capture-外心
王尔德（
Oscar
Wilde
，
1854-1900
）不仅是诗人、小说家，剧作
家、批评家，而且是有史以
来敢于承认自己是天才的天才之一。他在进纽约海关时对海关
官员说：
“除了天才之外，
我没有什么可申报的。”（“I have
nothing to declare except my genius.”）
A cynic is a man who knows
the price of everything and the value of nothing.
愤世嫉俗者是一个知道所有东西的价格、却不知道它们的价值
的人。
A
dreamer
is
one
who
can
only
find
his
way
by
moonlight,
and
his
punishment
is
that
he sees the dawn before
the rest of the world.
梦想家只
能在月光下找到自己的路，他的惩罚是第一个看见黎明。
A
little
sincerity
is
a
dangerous
thing,
and
a
great
deal
of
it
is
absolutely
fatal.
不够真诚是危险的，太真诚则绝对是致命的。
A
man can't be too careful in the choice of his
enemies.
一个人在选择他的敌人时，再小心也不为过。
A
poet can survive everything but a misprint.
一个诗人什么都可以容忍，印刷错误除外。
All
women
become
like
their
mothers.
That
is
their
tragedy.
No
man
does.
That's
his.
所有女人都会变得像她们的母亲一样，
这是女人的悲剧。
但没有男人变得像他们的父亲，
这
是男人的悲剧。
Always forgive your
enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
永远要宽恕你的敌人。没有什么比这更能让他们心烦的了。
America
is
the
only
country
that
went
from
barbarism
to
decadence
without
civilization in between.
美国是唯一一个直接从野蛮进入颓废、中间没有经过文明阶段的社会。
Arguments are to be avoided; they are
always vulgar and often convincing.
要避免争论，争论总是俗不可耐，而且常常令人信服。
As
long
as
a
woman
can
look
ten
years
younger
than
her
own
daughter,
she
is
perfectly
satisfied.
只要一个女人看上去比她自己的女儿小十岁，她就一定会心满
意足。
Bad artists always admire each other's
work.
糟糕的画家总是欣赏彼此的作品。
Between men and
women there is no friendship possible. There is
passion, enmity,
worship, love, but no
friendship.
男女之间不可能存在友谊，有的只是爱恨情仇。
Conscience and cowardice are really the
same things.
良心和怯懦其实是一回事。
Dammit
sir,
it's
your
duty
to
get
married.
You
can't
be
always
living
for
pleasure.
该死，先生，结婚是你的职责，你不能总是逍遥快活。
Democracy means
simply the
bludgeoning of the
people by
the people for
the people.
民主就是指人民用人民的大头棒打击人民。
Don't give a woman advice; one should
never give a woman anything she can't wear
in the evening.
不要给女人忠告；决不要给女人任何她晚上不能穿戴的东西。
Education is an admirable thing, but it
is well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth knowing can be
taught.
教育是一件可敬的事，但要时刻牢记，没有
什么值得知道的事是教得会的。
Experience is the name
every one gives to their mistakes.
经验是一个人给自己所犯的错误取的名字。
Fashion
is
a
form
of
ugliness
so
intolerable
that
we
have
to
alter
it
every
six
months.
时装丑陋得完全令人无法容忍，以至于我们必须每
6
个月就改变它的样式。
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.
女人如何能期望会从男人那里获得幸福，如果他坚持把她当作一个完全正常的人。
I adore political parties. They are the
only place left to us where people don't
talk politics.
我喜欢政治晚会，这是唯一人们不谈政治的地方。
I
am not young enough to know everything.
我还没有年轻到什么都懂的地步。
I
am
so
clever
that
sometimes
I
don’t
understand
a
single
word
of
what
I’m
saying.
我简直太聪明了，有时连我自己都不知道自己在说什么。
I
can resist everything except temptation.
我可以抗拒一切，诱惑除外。
I
have made an important discovery…that alcohol,
taken in sufficient quantities,
produces all the effects of
intoxication.
我有一个重大发现——如果摄
入足量酒精，就会产生各种陶醉的效果。
I
like
talking
to
a
brick
wall,
it's
the
only
thing
in
the
world
that
never
contradicts
me.
我喜欢对一堵墙说话，世界上只有它不会反驳我。
I
love acting. It is so much more real than life.
我喜欢演戏。与人生相比，演戏更真实。
I
often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had
breakfast in bed.
我经常锻炼。只是昨天我是在床上吃的早饭。
I
think that God, in creating Man, somewhat
overestimated his ability.
我想，上帝在创造人类时高估了他的能力。
I
was working on the proof of one of my poems all
morning, and took out a comma.
In the
afternoon I put it back again.
