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王尔德经典英文语录
100
句
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王尔德,
全名奥斯卡王尔德,
19
世纪英国著名的作家、
诗人和散文家,以剧作、诗歌、童话和小说闻名,是
19
世
纪英国
(
当时爱尔兰为英国统治<
/p>
)
最伟大的作家和艺术家之
一。
而作为
19
世纪唯美主义作家的代表,现在很多人还
给王
尔德添加了一个新的名字,叫毒舌,而这就要从他的言行作
品来理解了。
下面是王尔德的
100
句
经典语录,
先读一读吧
!
1.
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。
2.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
除了我的天才,我没什么好申报的。
3.
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。
4. 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。
5.
有些作品很有耐性,长时间以
为也没被人了解,原因
是这些作品为一些还未有人提出的问题提供了答案。这些问
题在答案出现了很久很久以后才出现。
6.
艺术并非模仿生活,而是生活在模仿艺术。
7.
The well bred contradict other 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。
8. Patriotism is the virtue
of the vicious.
爱国是恶人的美德。
9.
Experience is the name every one gives to their
mistakes.
每个人犯了错误,都自称是经验。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13.
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。
14.
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。
15.
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。
16.
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。
17.
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。
18.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
雄心壮志是失败最后的避难所。
19. Life is
never fairAnd perhaps it is a good thing for most
of us that it is not.
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。
青时以为金钱至上,而今年事已迈,发现果真如此。
30.
这样的措辞使人理屈词穷,
百口难辩,
他轻而易举地
将真理占为己有,无论怎么去论证以上的语句,真理总是站
在他的那一边。
31. Conscience and
cowardice are really the same things.
良心和怯懦其实是一回事。
32. 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
?33.
Only
the
shallow
know themselves.
只有浅薄的人才了解自己。
34.
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
ry
and
Other
Notes
I,
Womans 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。
35.
墙纸越来越破,
而我越来越老
,
两者之间总有一个要
先消失。
36.
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。
37.
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。
38.
Ones 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。
39.
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。
40.
任何的艺术作品都无法表达观点,
观点属于人,
而非
艺术家。
41. A mans face is his
autobiography. A womans 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。
42.
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。
43.
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
。
44.
一个自身美好的主题对于艺术家毫无启示,
它缺乏缺
陷。
45. The truth
is rarely pure and never simple.
真理很纯粹,可决不简单。
46.
我们这个时代的人,读书太多,所以不再聪慧,思考
太多所以不再美丽。
a)
逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微
p>
长一些。
47. 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。
48.
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。
49.
When
the
gods
wish
to
punish
us,
they
answer
our
prayers
当神想惩罚我们时,他们就回应我们的祈祷。
50.
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。
51.
I adore simple are the last refuge of the
complex.
我敬佩简单的快乐,那是复杂性最后避难所。
52.
Ridicule
is
the
tribute
paid
to
the
genius
by
the
mediocrities.
奚落是庸才对天才的颂歌。
53. 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
;
p>
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。
54.
犯罪并非是低级,但是低级都是犯罪。
55.
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。
56.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in
a
gardenIt 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。
57.
It
is
the
confession,
not
the
priest,
that
gives
us
absolution