莎士比亚是旷世大文豪,留给世人的不只是一部部千古流传的剧作。他洞悉人性,闪烁着智慧光芒的台词,被大量融入英文日常的对话与书写中,成为人们引经据典的谚语。配合莎士比亚今年逝世400周年,《双语》每月跟读者分享莎翁不同主题的名言语录,让莎翁精神永存。
译⊙林方伟
6月莎翁:爱情篇
1.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. (Venus and Adonis)
爱沁人心扉,如雨后的暖阳。(诗歌《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》)
2.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (Romeo & Juliet)
叫什么又有什么关系?玫瑰纵使不叫玫瑰,依然芳香如故。(《罗密欧与朱丽叶》)
3.
Love sought is good,but given unsought is better. (Twelfth Night)
寻觅而获的爱情固然美好,但从天降临的爱情更为甜美。(《第十二夜》)
4.
The course of true love never did run smooth.(A Midsummer Night Dream)
真爱的道路从不平坦。(《仲夏夜之梦》)
5.
Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well. (Henry VI)
草率的婚姻,鲜少有好的结果。(《亨利六世》)
6.
Love is merely a madness.(As You Like It)
爱不过是一场痴狂。(《皆大欢喜》)
7.
Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. For, if they could, Cupid himself would blush. (A Merchant of Venice)
爱情是盲目的。恋人们往往看不见他们所做的蠢事。若他们看见自己有多傻,连丘比特也会为他们脸红。(《威尼斯商人》)
8.
Love's not love when it is mingled with regards that stands. Aloof from th' entire point.(King Lear)
爱情若是掺杂与它无关的算计与心机,就不是真爱。《李尔王》
9.
Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. (Romeo & Juliet)
年轻人的爱非发自内心,靠的全是一对眼睛。(《罗密欧与朱丽叶》)
10.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity: love looks not with the eyes, but with mind. (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
在爱情眼中,卑贱与劣行都微不足道,能被转化为美满和庄严。爱情不靠肉眼辨别,是用心灵辨识。(《仲夏夜之梦》)
11
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.(As You Like It)
如果你想不起爱情曾让你做过哪些蠢事,即便是再小的傻事,那你就不曾真正地爱过。(《皆大欢喜》)
12.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek! (Romeo & Juliet)
她把脸颊托在手上……噢,我愿是她手上的一只手套,能触摸她的脸颊。(《罗密欧与朱丽叶》)

