Quotes from William Shakespeare

•  Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

博爱，谨信，不负人.

对众人一视同仁，对少数人推心置腹，对任何人不要亏负.

(As you like it)

• He childed as I fathered.

他有不孝的孩儿，而我则遭遇了无情的父亲.

(King Lear)

 

给父亲

北岛

在二月寒冷的早晨

橡树终有悲哀的尺寸

父亲，在你照片前

八面风保持圆桌的平静

我从童年的方向

看到的永远是你的背影

沿着通向君主的道路

你放牧乌云和羊群

雄辩的风带来洪水

胡同的逻辑深入人心

你召唤我成为儿子

我追随你成为父亲

掌中奔流的命运

带动日月星辰运转

在男性的孤灯下

万物阴影成双

时针兄弟的斗争构成

锐角，合二为一

病雷滚进夜的医院

砸响了你的门

黎明如丑角登场

火焰为你更换床单

钟表停止之处

时间的飞镖呼啸而过

快追上那辆死亡马车吧

一条春天窃贼的小路

查访群山的财富

河流环绕歌的忧伤

标语隐藏在墙上

这世界并没多少改变

女人转身融入夜晚

从早晨走出男人

• Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.

 

 

SONNET 18	PARAPHRASE
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:	You are more lovely and more constant:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,	Rough winds shake the beloved buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:	And summer is far too short:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,	At times the sun is too hot,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;	Or often goes behind the clouds;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,	And everything beautiful sometime will lose its beauty,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;	By misfortune or by nature's planned out course.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade	But your youth shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;	Nor will you lose the beauty that you possess;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,	Nor will death claim you for his own,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;	Because in my eternal verse you will live forever.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,	So long as there are people on this earth,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.	So long will this poem live on, making you immortal.

Notes

temperate (1): i.e., evenly-tempered; not overcome by passion.

the eye of heaven (5): i.e., the sun.

every fair from fair sometime declines (7): i.e., the beauty (fair) of everything beautiful (fair) will fade (declines). Compare to Sonnet 116: "rosy lips and cheeks/Within his bending sickle's compass come."

nature's changing course (8): i.e., the natural changes age brings.

 

 

• To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die — to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, 'Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there's the rub:

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause. There's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscover'd country from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

译文（朱生豪译本）

生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的问题；默然忍受命运暴虐的毒箭，或是挺身反抗人世无涯的苦难,通过斗争把它们扫个干净，这两种行为，哪一种更加高尚？死了；睡着了；什么都完了；要是在这一种睡眠之中，我们心头的创痛，以及其他无数血肉之躯所不能避免的打击，都可以从此消失，那正是我们求之不得的结局。死了；睡着了；睡着了也许还会做梦；嗯，阻碍就在这儿：因为当我们摆脱了这一具朽腐的皮囊以后，在那死的睡眠里，究竟将要做些什么梦，那不能不使我们踌躇顾虑。人们甘心久困于患难之中，也就是为了这个缘故；谁愿意忍受人世的鞭挞和讥嘲、压迫者的凌辱、傲慢者的冷眼、被轻蔑的爱情的惨痛、法律的迁延、官吏的横暴和费尽辛勤所换来的小人的鄙视，要是他只要用一柄小小的刀子，就可以清算他自己的一生？谁愿意负着这样的重担，在烦劳的生命的压迫下呻吟流汗，倘不是因为惧怕不可知的死后，惧怕那从来不曾有一个旅人回来过的神秘之国，是它迷惑了我们的意志，使我们宁愿忍受的折磨，不敢向我们所不知道的痛苦飞去？这样，重重的顾虑使我们全变成了懦夫，决心的赤热的光彩，被审慎的思维盖上了一层灰色，伟大的事业在这一种考虑之下，也会逆流而退，失去了行动的意义。

(Hamlet)

•  All the world's a stage.

全世界是个舞台.

(As you like it)

 

• A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

玫瑰不叫玫瑰，依然芳香如故.

(Romeo and Juliet)

 

• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

 懦夫一生死多次，勇者一生死一回.

(Julius Caesar)

 

• My only love sprung from my only hate.

我唯一的爱来自我唯一的恨.

(Romeo and Juliet)

 

 

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