萧伯纳语录

萧伯纳语录

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

理性的人让自己适应世界；非理性的人坚持让世界适应自己。因此，所有的进步都依赖于非理性的人。

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

自由意味着责任，正因为如此，多数人都惧怕自由。

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

避免痛苦的唯一方法是不要让自己有足够的闲暇去思考你是不是快乐。

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想结婚的就去结婚，想单身就维持单身，反正到最后你们都会后悔。

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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

感谢上帝，我是个无神论者。

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

乐观主义者和悲观主义者都对社会做出了贡献。乐观主义者发明了飞机，而悲观主义者则发明了降落伞。

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

历史给我们的教训是，我们从历史中什么都没学到。

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

初恋只不过是一点愚蠢加上大量的好奇。

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The most sincere form of love is love for food.

没有比热爱美食更真诚的爱。

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

所有伟大的真理最初都被看作是大逆不道的谬论。

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

说谎者的代价，不是别人不再相信他，而是他再不相信任何人。

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

如果一件事情是搞笑的，仔细找找隐藏在它背后的真相。

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Satisfaction is death.

满足即死亡。

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

阅读使堂吉诃德成为一个绅士，但相信他阅读的东西让他疯了。

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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

冷漠是无人性的本质。

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你有一个苹果，我有一个苹果，我们交换一下，一人还是一个苹果；你有一个思想，我有一个思想，我们交换一下，一人就有两个思想。

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I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

我从不拒绝诱惑，因为我发现对我不好的东西无法诱惑我。

——萧伯纳《苹果车》

人对任何东西都会厌倦的，会厌倦地狱，会厌倦天堂，一切历史只不过是世界在这两个极端间来回摆动的纪录罢了。

——萧伯纳《人与超人》

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

他一无所知，却以为自己无所不知，这充分说明，他适合从政。

——萧伯纳 《芭巴拉少校》