英语美文背诵 假如音乐是爱情的粮食

If Music Be The Food Of Love from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

《假如音乐是爱情的粮食》，节选自《第十二夜》，莎士比亚

If music be the food of love, play on;

假如音乐是爱情的食粮，那么奏下去吧；

Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting¹ the appetite may sicken, and so die.

尽量地奏下去，好让爱情因过饱噎塞而死。

That strain again! it had a dying fall.

又奏起这个调子来了！它有一种渐渐消沉下去的节奏。

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour!

啊！它经过我的耳畔，就像微风吹拂一丛紫罗兰，发出轻柔的声音，一面把花香偷走，一面又把花香分送。

Enough, no more. Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

够了！别再奏下去了！它现在已经不像原来那样甜蜜了。

O spirit of love! How quick and fresh art thou, that, not with standing² thy capacity receiveth as the sea, nought³ enters there, of what validity and pitch soe'er, but falls into abatement⁴ and low price, even in a minute.

爱情的精灵呀！你是多么敏感而活泼；虽然你有海―样的容量，可是无论怎样高贵超越的事物，一进了你的范围，便会在顷刻间失去了它的价值。

So full of shapes is fancy that it alone is high fantastical.

爱情是这样充满了意象，在一切事物中是最富于幻想的。

1 surfeiting   

v.吃得过多( surfeit的现在分词 )；由于过量而厌腻

参考例句：

2 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

3 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。

4 abatement   

n.减(免)税，打折扣，冲销

参考例句：

• A bag filter for dust abatement at the discharge point should be provided.在卸料地点应该装设袋滤器以消除粉尘。
• The abatement of the headache gave him a moment of rest.头痛减轻给他片刻的休息。