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昨天看书看到一笑话：法官问一位吊着绷带的妇女：“出车祸以来，你那只手最高能举多高？”那位妇女痛苦地皱着眉把手举到肩膀那么高：“只能举到这儿。”法官又问：“出车祸前能举多高呢？”那位妇女高兴地把手一下子举过头顶：“这么高！”

 

今儿这阳光灿烂的，不出去走走简直有辜负的感觉。果断放弃午觉，散下步，然后再去JUSCO给少爷采购点零食。

 

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.-Donald Riggs

 

 

I told you I had dreamed of you last night. You said you had dreamed of me too. Is it that we really met in our dreams?

 

She pulled me against her and kissed me, then held me an extra second to show that her embrace was sincere, not just like everyone else's, never having realized that everyone else does the same thing. - Tobias Wolff, The Liar

 

She looked at me and I shrank; I knew exactly what she was going to say. "Son," she said, "do you know how much I love you?" - Tobias Wolff, The Liar

 

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.-George Herbert

 

To be free is to have achieved your life.-Tennessee Williams

 

The biggest liar in the world is They Say.-Douglas Malloch

 

Nothing is ours except time.-Marcus Seneca

 

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

 

爱默生说：“造一个够好的老鼠夹，世界迟早要踏出一条路到他的门前。”就是我们说的“酒香不怕巷子深”吧。

 

He died downstairs in a shaft of late afternoon sunlight on New Year’s Day, while I was reading to him. I was alone in the house and didn’t know what to do. His body did not frighten me but immediately and sharply I missed my father. – Tobias Wolff, The Liar

 

My father died well. His irritability gave way to something else, something like serenity. In the last days he became tender. It was as though he had been rehearsing the scene, that the anger of his life had been a kind of stage fright. – Tobias Wolff, The Liar

 

淘到本旧书，意大利小说《芳丹玛拉》，随手一翻，看到一句“走近水神娘娘庙”，一下子就笑了。

 

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.-George Bernard Shaw

 

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me.-John Barrymore

 

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.-Oscar Widle

 

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

-Julia Child

 

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.-Michael Curtiz

 

汉克·威廉斯（Hank Williams)是一位诗人，擅写界限、恐惧和失败；他沿着一个方向，尽可能深地进入这个国家，让它美丽，让它高贵。—格雷尔·马库斯，《神秘列车》

 

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.- Paul Dickson

 

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. –Claud Cockburn

 

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.-Nancy Astor

 

我翻译时碰到my father、my mother时，多译为“我爸爸”、“我妈妈”。虽然我深知英语中所有格形容词用得多，很多时候可以省略，但还是不愿意译成“爸爸”、“妈妈”，因为觉得那样会有点“嗲”。有时读者觉得译得罗唆，我暂时还不愿意改。比如我译的这两段：http://book.douban.com/subject/2721209/discussion/51377706/

 

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. - Benjamin Disraeli

 

I have lectured on campuses for a quarter of a century, and it is my impression that after taking a course in The Novel, it is an unusual student who would ever want to read a novel again. –Gore Vidal

 

An actor is a guy who, if you ain’t telling about him, ain’t listening. –Marlon Brando

 

The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. –Glenda Jackson

 

Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten serpent. –Mark Twain

 

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.-Thomas Carlyle

 

You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.-Charles C. Noble

 

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.-David Graydon

 

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde

 

He has all the characteristics of a dog except the loyalty.- Sam Houston, describing a political foe

 

从录制首张唱片开始，仅仅两年时间内他就赢取了常人无法想象的成功；他达到的状态让拼搏变得平凡琐碎，让理想化作明日黄花。他的成就让生活发生了翻天覆地的变化；从此，他已经把奋斗的目标攥在了手心，然而，他不得不去重新追寻迫使他登顶的那种活力和欲望。— 格雷尔·马库斯，《神秘列车》

 

Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. –Dorothy Parker

 

You manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.-Samuel Johnson

 

I know that there are people who don't love their fellow man, and I hate those people! - Tom Lehrer

 

