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今天,，是王爾德的生辰,。 他是十九世紀(jì)英國最偉大的作家和藝術(shù)家之一，與蕭伯納齊名的英國才子,。 博爾赫斯曾評價王爾德有著“不可摧毀的天真”,，而作為一個美學(xué)主義者，“他幾乎總是正確的”,。 在這個娛樂至死的時代,，我們需要他的毒舌來抵抗現(xiàn)實(shí)的庸俗。  悲劇 tragedy ○ There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. 人生有兩個悲劇,，第一是想得到的得不到,，第二是想得到的得到了。 浪漫 romance ○ To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. 愛自己是終身浪漫的開始,。 做自己 be yourself ○ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. 做你自己,，因?yàn)閯e人都有人做了。 青春 youth ○ 你擁有青春的時候,，就要感受它,。不要虛擲你的黃金時代，不要去傾聽枯燥乏味的東西,，不要設(shè)法挽留無望的失敗,，不要把你的生命獻(xiàn)給無知、平庸和低俗,。這些都是我們時代病態(tài)的目標(biāo),，虛假的理想?；钪?！把你寶貴的內(nèi)在生命活出來。什么都別錯過,。 自言自語 talking myself ○ I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. 我喜歡自言自語,，因?yàn)檫@樣節(jié)約時間，而且不會有人跟我爭論,。 真誠 sincerity ○ A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. 不夠真誠是危險的,，太真誠則絕對是致命的。 生活 to live ○ To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 生活是世上最罕見的事情，大多數(shù)人只是存在,，僅此而已,。 善待 be kind ○ 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。 敵人 enemy ○ Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. 永遠(yuǎn)寬恕你的敵人,，沒有什么能比這個更讓他們惱怒的了,。 君王 king ○ Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile. 每個人生來都是君王，但大多數(shù)在流亡中死去,。 吸引 attractive ○ There are only two kinds of people who are most attractive, one who knows everything, and one who knows nothing. 只有兩種人最具有吸引力,，一種是無所不知的人，一種是一無所知的人,。 自私 selfishness ○ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. 過自己想要的生活不是自私,，要求別人按自己的意愿生活才是。 心碎 heart-broken ○ The heart was made to be broken. 心是用來碎的,。 男人 man ○ 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,。 青年 the young ○ The old believe everything, the Middle Ages doubt everything, and the young know everything. 老年人相信一切，中年人懷疑一切,，青年人什么都懂,。 錢 money ○ When I was young, I thought money was everything, and now I'm old enough to know that it's true. 年輕的時候我以為錢就是一切，現(xiàn)在老了才知道,，確實(shí)如此,。 離婚 divorce ○ What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage. 什么是離婚的主要原因？結(jié)婚,。 膚淺 shallow ○ It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. 只有膚淺的人才不會以貌取人 愛 love ○ 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. 愛,，始于自我欺騙，終于欺騙他人,。這就是所謂的浪漫,。 浪漫 romance ○ The very essence of romance is uncertainty. 浪漫的本質(zhì)是不確定性。 富有 rich ○ No man is rich enough to buy back his own past. 沒有人富有到可以贖回自己的過去,。 靈魂 soul ○ Pleasure for the beautiful body,but pain for the beautiful soul. 美好的肉體是為了享樂,，美好的靈魂是為了痛苦。 終身不渝 a life-long passion ○ The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. 逢場作戲和終身不渝之間的區(qū)別只在于逢場作戲稍微長一些,。 人生 life ○ 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著另一件蠢事而來,，而愛情則是兩個蠢東西追來追去。 教育 education ○ 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,，但要時刻牢記,，沒有什么值得知道的事是教得會的。 友誼 friendship ○ 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,。 樂觀 optimism ○ The basis of optimism is sheer terror. 樂觀的基礎(chǔ)完全是恐懼。 忠告 good advice ○ The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. 對于忠告，你所能做的,，就是把它奉送給別人,，忠告從來就不是給自己準(zhǔn)備的。 誘惑 temptation ○ The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. 擺脫誘惑的唯一方法是屈服于它,。 失敗 failure ○ Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. 雄心壯志是失敗最后的避難所,。 結(jié)婚 marriage ○ Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. 結(jié)婚是想象戰(zhàn)勝了理智，再婚是希望戰(zhàn)勝了經(jīng)驗(yàn),。 嫉妒 jealous ○ 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. 來自敵人的困難可以忍,，來自朋友的成功則無可忍。 思想 idea ○ An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. 一個思想若稱不上危險,，那么它就不值得被稱作思想。  作為王爾德唯一長篇小說,，《道林·格雷的畫像》是他藝術(shù)化的自傳,，和不幸命運(yùn)的前奏。犯罪,、驚悚,、男主人公之間的曖昧情愫……這個構(gòu)思精妙、想象豐富的故事背后是王爾德關(guān)于藝術(shù),、愛情和人生的洞察,。王爾德廣為流傳的經(jīng)典語錄絕大部分都來自本書。 當(dāng)一場同性戀愛使王爾德官司纏身,，《道林·格雷的畫像》是罪證之一,，最終他被判“嚴(yán)重猥褻罪”入獄兩年。在一百年多后的今天,，我們驚奇地發(fā)現(xiàn)王爾德寫在書中的一句話可謂該事件的最佳注解：“世人所謂的不道德之書,，其實(shí)展現(xiàn)了世界本身就有的恥辱?！?/p> - End - |
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