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经典美文（中英文对照）

The Goodness of Life

生命的美好

Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful. Though life’s goodness can at times be overshadowed, it is never outweighed.

尽管有很多事让人忧虑，但相比而言，值得感激的事要多得多。尽管生命的美好有时被蒙上阴影，但它却永远不会被埋没。

For every single act that is senselessly destructive, there are thousands more small, quiet acts of love, kindness and compassion. For every person who seeks to hurt, there are many, many more who devote their lives to helping and to healing.

相对于每一个无谓的破坏行为而言，都有更多数以千计更为微小的，包含着爱，友善和同情的举动静静地上演着。相对于每一个试图伤害他人的人而言，都有更多的人致力于帮助他人，治愈他人的创伤。

There is goodness to life that cannot be denied.

生命的美好不能否认。

In the most magnificent vistas and in the smallest details, look closely, for that goodness always comes shining through.

在最为壮观的前景和最为琐碎的细节中，请仔细观察，因为美好的事物总是散发着耀眼的光芒闪亮登场。

There is no limit to the goodness of life. It grows more abundant with each new encounter. The more you experience and appreciate the goodness of life, the more there is to be lived.

生命的美好没有界限。每一次相遇都会使这美好变得越发丰富。你经历得越多，越能欣赏生命的美好，生命中的美好就会变得越多。

Even when the cold winds blow and the world seems to be covered in foggy shadows, the goodness of life lives on. Open your eyes, open your heart, and you will see that goodness is everywhere.

即使当寒风袭来，整个世界似乎被雾气掩盖之时，生命的美好仍会存在。睁开双眼，打开心扉，你就会发现这美好无处不在。

Though the goodness of life seems at times to suffer setbacks, it always endures. For in the darkest moment it becomes vividly clear that life is a priceless treasure. And so the goodness of life is made even stronger by the very things that would oppose it.

尽管生命的美好有时似乎遭受挫折，但它总会挺过来。因为，在最黑暗的时刻，有一点变得格外清楚，那就是，生命是无价的财富。因此，下正是与生命的美好相对立的事物使其越发强大。

Time and time again when you feared it was gone forever you found that the goodness of life was really only a moment away. Around the next corner, inside every moment, the goodness of life is there to surprise and delight you.

无数次地，当你担心这美好已经远离之时，你会发现生命的美好其实只与你相隔须臾。它就在下一角落，存在于每个时刻之间，等着给你惊喜。

Take a moment to let the goodness of life touch your spirit and calm your thoughts. Then, share your good fortune with another. For the goodness of life grows more and more magnificent each time it is given away.

花些时间让生命的美好感动自己的灵魂，放松自己的思绪。然后，把你的幸运与他人分享。因为生命的美好会在每次给予之间变得越来越壮观。

Though the problems constantly scream for attention and the conflicts appear to rage ever stronger, the goodness of life grows stronger still, quietly, peacefully, with more purpose and meaning than ever before.

尽管总是有问题让你去关注，冲突也似乎愈演愈烈，但生命的美好却总是静静地，平和地，带着比以往更强的意志和更多的价值变得更加强大。

飞鸟集

夏天的飞鸟，飞到我的窗前唱歌，又飞去了。

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.

秋天的黄叶，它们没有什么可唱，只叹息一声，飞落在那里。

And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sign.

世界上的一队小小的漂泊者呀，请留下你们的足印在我的文字里。

Troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.

世界对着它的爱人，把它浩翰的面具揭下了。

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.

它变小了，小如一首歌，小如一回永恒的接吻。

It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

是大地的泪点，使她的微笑保持着青春不谢。

It is the tears of the earth that keep here smiles in bloom.

无垠的沙漠热烈追求一叶绿草的爱，她摇摇头笑着飞开了。

The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.

如果你因失去了太阳而流泪，那么你也将失去群星了。

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

跳舞着的流水呀，在你途中的泥沙，要求你的歌声，你的流动呢。你肯挟瘸足的泥沙而俱下么？

The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Will you carry the burden of their lameness?

她的热切的脸，如夜雨似的，搅扰着我的梦魂。

Her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

有一次，我们梦见大家都是不相识的。

Once we dreamt that we were strangers.

我们醒了，却知道我们原是相亲相爱的。

We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

忧思在我的心里平静下去，正如暮色降临在寂静的山林中。

Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.

优美语句

Money is not everything. There's Mastercard & Visa.

钞票不是万能的，有时还需要信用卡。

One should love animals. They are so tasty.

每个人都应该热爱动物，因为它们很好吃.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

成功是一个相关名词，他会给你带来很多不相关的亲戚（联系）。

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

不要等明天交不上差再找借口，今天就要找好。

"Your future depends on your dreams." So go to sleep.

“现在的梦想决定着你的将来”，所以还是再睡一会吧。

There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

应该有更好的方式开始新一天，而不是千篇一律的在每个上午都醒来。

Hard work never kills anybody. But why take the risk?  

努力工作不会导致死亡！不过我不会用自己去证明。

Work fascinates me. I can look at it for hours!

工作好有意思耶！尤其是看着别人工作。

God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.

神决定了谁是你的亲戚，幸运的是在选择朋友方面他给了你留了余地。

When two‘s company, three's the result!

两个人的状态是不稳定的，三个人才是!

The more you learn, the more you know, the more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

学的越多，知道的越多，知道的越多；忘记的越多，忘记的越多；知道的越少，为什么学来着?!

奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde）生于1854年，卒于1900年，为剧作家、诗人、散文家，19世纪与萧伯纳齐名的英国才子。他的戏剧、诗作、小说则留给后人许多惯用语。

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

逢场作戏和终身不渝之间的区别只在于逢场作戏稍微长一些。

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what would calls a romance.

爱，始于自我欺骗，终于欺骗他人。这就是所谓的浪漫。

—恋爱总是以自欺开始，以欺人结束。

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

浪漫的精髓就在于它充满种种可能。

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

人是理性动物，但当他被要求按照理性的要求行动时，可又要发脾气了。

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.

墙纸越来越破，而我越来越老，两者之间总有一个要先消失。—1900年11月30日，于左岸旅店，他的遗言。

No man is rich enough to buy back his own past. - An Ideal Husband (1895)

没有人富有到可以赎回自己的过去。—改编自《理想的丈夫》

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

真相很少纯粹，也决不简单。 —《不可儿嬉》

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

爱自己是终身浪漫的开始。

—爱自己就是开始延续一生的罗曼史。

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

我们都生活在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。

Most people discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

大多数人发现他们从未后悔的事情只是他们的错误，但发现时已经太晚了。

What is the chief cause of divorce? Marriage.

什么是离婚的主要原因？结婚。

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.

当爱情走到尽头，软弱者哭个不停，有效率的马上去寻找下一个目标，而聪明的早就预备了下一个。

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

伟大的艺术家所看到的，从来都不是世界的本来面目。一旦他看透了，他就不再是艺术家。

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

我给你们讲述的是所有你们没勇气去犯的罪孽。

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

一个人总是可以善待他毫不在意的人。

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

看似痛苦的试炼的往往是伪装的祝福。

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

情感的好处就是让我们误入歧途。

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