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Scene V.The Castle.
Another part of the fortifications.
Enter Ghost and Hamlet.
Ham.Whither wilt thou lead me?Speak!I'll go no further.
Ghost.Mark me.
Ham.I will.
Ghost.My hour is almost come,
When I to sulph'rous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself.
Ham.
Alas!Poor ghost..
Ghost.Pity me not,but lend thy serious hearing
To what I shall unfold.
Ham.
Speak,I am bound to hear.
Ghost.So art thou to revenge,when thou shalt hear.
Ham.What?
Ghost.I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night;
And for the day confin'd to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purg'd away.But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold,whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul,freeze thy young blood,
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第五场露台的另一部分
鬼及哈姆雷特上。
哈姆雷特你要领我到什么地方去?说,我不愿再前进
①whither[hwioa]ad.到哪
了。
奥
鬼听我说。
哈姆雷特我在听着。
鬼我的时间快到了,我必须再回到硫黄的烈火里去受
②tormenting【to:'mentin]a,
使痛苦的
煎熬的痛苦
哈姆雷特唉,可怜的亡魂!
鬼不要可怜我,你只要留心听着我要告诉你的话。
哈姆雷特说吧,我在这儿听着。
鬼你听了以后,必须替我报仇。
哈姆雷特什么?
鬼我是你父亲的灵魂,因为生前孽障未尽,被判在
晚间游行地上,白昼忍受火焰的烧灼,必须经过
相当的时期,等生前的过失被火焰净化以后,方
才可以脱罪。可是我不能违犯禁令,泄露我的狱
中的秘密。我可以告诉你一个故事,最轻微的几
③forbid [fa'bid]v.禁止
句话都可以使你魂飞魄散,使你年轻的血液凝冻
成冰,使你的双眼像脱了轨道的星球一样向前突
④harrow [haerou]被耙松
出,使你的纠结的鬈发根根分开,像愤怒的豪猪
freeze [fri:zlg冻结
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Hamlet
Make thy two eyes like stars,start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand an end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood;list,Hamlet,oh,list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love-
Ham.O God!
Ghost.Revenge his foul and most unnatural murther.
Ham.Murther?
Ghost.Murther most foul,as in the best it is;
But this most foul,strange,and unnatural.
Ham.Haste me to know't,that I with wings as swift
As meditation or the thoughts of love,
May sweep to my revenge.
Ghost.I find thee apt;
And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,
Wouldst thou not stir in this.Now Hamlet,hear:
Tis given out,that sleeping in my orchard⑤,
A serpent stung me:so the whole ear of Denmark,
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abus'd:but know thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life,
Now wears his crown.
Ham.
O my prophetic⑦soul!
My uncle?
Ghost.Ay that incestuous,that adulterate beast
With witeheraft of his wit,with traitorousgifts
O wicked wit and gifts,that have the power
So to seduce!won to his shameful lust
The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:
O Hamlet,what a falling-off was there,
From me,whose love was of that dignity,
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哈姆雷特
①sphere (sfio]m.球体
身上的刺毛一样森然耸立;可是这一种永恒的神
秘,是不能向血肉的凡耳宣示的,听着,听着,
啊,听着!要是你曾经爱过你的亲爱的父亲一
②quill[kwil]n.(豪猪、刺猬
的)刚毛
③fretful['fretful]a.焦躁的
哈姆雷特上帝啊!
④murther[mo:0an.杀人
鬼你必须替他报复那逆伦惨恶的杀身的仇恨。
哈姆雷特杀身的仇恨!
鬼杀人是重大的罪恶:可是这一件谋杀的惨案,更是
骇人听闻而逆天害理的罪行。
哈姆雷特赶快告诉我,让我驾着像思想和爱情一样迅
速的翅膀,飞去把仇人杀死。
鬼我的话果然激动了你:要是你听见了这种事情而漠
然无动于衷,那你除非比疏散在忘河之滨的蔓草
还要冥顽不灵。现在,哈姆雷特,听我说。一般
人都以为我在花园里睡觉的时候,一条蛇来把我
⑤orchard'b:fadm,果园
螫死,这一个虚构的死状,把丹麦全国的人都骗
⑥serpent[s:pan.蛇
过了;可是你要知道,好孩子,那毒害你父亲的
蛇,头上戴着王冠呢
哈姆雷特啊,我的预感果然是真的!我的叔父!
鬼嗯,那个乱伦的奸淫的畜生,他有的是过人的诡
诈,天赋的奸恶,凭着他的阴险的手段,诱惑了
⑦prophetic [prau'fetikl a.预
宫的
我的外表上似乎非常贞淑的王后,满足他的无耻
8 adulterate [a'dAltareit]a.
