If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

  • -- Mark Helprin 普林

如果莎士比亚认为喜剧是值得的,那就意味着我们其他人可以从悲剧中抽身而出,而不会背叛我们的使命,即使现代的专业知识分子,一个天生的装腔作势者,还没有发现这一点。

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To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.

因此,用亚里士多德的规则来评判莎士比亚,就像用一个国家的法律来审判一个人,而这个国家的法律又在另一个国家的法律之下行事。

We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

我们养了五只山羊,两只狗,一只猫,还有一架子关于莎士比亚的评论。

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

人生的悲剧就在于我们老得太快,而聪明得太晚。

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose.

有时在悲剧中,我们找到了人生的目标。