2012年新年的脚步慢慢临近，新的一年寄予厚望，那么，名人们对新的一年又有什么看法呢？

1. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

我们将翻开这本书，他的每一页都是空白的。我们要在上面写我们的故事。这本书叫作《机遇》，而第一章就是《新年的第一天》。— Edith Lovejoy Pierce 伊迪丝·勒福乔·皮尔斯

2. Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get is right.

向新的一年欢呼，向一个能让我们重新开始的机会欢呼。— Oprah Winfrey 奥普拉·温弗瑞

3. Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

一年来到尽头，并不意味着结束或开始，而是一个过程，在这一过程中的经验不断为我们累计智慧。— Hal Borland 哈尔·伯兰德

4. The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

我们过新年的目的并不是为了迎接新的一年，而是迎接一个全新的自我。— G.K.Chestertom G.K.切斯特顿

5. Good resolutions are simply chechs that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

好的新年决心是无需花费分文就可以得到的资产。— Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡·王尔德

6. Today a new sun rises fo me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everyting invites me to cherish it.

今天，新的旭日为我升起，万物生长，生机勃勃，一切都激发着我的激情，一切都让我如此珍惜。 — Anne De Lenclos 安妮·兰洛斯

7. Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

与恶习作战，与邻里友好相处，在新的一年里变得更加优秀。— Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林

8. What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.

新的一年带给你的收获很大程度上取决于在新的一年里你的付出。— Vern Mclellan 弗农·麦克莱伦