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Romeo and Juliet
Scene 4
A Street
[Enter Romeo,Mercutio,Benvolio,with five or six other
masquers;torch-bearers.]
Romeo What,shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?
Or shall we on without apology?
Benvolio The date is out of such prolixity2:
We'll have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf,
Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath5,
Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper:
Nor no without-book prologue,faintly spoke
After the prompter,for our entrance:
But,let them measure us by what they will,
We'll measure them a measure and be gone.
Romeo
Give me a torch:I am not for this ambling;
Being but heavy,I will bear the light.
Mercutio Nay,gentle Romeo,we must have you dance.
Romeo Not I,believe me:you have dancing shoes
With nimble soles;I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
Mercutio You are a lover:borrow Cupid's wings,
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罗密欧与朱丽叶
第四景
梵萝那,街上
〔罗密欧,墨故求,班浮柳,五六个戴面具的
公子哥儿,执火炬的人等上。
①masquer严ma:sk3(r)/m
罗密欧就用方才那段话作借口进门呢
(尤指参加假面舞会的】
戴面具者
还是一句话不说就进去呢?
班浮柳
现在早不时行说废话,
2prolixity /prao'liksoti/n.
冗长,罗说
我们不用装着爱神,
3 hoodwink /'hudwink/r.
带着弯弓,蒙着眼睛,
蒙混,欺骗
④scarf/ska:fn.围巾
粗声粗气,吓着小姐们。
5lath /la:0/板条
也无须念念有词地走进门。
他们爱怎么看就怎么看,
我们跳够了就算。
prompter /prompta(r)/
”提示台词者
罗密欧给我火炬吧,
我现在没有心思跳舞,
这眼前只有黑暗,
7 amble'Embl/r缓行,
溜蹄
让火光也照着我行路。
墨故求不,罗密欧,我们一定要你跳舞。
罗密欧不,飞上天的,你的脚跟自然轻巧。
8 nimble"nimbl/a敏捷
埋进土的,我的命根怎么能跑?
的,伶俐的
9sole/sau/n脚底,鞋底
)stake /steik/.打桩
墨故求(挪揄)你现在是情人哪,!
靠着爱神的翅膀你不就飞上青天?
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And soar with them above a common bound.
Romeo I am too sore2 enpierced with his shaft3
To soar with his light feathers and so bound;
I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:
Under love's heavy burden do I sink.
Mercutio And,to sink in it,should you burden love-
Too great oppression for a tender thing.
Romeo Is love a tender thing?It is too rough,
Too rude,too boisterous5,and it pricks like thorn.
Mercutio If love be rough with you,be rough with love;
Prick love for pricking,and you beat love down.
Give me a case to put my visage?in:
A visor for a visor!What care I
What curious eye doth quote deformities?
Here are the beetle-brows shall blush for me.
〔Putting on a mask.J
Benvolio Come,knock and enter,and no sooner in
But every man betake him to his legs.
Romeo A torch for me;let wantons light of heart
Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels.
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase,
I'll be a candle-holder,and look on.
The game was ne'er so fair,and I am done.
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①soar/so/.高扬,飞
罗密欧
不,我是受了伤的。
舞
②soe/s/a疼痛的,痛
中了爱神的箭。
心的
8shaf小a:f/n.轴,杆
爱情捆我捆得紧,
状物
①woew3u/.悲哀,悲
再也跳不出烦恼,
痛
太沉重了,
爱早把我压倒。
墨故求
我怕不是爱情累赘你,
是你累赘了爱情,
爱是多么温柔娇小。
罗密欧
爱真是温柔的么?
不,爱太粗糙,太急躁,又太吵,
5boisterous /baistaras/
(叹气)她满身都是刺啊。
红喧闹的,欢闹的
⑥prick /prik/.刺,穿
墨故求
(生气勃勃)如果爱对你粗野,
你也该对爱粗野,
爱刺了你,你为什么不去刺她,
那你不就一拳把她治好一给我一个面具!
①visage/vizid/n.脸,
(拿起面具,端详一下)啊,这鬼脸!
面貌
8 visor"vaiza/h面甲,
(戴上面具)真是鬼脸上面加上鬼脸!
脸罩
9 deformity /di'fo:miti/
我才不在乎人来议论我这丑相,
h畸形
o beetle /bi:tl/n.甲虫
你看我一说,(指着面具)它倒脸红啦。
blush /blA/r,脸红
班浮柳
别说啦,敲门进去吧,
进了门,谁都要跳舞啦。
罗密欧
还是给我火把,
让心情轻松的人在地毯上舞得窈窕,
wanton /'wontan/a.
爱玩的,任性的
我情愿举着灯光在一旁瞧瞧
3 tickle'tikV卷.使快乐
1 grandsire
因为现在我懂了一句老年人的话,
'graendsaio(r)/n.老
“不错!孩子们,玩得真好,可惜我已经太
人,祖先
老。”
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Mercutio Tut,dun's the mouse,the constable2's own word:
If thou art Dun,we'll draw thee from the mire3,
Or save-your-reverence love,wherein thou stickest
Up to the ears.Come,we burn daylight,ho.
