莎士比亚的第18首十四行诗的英文赏析

Sonnet
18
Shall
I
compare
thee
to
a
summer's
day?
Thou
art
more
lovely
and
more
temperate:
Rough
winds
do
shake
the
darling
buds
of
May,
And
summer's
lease
hath
all
too
short
a
date:
Sometime
too
hot
the
eye
of
heaven
shines,
And
often
is
his
gold
complexion
dimm'd;
And
every
fair
from
fair
sometime
declines,
By
chance
or
nature's
changing
course
untrimm'd
But
thy
eternal
summer
shall
not
fade
Nor
lose
possession
of
that
fair
thou
owest;
Nor
shall
Death
brag
thou
wander'st
in
his
shade,
When
in
eternal
lines
to
time
thou
growest:
So
long
as
men
can
breathe
or
eyes
can
see,
So
long
lives
this
and
this
gives
life
to
thee.
我能否将你比作夏天？
你比夏天更美丽温婉。
狂风将五月的蓓蕾凋残，
夏日的勾留何其短暂。
休恋那丽日当空，
转眼会云雾迷蒙。
休叹那百花飘零，
催折于无常的天命。
唯有你永恒的夏日常新，
你的美貌亦毫发无损。
死神也无缘将你幽禁，
你在我永恒的诗中长存。
只要世间尚有人吟诵我的诗篇，
这诗就将不朽，永葆你的芳颜。
正如同一个人可以有不止一张照片或者画像那样，一首诗歌也可以有不止一个翻译。这照片、画像、翻译自然不会完全相同，会有优劣好坏的差别。但是，由于欣赏者的口味不一，在不同的欣赏者眼里，不同的作品会有不同的得分。
这首诗的艺术特点首先是在于它有着双重主题：一是赞美诗人爱友的美貌，二是歌颂了诗歌艺术的不朽力量。其次就是诗人在诗中运用了新颖的比喻，但又自然而生动。

when
forty
winters
shall
besiege
thy
brow
and
dig
deep
trenches
in
thy
beauty's
field,
thy
youth's
proud
livery,
so
gazed
on
now,
will
be
a
tottered
weed
of
small
worth
held:
then
being
asked
where
all
thy
beauty
lies,
where
all
the
treasure
of
thy
lusty
days,
to
say
within
thine
own
deep-sunken
eyes
were
an
all-eating
shame
and
thriftless
praise.
how
much
more
prasie
deserved
thy
beauty's
use
if
thou
couldst
answer,
'this
fair
child
of
mine
shall
sum
my
count
and
make
my
old
excuse,'
proving
his
beauty
by
succession
thine.
this
were
to
be
new
made
when
thou
art
old
and
see
thy
blood
warm
when
thou
feel'st
cold.
当四十个冬天围攻你的朱颜，
在你美的园地挖下深的战壕，
你青春的华服，那么被人艳羡，
将成褴褛的败絮，谁也不要瞧：
那时人若问起你的美在何处，
哪里是你那少壮年华的宝藏，
你说，"在我这双深陷的眼眶里，
是贪婪的羞耻，和无益的颂扬。"
你的美的用途会更值得赞美，
如果你能够说，"我这宁馨小童
将总结我的账，宽恕我的老迈，"
证实他的美在继承你的血统！
这将使你在衰老的暮年更生，
并使你垂冷的血液感到重温。