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116,、I think that God, in creating Man, somewhat overestimated his ability. 我想，上帝在創(chuàng)造人類時(shí)高估了他的能力,。 117,、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. 我整個(gè)早上都在校對(duì)自己的一首詩，我去掉了一個(gè)逗號(hào),。下午我又把它加上去了,。 118、Ignorance is like a delicate flower: touch it and the bloom is gone. 無知就像是一朵精致的花朵：摸一下,，它就消失了,。 119、It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. 這是一件很悲哀的事——如今幾乎沒有無用的信息,。 120,、It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. 美麗要比善良好，善良要比難看強(qiáng),。 121,、It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. 所有人類的重大問題都有一個(gè)共同點(diǎn)：沒有點(diǎn)幽默和瘋狂是沒辦法解決的。 122,、It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. 爭(zhēng)論者損失的只是智力,。 123、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,。 124,、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(gè)蠢東西追來追去,。 125,、Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. 就像親愛的圣芳濟(jì)一樣，我也和貧窮聯(lián)姻,，但我的婚姻并不成功,。 126、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),。 127、Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one’s nerves, which is the same thing nowadays. 音樂讓人感覺非常浪漫,，至少讓人感覺不安,，如今兩者是一回事。 128,、No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. 沒有女人應(yīng)該對(duì)她的年齡十分準(zhǔn)確,。這顯得有些精于算計(jì)。 129,、One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything. 一個(gè)人決不應(yīng)該相信說出自己真實(shí)年齡的女人,。如果她把這都說出來了，那她什么都會(huì)說,。 130,、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. 請(qǐng)轉(zhuǎn)告我對(duì)這家飯店廚師的贊譽(yù)，這是全世界最糟糕的三明治了,，還有,，我點(diǎn)的是豆瓣菜三明治，我并不是要面包片中夾一塊菜田,。 131,、The basis of optimism is sheer terror. 樂觀的基礎(chǔ)完全是恐懼。 132,、The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden…It ends with Revelations. 《生命之書》始于一座花園里的一男一女……它最后以《啟示錄》告終,。 133、The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. 報(bào)紙和文學(xué)的區(qū)別是,，報(bào)紙沒法讀,，而文學(xué)則沒人讀。 134,、The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. 對(duì)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,。 135,、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。 136,、The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. 演出相當(dāng)成功,，但觀眾則是一場(chǎng)災(zāi)難。 137,、This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. 懸念是可怕的,。我希望它一直延續(xù)下去。 138,、Time is a waste of money. 時(shí)間是一種對(duì)金錢的浪費(fèi),。 139、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. 三十五歲是一個(gè)非常有吸引力的年齡;倫敦社交圈內(nèi)滿是這樣好多年一直保持三十五歲的女人,，她們可以自由地挑來選去,。 140、To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. 失去一個(gè)父母可以看成是一種不幸;失去雙親看上去就像是一種粗心了,。 141、When good Americans die they go to Paris. When bad Americans die they go to America. 當(dāng)美國(guó)的好人死了,，他們就去巴黎,。當(dāng)美國(guó)的壞蛋死了，他們就去美國(guó),。 142,、All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. 所有糟糕的詩歌都源于真情實(shí)感。自然化的作品其內(nèi)涵是顯而易見的,，而顯而易見的內(nèi)涵并不藝術(shù),。 143、Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. 恭維話從來沒有讓女人繳械,，但可以讓男人繳械,。這就是性別差異。 144,、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過得多,。她們有太多禁忌。 145,、Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them women will forgive them everything, even their gigantic intellects. 女人因?yàn)槟腥说娜秉c(diǎn)而愛男人;如果男人的缺點(diǎn)足夠多,，女人什么事都可以原諒他們，哪怕是他們的智力,。 |
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