02 IF THOU MUST LOVE ME

 

 

If 3)thou must love me, let it be for 4)nought¹

Except for love's sake only. Do not say

'I love her for her smile...her look...her way

Of speaking gently,...for 5)a trick of thought

That 6)falls in well with mine, and 7)certes brought

A sense of pleasant ease on such a day' -

For these things in themselves, Beloved, may

Be changed, or change for 8)thee, - and love, so 9)wrought,

May be unwrought so. Neither love me for

10)Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,

Since one might well forget to weep, who bore

11)Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby².

But love me for love's sake, that evermore

Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity³.

 

如果你爱我

 

 如果你爱我，就无条件地爱吧，

只为爱而爱。不要说

"我爱她是因为她的微笑，她的容颜，

她的轻言细语，为了她思想的习惯

正合乎我的心意，那天，的确

给我带来满怀的喜悦和舒畅。"

亲爱的，这些好景都不能常在，

会因你而改变，-而那么完美的爱

也将这样失色。爱我，也不要因为你

怜惜地给我揩干了泪腮，

因为一个人会忘了哭泣，当她久受你

温柔的安慰-却因此失去你的爱。

为爱而爱我，那么

你就能继续地爱，让爱永恒。

 

3) thou  pron. [古]汝，尔，你    

4) nought n. 无，徒然        

5) a trick of 习惯，癖好

6) fall in with 同意，赞成             

7) certes  ad. [古]必然 

8) thee  pron. [古] [thou的宾格]你，汝        

 9) wrought  a. 精炼的；装饰的；激动的，兴奋的

10) thine  pron. [古] [thou的所有格]你的   

11) thy  pron. [古][ thou的所有格]你的

1 nought   

n.／adj.无，零

参考例句：

• We must bring their schemes to nought.我们必须使他们的阴谋彻底破产。
• One minus one leaves nought.一减一等于零。

2 thereby   

adv.因此，从而

参考例句：

• I have never been to that city,,ereby I don't know much about it.我从未去过那座城市，因此对它不怎么熟悉。
• He became a British citizen,thereby gaining the right to vote.他成了英国公民，因而得到了投票权。

3 eternity   

n.不朽，来世；永恒，无穷

参考例句：

• The dull play seemed to last an eternity.这场乏味的剧似乎演个没完没了。
• Finally,Ying Tai and Shan Bo could be together for all of eternity.英台和山伯终能双宿双飞，永世相随。