The Picture of Dorian Gray — Page 4
哎,我亲爱的巴兹尔,他简直就是纳西索斯,而你——嗯,当然了,你有一种富于智识的表情之类的东西。但美,真正的美,在智识的表情开始之处便已终结。
Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
理智本身就是一种夸张的方式,它会破坏任何一张面孔的和谐。
Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
一个人一旦坐下来思考,就会变得全是鼻子,或者全是额头,要么就变成某种令人不快的样子。
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.
看看那些博学职业中的成功人士吧,他们长得多么丑陋难看啊!
Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are!
当然,教会中的人除外。但教会里的人是不动脑子的。
Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.
一位主教到了八十岁,说的还是他十八岁时被告知该说的话,因此他看起来总是令人愉悦之极。
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
你那位神秘的年轻朋友,你从未告诉过我他的名字,但他的画像着实令我着迷——他从不思考,这一点我十分确信。
Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks. I feel quite sure of that.
他是某个头脑空空却美丽动人的生灵,冬天我们没有鲜花可赏时他应当常在,夏天我们需要什么来冷却我们的智识时他也应当常在。
He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.
别自欺欺人了,巴兹尔:你和他一点都不像。
Don't flatter yourself, Basil: you are not in the least like him.
「你不了解我,哈利,」画家回答道。「我当然和他不像,这我心里清楚得很。说实话,我也不希望长得像他。你耸肩膀?我说的是实话。」
"You don't understand me, Harry," answered the artist. "Of course I am not like him. I know that perfectly well. Indeed, I should be sorry to look like him. You shrug your shoulders? I am telling you the truth.
Vocabulary
- Why
- 用于询问原因或理由的疑问词
- my
- 表示所有权或关系的第一人称形容词
- dear
- 亲爱的;珍贵的;费用高的
- he
- 第三人称单数男性代词
- is
- 动词be的第三人称单数现在式
- and
- 连接词;表示并列关系
- you
- 第二人称代词
- well
- 好;令人满意地;身体健康
- of
- 介词;表示所属、成分、来源等
- course
- 当然;课程;路线
- have
- 拥有;具有;经历
- an
- 不定冠词a在元音前的形式
- intellectual
- 智力的;知识分子;聪慧的
- expression
- 表达;表情;表现方式
- all
- 全部;所有;完全
- that
- 那个;那些;指示代词
- But
- 但是;然而;除了
- beauty
- 美;美人;美的事物
- real
- 真实的;实际的;真正的
- ends
- 结束;末端;目的
- where
- 在哪里;哪个地方
- begins
- 开始;着手
- Intellect
- 智力;理解力;聪慧
- in
- 在...内;用...表示;穿着
- itself
- 它本身;自身
- mode
- 方式;样式;模式
- exaggeration
- 夸大;夸张;过度描述
- destroys
- 破坏;摧毁;毁灭
- the
- 定冠词
- harmony
- 和谐;协调;一致
- any
- 任何;任何一个;一些
- face
- 脸;面容;表面
- The
- 定冠词
- moment
- 时刻;片刻;重要时机
- one
- 一;某个人;人们
- sits
- 坐;位于
- down
- 向下;在下面;坐下
- to
- 向;到;表示不定式
- think
- 思考;认为;想象
- becomes
- 变成;成为;适合
- nose
- 鼻子;嗅觉;鼻部
- or
- 或者;还是;否则
- forehead
- 额头;前额
- something
- 某事;某物;重要的事
- horrid
- 可怕的;令人厌恶的;糟糕的
- Look
- 看;瞧;外表
- at
- 在...处;向...看
- successful
- 成功的;有成就的
- men
- 男人;人类
- learned
- 有学问的;博学的;学到的
- professions
- 职业;专业;行业
- How
- 如何;怎样;多么
- perfectly
- 完美地;完全地;恰好
- hideous
- 丑陋的;令人厌恶的;可怕的
- they
- 他们;她们;它们
- are
- 是;存在;位于
- Except
- 除了;除外;不同
- Church
- 教堂;教会;宗教信仰
- then
- 那么;当时;然后
- don
- 穿上;戴上;英国大学教授
- bishop
- 主教;象棋中的象
- keeps
- 保持;继续;饲养
- on
- 在...上;继续;接近
- saying
- 说;言语;谚语
- age
- 年龄;时代;老化
- eighty
- 八十;八十岁
- what
- 什么;何物;多少
- was
- 是;过去式的be动词
- told
- 告诉;被告知;讲述
- say
- 说;表示;大约
- when
- 什么时候;当...时;虽然
- boy
- 男孩;少年;男服务员
- eighteen
- 十八;十八岁
- as
- 作为;当...时;如同
- natural
- 自然的;天然的;与生俱来的
- consequence
- 结果;后果;影响
- always
- 总是;始终;永远
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