普魯斯特問卷 ~~~~版主翻譯

• Your most
  marked characteristic? 你最顯著的特質？

A craving to be loved, or, to be more precise, to be caressed and spoiled
rather than to be admired 渴望被愛，更精確地說，被愛撫與寵愛，而不是被欣賞

• The quality
  you most like in a man? 你最喜歡的男人特質？

Feminine charm 女性般的魅力

• The quality
  you most like in a woman? 你最喜歡的女人特質？

A man's virtues, and frankness in friendship 男性的美德，以及對友誼誠實

• What do you
  most value in your friends? 你認為朋友最珍貴的特質是？

Tenderness - provided they possess a physical charm which makes their
tenderness worth having 溫柔－－表示他們擁有身體的魅力，使他們的溫柔值得擁有

• What is your
  principle defect? 你主要的缺點？

Lack of understanding; weakness of will 缺乏理解心，意志薄弱

• What is your
  favorite occupation? 你最喜歡的工作？

Loving 去愛

• What is your
  dream of happiness? 你快樂的夢想為何？

Not, I fear, a very elevated one. I really haven't the courage to say what
it is, and if I did I should probably destroy it by the mere fact of putting it
into words. 不是很高層次的一種，我沒有勇氣說是什麼，如果說出來，我可能會因此破壞了它

• What to your
  mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? 你認為最大的不幸為何？

Never to have known my mother or my grandmother從沒認識過我的媽媽或祖母

• What would
  you like to be? 你希望做什麼樣的人？

Myself - as those whom I admire would like me to be 我自己－那些我欣賞的人也會這樣希望

• In what
  country would you like to live? 你希望住在那國？

One where certain things that I want would be realized - and where
feelings of tenderness would always be reciprocated. [Proust's
underlining] 可以實現我願望的地方，在那裡溫柔的感覺總是會被人回應(普先生劃的線)

• What is your
  favorite color? 你最喜歡的顏色？

Beauty lies not in colors but in thier harmony美不在於顏色種類而在於其和諧

• What is your
  favorite flower? 你最喜歡的花？

Hers - but apart from that, all 她喜歡的－除此之外，全部都喜歡

• What is your
  favorite bird? 你最喜歡的鳥？

The swallow 燕子

• Who are your
  favorite prose writers? 你最喜歡的散文作家

At the moment, Anatole France （普之老師，諾貝爾獎得主）and Pierre Loti（「冰島漁夫」作者）

• Who are your
  favorite poets? 你最喜歡的詩？

Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny 波特萊爾與維尼

• Who is your
  favorite hero of fiction? 最喜歡的小說男主角？

Hamlet 哈姆雷特

• Who are your
  favorite heroines of fiction? 最喜歡的小說女主角？

Phedre (crossed out) Berenice 菲爾德、貝勒奈斯(羅馬皇帝提圖斯Titus的情婦)

• Who are your
  favorite composers? 最喜歡的作曲家

Beethoven, Wagner, Schumann 貝多芬、華格納、舒曼

• Who are your
  favorite painters? 最喜歡的畫家？

Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt 達文西、林布蘭特

• Who are your
  heroes in real life? 生活中最喜歡的男性？

Monsieur Darlu, Monsieur Boutroux (professors)達呂、布特路(教授)

• Who are your
  favorite heroines of history? 歷史中最喜歡的女性？

Cleopatra 埃及豔后

• What are
  your favorite names? 最喜歡的名字？

I only have one at a time 我一次只有一個名字

• What is it
  you most dislike? 最不喜歡的事？

My own worst qualities 我自己最壞的缺點

• What
  historical figures do you most despise? 最厭惡的歷史人物？

I am not sufficiently educated to say 我受的教育不足以發言

• What event
  in military history do you most admire? 軍事史上最欣賞的事件？

My own enlistment as a volunteer! 我自己志願入伍的事

• What reform
  do you most admire? 最欣賞的改革？

(no response) (未作答)

• What natural
  gift would you most like to possess? 最想擁有何種天生的能力？

Will power and irresistible charm 意志力與無法抵擋的魅力

• How would
  you like to die? 死的時候你希望如何？

A better man than I am, and much beloved 變成更好的我，更被愛

• What is your
  present state of mind? 你現在在想什麼？

Annoyance at having to think about myself in order to answer these
questions 為需要想自己的事來作答感到不悅

• To what
  faults do you feel most indulgent? 你最可包容的缺失是？

Those that I understand 我自己了解的那些（自己知道就好?)

• What is your
  motto? 你的勵志格言為何？

I prefer not to say, for fear it might bring me bad luck. 我寧可不說，以免招來惡運