The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People — Page 7
看在老天的份上,把我的烟盒还给我。
For Heaven's sake give me back my cigarette case.
你的姑妈为什么叫你她的舅舅?
But why does your aunt call you her uncle?
'来自小塞西莉,满怀深情地送给亲爱的杰克舅舅。'
'From little Cecily, with her fondest love to her dear Uncle Jack.'
我承认,姑妈个子小并没有什么不妥,
There is no objection, I admit, to an aunt being a small aunt,
但一个姑妈,不论身材大小,为什么要把自己的外甥叫做舅舅,我实在想不明白。
but why an aunt, no matter what her size may be, should call her own nephew her uncle, I can't quite make out.
再说,你的名字根本不叫杰克,你叫欧内斯特。
Besides, your name isn't Jack at all; it is Ernest.
我的名字不是欧内斯特,是杰克。
It isn't Ernest; it's Jack.
你一直告诉我你叫欧内斯特。
You have always told me it was Ernest.
我把你介绍给每一个人时都说你叫欧内斯特。
I have introduced you to every one as Ernest.
你对欧内斯特这个名字有所回应。
You answer to the name of Ernest.
你看起来就像一个名叫欧内斯特的人。
You look as if your name was Ernest.
你是我这辈子见过的看起来最认真严肃的人。
You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life.
你说你的名字不是欧内斯特,简直荒谬透顶。
It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.
你的名片上就写着呢。这是其中一张。
It's on your cards. Here is one of them.
'欧内斯特·沃辛先生,奥尔巴尼公寓B座4号。'
'Mr. Ernest Worthing, B. 4, The Albany.'
我要留着这张名片,作为你名叫欧内斯特的证明,以防你向我、向格温多琳或向任何人否认这一点。
I'll keep this as a proof that your name is Ernest if ever you attempt to deny it to me, or to Gwendolen, or to any one else.
我在城里的名字是欧内斯特,在乡下叫杰克,而这个烟盒是在乡下送给我的。
Well, my name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country, and the cigarette case was given to me in the country.
Vocabulary
- Heaven
- 天堂;天国,常用于感叹语
- sake
- 缘故;for...sake意为"看在…面上"
- give
- 给予;把某物交给某人
- back
- 归还;送回原处
- cigarette
- 香烟,一种烟草制品
- case
- 盒子;装香烟等物品的小盒
- aunt
- 姑母、姨母、伯母等女性长辈
- call
- 称呼;叫某人某个名字
- uncle
- 叔叔、舅舅等男性长辈称谓
- fondest
- 最深情的;充满爱意的(最高级)
- love
- 爱;深厚的情感
- dear
- 亲爱的,表示亲昵的称呼
- Uncle
- 叔叔、舅舅等男性长辈称谓
- objection
- 反对;异议,表示不同意
- admit
- 承认;坦白某事属实
- matter
- 事情;问题;要紧,有关系
- size
- 大小;尺寸,物体的规模
- may
- 可能;也许,表示可能性
- should
- 应该;表示义务或建议
- own
- 自己的;拥有某物
- nephew
- 侄子;外甥,男性晚辈
- quite
- 相当;完全,用于加强语气
- make
- 弄清楚;make out意为"理解"
- Besides
- 此外;而且,补充说明
- always
- 总是;一直,表示频率
- told
- 告诉,tell的过去式
- introduced
- 被介绍;被引荐给他人
- answer
- 回答;对问题的答复
- look
- 看;外表,某人的样子
- earnest-looking
- 看起来认真严肃的,外表诚恳的
- life
- 生命;生活;一生
- perfectly
- 完全地;十分,用于加强语气
- absurd
- 荒谬的;可笑的,不合理的
- cards
- 名片;卡片
- Mr.
- 先生,男性的尊称
- keep
- 保留;保持;留住某物
- proof
- 证据;证明某事的凭证
- attempt
- 企图;试图做某事
- deny
- 否认;拒绝承认某事
- else
- 其他的;另外的
- town
- 城镇;市区,指繁华地带
- country
- 乡村;国家
- given
- 给予,give的过去分词形式
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