双语 | 海明威的18句人生指南

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

所有邪恶的事一开始都是纯洁的。

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

想知道自己能不能信任对方，最好的方法就是去信任。 

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Courage is grace under pressure.

勇气是在压力之下展现的优雅。

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

最痛苦的事情就是在深爱一个人的过程中失去了自我，而忘记了自己其实也是特别的。

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Never confuse movement with action.

别把行动和冲动混为一谈。

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

我只知道所谓道德是指你事后觉得好的东西，所谓不道德是指你事后觉得不好的东西。

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

当人们说话时，仔细听。大多数人从来不听别人说什么。

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. 

比其他人优越算不上高尚，比从前的自己优越才是真正的高尚。

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Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

每个人的生命结局都是一样的。彼此间的差异只在于怎样的生、怎样的死这些细节上。

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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

不，说什么老人富有智慧，这是个大谬论。人老并不增加智慧，只是越来越小心罢了。

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If you want to conquer the world, you must conquer yourself first.

你若想征服全世界，就得先征服自己。

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

这世界会打击每个人，但经历过后，有些人会在受伤的地方变得更强大。

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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. 

别和你不爱的人结伴出游。

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

聪明人的快乐，是我所知道的最稀少的东西。

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

写作很简单。你所需要做的只是坐在打字机前，流血。仅此而已。

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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

每天忧虑一下，你就会浪费好几年的光阴。如果什么地方出了问题，能解决就解决它。训练自己不要忧虑，忧虑解决不了任何事。

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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

现在不是去想缺什么的时候，而是要想一想凭现在的东西能做些什么。

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

旅行有终点是件好事，但最终，还是旅行的过程重要。

▎关于海明威

Leaving behind an impressive body of work written in an iconic style, Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is one of America’s greatest writers. 

Hemingway’s succinct and clean prose style was imitated by many other authors, especially in the 20th century. He used short and simple sentences, leaving aside any verbosity that would imply further interpretation or emotional rhetoric. 

Much of Hemingway’s work was inspired by the war and his characters embody his own values and way of thinking — intense masculinity and confidence that harmoniously coexist with sensitivity. Based on this he created a set of principles known as the ‘Code Hero’ which he defined as ‘a man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful.’ 

By writing masterpieces like ‘A Farewell to Arms‘ or ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ and by living an adventurous life, Hemingway earned himself a fame surpassed by few. 

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