【英漢對照】英語諺語與名人名言集錦:Literature and Arts
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
— Stendhal, French writer
一部小說猶如一面在大街上行走的鏡子。
—— 法國作家 司湯達
A picture is a poem without words.
— Horace, ancient Roman poet
一幅畫是一首沒有文字的詩歌。
—— 古羅馬詩人 賀拉斯
Any one who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
— Da Vinci, Italian painter
一個藉著引經據典來辯論的人,不是在運用自己的才智,他是在運用自己的記憶力。
—— 畫家 達·芬奇
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
— Picasso, Spanish painter
美術是揭示真理的謊言。
—— 西班牙畫家 畢加索
Art is long, and time is fleeting.
— Longfellow, American poet
藝術是永恆的,時間則是瞬息即逝的。
—— 美國詩人 朗費羅
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling theorist has experienced.
— Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
藝術不是手藝,它是藝術家的體驗到的感情的傳遞。
—— 俄國作家 列夫·托爾斯泰
Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought.
— Susanne Langer, American philosopher
藝術是感情的模製品,猶如語言是思想的模製品。
—— 美國哲學家 蘇珊·朗格
Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men.
— Friedrich Schiller, German poet
藝術是自然的右手。自然只讓我們存在,而藝術創造我們的人類。
——詩人 弗里德里希·席勒
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
— Jack London, American writer
我寫作只是為了增加自身的美。
—— 美國作家 傑克·倫敦
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
—Maurice de vlaminck, French painter)
好畫猶如佳餚,只可意會,不可言傳。
—— 法國畫家 莫利斯·德·弗拉芒克
Literature is a kind of intellectual light which, like the light of the sun, may sometimes enable us to see what we do not like.
— Samuel Johnson, British writer and critic
文學是一種理智之光,它和陽光一樣,有時能使我們看到我們不喜歡的東西。
—— 英國作家、批評家 塞繆爾·約翰遜
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a peaking picture.
—Simonides, ancient Greek writer
畫是無言之詩,詩是有聲之畫。
—— 古希臘作家 西蒙尼特斯
節選自《大學英語新概念閱讀教程》(第二冊)(主編 李華田,武漢大學出版社,2012年6月)
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