英語佳句名句賞析 二
01. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. –Oscar Wilde
我自己的事總讓我煩得要死；我更喜歡管別人的事。
02. One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. – Mark Twain
貓與謊言的一個顯著區別就是貓只有九條命。
03. She is like the rest of the women –thinks two and two’ll come to make five, if she cries and bothers enough about it. –George Eliot
她和其他女的一樣――認爲只要使勁哭鬧，二加二就能等於五。
04. When you are down and out, something always turns up—and it’s usually the noses of your friends. – Orson Wells
你山窮水盡而潦倒的時候，總有什麼在你面前現出來――那通常是你朋友“嗤之以”的鼻子。
05. The one thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. –T. R. Dewar
交個人所得稅讓人傷心，比這更讓人傷心的只有一件事：個人所得稅你用不着交。
06. In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. – Menchen
總的說來，書有兩種：一是人人都不看的，一種是人人都不該看的。
07. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. –Lord Rochester
還沒結婚時，我有六條養育孩子的理論；現在我有六個孩子，理論一條也沒有了。
08. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; it you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. – Socrates
盡一切辦法結婚吧；如果你找到一個好妻子，你會很幸福；如果你找到一個壞妻子，你會成爲哲學家。
09. Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. –William hazlitt
有些人所以許下諾言，是爲了要享受食言的快感。
10. In dealing with Englishman you can be sure of on thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. –W. R. Inge
與英國人打交道，你能確定的只有一件事，那就是，合乎邏輯的解決辦法不會被採納。
11. No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner. –Dewar
沒有哪個妻子能忍受一個賭博的丈夫，除非他總是贏。
12. It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing—I used to be a good boy. –Mark Twain
這裏曾經是個好賓館，可是，那證明不了什麼――我還曾經是個好孩子呢。
