麦田守望者 经典句子
All those Ivy League bastards look alike. My father wants me to go to Yale, or maybe Princeton, but I swear, I wouldn’t go to one of those Ivy League colleges if I was dying, for God’s sake.
那些常春藤盟校的混蛋都长一个样。我爸想让我进耶鲁，或者是普林斯顿，但我就算死掉也不去任何一间常春藤盟校，妈的。
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has.
学校越贵，小偷越多。
I don’t like to see old guys in their pajamas and bathrobes anyway. Their bumpy old chests are always showing.
我不喜欢看见那些老家伙穿着睡衣套着浴巾，他们坑坑洼洼的胸膛老是露出来。
He also started picking his nose. He made out like he was only pinching it, but he was really getting the old thumb right in there.
他开始抠鼻孔。他搞的好像他只是在掐鼻子似的，但他实际上把大拇指伸进里边去了。
Where I have my hand on your back, if I think there isn’t anything underneath my hand- no can, no legs, no feet, no anything- then the girls’ really a terrific dancer.
如果我把手放在你的后背上，我觉得我手下面什么都没有——没屁股，没腿，没脚，什么都没有——那你就是伟大的舞蹈家了。
I swear to God. If I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I’d hate it. I wouldn’t even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I was a piano player, I’d play it in the goddamn closet…In a funny way, though, I felt sort of sorry when he was finished. I don’t even think he knows any more when he’s playing right or not. It isn’t all his fault, I partly blame all those dopes that clap their heads off—they’d foul up anybody, if you gave them a chance.
我向上帝发誓。如果我是个钢琴家或者演员或者什么别的，那些傻蛋又觉得我很厉害，我会痛恨这些的。我根本都不想让他们为我鼓掌。人们老是鼓错掌。如果我是个钢琴家，我会在他妈的柜子里弹。说起来还真有点可笑，他弹完之后我都有点为他感到遗憾。我都不觉得他对他自己弹的好不好有什么把握。这不能怪他，我觉得那帮拼命鼓掌的傻蛋才要负些责任——如果他们有机会，就能把所有人都毁掉。
A woman’s body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right.
女人的身体就像一个小提琴什么的，得有个出色的音乐家来演奏才行。
For instance, if you’re at a girl’s house, her parents always come home at the wrong time—or you’re afraid they will.
比如说，你在一个女孩家里，她爸妈回来的时间就老不对——或者你会对这一点总是担惊受怕。
If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they’re really stupid or not.
如果一个人对这些事情懂挺多，你要发现他是不是蠢蛋还得花点时间。
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late?
如果一个漂亮女孩来见你，谁他妈关心她迟没迟到?
These intellectual guys don’t like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they’re running the whole thing.
除非他们自己掌控局面，这些高智商的人都不想跟你进行高智商对话。
I didn’t have anything else to do, so I kept sitting on the radiator and counting these little white squares on the floor.
我没别的事做，就继续坐在暖气上数地上的小白格子。
That killed me. Her middle name is Josephine, for God’s sake, not Weatherfield. She doesn’t like it, though. Every time I see her she’s got a new middle name for herself…Old Phoebe said something then, but I couldn’t hear her. She had the side of her mouth right smack on the pillow, and I couldn’t hear her.
笑死我了。她的中间名叫约瑟芬，搞没搞错，不是韦瑟菲尔德。不过她不喜欢自己的中间名。每次我见她，她都给自己取一个新的中间名……菲比丫头说了些话，不过我听不见。她的嘴堵在枕头上了，我听不见她说话。