有哪些令人落淚的英文句子？

03-08

如題。

Describe the city you live in.

有幾個主題，筆墨一碰紙就碎成淚了，中英文都是一樣：比如美與毀滅、愛與悲憫、歲月與人生。

以下都是曾讓年輕的我嚎啕的句子……

1. 研磨墨以騰文，筆飛毫以書信，如飛蛾之赴火，豈焚身之可吝。

Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely. God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.
And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.
There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.

(Margaret Atwood, The Handmaids Tale)

「You and I, its as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.」
「I dont like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasnt revealed its beauty to them.」

(Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago)

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I

Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.

（Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire)

2. 天意憐幽草：以悲憫之心，觀照萬物和人生。

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrels heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

(George Eliot, Middlemarch)

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich mans abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

(Henry Thoreau, Walden)

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

(Jane Austen, Mansfield Park)

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the worlds finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that theyve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.

(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamozov)

You take delight not in a citys seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

(Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities)

3. 「在長長的一生里，為什麼，歡樂總是乍現就凋落，走得最急的，都是最美的時光。」

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: Id been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

(Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red)

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

(William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying)

The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.

(Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain)

哎，看到大多數答案都是抖機靈類型的，來發一些相對嚴肅的感傷類文學語句吧。先隨手摘些立時想到的片斷，也順便介紹下作品。

In Memoriam A.H.H , by Tennyson 丁尼生

VII

Dark house, by which once more I stand

Here in the long unlovely street,

Doors, where my heart was used to beat

So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp』d no more—

Behold me, for I cannot sleep,

And like a guilty thing I creep

At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away

The noise of life begins again,

And ghastly thro』 the drizzling rain

On the bald street breaks the blank day.

（此段暫時沒找到翻譯。詩人來到故人的門前，卻再無人應答。細雨濛濛，街道醒來，但周圍生命的聲響在詩人聽來都是喧囂，侵擾了心中那份寧靜的悲哀。）

XXVII

I hold it true, whateer befall;

I feel it, when I sorrow most;

Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.

不論何事降臨，我確信，

在最悲痛的時刻我覺得：

寧肯愛過而又失卻，

也不願做從未愛過的人。

［桂冠詩人丁尼生悼念亡友的長詩。詩中有對信仰、自然、生死的理性思考，又無處不瀰漫著懷念友人的憂傷。詩中描寫的許多觸景傷情的具體情境，很容易引發有故事的讀者的共鳴。］

2.De Profundis by Oscar Wilde 《自深深處》王爾德

Do you think that I would not have let you know that if you suffered, I was suffering too: that if you wept, there were tears in my eyes also: and that if you lay in the house of bondage and were despised of men, I out of my very griefs had built a house in which to dwell until your coming, a treasury in which all that men had denied to you would be laid up for your healing, one hundredfold in increase? If bitter necessity, or prudence, to me more bitter still, had prevented my being near you, and robbed me of the joy of your presence, though seen through prison-bars and in a shape of shame, I would have written to you in season and out of season in the hope that some mere phrase, some single word, some broken echo even of Love might reach you. If you had refused to receive my letters, I would have written none the less, so that you should have known that at any rate there were always letters waiting for you.

如果你痛苦，我也痛苦；如果你哭泣，我的雙眼也充滿了淚水；如果你躺在囚牢里被人蔑視，我會用自己的悲傷建造一所房子等你回來住，我會建造一個寶庫，聚集起一切成百倍增加的人們拒絕給予你的東西來醫治的痛苦。如果令人辛酸的貧窮或謹慎阻止了我親近你，奪去了你在我身邊的快樂，那麼我也會一年到頭給你寫信，希望信中的某句話、某個詞、某種哪怕是被中斷的愛的回應能對你產生一點作用。如果你拒絕接受我的信，我也照寫不誤，以便你知道至少有信一直在等著你。

Either would have taught you that whatever happens to another happens to oneself, and if you want an inscription to read at dawn and at night-time and for pleasure or for pain, write up on the wall of your house in letters for the sun to gild and the moon to silver 「Whatever happens to another happens to oneself,」 and should anyone ask you what such an inscription can possibly mean you can answer that it means 「Lord Christ』s heart and Shakespeare』s brain.」

你可以在自己家的牆壁上，用遇到陽光則呈金黃色，月光照上去則呈銀白色的文字寫上：「凡是別人遭受的，自己也都會遭受。」如果有人問你這句話是什麼意思，你可以回答說，它是指「基督的心和莎士比亞的腦」。

[王爾德不必多說。以上選自他在獄中寫給同性愛人的書信。有強烈怨婦口吻，但也讓人看到悲哀中的愛情。]

3. As I Lay Dying，by William Faulkner 《我彌留之際》威廉福克納

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. Thats why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

[福克納是我最欣賞的作家之一。從《我彌留之際》到《喧嘩與騷動》，太多詩般的句子, 令人著迷的感傷。］

待續。

"For you, a thousand times over." --- The kite runner