EN: Music is the highest of the arts. It needs no reference to the figurative, or the corporeal. It is therefore, of all the arts, the closest to death.
CN: 音乐是最崇高的艺术，它不需要提及隐喻，或是具体性，因此，在所有的艺术中音乐最接近死亡。
EN: Sweet water from a foul well, as they say.
CN: 人家说音乐是恶泉的蜜水。
EN: I'm trying to make a serious point here, which is that a masculine love of physical beauty and of moral beauty, and of the beauty of the thirst for human knowledge, you omit that and you've omitted the mainstay of Athenian society.
CN: 我在阐述一个严肃的重点，那就是喜好男性肢体与道德之美，以及渴求知识之美，你略过这一点，你也就略过了雅典社会的支柱。
EN: I would have gone through life half-awake.
CN: 我会半梦半醒度过一生。
EN: There are other ways to be happy, you know. We could explore those a little.
CN: 我们可以探索一下，幸福有别的方法。
EN:
- I needn't remind you that your sort were once put to death in England. I would advise you to...live in some country, France, Italy, where homosexuality is no longer criminal.
- Will it ever be like that in England? England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
CN:
- 我不必提醒你，你们这种人从前在英国要处死，我会建议你...搬到某个国家，法国、意大利，去同性恋不是犯法的地方。
- 英国会有这一天吗？英国一向不肯接受人性。
EN: You can do anything, once you know what it is. We can live without money, without people. We can live without position. We're not fools. We're both strong. There'll be someplace we could go.
CN: 你清楚情况后，什么都可以做，我们远离金钱跟人能生活，我们远离地位也能生活，我们不是笨蛋，我们都很有能力，一定有我们能去的地方。
EN: Where a woman is in question, it's always better to ask another woman.
CN: 有女人的问题时，最好问另一个女人。
EN: The sole excuse for any relationship between two men is that it remain purely platonic.
CN: 两个男人之间有任何关系，唯一的借口是纯粹的柏拉图式爱情。