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王尔德语录中英对照
【第1句】:Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative。谈论天气是无趣人类最后的避难所。
【第2句】:One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.真实生活就通常就是我们无法掌控的生活。
【第3句】:Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others。邪恶是善良的人们编造的谎言,用来解释其他人的特殊魅力。
【第4句】:Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography。现在每个伟人都有自己的信徒,而他们的传记总由叛徒来写。
【第5句】:The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.愚人创造了这个世界,智者不得不活在其中。
【第6句】:Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.男人因疲倦而结婚,女人因好奇而结婚;最终他们都会失望。( 文章阅读网:www.sanwen.net )
【第7句】:The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.已婚者的快乐来自那些他没有娶的人。
【第8句】:Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building。20年的韵事使女人变成一片废墟,20年的婚姻使女人变成一座公共建筑。
【第9句】:When a woman marries again,it is because she detested her first husband.When a man marries again,it is because he adored his first wife.女人再嫁是因为憎恶前夫,男人再娶是因为太爱前妻。
【第10句】:Men become old, but they never become good.人们越长越老,但绝不会越变越好。
【第11句】:The evolution of man is slow、The injustice to man is great.人类的进化很缓慢。他们遭受的不公待遇显而易见。
【第12句】:Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed、It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.对富有的单身汉应该客以重税。让某些人比其他人更快乐是不公平的。
【第13句】:The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.情感的好处就是让我们引入歧途,而科学的好处是不感情用事。
【第14句】:I adore simple pleasures、They are the last refuge of the complex.我敬佩简单的快乐,那是复杂的最后避难所。
【第15句】:Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.除了感官,什么也不能治灵魂的创痛,同样,感官的饥渴也只有灵魂解除得了。
【第16句】:A good name, like good will, is got by many action and lost by one.一个好的名声,就像好的意向一样,在很多个举动的形成,在一个举动中失去。
【第17句】:It is absurd to divide people in to good and bad、People are either charming or tedious.-Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act I把人分成好的与坏的是荒谬的,人要么迷人,要么乏味。-《温夫人的扇子》
【第18句】:Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.-The Sphinx Without a Secret。女人是用来被爱的,不是用来被理解的。-《没有秘密的斯芬克斯》
【第19句】:Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.艺术并非模仿生活,而是生活在模仿艺术。
【第20句】:Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.每个人生来都是君王,但大多数在流亡中死去。
【第21句】:When I was young , I used to think that money was the most important thing in life , now that I am old , I know it is.我年青时以为金钱至上,而今年事已迈,发现果真如此。
【第22句】:Don’t be afraid of the past、If people tell you that it is irrevocable, don’t believe them.不要惧怕过去。如果人们告诉你说过去的事情无可挽回,别相信他们。
【第23句】:An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.一个思想若称不上危险,那么它就不值得被称作思想。
【第24句】:Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.争论是俗不可耐的,因为道德社会里每个人都持完全相同的观点。
【第25句】:Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.死亡和庸俗是十九世纪仅有的无法用巧辩逃避的东西。
【第26句】:Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.爱国是恶人的美德。
【第27句】:Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.每次人们赞同我的时候,我都觉得自己一定错了。
【第28句】:I am not at all romantic、I am not old enough、I leave romance to my seniors.我一点都不浪漫。我还不算太老。还是把浪漫留给比我老的人吧。
【第29句】:Wicked women bother one、Good women bore one、That is the only difference between them.坏女人给我麻烦。好女人令我厌烦。这就是她们唯一的不同。
【第30句】:Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.每个人犯了错误,都自称是经验。
【第31句】:And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World (November 1887)时尚是一种让人难以忍受的丑陋,以至于我们不得不每六个月就更改一次。
【第32句】:A man’s face is his autobiography、A woman’s face is her work of fiction.男人的面孔是他的自传,女人的面容是她的幻想作品。
【第33句】:There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life、The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.女人的生活中只有一个真正的悲剧:她总在缅怀过去,却必须活在未来。
【第34句】:We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.我们教给人们如何记忆,却从来不教他们如何成长。
【第35句】:Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.-The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)任何人都能对朋友的不幸感到同情,但要消受一个春风得意的朋友,则需要非常优良的天性。-《社会主义下人的灵魂》