The Picture of Dorian Gray — Page 3
亨利勋爵扬起眉毛，透过那从他沉重的、带着鸦片气味的香烟中袅袅升起的蓝色烟雾，惊讶地望着他。
Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette.
「不送去任何地方展出？我亲爱的朋友，为什么？你有什么理由吗？
"Not send it anywhere? My dear fellow, why? Have you any reason?
你们这些画家真是奇怪的人！你们愿意为了博得名声而做世上任何事情。
What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation.
可一旦你们有了名声，却似乎又想把它抛掉。
As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away.
你这样做真是愚蠢，因为世上只有一件事比被人议论更糟糕，那就是无人议论你。
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
这样一幅肖像会使你远远凌驾于英格兰所有年轻人之上，也会让那些老人们妒忌不已——如果老人们还能有任何情感的话。」
A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
「我知道你会嘲笑我，」他回答道，「但我真的无法展出它。我把太多的自我融入其中了。」
"I know you will laugh at me," he replied, "but I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it."
亨利勋爵在卧榻上伸展开来，大笑起来。
Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed.
「是的，我知道你会这样；但这一切都是千真万确的。」
"Yes, I knew you would; but it is quite true, all the same."
「把太多的自我融入其中！凭我的名誉，巴兹尔，我没想到你竟如此自负；而且我实在看不出你和这位年轻的阿多尼斯之间有任何相似之处——你有着粗犷刚毅的面庞和乌黑的头发，而他看起来仿佛是用象牙和玫瑰花瓣塑成的。
"Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves.
Vocabulary
- Lord
- 贵族头衔，相当于"勋爵"或"领主"
- elevated
- 抬高的；提升的
- eyebrows
- 眉毛（眼睛上方的毛发）
- amazement
- 惊讶，惊愕的情绪或状态
- through
- 穿过，透过
- thin
- 细的，薄的
- wreaths
- 烟雾等形成的环形或圈状物
- smoke
- 烟，烟雾
- curled
- 卷曲，盘旋（curl的过去式）
- fanciful
- 富有幻想的，奇异的
- whorls
- 螺旋形状，漩涡状的卷曲纹路
- heavy
- 沉重的，浓烈的
- opium-tainted
- 被鸦片气味污染或浸染的
- cigarette
- 香烟，细支卷烟
- send
- 发送，寄出
- anywhere
- 任何地方
- dear
- 亲爱的（表示亲近的称呼）
- fellow
- 家伙，伙伴（口语中的称呼）
- reason
- 原因，理由
- odd
- 奇怪的，古怪的
- chaps
- 家伙们（英式口语，指人）
- painters
- 画家，绘画者（复数）
- world
- 世界，世间
- gain
- 获得，赢得
- reputation
- 名誉，声望
- seem
- 似乎，好像
- throw
- 扔掉，抛弃
- silly
- 愚蠢的，傻的
- worse
- 更糟糕的（bad的比较级）
- portrait
- 肖像画，人物画像
- set
- 使处于某种状态，确立
- above
- 在……之上，超越
- quite
- 相当，十分
- jealous
- 嫉妒的，羡慕的
- capable
- 有能力的，能够……的
- emotion
- 情感，情绪
- laugh
- 笑，嘲笑
- replied
- 回答，答复（reply的过去式）
- exhibit
- 展览，展出（作品）
- stretched
- 伸展，舒展（stretch的过去式）
- divan
- 长沙发，无靠背的卧榻
- true
- 真实的，正确的
- Upon
- 在……上（正式用法的介词）
- vain
- 自负的，爱虚荣的
- resemblance
- 相似，相像之处
- between
- 在……之间（介词）
- rugged
- 粗犷的，坚毅的（形容外貌）
- coal-black
- 煤炭般漆黑的，乌黑的
- Adonis
- 阿多尼斯，希腊神话中美男子
- looks
- 外貌，容貌
- ivory
- 象牙色，乳白色
- rose-leaves
- 玫瑰花瓣，玫瑰叶片
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