王尔德语录中英对照 必备93句
1. Words can not expretrue love,loyalty behavior is the best explanation。真正的爱情是不能用言语表达的,行为才是忠心的最好说明。
2. 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。
3. Do you not know I am a woman?When I think,I must speak。你难道不知道我是女人?我心里想什么,就会说出来。
4. 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。
5. The empty vessels make the greatest sound。满瓶不响,半瓶咣当。
6. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep。静水深流。
7. So is the will of a living daughter curb’d by the will of a dead father。一个活生生的女人的意愿,却被过世的父亲的遗嘱所限。
8. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.爱国是恶人的美德。
9. The time of life is short,to spend that shortness basely,it would be too long。人生苦短,若虚度年华,则短暂的人生就太长了。
10. 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。
11. Blow,winds,and crack cheeks!Rage!Blow!吹吧!风啊!吹破你的脸颊,猛烈地吹吧!
12. dictate [5dikteit] n.[常用复]命令,支配
13. Love’s not love when it is mingled with regards that stands aloof from the entire point。爱情里面要是搀杂了和它本身无关的算计,那就不是真的爱情。
14. 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。
15. No man or woman is worth your tears,and the one who is,won’t make you cry。没有人值得你流泪,值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。
16. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow。一只麻雀的生死都是命运预先注定的。
17. I would like now to seriously indifferent room of wonderful。我只想现在认真过的精彩无所谓好与坏。
18. There are more things in heaven and earth,Horatio,than are dreamt of in your philosophy。天地之间有许多事情,是你的睿智所无法想象的。
19. 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。
20. bidding [5bidiN] n.命令,吩咐
21. Why should a dog,a horse,a rat,have life,and thou no breath at all?为什么一条狗,一匹马,一只耗子都有生命,而你却没有一丝的呼吸。
22. Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her look like a public building。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。
23. 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。
24. O,curse of marriage,that we can call these delicate creatures ours,and not their appetites!啊!婚姻的烦恼!我们可以把这些可爱的人儿据为己有,却无法掌控她们的各种欲望。
25. 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。
26. 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》
27. 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。
28. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind。如果送礼的人不是出于真心,再贵重的礼物也会失去它的价值。
29. There is nothing either good or bad,but thinking makes it so。世上之事物本无善恶之分,思想使然。
30. Men become old, but they never become good.人们越长越老,但绝不会越变越好。
31. perplexity [p[5pleksiti] n.困惑;窘困
32. Good name in man and woman,dear my lord,is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash;’tis something,nothing。无论男人女人,名誉是他们灵魂中最贴心的珍宝,如果有人偷走了我的钱袋,他不过偷走了一些废物,那不过是些毫无价值的东西罢了。
33. 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。
34. analects [5An[lekts] n.论集,文选
35. 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。
36. It is not enough to help the feeble up,but to support him after。仅仅把弱者扶起来是不够的,还要在他站起来之后支持他。
37. Ignorance is the curse of God,Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven。无知乃是罪恶,知识乃是我们藉以飞向天堂的翅膀。
38. Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.每个人犯了错误,都自称是经验。
39. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is to have a thankless child。逆子无情甚于蛇蝎。
40. Nothing will come of nothing。一无所有只能换来一无所有。
41. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit。宁为聪明的愚夫,不做愚蠢的才子。
42. 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 )
43. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold。美貌比金银更容易引起歹心。
44. O,it is excellent to have a giant’s strength;but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant。有巨人的力量固然好,但像巨人那样滥用力量就是一种残暴行为。
45. docile [5dEusail] a.驯顺的,驯良的
46. Love to talk about a bit of a surprise to people to learn the total patient injury。谈一场恋爱,学会了忍耐,总有些意外,会让人受伤害。
47. If you understand the value of love and love you have given me I have to wait for the future。只要你明白,珍惜爱与被爱,我愿意等待,你给我的未来。
48. 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》
49. You gods divine!Make Cressida’s name the very crown of falsehood,if ever she leave Troilus。神明啊!要是有一天克瑞西达背叛特罗里斯,那么就让她的名字永远被人唾骂吧!
50. Shall I compear thee to summers day。能否让我来把你比作夏日。
51. 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。
52. 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。
53. Some rise by sin,and some by virtue fall。有些人因罪恶而升迁,有些人因德行而没落。
54. A light heart lives long。豁达者长寿。
55. 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。
56. 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。
57. 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。
58. There is a history in all men’s lives。所有人的生活里都有一部历史。
59. Love is a woman with the ears,and if the men will love,but love is to use your eyes。女人是用耳朵恋爱的,而男人如果会产生爱情的话,却是用眼睛来恋爱。
60. We cannot all be masters,nor all masters cannot be truly followed。不是每个人都能做主人,也不是每个主人都能值得仆人忠心的服侍。
61. 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。
62. Things base and vile,holding no quantity,love can transpose to from and dignity:love looks not with the eyes,but with mind。卑贱和劣行在爱情看来都不算数,都可以被转化成美满和庄严:爱情不用眼睛辨别,而是用心灵来判断/爱用的不是眼睛,而是心。
63. 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。
64. 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。
65. The course of true love never did run smooth。真诚的爱情之路永不会是平坦的。
66. Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit。爱情是盲目的,恋人们看不到自己做的傻事。
67. Truth needs no colour;beauty,no pencil。真理不需色彩,美丽不需涂饰。
68. Do not,for one repulse,give up the purpose that you resolved to effect。不要只因一次失败,就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。
69. 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。
70. The rest is silence。余下的只有沉默。
71. 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。
72. The retention will never give up。该放弃的决不挽留。
73. The lunatic,the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact。疯子、情人、诗人都是想象的产儿。
74. O,she dothe teach the torches to burn bright!啊!火炬不及她那么明亮。
75. A proud man,the result is always the pride in his own destruction。一个骄傲的人,结果总是在骄傲里毁灭了自己。
76. What’s in a name?That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet。名字中有什么呢?把玫瑰叫成别的名字,它还是一样的芬芳。
77. 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》
78. Can not be friends after breaking up,because the two sides hurt。分手后不可以做朋友,因为彼此伤害过。
79. O,what may man within him hide,though angel on the outward side!唉!一个人外表可以装得像天使,但却可能把自己掩藏在内心深处!
80. 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。
81. Virtue is bold,and goodness never fearful。美德是勇敢的,善良从来无所畏惧。
82. 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。
83. The course of true love never did run smooth。真爱无坦途。
84. Beauty!Where is thy faith?美貌!你的真诚在何方?
85. 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。
86. O,beware,my lord,of jealousy;it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on。主帅啊,当心你会嫉妒,那可是一只绿眼的妖魔,它惯于耍弄爪下的猎物。
87. 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。
88. 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。
89. No matter how long night,the arrival of daylight Association。黑夜无论怎样悠长,白昼总会到来。
90. 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。
91. This above all:to thine self be true。最重要的是,你必须对自己忠实。
92. 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。
93. I’ll pray a thousand prayers for thy death but no word to save thee。我要千遍祷告让你死,也不祈求一字救你命。