经典情诗翻译欣赏之Bright Star
英语课
Bright Starby John KeatsBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art——Not in lone 1 splendour hung aloft the nightAnd Watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless 2 Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth's human shores,Or gazing on the new soft-fallen maskOf snow upon the mountains and the moors——No-yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening 3 breast,To feel for ever in a sweet unrest,Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,And so live ever——or else swoon to death.
灿亮的星灿亮的星啊，但愿我能如你坚定——但并非孤独地在夜空闪烁高悬，睁着一双永不合拢的眼睛，犹如苦修的隐士彻夜无眠，凝视海水冲洗尘世的崖岸，好似牧师行施净体的沐浴，或正俯瞰下界的荒原与群山被遮盖在轻轻飘落的雪罩里——并非这样——却永远鉴定如故，枕卧在我美丽的爱人的酥胸，永远能感到它的轻轻的起伏，永远清醒，在甜蜜的不安中，永远、永远听着她轻柔的呼吸，永远这样生活——或昏厥而死去。
注：这是济慈写给女友芳妮-布劳恩(Fanny Brawne)的一首十四行诗。在本诗中，济慈采用了bright star，the moving waters，snow，love's ripening breast等意象，把关于爱情、死亡和永恒的思想融会在一起，表现了生活、死亡、爱情和理想等永恒的主题。
adj.孤寂的，单独的；唯一的
- A lone sea gull flew across the sky.一只孤独的海鸥在空中飞过。
- She could see a lone figure on the deserted beach.她在空旷的海滩上能看到一个孤独的身影。
adj.不睡眠的，睡不著的，不休息的
- The situation gave her many sleepless nights.这种情况害她一连好多天睡不好觉。
- One evening I heard a tale that rendered me sleepless for nights.一天晚上，我听说了一个传闻，把我搞得一连几夜都不能入睡。
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