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The Nightingale and the Rose

来源: 作者:Oscar Wilde 时间:2011-01-18 Tag:tale   点击:
 

And at noon the student opened his window and looked out.

‘Why what a wonderful piece of luck,’ he cried; ‘here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name;’ and he leaned down and plucked it.

Then he put on his hat, and ran up to the professor’s house with the rose in his hand.

The daughter of the professor was sitting in the doorway winding blue silk on a reel, and her little dog was lying at her feet.

‘You said that you would dance with me if I brought you a red rose,’ cried the student. ‘Here is the reddest rose in all the world. You will wear it tonight next your heart, and as we dance together it will tell you how much I love you.’

But the girl frowned(皱眉).

‘I am afraid it will not go with my dress,’ she answered; ‘and, besides the chamberlain’s(大管家,侍从长) nephew has sent me some real jewels, and everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers.’

‘Well, upon my word, you are very ungrateful,’ said the student angrily; and he threw the rose into the street, where it fell into the gutter(阴沟), and a cartwheel(车轮) went over it.

‘Ungrateful!’ said the girl. ‘I tell you what, you are very rude; and, after all, who are you? Only a student. Why, I don’t believe you have even got silver buckles(皮带扣) to your shoes as the chamberlain’s nephew has;’ and she got up from her chair and went into the house.

‘What a silly thing love is!’ said the student as he walked away. ‘It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics(形而上学,玄学).’

So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

 


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