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悲剧
Tragedy
Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?
我所做的一切都没有导致我患上癌症,所以我不能坐下来说,‘哦,为什么是我?“为什么不是我?”为什么悲剧总是要发生在别人身上?
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 difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
悲剧和喜剧的区别:悲剧是发生在别人身上的可怕的事情,而喜剧是发生在别人身上的可怕的事情。
I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
我想我必须要做些什么,因为这似乎很疯狂,除了每个女人都要面对的心理悲剧,其他的也都来了。
If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
如果发生恐怖袭击,人们的反应将决定这次袭击是一场悲剧,还是一场全面的灾难。
You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.
你去贫民窟,你会看到成百上千的人,不仅仅是男人,还有女人和孩子。我们的社会已经到了这种地步,这真是一个悲剧。
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
喜剧和悲剧的材料没有本质的区别。一切都取决于剧作家的观点,通过巧妙的强调,他试图使观众的观点。
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。
If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.
如果莎士比亚认为喜剧是值得的,那就意味着我们其他人可以从悲剧中抽身而出,而不会背叛我们的使命,即使现代的专业知识分子,一个天生的装腔作势者,还没有发现这一点。
I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.
我觉得有些女人天生就是做母亲的料,有些女人天生就是当阿姨的料,有些女人真的不应该被允许接近孩子。悲剧的发生是当这些女人中的任何一个最终被归入错误的类别。
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。
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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。
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
我们参与了一场悲剧;看喜剧我们只看。
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
一部好悲剧的主题不能是现实的。
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
在悲剧中,每一刻都是永恒;在喜剧中,永恒是一瞬间。
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。
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
男子汉气概的悲剧在于,一个人永远不够男子汉。