‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’ Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew Some one had blundered: Their’s not to make reply, Their’s not to reason why, Their’s but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

“前进，轻骑兵!”“有一个人惊惶失措吗?”虽然士兵知道有人犯了错误，但他们不必回答，也不必解释原因，他们只要去做就可以了。六百人骑马进入死亡之谷。

‘Go get you manned by Manning and new-manned By Newman and, mayhap, wise-manned to boot By Wise man.’

“去把你的人交给曼宁，把新人交给纽曼，说不定还有个聪明人，再加上个聪明人。”

‘God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends that plague thee thus! Why look’st thou so?’---With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.

“上帝保佑你，老水手!”从这样折磨你的恶魔那里!你为什么这样看?——我用十字弓射中了信天翁。

‘Goodness what beautiful diamonds!’ ‘Goodness had nothing to do with it.’

“天哪，多漂亮的钻石啊!”“这与善良无关。”

‘Good’, then, if we mean by it that quality which we assert to belong to a thing, when we say that the thing is good, is incapable of any definition, in the most important sense of the word.

那么，如果我们所说的“好”是指我们认为属于某物的那种性质，即当我们说某物是好的时候，它是不能用最重要的意义来定义的。

‘He is coming! he is coming!’ Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

“他来了!他来了!这位英雄像新郎一样从他的房间里走出来，从他的监狱里走到刑台和末日。

‘He knows’ says Hebraism,‘his Bible!’---whenever we hear this said, we may, without any elaborate defence of culture, content ourselves with answering simply: ‘No man, who knows nothing else, knows even his Bible.’

“他知道，”希伯来语说，“他的圣经!——每当我们听到这些话的时候，我们可以不为文化作任何详尽的辩护，满足于简单地回答说:“没有人，除了圣经什么都不知道，甚至连他的圣经也不知道。”

‘Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?’---say.

“英格兰曾经在这里和这里帮助过我，我怎样才能帮助英格兰呢?”

‘He’s supposed to have a particularly high-class style: ‘‘Feather footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole’’...would that be it?’ ‘Yes,’ said the Managing Editor. ‘That must be good style.’

“他应该有一种特别高级的风格:‘羽毛脚穿过泥泞的沼泽，经过正在寻找的田鼠’……就这些吗?“是的，”主编说。“那一定是很好的风格。”

‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers---That perches in the soul---And sings the tune without the words---And never stops---at all---

“希望”是长着羽毛的东西——它栖息在灵魂深处——它不用言语就能唱出曲调——它永不停歇——根本停不下来

‘Humph yourself!’ And the Camel humphed himself.

“哼你自己!骆驼哼了一声。

‘I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.’ ‘I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.’

“我是强盗，靠抢劫富人为生。“我是个绅士，靠抢劫穷人过日子。”

‘I am inclined to think---’said I. ‘I should do so,’ Sherlock Holmes remarked, impatiently.

“我倒倾向于认为——”我说道。

‘I believe I take precedence,’ he said coldly; ‘you are merely the Club Bore: I am the Club Liar.’

“我想我先来，”他冷冷地说。“你不过是俱乐部里的讨厌鬼，我是俱乐部里的说谎者。”

‘I can forgive, but I cannot forget’, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive’.

“我可以原谅，但我不能忘记”，这只是“我不能原谅”的另一种说法。