时代整个儿脱节了;啊,真糟,天生偏要我把它重新整好!
These are strange times. But the unhappiest time of all was the day that I was born.
——哈姆雷特《哈姆雷特》一幕五场
我爱欧菲莉亚,四万个兄弟之爱加起来也不足我所给予她之爱。
I loved Ophelia too! Forty thousand brothers could not love her as much as I did!
——哈姆雷特《哈姆雷特》五幕一场
天地之大,赫瑞修,比你所能梦想到的多出更多。
There are more things in heaven and earth than you've ever dream of, Horatio.
——哈姆雷特《哈姆雷特》一幕五场
我不惧毁灭,更不在乎今生或来世;我可任其来之,只要我能彻底的为我父亲复仇!
It doesn't matter what happens to me in this world or the next. But I will have revenge for my father!
——雷尔提《哈姆雷特》四幕五场
你们这辈愚人!我和我的同伴们都是运命的使者。
You fools! I and my fellows are ministers of fate.
——爱丽儿《暴风雨》三幕三场
这真叫人像堕入五里雾中一样!这种事情一定有一个超自然的势力在那儿指挥着。
This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod; And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of.
——阿隆佐《暴风雨》五幕一场
让我们不要把过去的不幸重压在我们的记忆上。
Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.
——普洛斯彼罗《暴风雨》五幕一场
我们都是坏蛋,千万别相信我们。
Men lie. Believe none of us.
——哈姆雷特《哈姆雷特》三幕一场
现在我已把我的魔法尽行抛弃,剩余微弱的力量都属于我自己。
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint.
——普洛斯彼罗《暴风雨》收场诗
至少也要献出一个奇迹来,使它给与您安慰,正像我的公国安慰了我一样。
At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye As much as me my dukedom.
——普洛斯彼罗《暴风雨》五幕一场
不久我们有了空暇,我便可以简简单单地向您解答这种种奇迹,使您觉得这一切的发生,未尝不是可能的事。现在请高兴起来,把什么事都往好的方面着想吧。
At pick'd leisure, Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you, Which to you shall seem probable, of every These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful and think of each thing well.
——普洛斯彼罗《暴风雨》五幕一场
哈姆雷特中
莎士比亚著名作品《哈姆雷特》中的名句 :
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
生存或毁灭, 这是个必答之问题:
是否应默默的忍受坎苛命运之无情打击,
还是应与深如大海之无涯苦难奋然为敌,
并将其克服。
此二抉择, 就竟是哪个较崇高?
死即睡眠, 它不过如此!
倘若一眠能了结心灵之苦楚与肉体之百患,
那么, 此结局是可盼的!
死去, 睡去...
但在睡眠中可能有梦, 啊, 这就是个阻碍:
当我们摆脱了此垂死之皮囊,
在死之长眠中会有何梦来临?
它令我们踌躇,
使我们心甘情愿的承受长年之灾,
否则谁肯容忍人间之百般折磨,
如暴君之政、骄者之傲、失恋之痛、法章之慢、贪官之侮、或庸民之辱,
假如他能简单的一刃了之?
还有谁会肯去做牛做马, 终生疲於操劳,
默默的忍受其苦其难, 而不远走高飞, 飘於渺茫之境,
倘若他不是因恐惧身后之事而使他犹豫不前?
此境乃无人知晓之邦, 自古无返者。
所以,「理智」能使我们成为懦夫,
而「顾虑」能使我们本来辉煌之心志变得黯然无光, 像个病夫。
再之, 这些更能坏大事, 乱大谋, 使它们失去魄力。