"Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul." (查看原文)
原文：Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil.Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
翻译： “巴兹尔，良知和怯懦原本就是一回事。良知只是公司的商号，仅仅如此。” (查看原文)
This quote is a paradox. Most people would agree that conscience is much different than cowardice, since conscience means that you make a decision based on a good intention, but cowardice is bad since it is a lack of bravery. When Lord Henry says that "conscience is the trade name of the firm" he is saying that people will usually call their actions an act of conscience, but it was really cowardice that made them do it. It sounds better to say conscience. (查看原文)
原文："I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream--I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediævalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal--to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the selfdenial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us. (查看原文)
原文：He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn.
孙老师译文：对仆人而言，他是英雄，但仆人也欺侮他；对大多数亲戚而言，他反而是恐怖的象征，因为他总是欺侮他们。
前后文：He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. (查看原文)
there were no heroes to valets, nor to the Fathers of the Church among their contemporaries. http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2010/08/no-man-is-hero-to-his-valet-backstory.html (查看原文)
原文：My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect-simply a confession of failure. Faithfulness! I must analyze it someday.
孙老师译文：好孩子，一生只爱一次的人才是真正的浅薄之人。他们自称忠实、忠贞，我则称之为习惯懒惰，或是缺乏想象。忠诚之于感情生活，就像一贯性之于理智生活——都只是承认失败。 (查看原文)
But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over they propose to continue it. (查看原文)
"She will never come to life again now," muttered the lad, burying his face in his hands.
"No, she will never come to life. She has played her last part. But you must think of that lonely death in the tawdry dressing-room simply as a strange lurid fragment from some Jacobean tragedy, as a wonderful scene from Webster, or Ford, or Cyril Tourneur. The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died. To you at least she was always a dream, a phantom that flitted through Shakespeare's plays and left them lovelier for its presence, a reed through which Shakespeare's music sounded richer and more full of joy. The moment she touched actual life, she marred it, and it marred her, and so she passed away. Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled... (查看原文)
"Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you--well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. (查看原文)
