如果你只能读一本王尔德的书，那选择《道林格雷的画像》就足够了。

像王尔德这种天赋型选手，驾驭文字的能力出神入化，很多金句放在今天依然是经典，用良知灵魂换区青春永驻的故事在今天依然能给我们启发。

整本书开始于：我突然意识到有人在看着我，我半转过身，第一次看到了道林格蕾。

当我们四目相对时，我觉得我面色惨白。一种古怪的感觉油然而生。我清楚与我面对面的这个人格是如此令人着迷，如果我允许他那样做，他将会吞没我的整个天性，我的全部灵魂，还有我的艺术本身。

突然间我发现我自己正与这位年轻人面对面，他的人格如此奇怪地打动着我。我们相当靠近，几乎接触上了，我们再次四目相对。

我们命中注定就要认识彼此。

道林格蕾简直就是我艺术的动机。你在他身上什么也看不出来，而我在他身上看到了一切。

1.这世界上只有一件事比被人谈论更糟糕，那就是根本不被人谈论。

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

2. 他是那种没有头脑容貌漂亮的人。这种人冬天的时候应该一直待在这儿，因为那时我们没有花儿可欣赏；夏天时也应该一直待在这儿，因为我们需要一些东西来清醒我们的理智。

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 .

3. 丑陋和愚笨的人拥有这个世界上最好的便利，他们能够随意而坐，张着嘴看戏。

The ugly an the stupid have the best of it in the world . They can sit at their ease and gape at the play .

4. 如果他们对胜利一无所知，他们至少省去了对失败的了解。

If they know nothing of victory , they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat .

5.婚姻的一大魅力，就是互相欺瞒，对夫妻双方而言是绝对必须的。

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessaery for both parties.

6.良知和怯弱其实是相同的东西。

Conscience and cowaedice are really the same things.

7.对于一段友情，哈哈大笑完全不是一个糟糕的开始，而且绝对是最佳的结局。

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship ,and it is far the best ending for one .

8.你喜欢每一个人，也就意味着你对每个人都漠不关心。

You like everyone , that is to say , you are indifferent to everyone .

9.一个人在选择他的敌人时再怎么仔细都不为过。

A man cannont be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

10.我忍不住厌恶我的亲戚 。我猜它产生于一个事实，我们当中没有人能容忍其他人拥有与我们自己相同的毛病。

I can't help detesting my relations . I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves .

11. 天赋比美丽更持久，这也就是我们所有人都极力让自己过分地接受教育的原因。

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty , that accounts fou the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves .

12.忠贞不贰的人只知道爱的小零小碎，而见异思迁者才懂得爱的大悲大痛。

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love , it is the faithless who know love's tragedies .

13.每个阶级都会鼓吹那些美德的重要性，而在他们自己的生活里却没有经历的必要。

Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues , for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives .

14.富人会高谈节约的可贵，游手好闲之人去演说劳工的尊严。

The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift , and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour .

15. 摆脱诱惑的唯一途径是向诱惑屈服。

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it .

16. 你拥有最绝妙的青春， 而青春是一件值得拥有的东西。

You have the most marvellous youth , and youth is the one thing worth having .

17. 别挥霍你的黄金时代，别去聆听冗长乏味的东西，别设法改进毫无希望的失败，别将你的生命献给无知，平庸和粗俗。

Don't squander the gold of your days , listening to the tedious , trying to improve the hopeless failure , or giving away your life to the ignorant , the common and the vulgar .

18. 活着， 将你精妙的内在生命活出来!

Live ! Live the wonderful life that is in you !

19. 总是，这是个恐怖的词汇。女人非常喜爱用这个词。她们通过尝试令浪漫永续而毁了每一种浪漫。

Always ,that is a dreadful word ,women are so fond of using it . They spoil every romance bu trying to make it last for ever .

20. 朝三暮四与永生的激情的不同之处就是，朝三暮四会持续得更长。

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer .

21. 你能喜欢我多长时间呢？我猜是知道我出现了第一条皱纹时。

How long will you like me ? Till i have my first wrinkle , I suppose .

22. 在现代生活里，罪孽是唯一真实的色彩元素。

Sin is the only real colour element in modern life .

23. 一个有身份的人， 他清楚的东西足够多了；如果一个人没有身份，他清楚的任何事对他毫无益处。

If i man is a gentleman , he knows quite enough , and if he is not a gentleman , whatever he knows is and for him .

