王爾德名言
* 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。
* 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.
時尚就是一種丑,丑得我們無法忍受,以至每不到六個月就必須換一次。
* 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。
* It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
個性善良不如長相美麗,不過個性善良總比生得丑好。
* I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
我喜歡人甚于原則,我喜歡沒有原則的人勝于全世界。
* Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
結婚是想象戰(zhàn)勝了理智,再婚是希望戰(zhàn)勝了經驗。
* To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
愛自己是終身浪漫的開始。
* The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
浪漫的精髓就在于它充滿種種可能。
* I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.
我不想謀生,我想生活。
* To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
活著是珍貴的,大多數(shù)人只是存在,僅此而已。
* What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
一個憤世嫉俗的人,知道所有事物的價格,而不知道任何事物的價值。
* Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人結婚是因為疲倦,女人結婚是因為好奇,結果雙方大失所望。
* Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
女人是用來愛的,不是用來被理解的。
* Only the shallow know themselves.
只有膚淺的人了解自己。
* Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
平常的財寶會被偷走,而真正的財富則不會。你靈魂里無限珍貴的東西是無法被奪走的。
* A true friend stabs you in the front.
真朋友才會當面中傷你。
* 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溺愛的,這是他們吸引力來源的秘密。
* One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.
一個人總是可以善待他毫不在意的人。
* The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
情感的好處就是讓我們誤入歧途。
* 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.
女人如何能期望會從男人那里獲得幸福,如果他堅持把她當作一個完全正常的人。
* I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
我喜歡有未來的男人和有過去的女人。
* Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
男女之間不可能存在友誼,有的只是愛恨情仇。
* 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(fā)現(xiàn)果真如此。
* 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.
戀愛總是以自欺開始,以欺人結束。
* The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it...I can resist everything but temptation.
擺脫誘惑的唯一方式是臣服于誘惑……我能抗拒一切,除了誘惑。
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考考你
1. 他們間的爭吵現(xiàn)已成為街頭巷尾的話題。
2. 仙女教母用魔法把4只老鼠變成4匹馬。
3. 他們用谷物換布。
4. 我喜歡她率真的態(tài)度。
《道林·格雷》精講之二 參考答案
1. How about taking a stroll before supper?
2. We need to work up our languages.
3. Stop fiddling with my bike!
4. He cast an eloquent glance in her direction.
5. I'll be along at about three.
(中國日報網英語點津:陳丹妮)
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