英语诗歌：Sonnet 18
英语课
Sonnet 1 18
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
我能否把你比作夏天？
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
你比它可爱也比它温婉。
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
狂风把五月的嫩芽摧残，
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
夏日的期限又未免太短。
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
天上那金眼有时太强烈，
And often is his gold complexion 2 dimmed
它的容颜又常常被遮掩。
And every fair from fair sometime declines
世上娇艳之物都会凋零，
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed
受机缘或大自然的局限。
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
你的长夏永远不会消逝，
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owe’st
永不会失去迷人的光彩。
Nor shall Death brag 3 thou wander’st in his shade
不会在死神阴影中漂泊，
When in eternal lines to time thou growest
这诗句将与你与时同在。
So long as men can breathe， or eyes can see
只要人活着，眼睛还能看，
So long lives this,and this gives life to thee.
这诗将永存，赋予你生命。
n.十四行诗
- 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。
n.肤色；情况，局面；气质，性格
- Red does not suit with her complexion.红色与她的肤色不协调。
- Her resignation puts a different complexion on things.她一辞职局面就全变了。