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悲剧
Tragedy
The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.
人生最大的悲剧不是死亡，而是没有目标的人生。
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
我学过莎士比亚，那都是喜剧，即使是悲剧。
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
悲剧是生者获得智慧的工具，而不是生活的指南。
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
没有天赋的努力是一种耻辱，但是没有天赋的努力是一场悲剧。
The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.
生命的悲剧不在于死亡，而在于我们活着的时候让自己的内心死去。
That is the mysterious thing about tragedy it often strikes at the happiest moment.
这就是悲剧的神秘之处，它常常发生在最幸福的时刻。
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
人们试图把我的人生写成希腊悲剧，但他们做不到。我太高兴了。
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
生活是智者的梦想，愚者的游戏，富人的喜剧，穷人的悲剧。
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
人生的悲剧不在于没有达到你的目标。悲剧就在于没有目标。
There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
喜剧中显然有很多悲剧;我真的很喜欢好喜剧的悖论。
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
这个世界的悲剧在于每个人都是孤独的。因为过去的生活无法与现在分享。
Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.
悲剧使我一头扎进了现实。我以前见过的一切现在看来都不一样了，连大自然也不一样了。
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Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.
我们的悲剧是，我们忘记了可能首先是别人。
Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.
也许创造天堂需要悲剧。
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
这是如此的悲剧，人类忍受着杀害自己的兄弟和同类，把他关进监狱和精神病院，让他露宿街头。
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.
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。
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。