The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings （2）

继续我的dorian gray。还是在火车上看的，不过这趟是回上海。邻座阿姨们正海阔天空意气风发的共享子女教育方法心得，而我在摇啊摇的狭窄的位子上促狭的翻着泛黄的书页。晚上到家后换了新床单和被套，给自己做了个水果茶，窝在沙发上开始看vicky christina barcelona（妈呀！我是多么的矫情！），片子里的音乐现在还徘徊在我的脑袋和舌尖，虽然除了barcelona外一个单词都听不懂，但就因为这个曲子让整个影片充满paradox。用一个平静而充满喜感的男声来旁白某个夏日，情节平淡无奇又荒诞不经，爱情、人生意义和生活方式，就这样慢慢的让你体会，the bewildered become more bewildered, the puzzled can't escape confusion, and you try to think, while nothing produced, you go on seeking, without knowing where to land. Frantic passion flows dreamlike, n actual life is nothing other than exotic or chaotic. Bitter laugh of mockery shows their sickness of wild terror of getting dying, n you know what, pretentious buzz of voice heralds the indifference to life itself. As is said by Antonio, "we are made for each other, but we are not meant for each other." 怎么越扯越远了！总之很喜欢这类片子，比人人称道的the reader更对我的味（后者有点做作的感觉--reader迷们别打我，电影本来就是很主观的感受，可我真不觉得它有它想表达的那么powerful, in other words, it's too far to reach--好啦，再说一次，只是个人想法啦，如果你不同意可以无视这几句！）。另，oviedo实在太美了！！下次去欧洲一定要去西班牙！会不会到处都是风情万种又神经质的penelope呢！好期待啊！

回到dorian gray。还是摘句子：

1. but we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty, becomes sluggish. Our limbs frail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!

你开始回忆，你已经老了。

2. he watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.

手足无措，欲盖弥彰。这是另一种可爱。

3. always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

对女人的论断有点以偏概全了。不过最后一句还是非常有意思，love is transient, as I always said:)---说完这句突然惊奇的发现我刚刚用了always!!!妈呀！！

4. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

有没有发现，其实最害怕青春流逝的人是王尔德。

5. American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as English women are at concealing their past.

哈哈，我稍微改下，Young girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as adult women are at concealing their past.

6. Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity.

看来薄情才能博爱

7. to get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

太多的youth issue了！

8. punctuality is the thief of time.

喜欢这里的thief：）never try to steal time--it would be a waste of time.

9. men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

他对于婚姻和女性的言论，我总觉的，因为缺乏实践经验，只能作为语言上的玩味，不必太当真。

另外再说几个描述人物外貌的表达（托福口语free choice question也用的上哦）：

1. 你跟朋友借钱去，他板起/拉长脸孔，你可以说a wry face

2. 她的黑发衬的她皮肤愈发白皙：her black hair accentuated the fairness of her skin.

好的，我要去睡觉了，明天去看陈大贞的演唱会，貌似会碰到不少朋友（满眼望去msn上都是她的名字），那么，let's enjoy the time, either today, or tomorrow:)