不可儿戏
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde · 初版 1895 年
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为什么值得读
- 能大幅提升对英语语言的理解与热爱
- 是极少数至今仍在舞台演出的经典戏剧
- 如镜子般折射出维多利亚时代的风貌
剧作背景设定在维多利亚时代晚期的英格兰，其幽默很大程度上源于角色们通过虚构身份来逃避令人厌烦的社交义务。全剧充满了机智诙谐的对话，讽刺了维多利亚晚期社会的一些怪癖与虚伪。事实证明，这是 Wilde 最具持久魅力、最受欢迎的剧作。 - [Wikipedia][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest
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听、看以及以各种方式欣赏《The Importance of Being Earnest》，让我对英语的理解和热爱提升了无数倍：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_7SoF1HLQ 这是王尔德那个时代极少数至今仍在上演的戏剧之一……
Listening to, watching and otherwise enjoying The Importance of Being Earnest has increased my understanding and love of the English language no end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_7SoF1HLQ It's one of a very small number of plays from Wilde's era that is still performed…
不客气 :) 再加上《不可儿戏》（The Importance of Being Earnest）和《银河系漫游指南》（千万别看电影版）。要不再来几本冯内古特的书？我最喜欢的是《Hocus Pocus》。
You're welcome :) Let's throw in The Importance of Being Earnest and HHGTTG (don't watch the movie). Maybe also some Vonnegut books? My favourite is Hocus Pocus.
我记得多年前我还是个本科生、在上一门英国文学通论课时，第一次接触到奥斯卡·王尔德的《The Importance of Being Earnest》，诺顿选集里的导言有这么一句话。大意是：王尔德的戏剧给维多利亚时代照了一面镜子……
There's a quote I recall from the introduction to Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest in the Norton Anthology the first time I encountered the play years ago as a college undergraduate in an English Literature survey class. Something to effect: Oscar Wilde's play held a mirror up to Victorian…
去看看那些大玩“双关谐音梗”或者具有极强文化特异性的文学作品吧。举个例子：《The Importance of Being Earnest》这个书名本身就是针对主角（最终的）性格和名字玩的一个双关。把它翻译成另一种语言时，你得把角色的名字也改了才能保留新语言里的双关效果，这可能就无法……
Look to literature that is "punny" or very culturally specific. An example: The title The Importance of Being Earnest is itself a pun on the character's (eventual) nature and name. Translating that to another language you'd need to change the name of the character to maintain the pun in the new language, which may not…
……搞些空壳公司，然后声称自己做这笔买卖或那笔交易是出于税收原因，这可算不上诚实。这让我想起了奥斯卡·王尔德在《The Importance of Being Earnest》里虚构的“角色”Bunbury 和 Ernest：“””你凭空捏造了一个极其实用、名叫 Ernest 的弟弟，好让你想进城就能随时进城。我则捏造了一个珍贵无比、常年卧病在床的 Bunbury，……
…setting up shell corporations and then saying they made this purchase or that deal for tax reasons isn't exactly being honest. It reminds me of the "characters" Bunbury and Ernest from Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest": """ You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town as often as you like. I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury,…
“严肃听起来就像是一种无聊的、甚至是维多利亚时代的品德。” 哈哈，那是因为维多利亚时代有一部作品的书名里甚至就有这个词：奥斯卡·王尔德的《The Importance of being Earnest》。
"Earnestness sounds like a boring, even Victorian virtue." Well, that's because it's even in the title of a Victorian book: The Importance of being Earnest, Oscar Wilde.