文档介绍:Mottoes of top universities
顶尖高校校训
Motto (箴言,家训,校训)
A motto is a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule for sensible behavior, especially a way of behaving in a particular situation.
Person
Family
University
Religious group
Education is not the filling a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
----William Butler Yeats
Ours is the Fury.
----House Baratheon
( A Song of Ice and Fire)
What we believe does not lie in the minds we thought, words we written, but the action we instantly perform.
----William
QS World University Rankings
Harvard University
Let Plato be your friend, and Aristotle, but more let your friend be truth.
与柏拉图为友,与亚里士多德为友,更要与真理为友。
Veritas,拉丁文,真理
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mens et Manus
Meaning: mind and hand
理论与实践
University of Cambridge
Hinc lucem et pocula sacra
From here, light and sacred draughts.
此地乃启蒙之所,智识之源
University of Oxford
Dominus Illumninatio Mea
Meaning: God is my light 主照亮我
Imperial London College
Scientia imperii decus et tutamen
Meaning : Knowledge is the adornment and safeguard of the Empire.
科学是帝国的光彩和守护者
University College London
Cuncti adsint meritaeque expectent praemia palmae
Meaning: Let all come who by merit most deserve reward.
让所有因其价值应得奖赏的人都来吧。