道林·格雷 Dorian Gray 精讲之三

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* 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。

* 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.

时尚就是一种丑，丑得我们无法忍受，以至每不到六个月就必须换一次。

* 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。

* It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

个性善良不如长相美丽，不过个性善良总比生得丑好。

* I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

我喜欢人甚于原则，我喜欢没有原则的人胜于全世界。

* Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

结婚是想象战胜了理智，再婚是希望战胜了经验。

* To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

爱自己是终身浪漫的开始。

* The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能。

* I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.

我不想谋生，我想生活。

* To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

活着是珍贵的，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。

* What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

一个愤世嫉俗的人，知道所有事物的价格，而不知道任何事物的价值。

* Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

男人结婚是因为疲倦，女人结婚是因为好奇，结果双方大失所望。

* Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

女人是用来爱的，不是用来被理解的。

* Only the shallow know themselves.

只有肤浅的人了解自己。

* Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

平常的财宝会被偷走，而真正的财富则不会。你灵魂里无限珍贵的东西是无法被夺走的。

* A true friend stabs you in the front.

真朋友才会当面中伤你。

* 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爱的，这是他们吸引力来源的秘密。

* 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。

* 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。

* 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.

女人如何能期望会从男人那里获得幸福，如果他坚持把她当作一个完全正常的人。

* I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

我喜欢有未来的男人和有过去的女人。

* Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

男女之间不可能存在友谊，有的只是爱恨情仇。

* 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.

我年青时以为金钱至上，而今年事已迈，发现果真如此。

* 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.

恋爱总是以自欺开始，以欺人结束。

* The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it...I can resist everything but temptation.

摆脱诱惑的唯一方式是臣服于诱惑……我能抗拒一切，除了诱惑。