The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Page 2

我自己到目前为止几乎没有这方面的经验。

I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present.

我只结过一次婚。

I have only been married once.

那是因为我和一位年轻女子之间产生了误会。

That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.

阿尔杰农（慵懒地）：我不觉得我对你的家庭生活有多少兴趣，莱恩。

[Languidly.] I don't know that I am much interested in your family life, Lane.

莱恩：不，先生，这不是个很有趣的话题。我自己从来不去想它。

No, sir; it is not a very interesting subject. I never think of it myself.

阿尔杰农：这很自然，我相信。好了，莱恩，谢谢你。

Very natural, I am sure. That will do, Lane, thank you.

莱恩：谢谢您，先生。（莱恩退场。）

Thank you, sir. [Lane goes out.]

阿尔杰农：莱恩对婚姻的看法似乎有些随便。说真的，如果下层阶级不能给我们树立好榜样，他们究竟有什么用？他们这个阶层似乎完全没有道德责任感。

Lane's views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

（莱恩上场。）

[Enter Lane.]

莱恩：厄内斯特·沃辛先生到。

Mr. Ernest Worthing.

（杰克上场。）（莱恩退场。）

[Enter Jack.] [Lane goes out.]

阿尔杰农：你好吗，亲爱的厄内斯特？什么风把你吹进城里来了？

How are you, my dear Ernest? What brings you up to town?

杰克：哦，消遣，消遣！还有什么别的理由能让人去任何地方呢？我看你还是老样子，在吃东西，阿尔吉！

Oh, pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring one anywhere? Eating as usual, I see, Algy!

阿尔杰农（僵硬地）：我相信在上流社会，五点钟稍微吃点东西是惯例。你自上周四以来去哪儿了？

[Stiffly.] I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock. Where have you been since last Thursday?

杰克（坐在沙发上）：在乡下。

[Sitting down on the sofa.] In the country.

阿尔杰农：你在那里到底做什么？

What on earth do you do there?

杰克（脱下手套）：在城里的时候，人们自娱自乐。在乡下的时候，人们取悦别人。这实在是无聊透顶。

[Pulling off his gloves.] When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

阿尔杰农：那么你取悦的都是些什么人？

And who are the people you amuse?

杰克（漫不经心地）：

[Airily.