The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

-- Laurence Olivier 劳伦斯·奥利维尔

戏剧的作用是锻炼，也可能是耗尽人类的情感。喜剧的目的是把这些情感逗乐成轻松的表现;的悲剧，给他们带来了伤痛和宽慰的泪水。厌恶和恐惧是罗盘的另两个指针。

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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

那么什么是悲剧呢?在伊丽莎白时代，人们认为以死亡结尾的戏剧是一场悲剧，但近年来，我们开始明白，活着有时比死亡更悲惨。

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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

人的成长就是他的各种可能性被耗尽的历史。

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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

坏的结局是不幸的，好的结局是不幸的。这就是悲剧的意义。

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