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学不可以已。(《荀子·劝学》)
  • Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool: the mistake.
    进化塑造了这颗星球上一切有意识的生命,而它只用了一个工具:错误。

  • You can’t play God without being acquainted with the Devil.
    想要扮演上帝,你就不能不去了解魔鬼。

  • The problem is that what you and I do is so complicated.
    这里的问题是,你我所做的事情实在太复杂了。

  • We practice witchcraft. We speak the right words, then we creat life itself.
    我们这是在涉足巫术,说出正确的语言,便能创造生命。

Tips:可不要把 Play God 理解成“戏弄上帝”了,那是 Fool God。另外,“上帝”是不加定冠词 the 的。只有在多神论体系中谈某一个特定的神时,才说 the god。

  • Ah, my father used to say that only boring people get bored.
    啊,我父亲曾经常说:只有无趣的人才会感到无趣。

Tips:used to do sth. 并不单单是“曾经干什么”,它是在形容一种过去的常态,所以是“过去常常”或“过去一般会”。

  • Everything in this world is magic, except to the magician.
    世间万物皆为魔法,除非你就是操纵它的魔法师。

Episode Three. The Stray
第3集:迷失者

  • His personal life was marked by tragedy. He put all his hopes into his work. His search for consciousness consumed him totally.
    他的人生充满了悲剧。他把自己的全部希望倾注到工作当中。而他对意识的研究将他彻底吞噬了。

Tips:Consume sth. 的意思不光是“用某样东西”,它指的是“用掉、用尽”。

Episode Four. Dissonance Theory
第4集:不协调理论

  • We designed every inch of it.
    我们设计了这里的每一寸细节。

  • In here, we were gods. And you were merely our guests.
    在这里,我们就是神。而你,只不过是我们的客人。

Tips:“客人”在中文里是个带有敬意的词。但在英文里,它是个中性的词。

  • I’m not the sentimental type.
    我不是那种多愁善感的人。

Tips:the adj. type 被用来指一个种类。你可以说 I’m the adj. type. 也可以说 I’m of the adj. type.

Episode Five. Contrapasso
第5集:平衡

  • Far be it from me to get in the way of a voyage of self-discovery.
    去妨碍一场自我发现之旅完全不是我的风格。

Tips:这里开头的 far be it 是一种倒装现象,把形容词放在句首,然后主谓倒装。例如菲茨杰拉德的小说 Tender Is the Night (夜色温柔)。

Episode Six. The Adversary
第6集:对手

  • I’m sure you can indulge me the little connection with my past.
    我和过去只有这么点联系了,你肯定能迁就我以下,对吧。

Tips:indulge sb. sth. 的意思是“用 sth. 来惯着 sb.”。

Episode Seven. Trompe L’Oeil
第7集:视幻

  • I read a theory once that the human intellect is like peacock feathers.
    我曾经读到过一个理论:人类的智力就像是孔雀的羽毛。

  • Just an extravagant display intented to attract a mate, just an elaborate mating ritual.
    只不过是种用来吸引配偶的浮夸表演,只不过是种精巧的求偶仪式。

  • But, of course, the peacock can barely fly. It lives in the dirt, pecking insects out of the muck, consoling itself with its great beauty.
    不过,当然,孔雀几乎不能飞。它生活在尘土间,在淤泥里啄虫子吃,看着自己那惊世骇俗的美丽聊以自慰。

Episode Eight. Trace Decay
第8集:腐朽开始

Never place your trust in us. We’re only human. Inevitably, we will disappoint you.
永远别对我们报以信任,我们只是人。是人,就必然会让你失望。

1、凡是过去,皆为序曲。

  All the past, all is overture.

  2、没有比正直更富的遗产。

  No more than just rich heritage.

  3、女人,你的名字是弱者。

  Woman, your name is weak.

  4、生存还是毁灭,这是个问题。

  To be or not to be, that is the question.

  5、抛弃时间的人时间也抛弃他。

  Abandoning time person time to abandon him.

  6、报复不是勇敢,忍受才是勇敢。

  Retaliation is not brave, stand is brave.

  7、书籍若不常翻阅,则等于木片。

  If don’t often read books, is equal to the wood.

  8、读书可以帮助你忘记你的悲哀。

  Reading can help you forget your sadness.

  9、多一些事实,少一些矫饰废话。

  Some facts more and some less pretensions to nonsense.

  10、当星星不眨眼,你将为它闪耀。

  When the stars don’t blink, you will shine for it.

  11、太快和太慢,结果都不会美满。

  Too fast and too slow, the result won’t be happy.

  12、不太热烈的爱情才会维持久远。

  Not too passionate love will keep long.

  13、放弃时间的人,时间也放弃他。

  Abandoning time person, time also give up him.

  14、有很多良友,胜于有很多财富。

  There are a lot of friend, is better than have a lot of wealth.

  15、强有力的理由产生强有力的行动。

  Strong reasons make strong actions.

  16、世上本无所谓好和坏,思想使然。

  There is, there is no good and bad, thought.

  17、有所期待是一切精神痛苦的根源。

  Expectation is the root of all mental distress.

  18、黑夜无论怎样悠长,白昼总会到来。

  No matter how long the night, the day will come.

  19、没有肉体的摩擦,哪来灵魂的火花。

  No physical friction, which come the spark of the soul.

  20、我荒废了时间,时间便把我荒废了。

  I wasted time, time will waste me.

