Harry Potter's English Sentences Excerpt

Answer 1

Here are some English sentences from Harry Potter:
1.“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.”(It takes a lot of courage to stand up to your enemies, but it takes even more courage to stand up to your friends.)
2.“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”(There is no absolute good or evil in the world. The only difference is between the strong and the weak who can't tell the truth.)
3.“That suggests that what you fear most of all... is fear itself.”(What you fear the most is fear itself.)
4.“I would die, rather than betray my friends!”(I would rather die than betray my friends.)
5.“The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.”(The world is not divided into good people and bad people. Everyone has light and darkness in their hearts. What really matters is how we choose and who we are.)
6.“Sentimental children forever whining about how bitterly unfair your lives have been. Well，it may have escaped you notice, but life isn't fair.”You disappointing sentimental boy, you only know how to bitterly complain about how unfair life is. You may not have noticed, but life is unfair.)
7.“This was a man deeply loved, despite the love our people have died, also left us with a protective shield forever.”Being loved so deeply by someone, even if the person who loved us is dead, will leave us an eternal amulet.
8.“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices.”(What kind of person you want to be does not depend on your ability, but on your choice.)
9.“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”Don't rely on your dreams and forget to live.
10.“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the way we expect.”(The things we lose will always come back to us, though sometimes not in the way we want them to.)
11.“After all this time?”“Always.”("It's been so many years, and you're still like this?" "Always.")
12.“It really is like going to bed after a very, very long day. After all, to the well - organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.”(Death is actually like going to bed after a long day. Besides, to the clear-headed, death is just another great adventure.)
13.“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”It is our choice to show our true selves, which is more important than our abilities.
14.“Being rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”(Since I am much smarter than most people, my mistakes are correspondingly more serious.)
15.“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”(It is easy for people to forgive the mistakes of others, but hard to forgive the mistakes of others.)
16.“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”(When we face death and darkness, we fear nothing but the unknown.)
17.“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”(The truth is a beautiful and terrifying thing that needs to be treated with extreme caution.)
18.“Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”(Always use the correct name for things. Fear of a name will strengthen the fear of the thing itself.)
19.“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”Love cannot be made or imitated.
20.“The important things to remember when Apparating are the three Ds! Destination,Determination,Deliberation!”(It's important to remember that Disapparating follows the 3D principle! Target, determination, calmness!)
21.“They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim’s not an omen, it’s the cause of death!”(They were scared to death when they saw the bad omen. Ominous is not a bad omen, but the cause of death!)
22.“When one wizard saves another wizard’s life, it creates a certain bond between them... This is magic at its deepest, its most impenetrable, Harry.”A wizard saves another wizard's life. ... It was the highest and most impenetrable level of magic, Harry.)
23.“Great cause resentment and hatred, jealousy breeds jealousy breed lies.”(Greatness breeds resentment, resentment breeds jealousy, jealousy breeds lies.)
24.“But I forgot –another old man’s mistake – that some wounds run too deep for the healing.”(But I forgot another mistake of old people-some wounds are too deep to heal.)
25.“He was in such a hurry to mutilate his own soul, he never paused to understand the incomparable power of a soul that is untarnished and whole.”(He was so busy destroying his own soul that he had no time to understand the incomparable power of a pure and healthy soul.)
26.“Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.”Inestimable wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind.
27.“You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?”(Do you think the dead we loved will really leave us?)

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