1. 《傲慢与偏见》 - 简·奥斯汀
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
(“所有人都非常清楚地知道,一个财富富有的单身男子,一定在寻找妻子。”)
2. 《了不起的盖茨比》 - F·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
(“于是我们继续奋斗着,像船只顶着逆流,一刻不停地被逝去的时光带回到过去。”)
3. 《1984》 - 乔治·奥威尔
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
(“战争就是和平,自由就是奴役,无知就是力量。”)
4. 《唐吉坷德》 - 米格尔·德·塞万提斯
"I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose."
(“我知道我是谁,也知道我可能成为什么样的人,只要我选择。”)
5. 《人类群星闪烁时》 - 亨利·米勒
"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value."
(“不要被欺骗以为没有利润的东西就没有价值。”)
6. 《红与黑》 - 司汤达
"A person does not belong to the place he was born, but to the place he chooses to die."
(“一个人不属于他出生的地方,而是属于他选择去死的地方。”)
7. 《威尼斯商人》 - 威廉·莎士比亚
"The world is still deceived with ornament."
(“这个世界还是沉迷于表面的装饰。”)
8. 《悲惨世界》 - 维克多·雨果
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
(“即使是最黑暗的夜晚也会结束,太阳会升起。”)
9. 《东方快车谋杀案》 - 阿加莎·克里斯蒂
"Too much mercy... often results in further crimes which are fatal to deal with. "
(“施舍太多……往往会导致进一步的犯罪,这些罪行很难处理。”)
10. 《时间的女儿》 - 伊尔贝·库埃齐奥
"Traveling's much more worthy of being used as a means to leave life behind than death is."
(“旅行更有价值,比作为离开生活的手段使用还要重要。”)
11. 《理智与情感》 - 简·奥斯汀
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
(“我不能确定是哪一个时间、哪一个地点、哪一个表情或者是哪句话为我们奠定了感情的基础。太久远了。在我意识到我已经开始之前,我已经掉进了情感的漩涡。”)
12. 《简爱》 - 夏洛蒂·勃朗特
"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
(“我不是鸟儿,没有网可以将我捕获;我是一个拥有独立意志的自由人。”)
13. 《老人与海》 - 海明威
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
(“但是人不是为了失败而生的。人可以被击倒,但是永远不会被打败。”)
14. 《红字》 - 纳撒尼尔·霍桑
"Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!"
(“做真实的自己!做真实的自己!真实地展示你的一部分,将恶劣的一面暴露出来!”)
15. 《鲁滨逊漂流记》 - 丹尼尔·笛福
"I learnt to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side."
(“我学会了更多地看到自己境况中的亮面,而不是黑暗面。”)
16. 《战争与和平》 - 列夫·托尔斯泰
"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
(“我们只能知道我们一无所知。这是人类智慧的最高境界。”)
17. 《齐柏林飞艇乘员的领悟》 - 赫尔曼·黑塞
"A true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something."
(“一个真正的探寻者是不可能接受任何教导的,如果他真诚地想要找到一些东西的话。”)
18. 《哈姆雷特》 - 威廉·莎士比亚
"This above all: to thine own self be true."
(“首要的是要真实于自己。”)
19. 《追风筝的人》 - 卡勒德·胡赛尼
"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975."
(“我在1975年寒冷多云的冬天里,12岁那一天变成了我今天的样子。”)
20. 《日瓦戈医生》 - 米哈伊尔·布尔加科夫
"And the past held only this wisdom: beauty, like justice, is sometimes best served blind."
(“过去只有这样的智慧:美,如同正义,有时最好是盲目的。”)
21. 《杀死一只知更鸟》 - 哈珀·李
"You never really know a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
(“只有从对方的角度去考虑问题,你才能真正了解一个人……只有当你钻入对方的内心,熟悉他的一切,你才能够真正明白。”)
22. 《福尔摩斯探案全集》 - 亚瑟·柯南·道尔
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
(“在获得数据之前就进行理论推测是一个非常严重的错误。”)
23. 《巴黎圣母院》 - 维克多·雨果
"Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being."
(“爱情就像树木,它自然生长,深深扎根于我们整个存在。”)
24. 《查令十字街84号》 - 海伦·汉芙
"I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned."
(“我喜欢书中的铭文和边角的注释,我喜欢翻动别人翻过的书页时的那种亲切感。”)
25. 《娱乐至死》 - 尼尔·波茨曼
"We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning."
(“我们生活在一个越来越多信息、越来越少意义的世界。”)
26. 《追忆似水年华》 - 汤姆·沃尔夫
"Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance."
(“没有什么比偏见更顽固,也没有什么比偏见更经常地卷土重来。”)
27. 《百年孤独》 - 加西亚·马尔克斯
"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over to give birth to themselves."
(“他坚信人类不是一次性地在母亲分娩的那一天诞生,而是生活要求他们一次又一次地重新诞生。”)
28. 《雷雨》 - 曹禺
"Regret is the poison of life."
(“悔恨是生活中的毒药。”)
29. 《雾都孤儿》 - 查尔斯·狄更斯
"Please, sir, I want some more."
(“先生,请再给我一点。”)
30. 《噩梦与黑白玫瑰》 - 汤姆·阿帕拉契亚
"I reckon, being alive and thinkin' you're dead is worse than being dead and knowin' you're dead."
(“我想,活着但认为自己已经死了比已经死去但知道自己死了要糟糕。”)