The Picture of Dorian Gray — Page 7
「做自己不过是一种姿态，而且是我所知道的最令人恼火的姿态，」亨利勋爵笑着喊道；两个年轻人一同走进花园，在一丛高大月桂树荫下的长竹椅上安顿下来。阳光在光亮的叶片上滑动，草地上的白色雏菊轻轻颤动着。
"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know," cried Lord Henry, laughing; and the two young men went out into the garden together and ensconced themselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush. The sunlight slipped over the polished leaves. In the grass, white daisies were tremulous.
沉默片刻后，亨利勋爵掏出怀表。「我恐怕得走了，巴兹尔，」他低声说，「不过在我走之前，我要你回答我不久前问你的那个问题。」
After a pause, Lord Henry pulled out his watch. "I am afraid I must be going, Basil," he murmured, "and before I go, I insist on your answering a question I put to you some time ago."
「什么问题？」画家问道，眼睛始终盯着地面。
"What is that?" said the painter, keeping his eyes fixed on the ground.
「你心里很清楚。」
"You know quite well."
「我不知道，哈利。」
"I do not, Harry."
「好吧，我来告诉你。我想让你解释，为什么你不愿意展出多里安·格雷的画像。我要的是真正的原因。」
"Well, I will tell you what it is. I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture. I want the real reason."
「我已经告诉你真正的原因了。」
"I told you the real reason."
「不，你没有。你说是因为画里有太多你自己的影子。这说法太幼稚了。」
"No, you did not. You said it was because there was too much of yourself in it. Now, that is childish."
「哈利，」巴兹尔·霍尔沃德直视着他的脸说，「每一幅倾注了情感所绘的肖像，都是画家自己的肖像，而非模特儿的。模特儿不过是个偶然，一个契机。画家所揭示的不是他，而是画家自己——在那片色彩斑斓的画布上，展露的是画家本人。」
"Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
Vocabulary
- Being
- 存在；作为某种状态或身份
- natural
- 自然的，不做作的，天生的
- simply
- 仅仅；简单地；不过
- pose
- 姿态；装出来的样子，摆姿势
- irritating
- 令人恼怒的，令人烦躁的
- cried
- 喊道；大声说出（表达情绪）
- Lord
- 勋爵；英国贵族头衔
- laughing
- 笑着；发出笑声
- young
- 年轻的，年纪小的
- men
- 男人们（man的复数）
- garden
- 花园，庭院
- together
- 一起，共同
- ensconced
- 舒适地安坐于某处，安顿好
- themselves
- 他们自己（反身代词）
- bamboo
- 竹子，竹制的
- seat
- 座位，椅子
- shade
- 阴凉处，树荫
- laurel
- 月桂树，常绿灌木
- bush
- 灌木丛，矮树丛
- sunlight
- 阳光，日光
- slipped
- 滑过，悄悄移动（slip的过去式）
- polished
- 光亮的，经过打磨的
- daisies
- 雏菊（daisy的复数），小白花
- tremulous
- 颤抖的，微微摇动的
- pause
- 停顿，暂停片刻
- watch
- 手表；怀表
- afraid
- 恐怕；担心（表示遗憾）
- murmured
- 低声说，喃喃自语
- insist
- 坚持，坚决要求
- painter
- 画家，油漆工
- fixed
- 固定的；目光专注地盯着
- quite
- 相当，非常；完全
- explain
- 解释，说明
- exhibit
- 展览，展出（艺术作品等）
- reason
- 理由，原因
- childish
- 幼稚的，孩子气的
- straight
- 直视，正视，直接地
- portrait
- 肖像画，人物画
- feeling
- 感情，情感，感觉
- artist
- 艺术家，画家
- sitter
- （为肖像画）摆姿势的模特儿
- merely
- 仅仅，只不过
- accident
- 偶然，意外；此处指偶然因素
- occasion
- 时机，场合，缘由
- revealed
- 揭示，展现（reveal的过去式）
- rather
- 更确切地说；相反地
- canvas
- 画布，油画
- reveals
- 揭示，呈现，展示
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