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1、The Importance of Being Ernest真诚的重要性 芮渝萍 译英文学习资料选自王尔德精选集北京燕山出版社 P368-P414译文部分所有名字地名均置换成英文原文Act I第一幕SCENEMorning-room in Algernons flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.Algernon位于半月街的寓所起居室。房间装饰华丽典雅。钢琴声从邻室传来。LA
2、NE is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, ALGERNON enters.Lane在摆放下午茶点，音乐停止后，Algernon出场。ALGERNON: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?听得出我弹奏的什么吗？Lane？LANE: I didnt think it polite to listen, sir.先生，我认为偷听不礼貌。ALGERNON: Im sorry for that, for your sake. I dont play ac
3、curately - any one can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.真为你感到遗憾。我弹的音调不一定很准可弹准音调谁不会我的弹奏很有表现力。就弹钢琴而言，我的特点是弹出感情。至于生活嘛，我是讲理性的。LANE: Yes, sir.是的，先生。ALGERNON: And, speaking of the science of Life, have
4、you got the cucumber sandwiches cut for Lady Bracknell?呵，说到生活的理性，你为Bracknell夫人准备好了黄瓜三明治吗？LANE: Yes, sir.Hands them on a salver.准备好了，先生。（递上一盘黄瓜三明治）ALGERNON: Inspects them, takes two, and sits down on the sofa. Oh! . . . by the way, Lane, I see from your book that on Thursday night, when Lord Shoreman
5、 and Mr. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed.（检查三明治，拿了两块，在沙发上坐下）哦！顺便说一下，Lane，我从你的账本上看到，星期四晚上我请Shoreman勋爵和Worthing先生就餐时，喝掉了八瓶香槟。LANE: Yes, sir; eight bottles and a pint.是的，先生，八瓶外加一品脱。ALGERNON: Why is it that at a bachelors establishment the ser
6、vants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.为什么在单身汉的家里，仆人们都要喝香槟酒呢？我只是随便问问。LANE: I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.先生，我想是因为酒太好了。我发现在结了婚的人家里，上等香槟就难得一见了。ALGERNON:
7、 Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that?天啊！婚姻真是那么让人沮丧吗？LANE: I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.先生，我相信婚
8、姻是很快乐的。不过在这方面我经验有限。我只结过一次婚，还是因为误解而结的。ALGERNON: Languidly.I dont know that I am much interested in your family life, LANE:（无精打采的样子）Lane，我对你的婚姻生活没有兴趣。LANE: No, sir; it is not a very interesting subject. I never think of it myself.我知道，先生。这个话题没什么意思。我自己都不去想它。ALGERNON: Very natural, I am sure. That will d
9、o, Lane, thank you.那很自然，我肯定。行了，Lane，谢谢你。LANE: Thank you, sir.LANE goes out.谢谢你，先生。（Lane下）ALGERNON: Lanes views on marriage seem somewhat lax. Really, if the lower orders dont set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsi
10、bility.Enter LANE:Lane对待婚姻好像有些不严肃。是啊，如果社会底层都不为我们树立好榜样，他们还能有别的什么作用呢？整个社会底层，好像都缺乏道德责任感。Enter LANELane上LANE: Mr. Ernest Worthing.Ernest Worthing先生到。Enter JACK:Jack上。LANE goes out.Lane下。ALGERNON: How are you, my dear Ernest? What brings you up to town?你好吗，亲爱的Ernest？是什么风把你吹到城里来啦？JACK: Oh, pleasure, pleas
11、ure! What else should bring one anywhere? Eating as usual, I see, Algy!哦，当然是找乐了！还能是别的什么吗？Algernon，我看见你总是在吃！ALGERNON: Stiffly.I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five oclock. Where have you been since last Thursday?（傲慢地）五点钟吃茶点，我认为是上流社会的风尚。上周星期四以后你去哪里了？JACK: Si
12、tting down on the sofa. In the country.（在沙发上坐下）去乡下了。ALGERNON: What on earth do you do there?你到乡下去干什么？JACK: Pulling off his gloves. When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.（脱下手套）人们进城时为了找乐。下乡去则是给别人找乐。真无聊。ALGERNON: And who are
13、 the people you amuse?你给谁找乐了？JACK: Airily.Oh, neighbours, neighbours.哦，邻居，邻居呗。ALGERNON: Got nice neighbours in your part of Shropshire?你在Shropshire有好邻居啦？JACK: Perfectly horrid! Never speak to one of them.讨厌极了！一个也别提。ALGERNON: How immensely you must amuse them!Goes over and takes sandwich.By the way,
14、Shropshire is your county, is it not?你一定让他们乐坏了！（走过去拿三明治）顺便问一下，Shropshire是你的老家吧？JACK: Eh? Shropshire? Yes, of course. Hallo! Why all these cups? Why cucumber sandwiches? Why such reckless extravagance in one so young? Who is coming to tea?恩？Shropshire？是的，当然是。喂！干嘛放那么多杯子？还有这些黄瓜三明治？怎么年纪轻轻的就大手大脚起来啦？有人来喝茶
15、吗？ALGERNON: Oh! Merely Aunt Augusta and GWENDOLEN: 哦，只不过是Augusta姨妈和Gwendolen。JACK: How perfectly delightful!太好了！ALGERNON: Yes, that is all very well; but I am afraid Aunt Augusta wont quite approve of your being here.是啊，是很好；不过我担心Augusta姨妈看见你在这里，不会高兴的。JACK: May I ask why?能问为什么吗？ALGERNON: My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as bad as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.老伙计，你跟Gwendolen调情的方式太伤风败俗了。不过Gwendolen调情的方式也好不到哪里去。JACK: I am in love with GWENDOLEN: I have come up to town expressly to propose to her.我爱Gwendolen。我是
