I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife;(在準備這次演講時，我不想大談那些貪圖安逸的人生哲學，而是想和你們談一下勤奮生活的道理——過艱苦奮斗的生活，過忙碌競爭的生活；)

Worldly life does not limit me to the spirit and the ideal of the pursuit. We have great hope alive, rather than humbly drag out an ignoble existence.(世俗的生活并不能限制我對精神和理想的追求。我們都希望偉大地活著，而不是卑賤地茍且偷生。)

The fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.(怕死就未免有些可鄙、有些不光彩了。)

He had not met an ignoble end; he was not cheated of a warrior's death.(他沒有就這么不體面地死去，他沒有被剝奪一個戰士應有的死法。)

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble USES of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.(高尚的生活需要高尚的建筑因為高尚的人。缺乏文明意味著并總是意味著：低下的文明會導致破滅。)

But in an old man who has known joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.(憂傷，而且成就了他力所能及的一切工作，就他來講，怕死就有些低賤而卑鄙了。)

He regards the soul as a mixture of fire and water, the fire being noble and the water ignoble.(他認為靈魂是火和水的混合物，火是高貴的而水是卑賤的。)

The ignorant fellow is ignoble.(那個無教養的家伙很可恥。)

Undoubtedly, as the representative of "Depraved Women", the ignoble profession of Mrs. Warren poses a huge challenge against the dominating patriarchy at that time.(毫無疑問，作為“墮落女性”的代表，華倫夫人所從事的不光彩的職業是對當時父權制的一個巨大挑戰。)

One's character, noble or ignoble, is entirely dertermined by his own ill.(是使自己的人格偉大還是渺小，這完全仰仗這個人自己的意志。)

A West-Saxon house which, two generations back, had been undistinguished, perhaps ignoble.