  21、最大的无聊,就是为无聊费尽辛劳。

  The biggest boring, is boring hard.

  22、我只想现在过得精彩,无所谓好坏。

  Now I just want to have a wonderful, there is no good or bad.

  23、不速之客只在告辞以后才最受欢迎。

  The intruder to one of the most popular only after the leave.

  24、大海有崖岸,热烈的爱却没有边界。

  The sea has the scarp, warm love have no boundary.

  25、充满了声音与狂热,里面空无一物。

  Full of sound and fanaticism, empty inside.

  26、愚者自以为聪明,智者则有自知之明。

  The fool does think he clever, but the wise man knows himself to have.

  27、没有什么比希望不平凡而更平凡的了。

  Nothing is more mundane and wish to be remarkable.

  28、今日所受苦难,都是他日笑谈的谈资。

  Today, the sufferings are another joke.

  29、聆听他人之意见,但保留自己之判断。

  Listen to the views of others, but retain their judgment.

  30、两个人骑一匹马,总有一个人在后面。

  Two men ride a horse, there is always a person in the back.

  31、为了追求更好的,毁损了原来够好的。

  In pursuit of better, damage to the original good enough.

  32、在悲哀里度过的时间似乎是格外长的。

  In sad time seems to be very long.

  33、为失策找理由,反而使该失策更明显。

  To blunder to find reasons, makes the mistake is more obvious.

  34、爱所有人,信任少许人,勿伤任何人。

  Love all, trust a few, do not hurt anyone.

  35、自己加于自己的伤害,最不容易治愈。

  On their own injuries, the most not easy to cure.

  36、聪明人不生眼睛,疯人何必生耳朵呢?

  Wise men don’t have eyes, crazy people why have ears?

  37、思想是生命的奴隶,生命是时间的弄人。

  Thought is the slave of life, life is the time to get one.

  38、在时间的大钟上,只有两个字——现在。

  On the time clock, only two words - now.

  39、简洁是智慧的灵魂,冗长是肤浅的’藻饰。

  Brevity is the soul of wit, long is the superficial embellishments in writing.

  40、死是可怕的。耻辱的生命是尤其可恼的。

  Death is terrible. Life is especially despiteful of shame.

  41、其实世事并无好坏,全看你们如何去想。

  In fact the world no good or bad, depends on how you think.

  42、本来无望的事,大胆尝试,往往能成功。

  Was hopeless, bold attempt, often can succeed.

  43、人应该生活,而非仅仅为了生存而活着。

  People should live, rather than simply in order to survive and live.

  44、失去了诚信,就等同于敌人毁灭了自己。

  To destroy themselves lost integrity, is equivalent to the enemy.

  45、无言的纯朴所表示的情感,才是最丰富的。

  Silent simplicity represented by emotion, is one of the most abundant.

  46、在命运的颠沛中,最可以看出人们的气节。

  In fate had, the most can see people of integrity.

  47、酒——以水的状态流淌,以火的性格燃烧。

  Wine - with the state of the water flowing to the character of the fire burning.

  48、起先的冷淡,将会使以后的恋爱更加热烈。

  At first the cold, will make the future more warmly love.

  49、直到再找不到对手,才收藏起自己的剑锋。

  Until no rival, collection up edge.

  50、我从来没有见过这样阴郁而又光明的日子。

  I have never seen such dark and bright day.

夫事以密成,语以泄败。(《韩非子·说难》)
夫事以密成,语以泄败。未必其身泄之也,而语及所匿之事,如此者身危。——《韩非子·说难》译解:凡事要守密才能成功,泄密必然失败。泄密未必是主动的意愿,往往是言谈中无意说出要保密的事,这样做会危及自身安全。

凡人之大体,取舍同者则相是也,取舍异者则相非也。(《韩非子·奸劫弑臣》)
【释义·点评】
凡:用在句首,表示对某个范围的人或事物的总括。大体:多数情况。取舍:采取和舍弃;选择。
就人的多数情况来说,价值取向相同的人就相互肯定,价值取向不同的人就相互排斥。

【名句·出处】
夫妻者,非有骨肉之恩也,爱则亲,不爱则疏。(《韩非子·备内》)
【原文·语境】
且万乘之主,千乘之君,后妃、夫人、适子为太子者,或有欲其君之蚤死者。何以知其然?夫妻者,非有骨肉之恩也,爱则亲,不爱则疏。
——《韩非子·备内》节选

【释义·点评】
夫妻,不是像骨肉那样有血缘恩情的人,喜爱就亲近,不喜爱就疏远。

【名句·出处】
舆人成舆,则欲人之富贵;匠人成棺,则欲人之夭死也。(《韩非子·备内》)
【原文·语境】
医善吮人之伤,含人之血,非骨肉之亲也,利所加也。故舆人成舆则欲人之富贵,匠人成棺则欲人之夭死也,非舆人仁而匠人贼也,人不贵则舆不售,人不死则棺不买,情非憎人也,利在人之死也。
——《韩非子·备内》节选

【释义·点评】
舆人:造车的人;舆,车。夭死:早死。
造车的人造成车,就希望人都富贵;木匠造成棺材,就希望人早死。
“舆人成舆,则欲人之富贵;匠人成棺,则欲人之夭死也”,揭示了商品社会的特点,商品制造者都希望商品尽快转化为货币,无关仁爱和奸邪。