‘Courage!’ he said, and pointed toward the land, ‘This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.’ In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

“勇气!”他指着陆地说，“越来越大的浪很快就会把我们卷向岸边。到了下午，他们来到了一片似乎永远是下午的土地。海岸的四周，慵懒的空气都昏过去了，呼吸起来就像做了一个疲倦的梦。

‘Cricket,’ said Raffles, ‘like everything else, is a good enough sport until you discover a better. As a source of excitement it isn’t in it with other things you wot of Bunny, and the involuntary comparison becomes a bore.

“板球，”莱佛士说，“和其他运动一样，在你发现更好的运动之前，它是一项足够好的运动。作为一种兴奋的来源，它不与你所知道的兔子的其他东西，和无意识的比较成为一个无聊。

‘Damn you!’ ‘You need not. I feel among the damned already.’

“该死的你!”“不需要。我已经觉得自己是该死的了。”

‘Dealing with a man,’ said the night-watchman, ‘is as easy as a teetotaller walking along a nice wide pavement; dealing with a woman is like the same teetotaller, after four or five whiskies, trying to get up a step that ain’t there.’

“和一个人打交道，”值夜的说，“就像一个滴酒不沾的人在宽阔的人行道上散步一样容易。跟一个女人打交道就像跟一个滴酒不沾的人打交道一样，喝了四五杯威士忌，还想爬上一个根本不存在的台阶。”

‘Did you ever taste beer?’ ‘I had a sip of it once,’ said the small servant. ‘Here’s a state of things!’ cried Mr. Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. ‘She never tasted it---it can’t be tasted in a sip!’

“你喝过啤酒吗?”“我曾经喝过一口，”小仆人说。“事情是这样的!”斯威夫勒先生叫道，抬起眼睛望着天花板。“她从来没有尝过——一口也尝不出来!”

‘Do you know who made you?’ ‘Nobody, as I knows on,’ said the child... I ’spect I grow. Don’t think nobody never made me.’

“你知道是谁创造了你吗?”“据我所知，没有人，”孩子说……我想我长大了。别以为从来没有人逼过我。”

‘Dying for an idea,’ again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

同样，“为一个想法而死”听起来很好，但为什么不让这个想法代替你而死呢?

‘Eternity’ is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble--- Divides abode with me--- No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.

“永恒”就在那里，我们说，就像一个车站。与此同时，他离我如此之近，他加入了我的漫步——与我分家——我没有一个朋友能像他那样永世长存。

‘Excellent!’, I cried. ‘Elementary’, said he.

“太好了!”,我哭了。“小学”,他说。

‘Extremes meet’, as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

“两极相接”，就像鳕鱼嘴里叼着尾巴说的那样。

‘Faith’ is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see---But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.

当绅士们能看见东西时，“信念”是一项很好的发明——但显微镜在紧急情况下是谨慎的。

‘Fan her head!’ the Red Queen anxiously interrupted. ‘She’ll be feverish after so much thinking.’

“扇她的头!红皇后焦急地打断了他的话。“她想了这么多，会发烧的。”

‘Father! father! where are you going? O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost.’

“父亲!父亲!你要去哪里?不要走得那么快。说吧，爸爸，跟你的小儿子说吧，否则我就迷路了。”

‘For I don’t,’ says Jo, ‘I don’t know no think.’

“因为我不知道，”琼说，“我不知道不去想。”

‘Form follows profit’ is the aesthetic principle of our times. Thus, design skill is measured today by the architect’s ability to build the largest possible enclosure for the smallest investment in the quickest time.

“形以利为本”是我们这个时代的审美原则。因此，今天的设计技巧是由建筑师在最短的时间内以最小的投资建造尽可能大的围护结构的能力来衡量的。