
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。420Please respect copyright.PENANAGTtJtUKT2v
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XD420Please respect copyright.PENANAU8dmyDDrNp
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?420Please respect copyright.PENANA2qemk2tFXv
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
你比夏日更溫柔動人。420Please respect copyright.PENANAHa0Y9PbA56
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
狂風搖落五月的嬌蕊,420Please respect copyright.PENANAdT0pNzsRk8
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And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
夏日的時光稍縱即逝。420Please respect copyright.PENANAKCbISe6Cba
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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
烈日之眼時而格外灼熱,420Please respect copyright.PENANALFwiEN1J7o
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And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
金色面容轉眼黯然失色,420Please respect copyright.PENANAERcFmH2E24
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And every fair from fair sometime declines,
一切美麗終不免凋敝,420Please respect copyright.PENANANnZT4nKS0A
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By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
不論天意無常或有常。420Please respect copyright.PENANAMAJM4sqU57
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade
但你的長夏永不褪色,420Please respect copyright.PENANAYr3iGrrAqI
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Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
你的美麗也永不消失,420Please respect copyright.PENANA0q8Wc6Ecsd
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Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
死亡陰影不能困住你,420Please respect copyright.PENANAXnaLMoqGXz
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When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
你與永恆的詩句同壽。420Please respect copyright.PENANAYvjyaIpfP7
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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,420Please respect copyright.PENANApm36DW3i0u
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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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