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If Music Be The Food Of Love
假如音樂是愛情的糧食
from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
節選自《第十二夜》,莎士比亞
If music be the food of love, play on,
假如音樂是愛情的食糧,那麼奏下去吧;
Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,
儘量地奏下去,好讓愛情因過飽噎塞而死。
The appetite may sicken, and so die.—
又奏起這個調子來了!它有一種漸漸消沉下去的節奏。
That strain again—it had a dying fall;
啊!它經過我的耳畔,就像微風吹拂一叢紫羅蘭,
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
發出輕柔的聲音,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour.
一面把花香偷走,一面又把花香分送。
Enough, no more.
夠了!別再奏下去了!它現在已經不像原來那樣甜蜜了。
Tis not so sweet now as it was befor.
O Spirit of love!
愛情的精靈呀!
How quick and fresh art thou
你是多麼敏感而活潑;
that,not with standing thy capacity
雖然你有海―樣的容量,
receiveth as the sea,nought enters there,
可是無論怎樣高貴超越的事物,一進了你的範圍,
of what validity and pitch soe`er.
But falls into abatement and low price,
便會在頃刻間失去了它的價值。
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
愛情是這樣充滿了意象,
That it alone is high fantastical
在一切事物中是最富於幻想的。
輕鬆玩轉語法!原來學習語法如此簡單~