Do any of you have the chinese for "brevity is the soul of wit"?
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wit's end 于 2000/02/02 15:35:06 发表在 汉英
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简洁是才思的灵魂;简洁反映一个人的才思?
作者:古月 - 2000/02/02 16:14:13
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LORD POLONIUS
This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.
--from Hamlet by Shakespeare
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And how true it is when such wit has to come from our dear old chatter-box Polonius!
作者:Mrs Shakespeare - 2000/02/02 16:42:20
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That's the soul of wit of your very best bed.
作者:古月 - 2000/02/02 17:10:38
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Which also implies Mrs' wit's end. How I regret having given up the second best! :(
作者:Mrs Shakespeare - 2000/02/02 17:35:39
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"bed" of roses, perchance?
作者:Shaken-and-Speared - 2000/02/02 19:45:23
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"I didn't have a bed of roses as a kid."
作者:Bill Clinton - 2000/02/02 22:46:54
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The president, speaking at a Rose Garden event, said: "I didn't have a bed of roses as a kid."
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Cheer up Billy! For the Dark Lady, you only need a net of mozzies!
作者:Mrs Shakespeare - 2000/02/02 23:02:37
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In the oval office, a bed of roses has just been made. Got it?
作者:Bill - 2000/02/02 23:23:14
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Yeah, and upon Stratford-on-Avon, a net of mozzies has just been laid.
作者:Mrs Shakespeare - 2000/02/03 00:13:52
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a bed as a net does
作者:Bill - 2000/02/03 10:32:43
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Bedded or netted by this honey-tongued impostor yet, my dearest and sweetest Anne?
作者:The one-and-only true Bill - 2000/02/03 11:40:52
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to make it sweeter, just add one more grain of salt :-(
作者:catalyst - 2000/02/03 13:06:46
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Sure, and "With a thousand fragrant posies," too!
作者:the same old Bill - 2000/02/03 13:02:44
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