10 of the strangest last wishes 10 大最奇思妙想的遗愿 While most wills are left in order to make certain that our financial affairs are taken care of after our death some people have used them to make political points or just for a bit of a laugh This is a list of 10 of the strangest last wishes of people famous and not so famous 虽然我们的遗嘱大部分是为了确保在我们死后我们的财产分配问题 但是仍然有 些人用他们来表明政治观点 或者只是为了一个笑话 这里是10个名人或者非 名人的最奇怪的遗嘱的列表 10 10 Virgil 维吉尔 Virgil Died 10 BC 死于公元前 10年 Died 10 BC Last Wish Burn the Aeneid 遗愿 烧毁埃涅伊德 Virgil 作的叙事诗 Virgil is the great Roman poet most renowned for his Aeneid once the national poem of Rome Prior to his death he had completed only 12 books as opposed to the 24 of the epic poems of Homer Because it was incomplete he left instructions that it be destroyed by fire after his death When his friends found out they managed to finally convince him to remove the request from his will He consented and the poem was published to great acclaim I think we can all safely say that we owe Virgil s friends a great debt 维吉尔因为埃涅伊德这首诗成为了罗马最著名的诗人 这首诗曾经是罗马的民 族诗歌 在他死前 他只完成了12 本书 都是关于反对河马的 24史诗 由于他 认为这些书是不完整的 所以他命令在他死后烧毁这些书 当他的朋友们发现的 时候 他们最终成功的说服了他把这个要求从遗嘱中删除了 维吉尔同意后 这 个诗集被顺利出版并赢得了强烈的反响 我想我们 i 确实欠维吉尔的朋友一个很 大的人情 9 9 William Shakespeare 威廉 莎士比亚 William Shakespeare Died 1616 Shakespearepa 449X600 1 Last Wish That his wife receive his second best bed 遗愿 把他家中第 2好的床留给她的妻子 This last request of Shakespeare has caused much speculation about his relationship with his wife Anne Hathaway Not only was it an unusual request it was tacked on to the document as if it were an afterthought Leaving a bed to someone was not itself an unusual thing at the time as a good quality bed with no fleas or vermin was a highly prized and very expensive thing Adding further to the debate was the epitaph that Shakespeare left on his grave Blest be the man that spares these stones And cursed by he that moves my bones While some say Shakespeare meant it to frighten grave robbers the wording was taken so seriously that when his wife died 7 years later they would not allow her body to be placed with his 莎士比亚的遗愿让人对他和他妻子安妮海参崴的关系引起了很大的猜想 不仅仅 是因为这是个不寻常的要求 而且这个要求被加入到了遗嘱文件上好像是再三思 量的结果 在那个时候 留下一张床给别人这件事本身是很正常的 因为一张没 有跳蚤或者虫子的高质量的床是非常值钱 非常贵的一样东西 使争论更加激化 的是在莎士比亚的墓志铭 保佑那些不会动这些骨头的人 诅咒那些会动我的骨 头的人 当时有人说莎士比亚是想吓走那些盗墓贼 这个措词十分严谨 直到7 年后她妻子死了 人们竟然发觉墓碑上的墓志铭不允许她妻子的骨灰和他的放在 一起 8 8 Charles Dickens 查尔斯 狄更斯 Charles Dickens Died 1870 死于1870 年 Last Wish That mourners who attend my funeral wear no scarf cloak black bow long hatband or other such revolting absurdity 遗愿 来参加我葬礼的哀悼者不能穿着围巾 斗篷 黑领结 长缎带 或者其他 这类让人厌恶的东西 In addition to the above Dickens also wrote that he was not to have a public funeral and the place and time of his funeral were not to be made public He also requested an inexpensive and simple funeral with only three plain mourning coaches His requests were ignored on a grand scale He was honored with a huge funeral cortege with all members present in full funeral regalia His funeral was a national event The man who was used to getting what he wanted in life did not get what he wanted in death 除了上述要求 狄更斯还要求他不想要一个公开的葬礼 他葬礼的时间和地点不 允许对外公开 他同时要求只要三辆普通的悼念马车队的节俭丧礼 他的要求完 全被无视了 他的葬礼变得十分盛大 他被尊重的放在一个巨大无比的葬礼队伍 中 所有随行的人都身着丧服 他的葬礼成为了一个国家的盛事 狄更斯 当他 活着的时候总能得到他想要的 但是在他死后不能得到他想要的 7 7 George Bernard Shaw 乔治 伯纳德 肖 George Bernard Shaw Died 1950 死于1950 年 Last Wish He ordered no religious service and that his tombstone not take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice 遗愿 他不要任何宗教礼仪 他的墓碑不能是十字架形状或者任何其他代表牺祭 奠或者折磨的样子 Shaw was hard on religion and his will included a section that gave his support to Darwin s millennial saga of creation over the Bibles six day synopsis Shaw had always been fascinated with the idea of a reformed English spelling He created a 40 letter phonetic alphabet to make spelling much simpler As part of his will he left a sizeable portion of his estate to promote the new alphabet this was overruled by a court as it was impossible and the money was distributed to 3 organizations The British Museum The National Gallery of Ireland and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 肖对宗教十分厌恶 他的遗愿包括他给与达尔文的千年创世传奇的支持而不是圣 经里的六日创世说 肖对改革新的英文拼写的想法非常着迷 他创造了1个含有 40个音标发音的字母表来使拼写更为简单 他遗嘱中写到他相当大部分的遗产 是用来促进新字母表的发展 但是这被法院以不可能而驳回 然后钱被分给了3 个机构组织 大不列颠博物馆 爱尔兰国家艺廊和皇家戏剧学院 6 6 Benjamin Franklin 本杰明 富兰克林 Benjamin Franklin Died 1790 死于1790 年 Last Wish That in a democracy his daughter not engage in the expensive vain and useless pastime of wearing jewels 遗愿 在民主主义统治下 他的女儿不得佩戴昂贵的 虚荣的 无用的消遣时间 的珠宝 Benjamin Franklin was one of the most admired men in the Western world in the late 18th century The reason for his odd request was that as former ambassador to France Franklin was given a portrait of King Louis XVI in a frame studded with 408 diamonds He left this picture and frame to his daughter Sarah with the above proviso to prevent her from removing the diamonds from the frame to make jewelry 本杰明 富兰克林是 18世纪后期西方国家最尊崇的人之一 而他这奇怪的要求是 由于作为前任的驻法大使 富兰克林曾经被赏赐了衣服镶满了408 颗钻石的路易 十六世的肖像 他把这幅画和以上条款留给了她的女儿萨拉是为