我整个早上都在校对自己的一首诗，我去掉了一个逗号。下午我又把它加了上去。
Ignorance is like a delicate flower:
touch it and the bloom is gone.
无知就像是一朵精致的花朵：摸一下，它就消失了。
In
this world there are only two tragedies. One is
not getting what one wants, and
the
other is getting it.
世界上只有两
种悲剧，一种是一个人没有得到他想要的，另一种是他得到了。
It
is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so
little useless information.
这是一件很悲哀的事——如今几乎没有无用的信息。
It
is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it
is better to be good than to
be ugly.
美丽要比善良好，善良要比难看强。
It
is characteristic of all deep human problems that
they are not to be approached
without
some humor and some bewilderment.
所有人类的重大问题都有一个共同点：没有点幽默和疯狂是没办法解决的。
It is only the intellectually lost who
ever argue.
争论者损失的只是智力。
It is very easy
to endure the difficulties of one's enemies. It is
the successes
of one's friends that are
hard to bear.
来自敌人的困难可以忍，来自朋友的成功则无可忍。
Life
is
one
fool
thing
after
another
whereas
love
is
two
fool
things
after
each
other.
人生就是一件蠢事追着另一件蠢事而来，而爱情则是两个蠢东西追来追去。
Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am
wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage
is not a success.
就像亲爱的圣芳济一样，我也和贫穷联姻，但我的婚姻并不成功。
Marriage is the triumph of imagination
over intelligence. Second marriage is the
triumph of hope over experience.
结婚是想象战胜了理智，再婚是希望战胜了经验。
Music makes one feel so
romantic
—
at least it always
gets on one's nerves, which
is the same
thing nowadays.
音乐让人感觉非常浪漫，
至少让人感觉不安，如今两者是一回事。
No woman should
ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so
calculating.
没有女人应该对她的年龄十分准确。这显得有些精于算计。
One
should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll
tell
anything.
一个人决不应该相信说出自己真实年龄
的女人。如果她把这都说出来了，那她什么都会说。
Please do not
shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
请别开枪打死那个钢琴师，他已经尽力了。
Science is the record of dead
religions.
科学是死去的宗教的记录。
Tell the cook
of this restaurant with my compliments that these
are the very worst
sandwiches in the
whole world, and that when I ask for a watercress
sandwich I do
not mean a loaf with a
field in the middle of it.
请转告我对这家饭店厨师的赞誉，
这是全世界最糟糕的三明治了，
还有，
我点的是豆瓣菜三
明治，我并不是要面包片中夹一块菜
田。
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
乐观的基础完全是恐惧。
The
Book
of
Life
begins
with
a
man
and
a
woman
in
a
garden…It
ends
with
Revelations.
《生命之书》始于一座花园里的一男一女……它最后以《启示
录》告终。
The difference between
journalism and literature is that journalism is
unreadable
and literature is not read.
报纸和文学的区别是，报纸没法读，而文学则没人读。
The
only
difference
between
saints
and
sinners
is
that
every
saint
has
a
past
while
every sinner has a
future.
圣人和罪人的唯一区别是，每一个圣人都有
过去，而每一个罪人都有未来。
The only thing to do with
good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any
use to
oneself.
对于忠告，你所能做的，就是把它奉送给别人，忠告从来就不是给自己准备的。
The
only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to
it.
摆脱诱惑的唯一方法是屈服于它。
The play was a
great success, but the audience was a disaster.
演出相当成功，但观众则是一场灾难。
The
public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives
everything except genius.
公众极其宽容，他们可以宽容一切，天才除外。
There
is
only
one
thing
in
the
world
worse
than
being
talked
about,
and
that
is
not
being
talked about.
世界上只有一件比被人谈论更糟糕的事，那就是没人谈论你。
Thirty five is a very attractive age;
London society is full of women who have of
their own free choice remained thirty-
five for years.
三十五岁是一个非常有吸
引力的年龄；
伦敦社交圈内满是这样好多年一直保持三十五岁的女
人，她们可以自由地挑来选去。
This suspense is terrible.
I hope it will last.
悬念是可怕的。我希望它一直延续下去。
Time is a waste of money.
时间是一种对金钱的浪费。
To
lose
one
parent
may
be
regarded
as
a
misfortune;
to
lose
both
looks
like
carelessness.
失去
一个父母可以看成是一种不幸；失去双亲看上去就像是一种粗心了。
To
love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong
romance.
爱自己就是开始一场延续一生的罗曼史。
True friends stab you in the front.
当面扎刀的是真朋友。
When
good
Americans
die
they
go
to
Paris.
When
bad
Americans
die
they
go
to
America.
