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世界英文散文精粹中英对照文本经典 世界英文散文精粹中英对照WORD文本 01_Of Beauty论美 Virtue is fairer far than beauty 美德远胜于美貌 Of Beauty 论美 By Francis Bacon 弗兰西斯.培根 Virtue is like a rich stone, 美德好比宝石 best plain set; and surely virtue is best,in a body that is comely, 它在朴素背景的衬托下 反而更华丽。 though not of delicate features; 同样，一个打扮并 不华贵 and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. 却端庄严肃而有美德者 是令人肃然起敬的 Neither is it almost seen,that very beau- tiful persons 外表美丽的人， are otherwise of great virtue; 未必也具有内 在的美 as if nature were rather busy, not to err, 因为造物主似乎是吝啬 的， than in labor to produce excellency. 他给了此就不再予 彼 And therefore they prove accomplished, but not of great spirit; 所以许多容颜俊秀的人 往往过于追求外在 and study rather behavior, than virtue. 美丽而忽略了内心的美 But this holds not always: 但这也并非绝对 for Augustus Caesar, Titus Vespasianus, Philip le Belle of France, 因为奥古斯都·恺撒、 菲斯帕斯、法兰西的 菲力普王 Edward the Fourth of England, Alcibiades of Athens, Ismael the Sophy of Persia, 英格兰的爱德华四世、 雅典的阿尔西巴 底斯、波斯的伊斯梅尔 等 were all high and great spirits; 既是大丈夫 and yet the most beautiful men of their times. 又是美男子 In beauty, that of favor, is more than that of color; 美不在颜色艳丽 而在面目端正， and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favor. 又不尽在面目 端正而在举止 文雅合度 That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; 最高的美是画家 所无法表现的 no,nor the first sight of the life. 因为它是难于 直观的 There is no excellent beauty, 没有哪种 美 that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. 能极致到不存在 比例上的暇疵 A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one, 曾经有两位画家-阿皮 雷斯和艾伯特.丢勒 滑稽地认为， would make a personage by geometrical proportions; 按照几何比例， the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. 或者通过摄取不同人身 上最美的特点，可以用 画合成一张最完美的人 像 Such personages, I think, would please nobody, 其实像这样画出来的 美人 but the painter that made them. ，恐怕只表现了画 家本人的某种偏爱。 Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was; 画家不能通过这样 画出更好看的脸 but he must do it by a kind of felicity 创造它的常常是构思, (as a musician t