的兽欲。啊,哈姆雷特,那是一个多么相去悬殊
通奸的
的差异!我的爱情是那样纯洁真诚,始终信守着
witchcraft ['witfkra:ft]n.
巫术
我在结婚的时候对她所做的盟誓;她却会对一个
traitorous ['treitoras]a.
逆的
天赋的才德远不如我的恶人降心相从!可是正像
一个贞洁的女子,虽然淫欲罩上神圣的外表,也
不能把她煽动一样,一个淫妇虽然和光明的天使
为偶,也会有一天厌倦于天上的唱随之乐,而宁
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Hamlet
That it went hand in hand,even with the vow
I made to her in marriage;and to decline
Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
To those of mine.
But virtue,as it never will be moved,
Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,
So lust,though to a radiant angel link'd,
Will sate itself in a celestial bed,
And prey on garbage.
But soft,methinks I scent the morning air;
Brief let me be:sleeping within my orchard,
My custom always of the afternoon,
Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole
With juice of cursed hebona in a vial.
And in the porches of my ears did pour
The leperous distilment;whose effect
Holds such an enmity with blood of man,
That swift as quicksilver it courses through
The natural gates and alleys of the body;
And with a sudden vigour it doth posset
And curd,like eager droppings into milk,
The thin and wholesome blood:so did it mine;
And a most instant tetter bark'd about,
Most lazar-like,with vile and loathsome crust,
All my smooth body.
Thus was I,sleeping,by a brother's hand,
Of life,of crown,and queen,at once dispatch'd;
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin.
Unhous'led,disappointed,unanel'd,
No reckoning made,but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head;
O,horrible!O,horrible!Most horrible!
If thou hast nature in thee bear it not;
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
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哈姆雷特【
愿楼抱人间的朽骨。可是且慢!我仿佛嗅到了清
晨的空气,让我把话说得简短一些,当我按照每
天午后的惯例,在花园里睡觉的时候,你的叔父
乘我不备,悄悄溜了进来,拿着一个盛着毒草汁
O Lewdness [lju:dnis]n.
的小瓶,把一种使人麻痹的药水注入我的耳腔之
淫荡
内,那药性发作起来,会像水银一样很快地流过
②radiant'reidiant].容光
焕发的
全身的大小血管,像酸液滴进牛乳般地把淡薄而
③celestial|si'lestjoll a.天上
的
健全的血液凝结起来:它一进入我的身体里,我
全身光滑的皮肤上便立刻长出无数疱疹,像害着
癞病似的满布着可憎的鳞片。这样,我在睡梦之
中,被一个兄弟同时夺去了我的生命、我的王冠
和我的王后,甚至于不给我一个仟罪的机会,使
我在没有领到圣餐也没有受过临终涂膏礼以前,
④porch[p:明n.门廊
3 distillment [dis'tilmant]n
就一无准备地负着我的全部罪恶去对簿阴曹。
蒸馏液
⑥enmity['enmoti]n.敌意
可怕啊,可怕!要是你有天性之情,不要默尔而
息,不要让丹麦的御寝变成了藏奸养逆的卧榻:
可是无论你怎样进行复仇,你的行事必须光明磊
落,更不可对你的母亲有什么不利的图谋,她自
会受到上天的裁判,和她自己内心中的荆棘的刺
戳。现在我必须去了!萤火的微光已经开始暗淡
⑦tetter['teta]m.皮疹
下去,清晨快要到来了;再会,再会!哈姆雷
⑧lazar ['laezol n.麻风病患者
特,记着我。
鬼下。
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Hamlet
A couch for luxury and damned incest.
But howsoever thou pursuest this act,
Taint not thy mind;nor let thy soul contrive
Against thy mother aught;leave her to heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.Fare thee well at once;
The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And'gins to pale his uneffectual fire:
Adieu,adieu!Hamlet:remember me.
Exit.
Ham.
Oh all you host of heaven!Oh earth:what else?
And shall I couple hell?Oh fie!Hold my heart;
And you,my sinews⑦,grow not instant old,.
But bear me stiffly up:remember thee!
Ay,thou poor ghost,while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe:remember thee!
Yea,from the table of my memory,
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books,all forms,all pressures past,
That youth and observation copied there;
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,
Unmix'd with baser matter;yes,by heaven!
O most pernicious woman!
Oh villain,villain,smiling damned villain!
My tables!Meet it is I set it down,
That one may smile,and smile and be a villain;
At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.
Writing.
So uncle,there you are:now to my word;
It is,'Adieu,adieu!Remember me;'
I have sworn't.
Hor.
[Within.My lord,my lord!
Mar.
[Within.Lord Hamlet.