当美国的好人死
了，他们就去巴黎。当美国的坏蛋死了，他们就去美国。
All bad poetry
springs from genuine feeling.
所有糟糕的诗歌都源于真情实感。
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.
当我年轻时，我以
为金钱是人生中最重要的东西。现在我老了，我知道这是真的。
When the gods wish to punish us, they
answer our prayers.
当天神想要惩罚我们，他们就答应我们的祈祷。
Whenever people agree with me I always
feel I must be wrong.
每当人们赞同我时，我总希望自己一定是错了。
Women are never disarmed by
compliments. Men always are. That is the
difference
between the sexes.
恭维话从来没有让女人缴械，但可以让男人缴械。这就是性别
差异。
Women have a much better time than men
in this world. There are far more things
forbidden to them.
女人在世上的日子要比男人好过得多。她们有太多禁忌。
Women
love
men
for
their
defects;
if
men
have
enough
of
them
women
will
forgive
them
everything, even their gigantic
intellects.
女人因为男人的缺点而爱男人；<
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如果男人的缺点足够多，
女人什么事都可以原谅他们，
哪怕
是他们的智力。
Women represent
the triumph of matter over mind, just
as
men represent
the triumph
of mind over morals.
女人代表着物质战胜了理智，正如男人代表着理智战胜了道德。
Young
men
want
to
be
faithful,
and
are
not;
old
men
want
to
be
faithless,
and
cannot.
年轻人想要有信仰，但他们却没有；老年人不想要有信仰，但却办不到。
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.
爱，始于自我欺骗，终于欺骗他人。这就是所谓的浪漫。
The very essence of romance
is uncertainty.
浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能。
To love oneself is the beginning of a
lifelong romance.
爱自己是终身浪漫的开始。
——爱自己就是开始延续一生的罗曼史。
We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars.
我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。
When a love comes to an
end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find
another
love and wise already had one
in reserve.
当爱情走到尽头，
软弱者哭个不停，
有效率的马上去寻找下一个目标，
而聪明的早就预备了
下一个。
No
great artist ever sees things as they really are.
If he did he would cease to
be an
artist.
伟大的艺术家所看到的，从来都不是世界的本来面目。一旦他看透了，
他就不再是艺术家。
The
heart was made to be broken.
心是用来碎的。
To
live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people
exist, that is all.
生活是世上最罕见的事情，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。
I like men who have a
future and women who have a past
我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人。
The only thing worse than
being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没有人议论你。
The well bred contradict
other people. The wise contradict themselves.
教养良好的人处处和他人过不去，头脑聪明的人处处和自己过不去。
Hatred is blind, as well as
love.
恨是盲目的，爱亦然。
There are only two tragedies in life:
one is not getting what one wants, and the
other is getting it.
生活中只有两种
悲剧
:
一个是没有得到我们想要的，另外一个是得到我们想要的
。
——世上只有两类悲剧，有些人总是不能遂愿，而有些人总
是心想事成。
A
gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings
unintentionally.
绅士就是从不无心伤害别人感觉的人。
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。
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。
When
a woman
marries again,it is because
she detested her first 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。
——女人再嫁是因为讨厌原来的丈夫，男人再娶是因为太爱原来的妻子。
The only difference between a caprice
and a life-long passion is that the caprice
lasts a little longer.
逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微长一些。
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.
爱，始于自我欺骗，终于欺骗他人。这就是所谓的浪漫。
——恋爱总是以自欺开始，以欺人结束。
The very essence of romance
is uncertainty.
浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能。
Man is a rational animal
who always loses his temper when he is called upon
to act
in accordance with the dictates
of reason.
人是理性动物，但当他被要求按照理性的要求行动时，可又要
发脾气了。
My
wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.
One or other of us has to go.
墙纸越来越破，而
我越来越老，两者之间总有一个要先消失。——
1900
年
11
月
30
日，于
左岸旅店，他的遗言。
No man is rich enough to buy back his
own past.
-An Ideal Husband (1895)
没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去。
——改编自《理想的丈夫》
The truth is rarely pure and never
simple.
-The Importance of Being
Earnest (1895)
真相很少纯粹，也决不简单。
——《不可儿嬉》
To love oneself is the beginning of a
lifelong romance.
爱自己是终身浪漫的开始。
——爱自己就是开始延续一生的罗曼史。
We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars.
我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。
Most
people
discover
when
it
is
too
late
that
the
only
things
one
never
regrets
are
one's
mistakes.
大多数人发现他们从未后悔的事情只是他们的错误，但发现时已
经太晚了。
What is
the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.
什么是离婚的主要原因？结婚。
When a love comes to an end, weaklings
cry, efficient ones instantly find another
love and wise already had one in
reserve.
