如果說莎翁的十四行詩是英詩中的王冠,那麼第十八首可謂王冠上的明珠。407Please respect copyright.PENANAfJrWjS7Xrt
一首短短的十四行詩裡面,竟然用到了十種修辭格:明喻(simile)、暗喻(metaphor)、設問/反問(rhetorical question)、擬人(personification)、相關語(pun)、矛盾(paradox)、頭韻(alliteration)、誇張(hyperbole)、借代(synecdoche)及倒裝(inversion),而且題材還糅合了詩歌、夏天與人的永恆之美,簡直就是譯者的噩夢XD407Please respect copyright.PENANAvDGp6SzXaa
分享一下我自己嘗試翻譯的版本(並且借詩向大家告白),不過還是推薦大家先細細品味原文。
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
我怎能把你比做夏日?407Please respect copyright.PENANADSC3yS1wpI
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
你比夏日更溫柔動人。407Please respect copyright.PENANAJ9PzFrlFoZ
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
狂風搖落五月的嬌蕊,407Please respect copyright.PENANAoyOrqaelQt
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And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
夏日的時光稍縱即逝。407Please respect copyright.PENANAjp3ClihYUu
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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
烈日之眼時而格外灼熱,407Please respect copyright.PENANAidm0AxNyHD
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And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
金色面容轉眼黯然失色,407Please respect copyright.PENANAb62cbrm9rs
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And every fair from fair sometime declines,
一切美麗終不免凋敝,407Please respect copyright.PENANAzZq2ItKk6Y
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By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
不論天意無常或有常。407Please respect copyright.PENANAGP135tIF6g
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade
但你的長夏永不褪色,407Please respect copyright.PENANAAwooNSWeYR
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Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
你的美麗也永不消失,407Please respect copyright.PENANA7Dx4t2tEvp
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Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
死亡陰影不能困住你,407Please respect copyright.PENANAiNbXUmgoVD
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When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
你與永恆的詩句同壽。407Please respect copyright.PENANAUwxdrmvWDM
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So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
世上一息尚存,世上一目尚視,407Please respect copyright.PENANA46hDEqbmPQ
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So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
此詩永遠長存,賦你不朽生命。
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