Their Eyes Were Watching God 《凝望上帝》 Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
远处的船承载着每个男人的心愿。——佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿（Zora Neale Hurston） 《凝望上帝》（Their Eyes Were Watching God，1937） The Brief History of the Dead 《死者简史》 When the blind man arrived in the city, he claimed that he had traveled across a desert of living sand.
当瞎子到达这个城市的时候，他宣称自己穿越了一片活的沙漠。——凯文•布罗克迈耶（Kevin Brockmeier） 《死者简史》（The Brief History of the Dead，2006） The Pearl 《珍珠》 In the town they tell the story of the great pearl- how it was found and how it was lost again.
城里，人们讲着大珍珠的故事——它是怎样被找到，又是怎样再次丢失的。——约翰·斯坦贝克（John Steinbeck） 《珍珠》（The Pearl，1947） Oryx and Crake 《末世男女/羚羊和秧鸡》
雪人在黎明前醒来。——玛格丽特·阿特伍德（Margaret Atwood） 《末世男女/羚羊和秧鸡》（Oryx and Crake，2003） Charlotte's Web 《夏洛的网》
“爸爸拿着斧子去哪？”在他们收拾桌子准备吃早饭时，芬问她的母亲。——E.B.怀特（E. B. White） 《夏洛的网》（Charlotte's Web，1952） The Hunger Games 《饥饿游戏》 When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress. She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the reaping.
我醒来的时候，另一边床是冷的。我伸出手指，找寻普瑞姆的温暖，但只摸到了盖在床垫上的粗布被套。她一定又做了噩梦，爬进咱妈的被窝里去了。当然，她确实这么做了。这是个收获的日子。——苏珊·柯林斯（Suzanne Collins） 《饥饿游戏》（The Hunger Games，2008） The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 《宇宙尽头的餐厅》 The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
迄今为止，故事如下：起初，宇宙被创造出来。这激怒了许多人，被普遍视为一件劣迹。——道格拉斯·亚当斯（Douglas Adams） 《宇宙尽头的餐厅》（The Restaurant at the End of the Universe，1980） The Outsiders 《局外人》
当我从电影院的黑暗走到明亮的阳光下，我脑子里只有两件事：保罗·纽曼和搭车回家。——S·E·辛顿（S.E.Hinton） 《局外人》（The Outsiders，1967） Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 《哈利波特与魔法石》 Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
家住女贞路4号的德思礼先生和德思礼太太，总是自豪地说，他们一家极为正常，拜托。——J.K.罗琳（J. K. Rowling） 《哈利波特与魔法石》（Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone，1997） And Then There Were None 《无人生还》 In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times.
在头等车厢吸烟室的角落里，最近刚刚退休的沃格雷夫法官先生抽着雪茄，饶有兴味地浏览着《泰晤士报》上的政治新闻。——阿加莎·克里斯蒂（Agatha Christie） 《无人生还》（And Then There Were None，1939） The Lion, the Witch and the Wardobe 《狮子、女巫与魔衣橱》 ONCE there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids.
从前，有四个孩子，名字分别叫做彼得、苏珊、爱德蒙和露茜。这个故事讲的是他们在战争期间因为空袭，被送离伦敦期间所经历的事情。——C·S·路易斯（C. S. Lewis） 《狮子、女巫与魔衣橱》（The Lion, the Witch and the Wardobe，1950） Goldfinger James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.《金手指》
詹姆斯·邦德，喝过2盎司波本威士忌，坐在迈阿密机场的终点站侯机室里，思索着生死。——伊恩·弗莱明（Ian Fleming） 《金手指》（Goldfinger，1959） Howl's Moving Castle 《哈尔的移动城堡》 In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.
（在英格里之地，像七里靴和隐身斗篷这种东西真实存在的地方，身为三个孩子中的老大实在很不幸。）—— 戴安娜•韦恩•琼斯（Diana Wynne Jones） 《哈尔的移动城堡》（Howl's Moving Castle，1986） Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 《爱丽丝梦游仙境》 Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had looked into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of the book,” thought Alice, “without pictures and conversations?”
爱丽丝厌倦了和姐姐一起坐在河岸上，无所事事；她朝姐姐正看的书瞟过两眼，但书里面既没插图也没对话。“这书有啥意思，”她想，“连插图和对话都没有？”——刘易斯·卡罗尔（Lewis Carroll） 《爱丽丝梦游仙境》（Alice's Adventures in Wonderland，1865） The Great Gatsby 《了不起的盖茨比》
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” （在我年纪更轻，感情更脆弱的那些年里，父亲曾给过我一句忠告，这话至今仍萦绕在我心头。 “任何时候，当你想批评什么人，”他对我说，“只要记住，这世上并不是所有人都具备你所拥有的优势。”）——弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德（ F. Scott Fitzgerald） 《了不起的盖茨比》（The Great Gatsby，1925） Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 《海底两万里》 The year 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
1866年因为一件非凡的事件而大放异彩，一个人们无疑还没有忘记的神秘的、令人费解的现象。——儒勒·凡尔纳（Verne, Jules） 《海底两万里》（Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea，1870） Peter and Wendy 《彼得潘与温蒂》 All children, except one, grow up.
所有的孩子都会长大，只除了一个。——J. M. 巴里（J. M. Barrie） 《彼得潘与温蒂》（Peter and Wendy，1911） 本文作者：疯格格：简书作者 写“有用”的文字。 12 |