24. 慈善家会丧失所有的人性， 这是他们与众不同的特征。

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity , it is their distinguishing characteristic .

25. 每一件赏心悦目的东西背后， 都存在着一些悲剧的东西。

Behind every exquisite thing that existed , there was something tragic .

26. 情感的优势就是使我们误入歧途，而科学的优势就是它不轻易动感情。

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray , and the advantage of Science is that is not emotional .

27. 人类太过严肃了， 这是世界的原罪。

Humanity takes itself too seriously . It is the world's original sin .

28. 为了恢复青春， 只需要重复曾经做过的傻事。

To get back one's youth , one has merely to repeat one's follies .

29. 男人结婚是因为疲惫，女人结婚是因为好奇，记过双方都会失望。

Men marry because they are tired , women, because they are curious , both are disappointed .

30. 终其一生只爱一次的人是真正的肤浅者。他们称自己忠诚和忠贞，我称之为惯性的慵懒，要不就是缺乏想象力。

The people who love only once in their loves are really the shallow people . What they call their loyalty , and their fidelity , I call either the lethargy of custom or theri lack of imagination .

31.寻常的女人永远不会引起一个人的想象力，她们被自己的时代所禁锢。

Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination , they are limited to their century .

32. 当一个人陷入爱情时，总以欺骗自己开始，又以欺骗别人结束。这是世人所称的浪漫。

When one is in love , one always begins by deceiving oneself , and one always ends by deceiving others . That is waht the world calls a romance .

33. 大多数人破产的原因在于在单调的生活里投资过多。为了诗意而将自己毁掉则是一种荣誉。

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life . To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour .

34. 我想让罗密欧嫉妒，让世界上死去的爱侣们听到我们的欢笑，然后生出忧伤。我想用我们充满激情的呼吸， 扰动他们化成的灰烬从而回复意识，让他们的尸体清醒而感到疼痛。

I want to make Remeo jealous , I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad . I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness , to wake their ashes into pain .

35. 人们非常喜欢放弃自己最为需要的东西， 我称之为深层次的慷慨。

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves ,it is what I call the depth of generosity .

36. 有些毒药是如此的难以捉摸，以至于想清楚它们的性质，你自己必须也要中毒。

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them .

37. 普通人一直等着生活将其秘密揭露给他们， 但对少数人，对被选择之人，在生活的面纱还未被拉开之前，其中的神秘就已经被展现出来。

Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets , but to the few , to the elect , the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was draw away .

38. 孩子们通过爱他们的父母而开始，当他们长大一些就会判断父母，有时也原谅他们。

Chrideren begin by loving their parents , as they grow older they judge them , sometimes they forgive them.

39. 当贫穷蹑手蹑脚溜进门，爱情便通过窗子飞进来。

When poverty creeps in at the door , love flies in through the window .

40. 无论何时，一个人去做一件愚蠢至极的事情，往往是源于最崇高的动机。

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing , it is always from the noblest motives .

41.如果一个人让我着迷，那个人不管选择何种方式来表达，对我而言都非常可爱。

If a personality fascinates me , whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me .

42. 我想穷人的真正悲剧是他们无法负担任何东西，除了自我牺牲。

I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial .

43.美丽的罪孽，就仿佛美丽的东西一样，是富人的特权。

Beautiful sins ,like beautiful things , are the privilege of the rich .

44. 没有一个文明人为享乐而悔恨，没有一个人不文明的人了解什么叫享乐。

No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure , and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is .

45. 女人将他们生命中最珍贵的东西给了男人，可她们总是想一点点要回去。

Women give ti men the very gold of their lives , but they invariably want it back in such very small change .

46. 只有两类人真正令人着迷，无所不知人和一无所知的人。

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -people who know absolutely everything , and people who know absolutely nothing .

47. 永葆年轻的秘密是永远不要有不合时宜的情绪。

The secret of remaining youth is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming .

48. 女人能够改造男人的唯一方法就是让他彻底感到厌倦，这样他会对生活失去任何兴趣。

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely tha he loses all possible interest in life .

49. 往事的魅力在于它已经成为了往事。但是女人们从来都不知道帷幕何时降落。

The one charm of the past is that it is the past .But women never know when the curtain has fallen .

50.失去一个爱慕者的话，就从别人那里夺过来一个。

Taking someone else's admirer when one loses one's own.

