【英语学习】《后会无期》经典段子阅读

1）“我从小到大都是优！你叫我怎么从良！”

*这句话要翻出来很难。“从良”就是“由坏人变成好人”的意思，但是字面上理解，“从良”跟前面的“优”结合起来看，却又是“从优变成良”的意思。属于典型的“双关”(punch line)。在韩寒的理解看来，好人可能不坏，坏人可能不好。好与坏，本身就没有明确的界限，可以相互转化。

I have been always bad. How can you tell me to change who I am?

（注：英文中bad这个词有双关意味，可以指一个人很“坏”，又可以指一个人很“棒”。Michael Jackson有一首歌叫《bad》，翻译成《真棒》！。另，在棒球场上，若某选手击出全垒打，全场会呼喊“bad!!”，大家可以体会其中意味。）

2）“你连世界都没观过，哪来的世界观？”

You never have a chance to see the world, then how can you develop a view of the world.

3）“从小听了很多大道理，可依旧过不好我的生活。”

I have heard tons of philosophies, but I’m still not able to harness my life.

4）“小朋友爱分对错，大人只看利弊。”

*中文的博大精深告诉我们“对错”和“利弊”虽然是同义词，但是在不同语境下内涵是不一样的。“小朋友”眼中的“对错”指的是非黑即白的东西，而大人眼中的“利弊”更多地牵扯了自身的利益。

Kids tell right from wrong, while adults merely tell advantages from disadvantages.

5）“喜欢就会放肆，但爱就是克制。”

*喜欢和爱在英文中很难表达，中文很矫情，一定要用两个词。英文中的喜欢和爱可能都是love，只不过程度不一样。你也可以把“喜欢”理解成“淡淡的爱”，把“爱”理解成“深深的喜欢”。

Superficial love is characterized by indiscipline, whereas deep love is a restraint.

6）“有时候，你想证明给一万个人看，到后来，你发现只得到了一个明白的人，那就够了。”

Sometimes, you want to prove it to 10 thousand people but only to find there is one person who can really understand you. That’s enough.

7）“跟人告别的时候，还是得用力一点，因为你多说一句，说不定就是最后一句，多看一眼，弄不好就是最后一眼。”

Do it well when you say goodbye to someone, because at that moment, what you say could be your final words, and what you see could never be seen again.

8）“带不走的留不下，留不下的莫牵挂。”

What can’t be taken won’t stay. What won’t stay shouldn’t be a concern.

9）“连家乡都没有了，我们跟野人也没什么区别。”

Without home, we are no different to barbarians.

10）“背井离乡，就得要出人头地。” Being away from home, we have nothing but a desire to make a figure.

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第二篇：阅读材料：英语经典句子70

著名经典短语 70条

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male a

nd female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

They didn't need men because they had each other, a significant other. It doesn't matter if the cat's in pants or pedal-pushers. I don't think we're supp

osed to fly solo.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lucky People, 1995

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

A medley of extemporanea;

And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"

When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"

I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum: what's the sound of one hand clapping? My personal op

inion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point? The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else.

Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839

Just because you love someone doesn抰 mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T, The Ice Opinion

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Marriage. Why do we do it? Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness? Partly. Is it teamwork? Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly?...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid.

Jed Seidel, Northern Exposure, I Feel The Earth Move, 1994

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campain, 1999

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campain, 1999

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04

I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death...Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through.