The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Page 4

离婚法庭就是专门为那些记性有些奇特的人发明的。

The Divorce Court was specially invented for people whose memories are so curiously constituted.

阿尔杰农：哦！在这个问题上瞎猜毫无意义。离婚是在天堂缔造的——

Oh! there is no use speculating on that subject. Divorces are made in Heaven—

请不要碰那些黄瓜三明治。它们是专门为奥古斯塔姑妈订的。

Please don't touch the cucumber sandwiches. They are ordered specially for Aunt Augusta.

杰克：得了吧，你一直在吃它们呢。

Well, you have been eating them all the time.

阿尔杰农：那完全是另一回事。她是我姑妈。来点黄油面包吧。这黄油面包是给格温多林准备的。格温多林非常喜欢黄油面包。

That is quite a different matter. She is my aunt. Have some bread and butter. The bread and butter is for Gwendolen. Gwendolen is devoted to bread and butter.

杰克：这黄油面包确实很好吃。

And very good bread and butter it is too.

阿尔杰农：哎，老兄，你用不着吃得好像要把它全吃光一样。你的举止就像已经娶了她似的。你还没娶她，而且我觉得你永远也娶不了她。

Well, my dear fellow, you need not eat as if you were going to eat it all. You behave as if you were married to her already. You are not married to her already, and I don't think you ever will be.

杰克：你究竟为何这么说？

Why on earth do you say that?

阿尔杰农：首先，女孩子从来不嫁给她们调情的男人。女孩子认为那样做不对。

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

杰克：哦，那是胡说！

Oh, that is nonsense!

阿尔杰农：不是的。这是一个伟大的真理。它解释了为何到处都能看到数量惊人的单身汉。其次，我不给我的同意。

It isn't. It is a great truth. It accounts for the extraordinary number of bachelors that one sees all over the place. In the second place, I don't give my consent.

杰克：你的同意！

Your consent!

阿尔杰农：老兄，格温多林是我的表妹。

My dear fellow, Gwendolen is my first cousin.