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。746Please respect copyright.PENANAI7wzNJEPRx
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XD746Please respect copyright.PENANAAnVfM7zr44
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?746Please respect copyright.PENANAvidZQNX4ZT
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
你比夏日更溫柔動人。746Please respect copyright.PENANA1IpabbO6jb
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
狂風搖落五月的嬌蕊,746Please respect copyright.PENANALDAH6Yud59
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And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
夏日的時光稍縱即逝。746Please respect copyright.PENANA7NSUHDLGo3
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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
烈日之眼時而格外灼熱,746Please respect copyright.PENANAD46bXMR5IG
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And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
金色面容轉眼黯然失色,746Please respect copyright.PENANAnYz6ik9vdT
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And every fair from fair sometime declines,
一切美麗終不免凋敝,746Please respect copyright.PENANATW0oTXbMhf
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By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
不論天意無常或有常。746Please respect copyright.PENANA0sbA9nbAyf
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But thy eternal summer shall not fade
但你的長夏永不褪色,746Please respect copyright.PENANAXb57MLpuBw
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Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
你的美麗也永不消失,746Please respect copyright.PENANAId1H4tudbi
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Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
死亡陰影不能困住你,746Please respect copyright.PENANAT3oVCgzWP1
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When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
你與永恆的詩句同壽。746Please respect copyright.PENANA9NGyIrRFoN
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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,746Please respect copyright.PENANAw2JRdzaXNA
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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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