ACT4 Scene7 Another room in the Castle城堡中另一室-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《哈姆雷特Hamlet》

Scene VI.Another room i the Castle. Enter King and Laertes. King.Now must your conscience my acquittance@seal, And you must put me in your heart for friend, Sith you have heard,and with a knowing ear, That he which hath your noble father slain, Pursued my life. Laer. It well appears.But tell me, Why you proceeded not against these feats, So crimeful,and so capital in nature, As by your safety,wisdom,all things else, You mainly were stirr'd up. King.O!for two special reasons, Which may to you,perhaps,seein much unsinew'd, And yet to me they are strong.The queen his mother, Lives almost by his looks;and for myself, My virtue or my plague,be it either which, She's so conjunctive to my life and soul, That,as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her.The other motive, Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him, Who dipping all his faults in their affection Would like the spring that turneth wood to stone, ·226· 第七场 城堡中另一室 国王及雷欧提斯上。 ①conscience [kanfans]n.良心 国王你已经用你同情的耳朵，听见我告诉你那杀死令 ②acquittance【o'kwitans]m. 债务豁免书 尊的人，也在图谋我的生命；现在你必须明白我 的无罪，并且把我当作你的一个心腹的友人了。 雷欧提斯听您所说，果然像是真的；可是告诉我，为 了您自己的安全起见，为什么您对于这样罪大恶 极的暴行，不采取严厉的手段呢？ 国王啊！那是因为有两个理由，也许在你看来是不 成其为理由的，可是对于我却有很大的关系。王 后，他的母亲，差不多一天不看见他就不能生 活；至于我自己，那么不管这是我的好处或是我 3 conjunctive [kan'd3Anktiv] 的致命的弱点，我的生命和灵魂是这样跟她联结 a.联结的 ④sphere[siln.运行轨道 在一起，正像星球不能跳出轨道一样，我也不能 ⑤affection[b'fekfon]n.喜爱 没有她而生活。而且我之所以不能把这件案子公 开，还有一个重要的顾虑：一般民众对他都有很 大的好感，他们盲目的崇拜像一道使树木变成石 块的魔泉一样，把他所有的错处都变成了优点； ·227· Hamlet Convert his gyves to graces.So that my arrows Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not where I had aim'd them. Laer. And so have I a noble father lost, A sister driven into desp'rate terms, Whose worth,if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount of all the age For her perfections.But my revenge will come. King.Break not your sleeps for that,you must not think That we are made of stuff,so flat and dull, That we can let our beard be shook with danger, And think it pastime.You shortly shall hear more, I lov'd your father,and we love ourself, And that,I hope,will teach you to imagine- Enter a Messenger with letters. How now?What news? Mess.Letters,my lord,from Hamlet. This to your majesty;this to the queen. King.From Hamlet?Who brought them? Mess.Sailors my lord,they say;I saw them not: They were given me by Claudio,he receiv'd them Of him that brought them. Kings.Laertes,you shall hear them, Leave us. Exit Messenger. 'High and mighty,you shall know I am set naked on your Kingdom. Tomorrow shall I beg leave to see your Kingly eyes;When I shall(first asking your pardon thereunto)recount the occasion of my sudden and more strange return.HAMLET.' What should this mean?Are all the rest come back? Or is it some abuse?and no such thing? Laer.Know you the hand? King.'Tis Hamlet's character.'Naked,' ·228· 哈姆雷特「 我的箭太轻太没有力了，遇到这样的狂风，一定 不能射中目标，反而给吹了回来。 ①revert [ri'vo:tg归还 雷欧提斯那么难道我的一个高贵的父亲就这样白白死 去，一个好好的妹妹就这样白白疯了不成？她的 challenger ['tfaelind35]n. 完美卓越的姿容才德，是可以傲视一世，脾睨古 挑战者 今的。可是我的报仇的机会总有一天会到来。 3 perfection [pa'fekfan]n. 完美 国王不要让这件事扰乱了你的睡眠；你不要以为我 是这样一个麻木不仁的人，会让人家揪着我的胡 须，还以为不过开开玩笑。不久你就可以听到消 息。