阿道司.赫胥黎(Aldous Leonard Huxley, 1894-1963)

阿道司.赫胥黎(Aldous Leonard Huxley, 1894-1963), 英国作家,著有50多部著作,包括诗歌、故事、文章、哲学论文和剧本等。他的作品,尤其是他最著名、最具争议的小说《美丽新世界》,作为对当今时代弊病的一种社会批判。

英汉智慧语录 English and Chinese Brainy Quotes

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
经验不是发生在你身上的事; 经验是你如何应对发生在你身上的事。

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
对他的狗来说,每个人都是拿破仑; 因此狗一直很受欢迎。

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.
大概在下一代, 会有出现一种药理方法让人们喜爱被奴役的状态, 并很容易产生独裁, 可以说, 为整个社会生产一种无痛的集中营, 人们实际上会失去自由的生活, 但会享受它。

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
人们会爱上他们所受的压迫,崇拜那些削弱他们思考能力的技术。

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
被思想操纵的受害者并不知道自己是受害者。对他来说,监狱的围墙是看不见的,他相信自己是自由的。

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
违背人类思想最深的罪恶是相信没有证据的事情。

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
医学科学取得了如此巨大的进步,几乎没有留下一个健康的人。

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling.
黑暗,那是因为你太努力了。轻轻地,孩子, 轻轻地。凡事要学会轻装上阵。是的,即使你感觉很深,也要轻一点。只是轻轻松松地让事情发生,轻轻应对它们。所以扔掉你的包袱,继续前进吧。你周围都是流沙,它们在吞噬你的双脚,试图把你吸进恐惧、自怜和绝望之中。这就是为什么你必须走得那么轻。轻轻地,我亲爱的。

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
这个宇宙中只有一个角落你肯定可以改进,那就是你自己。

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
天才的秘密是把的精神带到老年,这意味着永远不要失去你的热情。

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