《不能承受的生命之轻》金句摘选（中文英文对照）.docxVIP

昆德拉是世界上读者最多的作家之一，曾多次获得国际文学奖，其代表作包括长篇小说《玩笑》《生活在别处》《告别圆舞曲》《笑忘录》《不能承受的生命之轻》和《不朽》及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》等。其中，《不能承受的生命之轻》是广大读者比较熟悉的一部作品，书中有不少金句经常被读者摘抄引用。 1、A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. 谁要是想要离开自己生活的地方，那他准是不快活。 2、And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? 如果生活中的第一次彩排便是生活本身，那生活有什么价值呢? 3、Anyone whose goal is something higher must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. 一个人不断要求“出人头地”的人，应该料到总有一天会感到发晕。发晕是怎么回事？是害怕摔下去？发晕，并非害怕摔下去，而是另一回事。是我们身下那片空虚里发出的声音，它在引诱我们，迷惑我们；是往下跳的渴望，我们往往为之而后怕，拼命去抗拒这种渴望。 4、Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. 在被遗忘以前，我们会变为媚俗。媚俗，是存在与遗忘之间的中转站。 5、Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. 梦不仅仅是一种信息交流，还是一种审美活动，一种想象游戏，这一游戏本身就是一种价值。 6、For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. 没有比同情心更重的了。哪怕我们自身的痛苦，也比不上同别人一起感受的痛苦沉重。为了别人，站在别人的立场上，痛苦会随着想象而加剧，在千百次的回荡反射中越来越沉重。 7、Happiness is the longing for repetition. 幸福是对重复的渴望。 8、Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. 爱开始于一个女人某句话印在我们诗化记忆中的那一刻。 9、Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. 爱情，就是我们渴求着失去了的那一半自己。 10、Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. 爱情就像是帝国：它们建立在信念之上，信念一旦消失，帝国也随之灭亡。 11、On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. 表面是清晰明了的谎言，背后却是晦涩难懂的真相。 12、Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (lov