51. 我们生活在这个时代，读了太多的书以至于无法聪明，思考得太多以至于无法漂亮。

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise , and that thinks too much to be beautiful .

52. 但凡对人生有任何一点了解的人，谁都会向这令自己的余生永葆青春的机会投降的。

无论这机会多么不可思议，或者需要担心这会产生多么严重的后果。

Who knew anything about life , would surrender the chance of remaining always young , however fantastic the chance might be ,or with what fateful consequences it might be fraught .

53. 如果我们谁都不说它，它就等于从来没发生过。正是表达给了事务切实存在的证据。

If one doesn't talk about a thing , it has never happened . It is simply expression that gives reality to things .

54. 只有那些懦弱的人才需要好几年的时间来摆脱某种情绪，一个能够把握自己的人才能够轻易地结束忧伤，如同创造快乐一样。

It is only shallow people who requires years to get rid of an emotion , a man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure .

55. 我有新的感情，新的思维，新的想法。我不再和以前一样了，但你不能因此而减少对我的爱。我发生了 一些变化，但你必须永远做我的朋友。

I have new passions , new thoughts , new ideas . I am different , but you must not like me less . I am changed , but you must always be my friend .

56. 过去的事总是可以被毁灭，通过后悔，否认或者忽略就能做到。

The past could always be annihilated , regret , denial or forgetfulness could do that .

57. 我们错过了那么多的事物，却不过只是为了一些渺小的目的。

58. 有时候他简直把邪恶当作实现他对美的审视的一种方式。

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful .

59. 我是喜欢听说别人的丑闻，但是我对自己的丑闻毫无兴趣。

I love scandals about other people , but scandals about myself don't interest me .

60. 在这个国家，只要有名气，又有头脑，就足够让大众对你说三道四的了。

In this country it is enough for a man to have distinction and brains for every common tongue to wag against him .

61.我希望你过一种被这社会尊重的生活。我希望你有一个干干净净的名声和清清白白的历史。

I want you to lead such a life as will make the world respect you .

I want you to have a clean name and a fair record .

62. 看看你的灵魂，只有上帝可以做到。

To see your soul , but only God can do that .

63. 别提曾经的岁月了，它们已经死了。

Don't speak about those days , they are dead .

64. 女人再婚是因为反感第一任丈夫，而男人再婚是爱慕第一任妻子。女人需要试试运气，而男人则需要冒险。

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband , when a man marries again , it is because he adored his first wife . Women try their luck , men risk theris .

65. 女人爱我们是由于我们的不足。如果我们拥有足够的不足，她们可以宽恕我们任何事，甚至是我们智慧。

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them , they will forgive us everything , even our intellects .

66. 男人可以与任何女人和谐相处，只要他不爱她。

A man can be happy with any woman , as long as he does not love her .

67. 带有敏感以及精致性情的人始终是这样。他们的激烈情感必须或者碰撞或者屈从：或者杀死别人，或者毁灭自己。

WIth subtle and finely-rrought temperaments it is always so .

Their strong passions must either bruise or bend : they either slay the man , or themselves die .

68. 小悲小爱得以生存，大悲大爱则由于自身丰富而毁于一旦。

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on , the loves and sorrows that are great destroyed by their own plenitude .

69. 世上唯一恐怖的东西便是厌倦，那是不可饶恕的罪孽。

The only horrible thing in the world it ennui , that is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness .

70.命运不会打发我们做先行者，因为她太聪明或者太冷酷。

Destiny does not send us heralds , she is too wise or too cruel for that .

71. 我不恐惧死亡，而死亡的临近才让我恐惧。

I have no terror of death , it it the coming of death that terrfies me .

72. 女人是多么热衷冒险啊。只要有其他人旁观， 女人便可以与世界上任何人调情。

How fond women are of doing dangerous things .

A woman will flirt wiht anybody in the world as long as other people looking on .

73. 灵魂是一种可怕的现实，能够卖卖 ，能够交易，能够被毒害，也能够使其完美。

The soul is a terrible reality .

It can be bought , and sold , and bartered away , it can be poisoned , or made perfect .

74. 人向最公平的上帝所祈祷的，应当是“严惩我们的恶行吧”，而不是“宽恕我们的罪孽吧”

Not "Forgive us our sins" but "Smile us for our iniquities '' should be the prayer of man to a most just God .

75. 往事还是不想为好，什么都不能更改了。

It was better not to think of the past , nothing could alter that .

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