基础写作讲义：句子分四类
简单句 复合句 复杂句 复合复杂句
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Simple Sentences:
1>Dancing is silent poetry.
--Simonides
2>Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
--Honore D. Balzac
3>Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
--Ingrid Bergman
4>Well done is better than well said.
--Benjamin Franklin
5>A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
--John D. Rockfeller
6>Love is friendship set on fire.
--Jeremy Taylor
7>Reading plants, nourishes and grows ideas.
--William V. Dunning
8>A goal is a dream with a deadline.
--Unknown
9>Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
--Joseph Vonrad
10>Talent is long patience.
--Gustave Flubert
Compound Sentences:
1>You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
--Leon Trotsky
2>Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
--Thomas Jones
3>The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
--Emile Zola
4>Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions; it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
--Irving Kristol
5>I must follow the people, so am I not their leader?
--Benjamin Disraeli
6>Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women.
--Groucho Marx
7>Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
--William J. Bryan
8>Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
--Unknown
9>The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
--Richard Bach
10>Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
--Peter F. Drucker
Complex Sentences:
1>A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
--Sir Winston Churchill
2>Whether you think you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
--Henry Ford
3>A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
--Abba Eban
4>He who hesitates is a damned fool.
--Mae West
5>Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
--Sun Tsu
6>The average person thinks he isn't.
--Larry Lorenzoni
7>Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
8>The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
9>We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us.
--Unknown
10>He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
--Unknown
Compound-Complex Sentences:
1>The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
--H.G. Wells
2>A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
--Theodore Roosevelt
3>Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
--Albert Eistein
4>When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many worlds.
--Eric Booth
5>Tell me who your friend are and I'll tell you who you are.
--Unknown
6>Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
--Ralph W. Emerson
7>You must not judge each day by the harvest you reap, but rather you must judge by the seeds you plant.
--Unknown
8>It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare they are difficult.
--Seneca
9>Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities, but they vary in their desires to reach their potential.
10>One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
--Marie Currie
