、批评家 爱略特，T，S。

Do not, for one repulse,
give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Wilwww.rixia.ccliam Shakespeare, British dramatist
不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。 英国剧作家 莎士比亚 W

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.?
Mark Twain. American writer
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。 马克 吐温
Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. R. Peters
人生应该树立目标，否则你的精力会白白浪费。美国法学家波得斯，R。

Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction;
without direction, there is no life.
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer?
理想是指路明灯。没有理想，没有坚定的方向；没有方向，没有生活。俄国作家 托尔斯泰。

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? P. B. Shelley, British poet
冬天来了，春天还会远吗？ 英国诗人 雪莱，P.B.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist
如果你不怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。 挪威剧作家 易卜生

If you would go up high, then use your own legs!
Do not? let yourselves carried aloft;
do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads.
F. W. Nietzsche, German Philosopher
如果你想走到高处，就要使用自己的两条腿！
不要让别人把你抬到高处；不要坐在别人的背上和头上。

It is at our mother's knee that
we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals,
but there is seldom any money in them.
Mark Twain. American writer
就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了我们的最高尚、
最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有任何金钱。 马克吐温

The ideals which have lighted my way,
and time after time have given me new courage to face
life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty and truth.
Albert Einstein, American scientist
有些理想曾为我引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是——真、善、美。 美国科学家 爱因斯坦.A.

我这里有一首关于梦想的英文诗，不知道对你有没有帮助？
Dreams
(Langston Hughes)
Hold fast to dreams
For it dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

翻译：
梦想
兰斯通`休斯
千万不能丢掉梦想，
因为假如梦想破灭
生活就像小鸟断了翅膀，
再也不能展翅飞翔。

千万不能丢掉梦想，
因为梦想一旦离去
生活就像冬天的田野那样荒凉，
冰封大地白雪茫茫。

Dreams(梦想)
Hold
fast
to
dreams
紧紧抓住梦想
For
if
dreams
die
梦想若是消亡
Life
is
a
broken-winged
bird
生命就象鸟儿折了翅膀
That
can
never
fly
再也不能飞翔
Hold
fast
to
dreams
紧紧抓住梦想，
For
when
dreams
go
梦想若是消丧
Life
is
a
barren
field
生命就象贫瘠的荒野，
Frozen
only
with
snow
雪覆冰封，万物不再生长

Never give up,
Never lose hope.
Always have faith,
It allows you to cope.
Trying times will pass,
As they always do.
Just have patience,
Your dreams will come true.
So put on a smile,
You’ll live through your pain.
Know it will pass,
And strength you will gain.

永不放弃，
永不心灰意冷。
永存信念，
它会使你应付自如。
难捱的时光终将过去，
一如既往。
只要有耐心，
梦想就会成真。
露出微笑，
你会走出痛苦。
相信苦难定会过去，
你将重获力量。

Dreams
梦想
----by Langston Hughes
----作者：兰司敦修司

A Psalm of Life
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined and our way;But to act,
That much to-morrow.
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and time is fleeting.
And our hearts,
though stout and brave. Still,
like muffled drums, are beating,
Funeral marches to the grave。
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,Be not like dumb,
driven cattle!Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no future.howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,act in the living Present!
Let us,then,be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving,
still pursuing,Learn to labour and to wait.
(人生礼颂)
请别用哀伤的诗句对我讲；
人生呵，无非是虚梦一场因为沉睡的灵魂如死一般，
事物的表里并不一样。
人生是实在的！人生是热烈的！
人生的目标决不是坟墓；
你是尘土，应归于尘土。
此话指的并不是我们的精神。
我们的归宿并不是快乐，也不是悲伤，
实干，才是我们的道路，每天不断前进，蒸蒸蒸日上。
光阴易逝，而艺海无涯，我们的心哪——虽然勇敢坚强，
却像被布蒙住的铜鼓，常把殡葬的哀乐擂响。
在这人生的宿营地，在这辽阔的世界战场，
别做无言的牲畜任人驱赶，做一名英雄汉立马横枪！
别相信未来，哪怕未来多么欢乐
！让死去的往昔将死亡一切埋葬！上帝在上，
我们胸怀勇气，让我们起来干吧，下定决心，
不管遭遇怎样；不断胜利，
不断追求，要学会苦干和耐心等待。

