中英对照：王尔德妙语20句

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奥斯卡·王尔德是19世纪英国著名的作家、诗人、戏剧家。他的主要作品包括小说 《道林·格雷的画像》、戏剧《薇拉》、《莎乐美》以及讽刺英国上层社会人际关系冷漠和生活腐败的《贵在真诚》等。他的文风风趣幽默，在生活中也是一个思维敏捷、妙语连珠的人。临死前，他还幽默地总结自己一生对戏剧的喜爱：“不是那些幕布被拉开，就是我被死神拉走”。 2007年，英国电视台（UKTV）在3000名喜剧迷中展开了一项评选，评出了英国历史上谈吐最机智最幽默的人，王尔德位列第一，言辞犀利的铁腕首相丘吉尔排名第五。

1.         When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would call a romance.
爱，始于自我欺骗，终于欺骗他人。这就是所谓的浪漫。

2.         The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
浪漫之妙就在于它充满种种可能。

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

爱自己就是开始延续一生的浪漫。

4.         We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。

5.        When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.
当爱情走到尽头，软弱者哭个不停，有效率的马上去寻找下一个目标，而聪明的早就预备了下一个。

6.         No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
伟大的艺术家所看到的，从来都不是世界的本来面目。一旦他看透了，他就不再是艺术家。

7.         The heart was made to be broken.
心是用来碎的。

8.         To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
生活是世上最罕见的事情，大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。

9.         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。

10.     The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是没有人议论你。

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11.     The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
教养良好的人处处和他人过不去，头脑聪明的人处处和自己过不去。

12.     Hatred is blind, as well as love.
恨是盲目的，爱亦然。

13.    There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
生活中只有两种悲剧:一个是没有得到我们想要的，另外一个是得到我们想要的。

14.     A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
绅士就是从不无心伤害别人感觉的人。

15.     Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人因疲倦而结婚，女人因好奇而结婚；最终他们都会失望。

16.     I can resist everything except temptation.
除了诱惑，任何事我都能抵挡。

17.     Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
时尚就是丑陋的一种形式，它如此丑，所以我们必须每六个月改变一次。

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

在男女之间不可能有友谊。他们之间有热情、敌意、崇拜、爱慕，但就是没有友谊。

19.     America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

美国是世界上唯一一个直接从野蛮到堕落的国家，而中间没有经过文明。

20.     Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter

每一幅画像都是画家情感的自我描绘，而非对模特的描绘。