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices one so. –Sydney Smith

 

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.-Sam Levenson

 

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of old people, and greatly assist the circulation of their blood.-Logan Pearsall Smith

 

My agent gets ten percent of everything I get, except my blinding headache.-Fred Allen

 

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.-George Bernard Shaw

 

I do not know the American gentleman. God forgive me for putting two such words together. –Charles Dickens

 

America-a country that has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.-John O’Hara

 

看人民文学出版社1983年编辑出版的《台湾中篇小说选》，里面还收入了两篇言情小说：玄小佛的《小木屋》、严沁的《浅水湾之恋》。两人的作品我都未看过。严沁的那篇看了几页放弃了，因为动不动就来个感叹号，实在是太多，我最烦滥用感叹号了！！！！！

 

Whew! I dodged a bullet. dodge a bullet, “躲过一劫”的意思。感谢所有提供帮助的朋友以及不知名的好心人。我只能说，我会更加珍惜现在，I will work even harder!

 

Always do right! This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. –Mark Twain

 

Put all your eggs in one basket, and-watch that basket.-Mark Twain

 

有的翻译书印译者简介。前几年我译的一本书出版时，责编拟了段译者简介，我并不知道。后来同社的另一位编辑看到后觉得我不会接受那样的用语，我一看，真的不可以。里面还有“酷爱文学”这样的话，虽然我的确“酷爱”，但是不用这样告诉别人嘛！于是就自拟了一段，后来再用，都以此为基础，如下为最新的：孙仲旭，毕业于郑州大学外文系，现供职于广州某航运公司，业余从事文学翻译，已出版译作《一九八四·动物农场》、《门萨的娼妓》、《有人喜欢冷冰冰》、《麦田里的守望者》、《梦想家彼得》等29种（包括6种再版书）。

 

The only ‘ism’ Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.- Dorothy Parker

 

You can seduce a man’s wife in Hollywood, attack his daughter and wipe your hands on his canary, but if you don’t like his movie you’re dead.-Joseph Von Sternberg

 

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. –Malcolm Muggeridge

 

Any time you see a Hungarian, kick him. He’ll know why. – Anno.

 

I never forget a face, but in your case, I’ll make an exception. –Groucho Marx

 

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.-Dylan Thomas

 

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. – Gore Vidal

 

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win he foreign film award. – Billy Wilder, to his cameraman

 

My French stinks. It seems that when I asked somebody for a light, I asked them to set me on fire. – Jeffery Bernard

 

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. – Karl Kraus

 

你们可以永永远远把谎话说下去，但最明显的是，尽管无人真正相信那些谎话，却对之并没有强烈反感。我们全被淹没在污秽中……难道就没有人怀有坚定信念与公正态度了吗？实际上还有很多，但他们都没有力量，所有力量都掌握在偏执狂手中。 — 乔治·奥威尔

 

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.- H.L.Menken

 

The tights on the male dancers were so tight you could see what religion they are.- Robin Williams, on the David Letterman Show

 

How many of you ever started dating someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide? – Judy Tenuta

 

To my wife, but for those constant interruptions, this book would have been finished six months earlier. – Franklin P. Adams

 

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” till you can find a rock. –Wynn Catlin

 

公司附近有这间服装店，英文名SEDATE，此词意为“安静的，稳重的”，翻译得很巧：“水云间”，意境到了。sedate这个词还可以当动词用，意为“使安静，使镇静：给…开镇静剂；通过服镇静药而安定或放松。”我以前翻译过一本音乐书http://book.douban.com/subject/1127410/，书名原题就是I Wanna Be Sedated， 原本是The Ramones的一首歌名 http://www.xiami.com/song/1769122424

 

The exclamation mark is the literary equivalent of a man holding a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience. – Miles Kingston

 

If I ask for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.-May West

 

If there were only three Irishmen in the world you’d find two of them in a corner taking about the other. - Berndan Behan

 

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.- Adlai Stevenson

 

Love: An agreement on the part of two people to overestimate each other.-E.M.Cioran

 

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.- Groucho Marx

 

