男人和女人Men/Women[英语名人名言]
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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous1

 

In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently2 based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
-- Dave Barry

 

For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural3 condition.
-- Robert Briffault

 

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
-- Coty Perfume Ad

 

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar.
-- Jane Goodsell

 

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
-- Robert Graves

 

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry

 

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard

 

If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr

 

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring4 male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz

 

Women want mediocre5 men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead6

 

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken

 

Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken

 

Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken

 

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem

 

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling7 is satisfied by marriage.
-- Gloria Steinem

 

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett

 

If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber

 

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West

 

When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West

 

Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton

 

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde

 

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf

 

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy8 and dissected9 at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac


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1 anonymous lM2yp     
adj.无名的;匿名的;无特色的
参考例句:
  • Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
  • The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
2 apparently tMmyQ     
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
参考例句:
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
3 unnatural 5f2zAc     
adj.不自然的;反常的
参考例句:
  • Did her behaviour seem unnatural in any way?她有任何反常表现吗?
  • She has an unnatural smile on her face.她脸上挂着做作的微笑。
4 aspiring 3y2zps     
adj.有志气的;有抱负的;高耸的v.渴望;追求
参考例句:
  • Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
  • He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句
5 mediocre 57gza     
adj.平常的,普通的
参考例句:
  • The student tried hard,but his work is mediocre. 该生学习刻苦,但学业平庸。
  • Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代。
6 mead BotzAK     
n.蜂蜜酒
参考例句:
  • He gave me a cup of mead.他给我倒了杯蜂蜜酒。
  • He drank some mead at supper.晚饭时他喝了一些蜂蜜酒。
7 gambling ch4xH     
n.赌博;投机
参考例句:
  • They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
  • The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。
8 anatomy Cwgzh     
n.解剖学,解剖;功能,结构,组织
参考例句:
  • He found out a great deal about the anatomy of animals.在动物解剖学方面,他有过许多发现。
  • The hurricane's anatomy was powerful and complex.对飓风的剖析是一项庞大而复杂的工作。
9 dissected 462374bfe2039b4cdd8e07c3ee2faa29     
adj.切开的,分割的,(叶子)多裂的v.解剖(动物等)( dissect的过去式和过去分词 );仔细分析或研究
参考例句:
  • Her latest novel was dissected by the critics. 评论家对她最近出版的一部小说作了详细剖析。
  • He dissected the plan afterward to learn why it had failed. 他事后仔细剖析那项计划以便搞清它失败的原因。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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