道林·格雷 Dorian Gray 精講之三

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王爾德名言

 

* 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傳，女人的面容是她的幻想作品。

* 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.

時尚就是一種丑，丑得我們無法忍受，以至每不到六個月就必須換一次。

* Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.

壞女人給我麻煩。好女人令我厭煩。這就是她們唯一的不同。

* It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

個性善良不如長相美麗，不過個性善良總比生得丑好。

* I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

我喜歡人甚于原則，我喜歡沒有原則的人勝于全世界。

* Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

結婚是想象戰(zhàn)勝了理智，再婚是希望戰(zhàn)勝了經驗。

* To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

愛自己是終身浪漫的開始。

* The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

浪漫的精髓就在于它充滿種種可能。

* I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.

我不想謀生，我想生活。

* To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

活著是珍貴的，大多數人只是存在，僅此而已。

* What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

一個憤世嫉俗的人，知道所有事物的價格，而不知道任何事物的價值。

* Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

男人結婚是因為疲倦，女人結婚是因為好奇，結果雙方大失所望。

* Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

女人是用來愛的，不是用來被理解的。

* Only the shallow know themselves.

只有膚淺的人了解自己。

* Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

平常的財寶會被偷走，而真正的財富則不會。你靈魂里無限珍貴的東西是無法被奪走的。

* A true friend stabs you in the front.

真朋友才會當面中傷你。

* All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

我想所有迷人的人都是被溺愛的，這是他們吸引力來源的秘密。

* One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

一個人總是可以善待他毫不在意的人。

* The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

情感的好處就是讓我們誤入歧途。

* How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

女人如何能期望會從男人那里獲得幸福，如果他堅持把她當作一個完全正常的人。

* I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

我喜歡有未來的男人和有過去的女人。

* Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

男女之間不可能存在友誼，有的只是愛恨情仇。

* 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.

我年青時以為金錢至上，而今年事已邁，發(fā)現(xiàn)果真如此。

* When one is in love, one always begins by deceiveing one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would calls a romance.

戀愛總是以自欺開始，以欺人結束。

* The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it...I can resist everything but temptation.

擺脫誘惑的唯一方式是臣服于誘惑……我能抗拒一切，除了誘惑。