我爱你父亲，我也爱我自己；那我希望可以 使你想到 一使者上。 国王啊！什么消息？ 使者启禀陛下，是哈姆雷特寄来的信；这一封是给陛 下的，这一封是给王后的。 国王哈姆雷特寄来的！谁把它们送到这儿来？ 使者他们说是几个水手，陛下，我没有看见他们；这 两封信是克劳狄奥交给我的，他们把信送在他手 里。 国王雷欧提斯，你可以听一听这封信。出去！ (使者下。读信)“陛下，我已经光着身子回到 ④naked[neikid]a.裸体的 您的国土上来了。明天我就要请您允许我拜谒御 容。让我先向您告我的不召而返之罪，然后再禀 thereunto Losar'Antu:]ad. 告您我这次突然而意外回国的原因。哈姆雷特敬 此外，又 上。”这是什么意思？同去的人也都一起回来了 吗？还是什么人在捣鬼，其实并没有这么一回事？ 雷欧提斯您认识这笔迹吗？ 国王这确是哈姆雷特的亲笔。“光着身子”！这儿还 ·229· Hamlet And in a postscript here,he says 'alone'. Can you advise me? Laer.I'm lost in it,my lord.But let him come, It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, Thus didest thou. King.If it be so,Laertes, As how should it be so?How otherwise? Will you be rul'd by me? Laer.If so you will not o'errule me to a peace. King.To thine own peace:if he be now return'd, As checking at his voyage,and that he means No more to undertake it,I will work him To an exploit now ripe in my device, Under the which he shall not choose but fall; And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe, But even his mother shall uncharge the practice And call it accident. Laer. My lord,I will be rul'd; The rather if you could devise it so That I might be the organ. King.It falls right. You have been talk'd of since your travel much, And that in Hamlet's hearing,for a quality Wherein they say you shine,your sum of parts Did not together pluck such envy from him As did that one;and that,in my regard, Of the unworthiest siege Laer.What part is that,my lord? King. A very riband in the cap of youth, Yet needfull too;for youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears Than settled age,his sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness.Two months since, ·230· 哈姆雷特「 D postscript ['poustskript]n. 附着一笔，说是“一个人回来”。你看他是什么 附言 用意？ 雷欧提斯我可不懂；陛下。可是他来得正好：我一想 到我能够有这样一天当面申斥他的罪状，我的郁 闷的心也热起来了。 国王要是果然这样的话一这怎么可能，可这又确实 是真的一雷欧提斯，你愿意听我的吩附吗？ 雷欧提斯愿意，陛下，只要您不勉强我跟他和解。 国王我是要使你自己心里得到平安。要是他现在中途 而返，不预备再作这样的航行，那么我已经想好 了一个计策，怂恿他去做一件事情，一定可以叫 ②exploit'eksploit训n.功绩， 业绩 他自投罗网；而且他死了以后，谁也不能讲一句 闲话，即使他的母亲也不能觉察我们的诡计，只 好认为是一件意外的灾祸。 雷欧提斯陛下，我愿意服从您的指挥；最好请您设法 让他死在我的手里。 国王我正是这样计划。自从你到国外游学以后，人家 常常说起你有一种擅长的本领，这种话哈姆雷特 也是早就听到过的；虽然在我的意见之中，这不 过是你所有的才艺中间最不足道的一种，可是你 的一切才艺的总和，都不及这一种本领更能挑起 ③siege(si:d3ln.包围 他的妒忌。 雷欧提斯是什么本领呢，陛下？ ④riband['riband]n,缎带 国王它虽然不过是装饰在少年人帽上的一条缎带，但 也是少不了的；因为年轻人应该装束得华丽潇洒 ⑤livery ['livari]m.装束 一些，表示他的健康活泼，正像老年人应该装束 得朴素大方一些，表示他的矜严庄重一样。两个 月以前，这儿来了一个诺曼底的绅士；我自己曾 ·231· Hamlet Here was a gentleman of Normandy, I have seen myself,and serv'd against the French, And they can well on horseback;but this gallant Had witchcraft in't;he grew unto his seat, And to such wondrous doing brought his horse, As he had been incorps'd and demi-natur'd With the brave beast,so far he passed my thought, That I in forgery of shapes and tricks, Come short of what he did. Laer.A Norman was't? King.A Norman. Laer.Upon my life,Lamound. King.The very same. Laer.I know him well,he is the broach indeed, And gem of all the nation. King. He made confession of you, And gave you such a masterly report, For art and exercise in your defence; And for your rapier most especially, That he cried out,'twould be a sight indeed, If one could match you.The scrimers of their nation, He swore had neither motion,guard nor eye, If you oppos'd them.Sir,this report of his Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy, That he could nothing do but wish and beg, Your sudden coming o'er to play with him. Now,out of this. Laer.What out of this,my lord? King.Laertes was your father dear to you? Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart? Laer.Why ask you this? King. Not that I think you did not love your father; But that I know love is begun by time, ·232· 哈姆雷特 经和法国人在马上比过武艺，他们都是很精于骑 术的；可是这位好汉简直有不可思议的魔力，他 ①gallant[gaelont]n.勇武的 男子 骑在马上，好像和他的坐骑化成了一体似的，随 witchcraft ['witfkra:ft]n. 意驰骤，无不出神入化。他的技术是那样远超过 巫术 ③wondrous['wAndras]a.奇 我的预料，无论我杜撰一些怎样夸大的词句，都 妙的 不够形容它的奇妙。 雷欧提斯是个诺曼底人吗？ 国王是诺曼底人。 雷欧提斯那么一定是拉摩德了。 国王正是他。 雷欧提斯我认识他；他的确是全国知名的勇士。 国王他承认你的武艺很了不得，对于你的剑术尤其极 口称赞，说是倘有人能够和你对敌，那一定大有 可观；他发誓说他们国里的剑士要是跟你交起手 来，一定会眼花缭乱，全然失去招架之功。他对 你的这一番夸奖，使哈姆雷特妒恼交集，一心希 望你快些回来，跟他比赛一下。从这一点上一 ④envenom[in'venam],下 毒于 雷欧提斯从这一点上怎么，陛下？ 国王雷欧提斯，你真爱你的父亲吗？还是不过是做作 出来的悲哀，只有表面，没有真心？ 雷欧提斯您为什么这样问我？ 国王我不是以为你不爱你父亲；可是我知道爱不过 起于一时感情的冲动，经验告诉我，经过了相当 时间，它是会逐渐冷淡下去的。爱像一盏油灯， ·233· Hamlet And that I see,in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it: There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it; And nothing is at a like goodness still, For goodness growing to a plurisy, Dies in his own too much.That we would do. We should do when we would;for this would changes, And hath abatements and delays as many, As there are tongues,are hands,are accidents; And then this'should'is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.But to the quick o'th'ulcer, Hamlet comes back:what would you undertake, To show yourself your father's son indeed, More than in words? Laer.To cut his throat i'th'church. King.No place indeed should murther sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds:but,good Laertes, Will you do this?Keep close within your chamber, Hamlet return'd,shall know you are come home: We'll put on those shall praise your excellence, And set a double varnish on the fame The Frenchman gave you,bring you in fine together, And wager on your heads;:he being remiss⑤， Most generous,and free from all contriving, Will not peruse the foils;so that with ease, Or with a little shuffling,you may choose A sword unbated,and,in a pass of practice, Requite him for your father. Laer.I will do't, And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword: I bought an unction of a mountebank⑦， So mortal,that but dip a knife in it, Where it draws blood,no cataplasm so rare, ·234· 哈姆雷特「 灯芯烧枯以后，它的火焰也会由微暗而至于消 灭。一切事情都不能永远保持良好，因为过度的 善反会摧毁它的本身，正像一个人因充血而死去 ①abate[obeit]v减轻 一样。我们所要做的事，应该一想到就做：因为 一个人的心理是会随时变化的，稍一迟疑就会遭 遇种种的迁延阻碍。可是回到我们所要谈论的中 心问题上来吧。哈姆雷特回来了；你预备怎样用 行动代替言语，表明你自己的确是你父亲的孝子 呢？ 2 spendthrift ['spenderift]a. 挥霍无度的 3 sanctuarize ['saenktjuaraiz] 雷欧提斯我要在教堂里割破他的喉咙。 庇护 国王无论什么所在都不能庇护一个杀人的凶手；复仇 不应该在碍手碍脚的地方。可是，好雷欧提斯， 你要是果然志在复仇，还是住在自己家里不要出 来。哈姆雷特回来以后，我们可以让他知道你也 ④varnish[va:ni讥n.虚饰 已经回来，叫几个人在他的面前夸奖你的本领， 把你说得比那法国人所讲的还要了不得，怂恿他 ⑤remiss【ri'mis]a.粗心的 和你作一次比赛。他是个粗心的人，一点想不到 人家在算计他，一定不会仔细检视比赛用的刀剑 的利饨；你只要预先把一柄利剑混杂在里面，趁 他没有注意的时候不动声色地自己拿了，在比赛 之际，看准他的要害刺了过去，就可以替你父亲 报了仇了。 ⑥anoint (a'noint]v.给-涂 雷欧提斯我愿意这样做；为了达到复仇的目的，我还 mountebank ['mauntibaenk] 要在我的剑上涂一些毒药。我已经从一个卖药人 n.江湖郎中 手里买到一种致命的药油，只要在剑头上沾了一 8 cataplasm ['kaetaplaezam] n.[医糊剂 滴，刺到人身上，它一碰到血，即使只是擦破了 ·235·