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哈姆雷特【
①pursue Ipa'sju::lk追求
②taint [teint]v.使堕落
③contrive [kan'traiv]v.谋划
④aught [o:tad.在任何程
度上
⑤lodge [lod3]v:借住
⑥matin[maetin]m.早晨
哈姆雷特天上的神明啊!地啊!再有什么呢!我还
要向地狱呼喊吗?啊,呸!忍着吧,忍着吧,我
⑦sinew['sinju:]n.筋
的心!我的全身的筋骨,不要一下子就变成衰
老,支持着我的身体呀!记着你!是的,你可怜
的亡魂,当记忆不曾从我这混乱的头脑里消失的
⑧distract[dis'traekt]v转移
时候,我会记着你的。记着你!是的,我要从我
的记忆的碑版上,拭去一切琐碎愚蠢的记录,一
切书本上的格言,一切陈言套语,一切过去的印
象,我的少年的阅历所留下的痕迹,只让你的命
令留在我的脑筋的书卷里,不摻杂一些下贱的废
料;是的,上天为我作证!啊,最恶毒的妇人!
⑨pernicious [p3'nifos]a.脸
啊,奸贼,奸贼,脸上堆着笑的万恶的奸贼!我
恶的
的写字板呢?我必须把它记下来:一个人尽管满
面都是笑,骨子里却是杀人的奸贼;至少我相信
0 villain ['vilon].恶棍
在丹麦是这样的。(写字)好,叔父,我把你写
下来了。现在我要记下我的话,那是:“再会,
再会!记着我。”我已经发过誓了。
霍拉旭(在内)殿下!殿下」
马西勒斯(在内)哈姆雷特殿下!
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Hamlet
Hor.
Within.Heaven secure him!
Ham.
So be it!
Mar.
[Within.Hillo,ho,ho,my lord!
Ham.Hillo,ho,ho,boy!Come bird,come.
Enter Horatio and Marcellus.
Mar.
How is't my noble lord?
Hor.
What news,my lord?
Mar.
O wonderful!
Hor.
Good my lord tell it.
Ham.No you will reveal it.
Hor.
Not I,my lord,by heaven.
Mar.
Nor I,my lord.
Ham.How say you then,would heart of man once think it?
But you'll be secret?
Both.Ay,by heaven,my lord.
Ham.There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
But he's an arrant knave3
Hor.
There needs no ghost,my lord,come from the grave,
To tell us this.
Ham.
Why right,you are in the right;
And so,without more circumstance at all,
I hold it fit that we shake hands,and part;
You,as your business and desires shall point you:
For every man hath business and desire,
Such as it is:and for my own poor part,
Look you,I'll go pray.
Hor.
These are but wild and whirling words my lord.
Ham.I am sorry they offend you,heartily:
Yes faith,heartily.
Hor.
There's no offence,my lord.
Ham.Yes,by Saint Patrick,but there is,Horatio,
And much offence too,touching this vision here,
It is an honest ghost,that let me tell you:
For your desire to know what is between us,
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哈姆雷特
霍拉旭(在内)上天保佑他!
马西勒斯(在内)但愿如此!
霍拉旭(在内)喂,呵,呵,殿下!
哈姆雷特喂,呵,呵,孩儿!来,鸟儿,来。
霍拉旭及马西勒斯上。
马西勒斯怎样,殿下?
霍拉旭有什么事,殿下?
哈姆雷特啊!奇怪!
Dreveal [ri'vi:lu透露
霍拉旭好殿下,告诉我们
哈姆雷特不,你们会泄露出去的。
霍拉旭不,殿下,凭着上天起誓,我一定不泄露。
马西勒斯我也一定不泄露,殿下。
哈姆雷特那么你们说,哪一个人会想得到有这种事?
可是你们能够保守秘密吗?
⑦arrant['eront]a.极恶的
霍拉旭、马西勒斯是,上天为我们作证,殿下。
③knave [neiv]n.无赖
哈姆雷特全丹麦从来不曾有哪一个奸贼不是一个十足
的坏人。
霍拉旭殿下,这样一句话是用不着什么鬼魂从坟墓里
出来告诉我们的。
哈姆雷特啊,对了,你说得有理:所以,我们还是不
必多说废话,大家握握手分开了吧。你们可以去
照你们自己的意思干你们自己的事一因为各人
都有各人的意思和各人的事一至于我自己,那
④whirling [hwa:lila.旋转
么我对你们说,我是要去祈祷的。
霍拉旭殿下,您这些话好像有些疯疯癫癫似的。
哈姆雷特我的话冒犯了你,真是非常抱歉:是的,我
从心底里抱歉。
霍拉旭哪儿的话,殿下。
offence [a'fens]n.冒犯
哈姆雷特不,凭着圣帕特里克一的名义,霍拉旭,
我真是大大地冒犯了你。讲到这一个幽灵,那么
圣帕特里克(St.Patrick),爱尔兰的保护神。
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