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant twice a week. A little candlelight dinner, soft music and dancing.She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. –Henny Youngman

 

If there were only three Irishmen in the world you’d find two of them in a corner taking about the other. - Berndan Behan

 

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.- Adlai Stevenson

 

Love: An agreement on the part of two people to overestimate each other.-E.M.Cioran

 

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.- Groucho Marx

 

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant twice a week. A little candlelight dinner, soft music and dancing.She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. –Henny Youngman

 

昨天跟几位新师旧友在一起，有位老师说我在国企上班，但是他不该说是“垄断国企”。我们这是航运国企，而航运业是国内开放程度最高的行业之一，谈何垄断。如今全球航运业不景气，所以敝司的业绩也麻麻，所谓的地主家也没余粮啊。

 

Now when I bore people at parties, they think it’s their fault. – Henry Kissinger

 

Men often mistake notoriety for fame and would rather be remembered for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all.  – Henry Truman

 

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements. –Arnold Bennett

 

The one thing you friends will never forgive you is your happiness. - Albert Camus

 

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you-the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you. - Mark Twain

 

她突然动作麻利起来，摞起几个盘子，说明闲坐时间已经结束，干活时间开始了。年轻的韦宁太太马上起身帮忙，第一千次想到她的婆婆永远不会放弃在自己家里的权威，直到她在所有其他人之前，首先老得不能动为止。—雪莉·杰克逊，《花园》

 

不期到了二十九岁，又躬逢反右派斗争，批判、检查，惶惶不可终日。我不知道与世长辞是个什么味道，却深深体会世界离我而去是个什么滋味。—陆文夫

 

她自己的公寓在等她，静默着，无人在内，从窗户照进来的光让下午的影子变长了。有一阵子，她只看到一个空咖啡杯，她以为他来过这儿等，然后认出那是她自己用过的杯子，早上留下来的。— 雪莉·杰克逊，《魔鬼爱人》

 

她不再去较劲，安定下来，努力去想杰米，但是脑海中他的脸并不清晰，也记不起来他的声音。对你所爱的人总是这样，她想。— 雪莉·杰克逊，《魔鬼爱人》

 

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers. –H.L.Mencken

 

If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing. –Kinsley Amis

 

The body of a young woman is God’s greatest achievement. Of course, he could have made it last longer. –Neil Simon

 

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. – Nancy Mitford

 

没想她按了半天门铃，里面一点反应也没有。站在门外，忽然她觉得自己像一个被解职了的临时演员，台词在排演时已背得滚瓜烂熟了，却永远失去了正式登台的机会。—璎络，《彼岸》

 

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity. –George Ade

 

The young always have the same problem-how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

 

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you’re doing, but no one else does. –Stewart H. Britt

 

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. –Stephen Leacock

 

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. – Josh Billings

 

gladiolus, 剑兰, 唐菖蒲

 

baby's breath, 满天星

 

bachelor's button，矢车菊

 

There is no one, no one, loves you like yourself.-Brendan Behan

 

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. – Brendan Behan

 

The actor who took the role of King Lear played the king as though he expected someone to play the ace.-Eugene Field

 

I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.-Grocho Marx

 

Writing is turning your worse moments into money.- J.P.Donleavy

 

我翻译的雪莉·杰克逊短篇集《摸彩》上架了。这本书的翻译，主要是我去年初在西非出差的那几个月里完成的。当时我辗转四五个城市，不管住旅馆还是在船上的舱室，只要能抽出时间，都会在翻译这本书。感谢出版者、作者，让我度过了一段美好的翻译时光。http://book.douban.com/subject/19971923/

 

Without music, life would be a mistake.-Nietzsche

 

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. – Geoffrey Cottrell

 

Publishing a book is like farting at a party- you have to wait till people stop looking at you before you can start acting normally again.- Philip Larkin

 

穿着白色干净衣服的护士坐在诊所的办公桌前，她看到她肿起来的脸颊和疲惫的肩膀，她说：“可怜人啊，你看样子是累坏了。” “我牙疼。”那位护士露出半笑不笑的样子，似乎还在等待有一天某个人会进来说：“我的脚疼。”— 雪莉·杰克逊，《牙齿》

