王尔德语录中英3

76、Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.-The Sphinx Without a Secret
女人是用来被爱的，不是用来被理解的。-《没有秘密的斯芬克斯》
77、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。
78、Everyone is born king, and most people die in exile.
每个人生来都是君王，但大多数在流亡中死去。
79、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.
我年青时以为金钱至上，而今年事已迈，发现果真如此。
80、Don’t be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, don’t believe them.
不要惧怕过去。如果人们告诉你说过去的事情无可挽回，别相信他们。
81、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。
82、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。
83、Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
死亡和庸俗是十九世纪仅有的无法用巧辩逃避的东西。
84、Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
爱国是恶人的美德。
85、Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
每次人们赞同我的时候，我都觉得自己一定错了。
86、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。
87、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。
88、Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
每个人犯了错误，都自称是经验。
89、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.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s 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。
90、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传，女人的面容是她的幻想作品。
91、There is only one real tragedy in a woman’s life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
女人的生活中只有一个真正的悲剧：她总在缅怀过去，却必须活在未来。
92、We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
我们教给人们如何记忆，却从来不教他们如何成长。
93、Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.-The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
任何人都能对朋友的不幸感到同情，但要消受一个春风得意的朋友，则需要非常优良的天性。-《社会主义下人的灵魂》
94、If a woman can’t make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.-Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
如果一个女人不能让她犯的错误变得迷人，她就只是一个雌性动物。-《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》
95、Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.-Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
大多数男人和女人被强迫扮演他们没有能力扮演的角色。我们的吉尔登斯吞为我们演哈姆雷特，而我们的哈姆雷特必须像霍尔王子一样来说笑。这个世界是个舞台，但角色被分配得很糟糕。–《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》
96、A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
不够真诚是危险的，太真诚则绝对是致命的。
97、A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
一个人在选择他的敌人时，再小心也不为过。
98、All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
所有女人都会变得像她们的母亲一样，这是女人的悲剧。但没有男人变得像他们的父亲，这是男人的悲剧。
99、America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
美国是唯一一个直接从野蛮进入颓废、中间没有经过文明阶段的社会。
100、Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
要避免争论，争论总是俗不可耐，而且常常令人信服。
101、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。
102、Bad artists always admire each other’s work.
糟糕的画家总是欣赏彼此的作品。
103、Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
男女之间不可能存在友谊，有的只是爱恨情仇。
104、Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
良心和怯懦其实是一回事。
105、Dammit sir, it’s your duty to get married. You can’t be always living for pleasure.
该死，先生，结婚是你的职责，你不能总是逍遥快活。