英音客栈之每日英语说 第51期:十四行诗

Sonnet 18 (Read by Juniper)

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Sonnet 18

十四行诗（第18首）

——Shakespeare

莎士比亚（译文：梁实秋）

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

我可能把你和夏天相比拟？

Thou art more lovely and more temperate;

你比夏天更可爱更温和；

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

狂风会把五月的花苞吹落地，

And summer's lease hath all too short a date;

夏天也嫌太短促，匆匆而过：

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

有时太阳照得太热，

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

常常又遮暗他的金色的脸；

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

美的事物总不免要凋落，

By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.

偶然的，或是随自然变化而流转。

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

但是你的永恒之夏不会褪色；

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

你不会失去你的俊美的仪容；

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

死神不能夸说你在他的阴影里面走着，

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.

如果你在这不朽的诗句里获得了永生；

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

只要人们能呼吸，眼睛能看东西，

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

此诗就会不朽，使你永久生存下去

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