- Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Browning
無知並非單純,而是罪惡。
勃朗寧 - Reading is a tow-way process; the reader can also write; television viewing is a one-way street: the viewer cannot create television image.
Marie Winn, “Viewing vs. Reading”
閱讀是雙向過過程:讀者也能寫作;觀賞電視單行道:觀賞者無法創造電視意象。
溫恩,〈觀賞對閱讀〉 - When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Singer
你出賣別人時,也出賣了自己。
辛格 - Writers are well-known for their powers of invention and imagination.
Andersen, “The Nightingale”
作家以創造力和想像力聞名。
安徒生<夜鶯> - Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.
Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
比起那些偉大的鳥獸來,人算不了什麼。
海明威<老人與海> - If there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.
Camus, The plague
如果有一件人可以永遠渴望,而且有時能夠得到的東西,那就是人類的愛。
卡繆<瘟疫> - Glory abroad too often means misery at home.
Van Loon, The Story of Mankind
國外的光榮往往意味著國內的困苦。
房龍,《人類的故事》 - Human suffering is mostly made by man himself.
Leon J. saul, “Suffering Is Self-Manufactured”
人的苦難多半是自作自受。
李昂 索爾,〈自作自受〉 - Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings.
Russell, “The Good Life”
愛是一個包含多種感情的人。
羅素,〈美好的生活〉 - It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Gogol, The Inspector-General
如果你的臉是歪斜的,責怪鏡子是沒用的。
果戈里,《總督察》
2014年1月9日 星期四
英文名句,英文名言佳句賞析 vol.19
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