 

“我们什么时候到纽约？”她问。“五点一刻。”他说，“足够时间吃早餐。单程票？”“我回来坐火车。”她说，也不明白干吗要告诉他，除了当时是深夜，人们在就像大巴那样的奇怪监狱里一起与世隔绝，和其他时候比起来，必须更加友好，交谈更多。— 雪莉·杰克逊，《牙齿》

 

布莱德打电话报警时，那个男的并不热心地听着。警察赶到时，他们都又走回那条腿所在的地方，布莱德给警察报上他们的名字和住址，然后说：“我们可以回家吗？”“你究竟想待在这儿干吗？”警察带点重口味的幽默问他，“你要等他的其余部分出现吗？”— 雪莉·杰克逊，《盐柱》

 

找到这个广州市区徒步路线的网站，推荐一下：http://www.gzwalk.net/ 2013年，我会多在广州市区内徒步，深入了解一下我已居住近20年的这座城市。

 

她内心斗争了一下要不要下楼买些鲜艳的花朵，后来又确定了她的钱还不足以派那个用场，反正他们只会在房间待一小段时间，有东西吃，只要有东西喝，任何一切房间都让人感觉舒适。— 雪莉·杰克逊，《伊丽莎白》

 

Love consists of overestimating the difference between one woman and another. –George Bernard Shaw

 

A woman drove me drink, and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.-W.C.Fields

 

Love conquers all things-except poverty and toothache. –May West

 

When a fellow says, “It ain’t the money, but the principle of the thing,” it’s the money. –Elbert Hubbard

 

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow. Don Herold

 

坐地铁看到某知名品牌美白化妆品广告，一对孪生姐妹，一位抹此化妆品，一位不抹，28天后一对比，一白一黑。我看了总是感觉不大对劲，另外还想到了某牌子牙膏的广告……

 

在这个家里住了四年多之后，她了解其方方面面：了解在她需要有个地方躲起来时，它会虚假地表现出一副温暖和欢迎的样子，了解在她夜里突然醒来时，它会怎样站在她面前，还有在这样的早晨，它会怎样放松自己，进入一种没有收拾、糟糕地凑合在一起的样子，急于把她赶出去，然后接着睡觉。—雪莉·杰克逊

 

家里来了客人时，大人便会把虾篓交给孩子：“去，摸点虾回来。”或者是把鱼叉拿出来：“去看看，那条黑鱼是不还在沟东头。”会捞鱼摸虾的人，平时总记着何处有鱼虾，以备不时之需。— 陆文夫

 

他是有福的，因为他的名望并没有比他的真实更光亮。—泰戈尔

 

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. - J. Cocteau

 

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. - W. G. McAdoo

 

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

 

那时，一个人如果成了什么分子。某些非常熟悉的人见了面也不点头，在马路上见了便远远地避开，在小巷子里迎面碰上便把头偏在一边，好像是在查门牌似的。— 陆文夫

 

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.- Rodney Dangerfield

 

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.-Phyllis Diller

 

Very few people can afford to be poor.- George Bernard Shaw

 

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain

 

Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. -W. Winchell

 

看《神秘列车》，因为对好多所提的音乐不熟悉，所以算是在学习姚向辉老师的译文，超赞。不过总算让我找到一个错误，专辑名Back Stabbers不能译为“后街刺客”，而应指“往人背后捅刀子的人”。以前看过一句给同事的临别赠言：Could you take the knife out of my back? You might need it next time.”

 

现在我早上去棠下喝胡辣汤，一般要喝两碗，一碗在这家喝，一碗在另一家喝，店家都来自河南周口。汤里内容略有不同，一家稍辣一点。这里走动的人们说的都是河南话，家里的男人多开的士。昨天在庙头那里一间河南饭馆吃饺子，听店家说那里的河南人也多，但男人主要都是开货柜车的，因为那里离码头近。