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。391Please respect copyright.PENANAtOjS8Biibm
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XD391Please respect copyright.PENANA0UycNv2AbQ
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?391Please respect copyright.PENANAe5CVwj2l3p
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
你比夏日更溫柔動人。391Please respect copyright.PENANAgBZnA0eRxi
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
狂風搖落五月的嬌蕊,391Please respect copyright.PENANASaR83OEaXt
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And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
夏日的時光稍縱即逝。391Please respect copyright.PENANAYSFQ7chvvE
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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
烈日之眼時而格外灼熱,391Please respect copyright.PENANAtAxDlqZn89
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And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
金色面容轉眼黯然失色,391Please respect copyright.PENANApkWhkYIYuM
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And every fair from fair sometime declines,
一切美麗終不免凋敝,391Please respect copyright.PENANAKyzhWidAc8
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By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
不論天意無常或有常。391Please respect copyright.PENANAM3TNT41z5u
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade
但你的長夏永不褪色,391Please respect copyright.PENANAMJi9W1kR24
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Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
你的美麗也永不消失,391Please respect copyright.PENANAz6Czuvc5JA
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Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
死亡陰影不能困住你,391Please respect copyright.PENANAIouCeF3JAP
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When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
你與永恆的詩句同壽。391Please respect copyright.PENANAX9XupvKm3w
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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,391Please respect copyright.PENANAQkOV1hpNaa
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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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