The Picture of Dorian Gray — Page 6

我承认这是个愚蠢的习惯，但不知为何，它似乎给人的生活带来了许多浪漫。我想你一定觉得我为此太傻了吧？

It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life. I suppose you think me awfully foolish about it?

「一点也不，」亨利勋爵回答道，「一点也不，我亲爱的巴兹尔。你似乎忘了我是已婚之人，而婚姻唯一的魅力就在于，它使欺骗的生活对双方来说都成了绝对的必要。」

"Not at all," answered Lord Henry, "not at all, my dear Basil. You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

我从不知道我妻子在哪里，而我妻子也从不知道我在做什么。

I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing.

每当我们相见——我们偶尔会见面，一起外出用餐，或者去公爵那里——我们总是面色严肃地互相讲着最荒唐的故事。

When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.

我妻子非常擅长此道——事实上，比我强得多。她从不会在日期上搞混，而我却总是弄错。

My wife is very good at it—much better, in fact, than I am. She never gets confused over her dates, and I always do.

但每当她识破我的时候，她却根本不大吵大闹。我有时倒希望她会；但她只是嘲笑我罢了。

But when she does find me out, she makes no row at all. I sometimes wish she would; but she merely laughs at me.

「哈里，我讨厌你谈论自己婚姻生活的方式，」巴兹尔·霍华德说道，他信步走向通往花园的那扇门。

"I hate the way you talk about your married life, Harry," said Basil Hallward, strolling towards the door that led into the garden.

「我相信你其实是个非常好的丈夫，只不过你对自己的美德感到十分羞愧。你真是个不寻常的人。」

"I believe that you are really a very good husband, but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow.

你从不说一句合乎道德的话，却也从不做一件错误的事。你的愤世嫉俗不过是一种姿态罢了。

You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.