王爾德經典英語語錄，教你做一個不被討厭的毒舌

09-13

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王爾德，全名奧斯卡·王爾德，19世紀英國著名的作家、詩人和散文家，以劇作、詩歌、童話和小說聞名，是19世紀英國（當時愛爾蘭為英國統治）最偉大的作家和藝術家之一。

1. Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative

談論天氣是無趣人類最後的避難所。

2. I have nothing to declare except my genius.

除了我的天才，我沒什麼好申報的。

3. I am not at all romantic. I am not old enough. I leave romance to my seniors.

我一點都不浪漫。我還不算太老。還是把浪漫留給比我老的人吧。

4. We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

我們愛爾蘭人太詩意以至不能做詩人，我們的國家裡充滿才華橫溢的失敗者，可我們是自希臘人以來最偉大的說空話之人。

5. Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

良心和怯懦其實是一回事。

6. Only the shallow know themselves.

只有淺薄的人才了解自己。

7. The well bred contradict other people.The wise contradict themselves.

教養良好的人處處和他人過不去，頭腦聰明的人處處和自己過不去。

8. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

愛國是惡人的美德。

9. Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

每個人犯了錯誤，都自稱是經驗。

10. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

對於忠告，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備的。

11. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

只要一個女人看上去比她自己的女兒小十歲，她就一定會心滿意足。

12. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

一個思想若稱不上危險，那麼它就不值得被稱作思想。

13. This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

懸念是可怕的。我希望它一直延續下去。

14. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

看似痛苦的試煉的往往是偽裝的祝福。

15. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

適度是極其致命的事情。過度帶來的成功是無可比擬的。

16. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

人是理性動物，但當他被要求按照理性的要求行動時，可又要發脾氣了。

17. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

公眾驚人地寬容。他們可以原諒一切，除了天才。

18. Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

雄心壯志是失敗最後的避難所。

19. Life is never fair…And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

生活從來不是公平的……而且，或許對我們大多數人來說，這是件好事。

20. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

浪漫的精髓就在於它充滿種種可能。

21. I think that God, in creating Man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

我想，上帝在創造人類時高估了他的能力。

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

生活是世上最罕見的事情，大多數人只是存在，僅此而已。

23. A poet can service everything but a misprint.

詩人可以拯救一切除了印刷錯誤。

24. I don not want to earn my living .I want to live.

我不想謀生，我想生活。

25. The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

演出相當成功，但觀眾則是一場災難。

26. My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.

我和我的牆紙即將展開生死決鬥，所以我們中的一個必須得走。

27. I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

我喜歡自言自語，因為這樣節約時間，而且不會有人跟我爭論。

28. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual

什麼也不做是世上最難的事情，最困難並且最智慧。

29. 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.

我年青時以為金錢至上，而今年事已邁，發現果真如此。

30. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

每次人們贊同我的時候，我都覺得自己一定錯了。

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