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王爾德語錄中英對照版(2)
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
邪惡是善良的人們編造的謊言,用來解釋其他人的特殊魅力。
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography
現在每個偉人都有自己的信徒,而他們的傳記總由叛徒來寫。
The world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it.
愚人創造了這個世界,智者不得不活在其中。
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人因疲倦而結婚,女人因好奇而結婚;最終他們都會失望。
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
已婚者的快樂來自那些他沒有娶的人。
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building.
20年的韻事使女人變成一片廢墟,20年的婚姻使女人變成一座公共建筑。
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. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
女人再嫁是因為憎惡前夫,男人再娶是因為太愛前妻。
——女人再嫁是因為討厭原來的丈夫,男人再娶是因為太愛原來的妻子。在尋找配偶時,女人習慣碰運氣,而男人則會冒險。
Men become old, but they never become good.
人們越長越老,但絕不會越變越好。
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice to man is great.
人類的進化很緩慢。他們遭受的不公待遇顯而易見。
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
對富有的單身漢應該客以重稅。讓某些人比其他人更快樂是不公平的。
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
情感的好處就是讓我們引入歧途,而科學的好處是不感情用事。
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
我敬佩簡單的快樂,那是復雜的最后避難所。
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
除了感官,什么也不能治靈魂的創痛,同樣,感官的饑渴也只有靈魂解除得了。
A good name, like good will, is got by many action and lost by one.
一個好的名聲,就像好的意向一樣,在很多個舉動的形成,在一個舉動中失去。
It is absurd to divide people in to good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
把人分成好的與壞的是荒謬的,人要么迷人,要么乏味。
-《溫夫人的扇子》
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
-The Sphinx Without a Secret
女人是用來被愛的,不是用來被理解的。
-《沒有秘密的斯芬克斯》
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
藝術并非模仿生活,而是生活在模仿藝術。
Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.
每個人生來都是君王,但大多數在流亡中死去。
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,發現果真如此。
Don't be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, don't believe them.
不要懼怕過去。如果人們告訴你說過去的事情無可挽回,別相信他們。
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
一個思想若稱不上危險,那么它就不值得被稱作思想。
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
爭論是俗不可耐的,因為道德社會里每個人都持完全相同的觀點。
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紀僅有的無法用巧辯逃避的東西。
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
愛國是惡人的美德。
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
每次人們贊同我的時候,我都覺得自己一定錯了。
I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors.
我一點都不浪漫。我還不算太老。還是把浪漫留給比我老的人吧。
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。
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
每個人犯了錯誤,都自稱是經驗。
——經驗是一個人給自己所犯的錯誤取的名字。
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)
時尚是一種讓人難以忍受的丑陋,以至于我們不得不每六個月就更改一次。
——時裝丑陋得完全令人無法容忍,以至于我們必須每6個月就改變它的樣式。
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。
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個真正的悲劇:她總在緬懷過去,卻必須活在未來。
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
我們教給人們如何記憶,卻從來不教他們如何成長。
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)
任何人都能對朋友的不幸感到同情,但要消受一個春風得意的朋友,則需要非常優良的天性。
-《社會主義下人的靈魂》
"If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female."
-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
如果一個女人不能讓她犯的錯誤變得迷人,她就只是一個雌性動物。
-《亞瑟·薩維爾勛爵的罪行》
"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
大多數男人和女人被強迫扮演他們沒有能力扮演的角色。我們的吉爾登斯吞為我們演哈姆雷特,而我們的哈姆雷特必須像霍爾王子一樣來說笑。這個世界是個舞臺,但角色被分配得很糟糕。
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