英文名言 悖论之美——王尔德语录精选.doc

悖论之美——王尔德语录精选(高口曾考)
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the or other of us has to go.
我和我的墙纸即将展开生死决斗,所以我们中的一个必须得走。
——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 es 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.
伟大的艺术家看不到事物的真实。如果他看到了,就不再是艺术家。
I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage mit.
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。
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
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 sur