[中英对照] 莎士比亚戏剧精选四段

Four Passages From the Dramatic Writings of Shakespeare

莎士比亚戏剧精选四段

 

【作者简介】

威廉莎士比亚,英国历史上，乃至世界历史上最伟大的戏剧大师，他于1564年出生于英国中部的斯特拉夫镇.十三四岁时因家庭破产而辍学。之后，他先后当过士兵、教师、剧院的杂役、演员和剧团股东。传说他出生的日期为四月二十三日。莎士比亚的语言异常凝美，内涵也无比丰富。

 

Twelfth Night

II.iv.103-117

[DUKE OF ILLYRIA]

What dost thou know?

[VIOLA]

Too well what love women to men may owe.

In faith, they are as true of heart as we.

My father had a daughter loved a man

As it might be perhaps, were I a woman,

I should your lordship.

[DUKE OF ILLYRIA]

And what‘s her history?

[VIOLA]

 A blank, my lord. She never told her love,

 But let concealment, like a worm i‘th‘bud,

 Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;

 And, with a green and yellow melancholy,

 She sat like Patience on a monument,

 Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?

 We men may say more, swear more; but indeed

 Our shows are more than will; for still we prove

 Much in our vows but little in our love.

 

男人的爱与女人的爱

[伊利里亚公爵]

您深知的是什么?

[薇奥拉]

深知女人可以如何热爱男人。

真的，她们象我们一样真心。

当年我爹有个女儿爱上个郎，

正如，假如我是女的，也许我会爱上爵爷您。

[伊利里亚公爵]

结果她的遭遇呢?

[薇奥拉]

是片空白。她没有透露她的爱意，

却让这秘密，象蓓蕾中的害虫，

吃她淡红的面颊来养生。哀思中憔悴了，

带着又绿又黄的忧郁，

她如墓碑般有耐性，坐着，

看着悲伤微笑。那还不是真爱吗?

我们男的说更多话、发更多誓；实际上却虚饰多于真情；

常见誓言夸张， 情意有限。

 

 

 

Why, How Know You That I Am in Love?

[SPEED]

     Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like  Sir Proteus,to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to relish a love-song like a  robin-red-breast, to walk alone like one that had the pestilence, to sign like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C, to weep like a young wench that had buried her grandam, to fast like one that takes diet, to watch like one that fears robbing, to speak puling like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you walked, to walk like one of the lions; When you fasted, it was presently after dinner; when you looked sadly, it was for want of money. And now you are metamorphosed with a mistress, that when I look on you, I can hardly think you my master.

 

哟，您怎知我患了相思病?

[史比德]

     哎呀，就是从这些特殊的迹象嘛：首先，你学会了，与普洛帝斯少爷 一样，像个不满现状的人般盘着双臂；学会了象只知更鸟般唱着情歌；学会了独来独往，象个染了瘟疫的人；学会了叹息，象个丢了启蒙课本的学生哥儿；学会了哭泣，象埋葬了老奶奶的小姑娘；学会了节食，象需要节制饮食的人；学会了废寝，象担心盗窃的人；学会了啼哭着说话，象万圣节的叫化子。原来嘛，您大笑起来，象雄鸡打鸣儿；走起路来象狮子；刚吃饱才会禁食；没钱才会没精打采。现在嘛，有了心上人您也全变了，使得我看着您，却险些儿想不起您是我的主子。

 

 

Love Song

 

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,

I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.

Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,

And to the nightingale抯 complaining notes

Tune my distresses and record my woes.

O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,

Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,

Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall

And leave no memory of what it was.

 

情 歌

人总会习与性成哩!棗

这荫翳无人之地、荒僻的丛箐，

我乐意接受，甚于熙攘的都城。

这里我可以单个儿坐着，都无人见，

陪着那夜莺的哀怨歌声，

咏出我的苦恼，唱出我的悲愁。

啊，您这栖身在我胸怀中的人儿，

不要让这房子这么长久空旷，

惟恐它破坏了会倒下，

使得无人记起它昔日的光华。

 

 

 

 

A Midsummer Night‘s Dream

 

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet

Are of imagination all compact.

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold:

That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen‘s beauty in a brow of Egypt.

The poet‘s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet‘s pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

Such tricks hath strong imagination

That, if it would but apprehend some joy,

It comprehends some bringer of that joy,

Or in the night, imagining some fear,

How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

《仲夏夜之梦》[忒修斯]

 

疯子、情人、墨客，

全都是幻想造的。

那人见的鬼，无垠的地狱也装不下：

那就是疯子。情人，极度狂乱，

在黑姑娘的脸上，他看见海伦的面相。

诗人的眼睛，激扬一转，

就扫视了人间天上，天上人间；

正如幻想人不可思议的事物的

具体呈现，诗人的笔管

给它们形状，使如烟的无，

化作栖身有地的有。

丰富的幻想，会耍这些戏法，

所以每想起什么欢乐，

就替欢乐补上个原因；

有时在夜里，幻想着什么惶恐，

好容易把一棵矮树看作人熊!