英语美文背诵 十四行诗116

Sonnet¹ 116 by William Shakespeare

十四行诗116 威廉·莎士比亚

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

会有任何障碍；爱算不得真爱，

Love is not love which alters when it alteration² finds,

若是一看见人家改变便转舵，

Or bends with the remover to remove:

或者一看见人家转弯便离开。

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

哦，决不！爱是亘古长明的塔灯，

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

它定睛望着风暴却兀不为动；

It is the star to every wandering bark,

爱又是指引迷舟的一颗恒星，

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

你可量它多高，它所值却无穷。

Love's not Time's fool,

爱不受时光的播弄，

though rosy³ lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come:

尽管红颜和皓齿难免遭受时光的毒手；

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

爱并不因瞬息的改变而改变，

But bears it out even to the edge of doom⁴.

它巍然矗立直到末日的尽头。

If this be error and upon me proved,

我这话若说错，并被证明不确，

I never writ⁵, nor no man ever loved.

就算我没写诗，也没人真爱过。

1 sonnet   

n.十四行诗

参考例句：

• The composer set a sonnet to music.作曲家为一首十四行诗谱了曲。
• He wrote a sonnet to his beloved.他写了一首十四行诗，献给他心爱的人。

2 alteration   

n.变更，改变；蚀变

参考例句：

• The shirt needs alteration.这件衬衣需要改一改。
• He easily perceived there was an alteration in my countenance.他立刻看出我的脸色和往常有些不同。

3 rosy   

adj.美好的，乐观的，玫瑰色的

参考例句：

• She got a new job and her life looks rosy.她找到一份新工作，生活看上去很美好。
• She always takes a rosy view of life.她总是对生活持乐观态度。

4 doom   

n.厄运，劫数；v.注定，命定

参考例句：

• The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
• The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。

5 writ   

n.命令状，书面命令

参考例句：

• This is a copy of a writ I received this morning.这是今早我收到的书面命令副本。
• You shouldn't treat the newspapers as if they were Holy Writ. 你不应该把报上说的话奉若神明。