英語經典美文欣賞：說謊論

你們應該不斷研究如果避免製造那些拙劣，無力而又破綻百出的謊言;諸如此類的謊言比起一個普通事實來，決不具有更加真實的永久性。下面是本站小編爲大家帶來英語經典美文：說謊論，希望大家喜歡!

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be verycareful about lying, otherwise you are nearly sure to getcaught, once caught, you can never again be, in theeyes of the pure and the good, what you a young person has injured himselfpermenently throuth a single clumsy and ill-finished lie,the result of carelessness born of incomplete authorities hold that the young ought not to lie atall. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary. Still, while I can't go quite so far asthat, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of thisgreat art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, precision whichalone make the accomplishment graceful and profitable. Patience, diligence, painstaking attentionto detail - these are the requirments. These, in time ,will make the student perfect. Upon these, andupon these only, mayhe rely as the sure foundation for future eminence.

Think what tedious years of study, thought, practice, and experience ,went to the equipment of thepeerless old master who was able to impose upon the whole world with the lofty and soundingmaxim that "Truth is mighty and will prevail."- The most majestic compound feature of fact whichany of woman born has yet achieved.

For the history of our race and every individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that atruth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. There is in Bostain a monument of the manwho discover the anesthesia. Many people are aware, in these later days, that he didn't discover it atall, but stole the discovery from another man. Is the truth mighty, and will it prevail? No, My hearers,the monument is made of hard materials, but the lie it tells will outlast a millon years. An awkward,feeble, leaky lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid. Why, youmight as well tell the truth at once and be done with it.

美文翻譯：

現在來談一談說謊。你們可要特別謹慎地看待說謊;否則十有八九會被揭穿。一旦被揭穿，在善良和淳樸的人們眼中，你就再也不可能是以前的你了。許多年輕人，僅僅由於一次拙劣難圓的謊言，由於不完備的教育而導致輕率的後果-而使自己長期蒙受損失。一些權威人士認爲年輕人根本不該說謊。當然，這種說法言之過甚，其實未必如此。不過，雖然我不能把話講的太過分，我卻堅信-我認爲確乎如此，在實踐和閱歷使人獲得信心，文雅，嚴謹之前，年輕人運用這門偉大的藝術時應當把握好分寸，因爲只有這三點才能使說謊的本領無傷大雅甚至帶來益處。耐心，勤奮，細緻入微則是必備素質，經年累月，這些素質便會使學生變得完善起來。憑藉這些，也只有憑藉這些，他纔可能爲將來的出類拔萃打下牢固的基礎。

試想，要經過學習，思考，實踐，經驗等多麼漫長的歲月，那舉世無雙的大師才具備如此的素養，他使得整個世界接受了“真理是強大的，並且終將戰勝一切”這句崇高而響徹雲霄的格言，這是關於事實的複雜性所道出的最豪邁的一句話，至今任何一個出自孃胎的人都未有此成就。

原因是我們人類的歷史以及每個人的經歷都深深地印證了這樣的事實:一個真理不難抹殺，一個說的巧妙的謊言則經久不衰。在波士頓，人們爲紀念發現麻醉法的人而立了一座紀念碑：很多人到近期才知道,那個人根本沒有發現麻醉法，而是竊取了另一個人的發現。這個真理強大嗎?它終會取勝嗎?唉，非也，聽衆們，雖然紀念碑是用堅硬的材料建造的，而它所散佈的謊言卻將比它持久百萬年。你們應該不斷研究如果避免製造那些拙劣，無力而又破綻百出的謊言;諸如此類的謊言比起一個普通事實來，決不具有更加真實的永久性。嗨，你們倒不如既講真話又同真理打交道。