‘If you don’t go to other men’s funerals,’ he told Father stiffly, ‘they won’t go to yours.’

“如果你不去参加别人的葬礼，”他生硬地对父亲说，“他们就不会去参加你的葬礼。”

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor.

“有人在那儿吗?”那赶路的人敲着月光下的门说。他的马在寂静中咬着森林蕨类植物地面上的草。

‘Is there no more?’ She cries. ‘All this to love, and rapture’s due, Must we not pay a debt to pleasure too?’

“没有别的了吗?””她哭。“这一切都是为了爱情，为了狂喜，难道我们不应该也为了快乐而付出代价吗?”

‘It is bitter - bitter,’ he answered; ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.’

“很苦——很苦，”他回答。“但我喜欢它，因为它是苦的，因为它是我的心。”

‘It was as true,’ said Mr Barkis,‘...as taxes is. And nothing’s truer than them.’

“是真的，”巴克斯先生说，“……税收。没有什么比它们更真实的了。”

‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ the Queen remarked.

王后说:“这是一种只能倒着工作的可怜的记忆力。”

‘It’s very easy to talk,’ said Mrs Mantalini. ‘Not so easy when one is eating a demnition egg,’ replied Mr Mantalini; ‘for the yolk runs down the waistcoat, and yolk of egg does not match any waistcoat but a yellow waistcoat, demmit.’

“说起来容易，”曼塔利尼太太说。“当一个人在吃一个破乳蛋的时候，就不那么容易了，”曼塔利尼先生回答说。“因为蛋黄顺着马甲往下流，蛋黄和任何马甲都不相配，只配一件黄色的马甲，德米特。”

‘I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,’ said cunning old Fury; ‘I’ll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.’

“我要当法官，我要当陪审员。”“我要把一切都审问一遍，判你死刑。”

‘I’m always ill after Shakespeare,’ said Mrs Wititterly. ‘I scarcely exist the next day; I find the re-action so very great after a tragedy...and Shakespeare is such a delicious creature.’

“看完莎士比亚之后，我总是生病，”威蒂蒂尔太太说。“第二天我几乎不存在了;我觉得悲剧发生后的重新演绎非常棒……莎士比亚真是个可爱的人物。”

‘I’ve never travelled,’ Dona Consolation blandly confessed, ‘but I dare say, dear, you can’t judge Egypt by Aida.’

“我从来没有出过国，”多纳和颜悦色地承认，“但是我敢说，亲爱的，你不能用阿依达来判断埃及。”

‘Just about as much right,’ said the Duchess, ‘as pigs have to fly.’

“就像猪会飞一样，”公爵夫人说。

‘Mind and matter,’ said the lady in the wig, ‘glide swift into the vortex of immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.’

“思想和物质，”戴假发的女士说，“迅速地滑入无边无际的漩涡。崇高在咆哮，平静的理想在想象的低语室里沉睡。”

‘Mourning is a hard business,’ Cesare said. ‘If people knew there’d be less death.’

“哀悼是件艰难的事情，”塞萨尔说。“如果人们知道死亡会减少的话。”

‘My country right or wrong’, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober’.

“我的国家是对还是错”，这是一个爱国者除了在绝望的情况下才会想到说的话。这就像在说，‘我的母亲，喝醉了还是清醒了’。

‘My idea of good company,Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.’ ‘You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good company, that is the best.’

“艾略特先生，我所认为的好伙伴是由聪明、消息灵通的人组成的，他们有很多话要说;这就是我所谓的好伙伴。“你错了，”他温和地说，“这不是一个好伙伴，这是最好的伙伴。”