当爱情走到尽头，
软弱者哭个不停，
有效率的马上去寻找下一个目标，
而聪明的早就预备了
下一个。
No
great artist ever sees things as they really are.
If he did he would cease to
be an
artist.
伟大的艺术家所看到的，从来都不是世界的本来面目。一旦他看透了，
他就不再是艺术家。
I
represent to you all the sins you have never had
the courage to commit.
我给你们讲述的是所有你们没勇气去犯的罪孽。
One can always be kind to
people one cares nothing about.
一个人总是可以善待他毫不在意的人。
We Irish are too poetical
to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant
failures, but
we are the greatest
talkers since the Greeks.
我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不
能做诗人，
我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，
可我们是自希
腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。
What seems to us as bitter trials are
often blessings in disguise
看似痛苦的试炼的往往是伪装的祝福。
The advantage of the
emotions is that they lead us astray.
情感的好处就是让我们误入歧途。
Over the piano was printed a notice:
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing
his best.
Personal
Impressions of America (Leadville) (1883)
钢琴上贴着一条告示：请不要枪杀钢琴师，他已经尽力了。
The heart was made to be
broken.
心是用来碎的。
The public is wonderfully
tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
公众惊人地宽容。他们可以原谅一切，除了天才。
Religions die when they are
proved to be true. Science is the record of dead
religions.
宗教一旦被证明是正确时就会消亡。
科学便是已消亡宗教的记录。
Why was I born with such contemporaries
为什么我会和这样同时代的人一块出生呢？
A poet can survive
everything but a misprint.
诗人可以从任何事件中存活，印刷错误除外。
Only the shallow know
themselves.
-Phrases and Philosophies
for the use of the Young (1894)
只有浅薄的人才了解自己。
The only way to get rid of temptation
is to yield to it... I can resist everything
but temptation.
摆脱诱惑的唯一方式是臣
服于诱惑……我能抗拒一切，除了诱惑。
Discontent is the first step in the
progress of a man or a nation
不满是个人或民族迈向进步的第一步。
I like to do all the
talking myself. It saves time, and prevents
arguments.
我喜欢自言自语，因为这样节约时间，而且不会有人跟我争论。
Quotation is a serviceable
substitute for wit.
格言是智慧耐用的替代品。
A
dreamer
is
one
who
can
only
find
his
way
by
moonlight,
and
his
punishment
is
that
he sees the dawn before
the rest of the world.
梦想家只能在月光下找到前进的方
向，他为此遭受的惩罚是比所有人提前看到曙光。
Every saint has a past and every sinner
has a future.
每个圣人都有过去，每个罪人都有未来。
To live is the rarest thing
in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
生活是世上最罕见的事情，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。
I have nothing to declare
except my genius.
除了我的天才，我没什么好申报的。
I like men who have a
future and women who have a past
我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人。
Pessimist: One who, when he
has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
悲观主义者是这种人：当他可以从两种罪恶中选择时，他把两种都选了。
Society
exists
only
as
a
mental
concept;
in
the
real
world
there
are
only
individuals.
社会仅仅以一种精神概念而存在，真实世界中只有个体存在。
What is a cynic? A man who
knows the price of everything and the value of
nothing
一个愤世嫉俗的人知道所有东西的价格，却不知道任何东西的价值。
I
like
persons
better
than
principles,
and
I
like
persons
with
no
principles
better
than anything else in
the world.
我喜欢人甚于原则，此外我还喜欢没原则的人甚于世界上的一
切。
It is the
confession, not the priest, that gives us
absolution
给我们赦免的，是忏悔而不是牧师。
I don't want to earn my
living; I want to live.
我不想谋生；我想生活。
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing
succeeds like excess.
适度是极其致命的事情。过度带来的成功是无可比拟的。
The only thing worse than
being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没有人议论你。
When the gods wish to
punish us, they answer our prayers
-An
Ideal husband, 1893
当神想惩罚我们时，他们就回应我们的祈祷。
-
《一个理想的丈夫》
is
never
fair...And
perhaps
it
is
a
good
thing
for
most
of
us
that
it
is
not.
-An Ideal
Husband
，
1893
生活从
来不是公平的……而且，或许对我们大多数人来说，这是件好事。
-
《一个理想的丈夫》
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.
如果男人坚持把她当作一个完全正常的人，女人如何能期望会从他那里
获得幸福。
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
宠爱着的，这是他们吸引力来源的秘密。
Nothing is so aggravating than
calmness.
没有比冷静更让人恼火的。
Popularity is the one
insult I have never suffered.
声望是我从未经受的侮辱之一。