Ideal It is our vision to rock and win their spark; Vision is to fire, lit the lights went out; It is our vision to light, night light the way; Vision is the road you come to the dawn of primers. Age of exposure or starvation, is the ideal food and clothing; Food and clothing of the era, the ideals of civilization. During displacement, the ideal is stability; The era of stability, the ideal of prosperity. Ideals such as pearls, attached with a 1 up, Through past and the present, the next string, Yingying endless light. Beautiful pearl chain, the backbone of history, According to this ancient, according www.rixia.ccto this, according to descendants of ancestors. Ideal is a compass to guide the direction of the ship; Is the ideal ship, carrying out your travels. However, sometimes the ideal is a Haitian相吻arc, Can not be expected that afflicts the heart of your enterprise. Ideal to make you smile, life observation; Ideal for you to resist the fate of stubborn. Ideal to make you forget the long white hair on the temples; Ideal so that you are still naive white head. Is the ideal alarm clock, crack your dreams of gold; Is the ideal soap, washing your自私心. Is an ideal acquisition, The ideal is a kind of sacrifice. Ideal if you honor, It is merely a by-product of it, And more solitude brought about by misunderstanding, Solitude in the laughter, laughter in the酸辛. Ideal for those who often, unfortunately, so honest; Ideal so that the less fortunate survive. Ordinary people and the great ideals; Are the ideals of a "capital of the people." It was the world's total abandonment of the ideals, Ideal has never abandoned anyone日夏养花网. To the sinner a new life, the ideal is to revive the stalls; Call return of a prodigal son, the ideal is a loving mother. 被玷污ideal, and do not have resentment, It was the devil in the test of your faith...

heraclitus

The furthest distance in the world
Is not between life and death
But when I stand in front of you
Yet you don't know that I love you.

The furthest distance in the world
Is not when I stand in front of you
Yet you can't see my love
But when undoubtedly knowing the love from both
Yet cannot
Be together.

The furthest distance in the world
Is not being apart while being in love
But when plainly can not resist the yearning
Yet pretending You have never been in my heart.

The furthest distance in the world
Is not
But using one's indifferent heart
To dig an uncrossable river
For the one who loves you.

by Rabindranath Tagore

UnitOneHowDoesaPoemWork?
　　Section1LineArrangementandAppreciation
　　Section2WordsandMeanings
　　Section3InversionandForegrounding
　　Section4RecurrenceandPatterning
　　UnitTwoTheTechniquesofVerse
　　Section1Rhythm
　　Section2Meter
　　Section3Rhyme
　　Section4Sound
　　UnitThreeComponentsofPoetry
　　Section1Speaker
　　Section2Setting
　　Section3SubjectandTheme
　　UnitFourSenseofPoetry
　　Section1AbstractionandConcretion
　　Section2ImageandImagery
　　UnitFiveFigurativeLanguage
　　Section1TheLiteralandtheFigurative
　　Section2SimileandMetaphor
　　Section3Personification
　　Section4Symbols
　　Section5IronyandSatire
　　GlossaryofPoeticTerms
　　KeytoExercises
　　Bibliography

颂歌（写于1819年10月，西班牙人重获自由之前）

Arise, arise, arise!
There is blood on the earth that denies ye bread;
Be your wounds like eyes
To weep for the dead, the dead, the dead.
What other grief were it just to pay?
Your sons, your wives, your brethren, were they;
Who said they were slain on the battle day?
起来，起来，起来吧！
不给你们面包的土地流着血水；
让你们的伤口象眼睛
为那死去的、为那死去的落泪。
还有什么方法能倾泻你们的悲伤？
那岂不是你们的儿子、妻子、兄弟，
说他们被杀死，在战斗的日子里？

Awaken, awaken, awaken!
The slave and the tyrant are twin-born foes;
Be the cold chains shaken
To the dust where your kindred repose, rfwFbiWsepose:
Their bones in the grave will start and move,
When they hear the voices of those they love,
Most loud in the holy combat above.
醒来，醒来，醒来呵！
奴隶和暴君原是双生的仇敌；
把冰冷的枷锁打落
在你们的亲人安息的尘土里；
他们的尸骨会怎样惊醒和跃动，
一旦听到他们所爱的人的歌唱
在这神圣的战斗中最为高昂！

Wave, wave high the banner!
When Freedom is riding to conquest by:
Though the slaves that fan her
Be Famine and Toil, giving sigh for sigh.
And ye who attend her imperial car,
Lift not your hands in the banded 日夏养花网war,
But in her defence whose children ye are.
V1：高高地，高高举起旗帜！
自由女神在驰骋，朝向着胜利：
尽管那侍奉她的仆人
是“饥饿”和“苦辛”，以叹息还叹息。
而你们，她庄严的车驾的从者呵，
别为那合伙的打劫伸手支援，
你们是自由之子，只为她而战。

