The Picture of Dorian Gray — Page 12
我们两个都忍不住笑了起来，于是立刻成了朋友。"
Neither of us could help laughing, and we became friends at once.
那位年轻的勋爵又摘了一朵雏菊，说道："笑声作为友谊的开端一点也不坏，而作为友谊的结局，那更是再好不过了。"
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one," said the young lord, plucking another daisy.
霍华德摇了摇头，低声说："哈利，你根本不懂什么是友谊——说到底，你也不懂什么是敌意。你喜欢每一个人，也就是说，你对每一个人都无所谓。"
Hallward shook his head. "You don't understand what friendship is, Harry," he murmured—"or what enmity is, for that matter. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
亨利勋爵把帽子往后一推，仰头望着那些飘浮在夏日苍穹中的小云朵——宛如一缕缕散乱的光滑白丝——大声叫道："你这话真是太不公平了！是的，太不公平了。我对人与人之间的区别是很讲究的。我择友看的是外貌，交朋友看的是品格，而选敌人看的是才智。一个人在选择敌人上再谨慎也不为过。我的敌人中没有一个是蠢货。他们都是有一定智识的人，因此他们都赏识我。这样是不是很自负呢？我倒觉得确实相当自负。"
"How horribly unjust of you!" cried Lord Henry, tilting his hat back and looking up at the little clouds that, like ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky. "Yes; horribly unjust of you. I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain."
"我想确实如此，哈利。但按照你的分类，我大概只能算是个泛泛之交了。"
"I should think it was, Harry. But according to your category I must be merely an acquaintance."
"亲爱的老巴兹尔，你远不止是个泛泛之交。"
"My dear old Basil, you are much more than an acquaintance."
"但也远不够朋友的份量。算是某种兄弟关系吧，我猜？"
"And much less than a friend. A sort of brother, I suppose?"
"哦，兄弟！我才不在乎什么兄弟呢。
"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers.
Vocabulary
- Neither
- 两者都不，表示否定两个选项
- help
- 此处指忍住，常用于'can't help'结构
- once
- 立刻，马上；at once意为立即
- Laughter
- 笑声，欢笑，名词形式
- beginning
- 开始，起点，开端
- friendship
- 友谊，朋友之间的情谊
- far
- 远；此处修饰最高级，表示'远远地'
- ending
- 结局，结尾，终结
- lord
- 勋爵，英国贵族男性称谓
- plucking
- 采摘，摘取，pluck的现在分词
- daisy
- 雏菊，一种白色花瓣的小花
- shook
- 摇动，shake的过去式
- murmured
- 低声说，喃喃自语，murmur的过去式
- enmity
- 敌意，仇恨，强烈的敌对情感
- matter
- 事情；for that matter表示就此而言
- indifferent
- 漠不关心的，无动于衷的
- horribly
- 可怕地，极其，非常（口语强调）
- unjust
- 不公正的，不公平的
- cried
- 喊叫，大声说，cry的过去式
- Lord
- 勋爵，对英国贵族男性的尊称
- tilting
- 倾斜，歪着，tilt的现在分词
- ravelled
- 缠绕的，散开的，ravel的过去分词
- skeins
- 一绞，一束（丝线或毛线）
- glossy
- 光滑发亮的，有光泽的
- silk
- 丝绸，柔软光滑的天然纤维
- drifting
- 漂浮，缓缓飘移，drift的现在分词
- hollowed
- 呈拱形凹陷的，像碗状内凹的
- turquoise
- 青绿色，绿松石般的蓝绿色调
- difference
- 差别，区别，不同之处
- looks
- 外貌，外表，容貌（复数形式）
- acquaintances
- 泛泛之交，认识但不深交的人
- characters
- 性格，品格，人的内在特质
- enemies
- 敌人们，enemy的复数形式
- intellects
- 智识，才智，intellect的复数
- choice
- 选择，抉择，选取的行为
- fool
- 傻瓜，愚蠢的人
- intellectual
- 智识的，有才智的；脑力上的
- power
- 力量，能力，权力
- consequently
- 因此，所以，表示结果的连接副词
- appreciate
- 欣赏，感激，认识到……的价值
- vain
- 自负的，虚荣的，爱慕虚荣
- rather
- 相当，有点；或者说，更准确地说
- according
- 根据，按照，according to表示依据
- category
- 类别，种类，分类
- merely
- 仅仅，只不过，表示程度之小
- acquaintance
- 泛泛之交，认识但不深交的人
- sort
- 种类，类型；a sort of表示某种
- suppose
- 猜想，认为，假设
- care
- 在乎，关心，感兴趣
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