智者的犀利较量：名言的交错配列艺术

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交错配列（Chiasmus）是指在两个不同的并列句子中，第二个是第一个的颠倒排列 (a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases)。一个著名的例子是西塞罗的“吃饭是为了活着，但活着并不是为了吃饭。”（Eat to live, but not live to eat.）

交错配列常出现在名言中，历史上有很多智者名人的名言中都使用到这个语言艺术。从总统到思想家到作家还有草根人士，大家都在用：

总统队

约翰·肯尼迪: And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

因此，我的美国朋友们：别问你们的国家能为你们做些什么，而要问你能为你们的国家做些什么。

亚伯拉罕·林肯： It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

迄今，关于世界的历史，人们一直说强权即公理，现在应该让我们，让我们这个时代，来颠倒这种说法，让我们说：公理即强权。

罗纳德·里根： Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.

各国不相互怀疑是因为它们拥有武装，而它们拥有武装是因为它们相互怀疑。

约翰·肯尼迪:  Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

人类不结束战争，战争就会结束人类。

比尔·克林顿： As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

因为我们完全拥有这个国家，我们会用先例的权利来领导它，但要有准备，在必要时，我们创造权利的先例。

亚伯拉罕·林肯： It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

你可以一时骗过所有的人，也可以在所有时间里骗过一些人，但不能在所有时间里骗过所有的人。

乔治·蓬皮杜： A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

政治家是将自己放到他为国家服务的位置上的政客，而政客是将自己放到国家为他服务的位置上的政治家。

吉米·卡特： America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.

美国没有发明人权，其实，人权造就了美国。

富兰克林·罗斯福: We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

我们不能总是为我们的青年造就美好未来，但我们能够为未来造就我们的青年一代。

伍德罗·威尔逊： I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

我宁愿在终将成功的事业中遭受失败，也不愿在必定失败的事业里享受成功！

思想家队

弗朗西斯·培根： If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty.

若一确信而始者，将止于怀疑；而一怀疑而始者，将止于确信。

巴鲁克·斯宾诺莎： Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear.

害怕时不会没有期望，期望时也不会没有害怕。

伯纳德·巴鲁克： Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

不要在乎那些介意我们的人，也不要介意那些在乎我们的人。

本杰明·迪斯雷利： Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.

行动不会总是带来幸福……但不付出行动就肯定不会有幸福。

莱奥纳多·达·芬奇： 绘画是看得见听不着的诗，而诗是听得见却看不着的绘画。

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

哈维洛克·艾利斯： Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

魅力是女人的力量，正如力量是男人的魅力。

西塞罗： Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

不受教育的天赋才能要比没有天赋才能的教育更容易培养出尊敬与高尚的人。

老子： 祸兮福所倚，福兮祸所伏。

Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.