Glory, glory, glory,
To those who have greatly suffered and done!
Never name in story
Was greater than that which ye shall have won.
Conquerors have conquered their foes alone,
Whose revenge, pride, and power they have overthrown
Ride ye, more victorious, over your own.
V1：光荣，光荣，多么光荣！
谁要是为她受苦，死在沙场！
历史上没有一个名字
能比你们将要赢得的更为辉煌。
过去的征服者所以征服了敌人，
不过克制他们的仇恨、骄傲、威力。
但你们呵，对敌人将有更多的胜利。

Bind, bind every brow
With crownals of violet, ivy, and pine:
Hide the blood-stains now
With hues which sweet Nature has made divine:
Green strength, azure hope, and eternity:
But let not the pansy among them be;
Ye were injured, and that means memory.
V1：哦，给每人的额角扎上
紫罗兰、常春藤、和松枝的冠冕；
用大自然所崇奉的
优美的彩色遮住那点点血斑：
青色的力量，蔚蓝的希望和永恒；
一切都要，只是不要忧伤的紫堇，
你们受过凌辱，那会使记忆刺心。

（1819年）

　　为你奉上一首中英文版本的关于梦想的诗歌，请你参考：
　　我们的梦想和发展方向不要让别人来决定。如若准许别人对我们予以限定，那么我们就会处于别人的掌控下。我们的梦想从来就不是别人的，它只属于我们自己。
　　Leave the excess baggage of yesterday's mistakes and dare to enter into all the tomorrow. Leave yesterday to hisory and resolve to begin fresh each new day daring to make dreams become a reality.
　　放下昨日错误的重负，勇敢地融入明日的生活。将昨日载入史册，满怀信心地迎接每个新日子的到来，努力将理想变为现实。
　　Dreams cannot be bought, sold, nor traded. Dreams are the part of us that no one else can claim right to posses. Dreams are what keep life full of passion and vitality!
　　我们的梦想不能买卖，也不能用它做任何交易。梦想是我们生命的组成部分，其他任何人都无权占有。梦想能使生命激情四溢，活力无限。
　　Do not allow others to define who we are or what our desires may be. When we allow others to define our boundaries, we become the limits others have imposed upon us. Our dreams are our own and belong to no one else.
　　我们的梦想和发展方向不要让别人来决定。如若准许别人对我们予以限定，那么我们就会处于别人的掌控下。我们的梦想从来就不是别人的，它只属于我们自己。
　　Never admit defeat to a wasted life by forsaking your dreams!
　　永远不要觉得你征服了虚无的生命而将自己的梦想放弃。
　　Life is sweetened by friendships we encounter along the highways that journey into our dreams.
　　友谊可以滋养我们的生命，而它正是在我们追随梦想的路上获得的。
　　Dreams are complex and take years to accomplish, while holding onto the simplicity of a very young child.
　　梦想是复杂的，它的实现需要一定的时间，而保有一颗纯朴的童心也是必要的。
　　Do not allow life and the demands of making a living force you to put dreams on hold.
　　切勿因疲于奔命而觉得难以承载梦想的重负。
　　Not just the successfully rich and famous have a right to their dreams. Chase after them as the wind!
　　梦想并不是富人和名人等成功人士的专利。让我们如风儿般去追随梦想吧！
　　The very fact that you are reading these words at this moment is the accomplishment of a dream come true. Since early childhood, I had a dream to write for others to read what I have written, wheter it is poetry or simple stories and ideas. I have not dreamed of fortune of fame, but only to be able to write in a manner that others can read and possibly make a different in their lives.
　　事实上，吟咏这些文字的此时，已是一个梦想实现的过程。孩提时，我就梦想这创作一些文字，杂诗也好，浅显的故事或随笔也罢，只要能供人赏阅就好。我没有获取财富和声誉的梦想，我只想使自己的写作风格为别人所接受，若可能，最好能让自己的作品对他人的生活有所影响。
　　People have a need to read, I have a need to create with words same as a musician creates music with instruments, or an artist paints his imaginations before our eyes.
　　人们有阅读的需求，我有文字创作的欲望，正像音乐家需乐器来演奏或艺术家需将想象力用画作的形式表达出来，展示在人们面前一样。
　　Please keep dreaming and never give up on yourself.
　　永不言弃，勇往直前地去梦想吧！