Romeo Nay,that's not so.
Mercutio I mean,sir,in delay
We waste our lights in vain,like lights by day.
Take our good meaning,for our judgement sits
Five times in that ere once in our five wits.
Romeo And we mean well in going to this masque,
But'tis no wit to go.
Mercutio Why,may one ask?
Romeo I dreamt a dream tonight.
Mercutio And so did I.
Romeo Well,what was yours?
Mercutio That dreamers often lie.
Romeo In bed asleep while they do dream things true.
Mercutio O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies'midwife④,and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate5-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Over men's noses as they lie asleep.
Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
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①dun/dAn/a暗褐色
墨故求(故意大惊小怪)哎呀,老人家可容易摔跤,
的,微暗的:m,催促
者,讨债者
让我快快把您扶抱,
2 constable /'kAnstabl/
.治安官,警官
我看您,实在是
3mire'maia/n.泥沼,
对不起
被爱情迷得东歪西倒。
泥泞
走吧,真是太阳下面点蜡!
罗密欧怎么?
墨故求
我说这么耽误,
简直是糟踢我们的火,
不是白天点灯,白糟蹋么?
相信我们的话吧,没有错,
我们说对的,一定想过又想过。
罗密欧
到跳舞会去是没有什么,
不过总是不大对
墨故求
为什么?我倒要问一问。
罗密欧
我昨晚做了一个梦。
墨故求咦,我也做了。
罗密欧你做什么?
墨故求(俏皮)梦见做梦的就会做梦。
罗密欧不过在睡梦里,梦有时也会真呢
④nidwife'midwaif/n.
墨故求(触动灵感)啊,那么马太婆一定是跟上你了!
接生婆
agte/'egat/n.玛w
马太婆是神仙们的接生婆,她来了,
6 alderman
":ldaman/m.[英]市
坐着的马车也不过像戒指上宝石那么点大,
参议员,总督
一队蚂蚁大的小马
3 atomy/'etami/n.微
小之物,矮人
拖着她从睡着的凡人的鼻子头上过。
8 spoke/spuk/n轮
辐,辐条
一条一条车轮上的辐棍是蜘蛛的腿,
9 spinner /spina/m蜘
车篷都是蚱蜢的翅膀做。
蛛
grasshopper
拉马的绳用的是顶细的蛛丝网,
/'gra:shop3(r)/a.蚱
蜢
马的套圈像水样的月光那么柔和。
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Her traces of the smallest spider-web,Her collars of the
moonshine's watery beams,Her whip of cricket's bone,the
lash of film2;
Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid.
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub5
Time out o'mind the fairies'coachmakers:
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers'brains,and then they dream of love;
O'er courtiers knees,that dream on curtsies straight;
O'er lawyers'fingers who straight dream on fees;
O'er ladies'lips,who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.
Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit:
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail
Tickling a parson"s nose as'a lies asleep,
Then dreams he of another benefice.
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches5,ambuscadoes,Spanish blades,
Of healths five fathom deep;and then anon
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马鞭看起来是秋天蟋蟀的骨头,
鞭丝细得像纱,是透明的亮膜。
①ash/Me/n.鞭子
赶车的是只灰蚊子,才小呢
②m/fim/n.薄膜,细
丝状物
比懒婆娘指缝里挑出来的小虫儿还不若。
3 gnat/naet/.蝶虫,蚊
车身这么大!(手势)空空的榛子一样,
是几万年前松鼠做出来的活儿。
④hazel /heizl/n.榛
就这样,她一夜一夜不停地奔跑,
5 grub /grAb/n.[动]组
到了情人的脑子里,
情人就梦见他的亲亲好好;
到了朝臣的双膝,
6 gallop /'gaelap'.飞驰,
急速进行
他就梦见弯身行礼:
飞过律师的手指,
courtier /'k3tjn/n.朝
臣,奉承者
就梦着拿打官司人的钱出气。
8 curtsy"k3tsi/n.弯膝
礼
飞上小姐们红红的嘴唇,
她就梦见了香香吻吻;
9of/b:f/awd.常常,再
可马太婆要在小姐的唇角撒上水泡,
blister /blista/n.水泡
因为她不爱看小姐们吃着糖,还呼呼地睡觉。
tainted'teintid/a感
染的,污染的
是啊,她飞过官儿们的鼻梁
他会梦见了肥缺。
把猪尾巴㧟㧟牧师的鼻尖,
卫tithe /tai0/m.十分之
他就梦见又有人来送钱。
一税,小部分
parson /pa:snln.教
马车赶过当兵的脖颈
区牧师
4 benefice /'benifis/n.
他就梦着冲锋陷阵,西班牙的钢锋,
僧侣之禄,圣俸
一杯又一杯地庆祝旗开得胜。
5 breach /bri:tf/n.突
破,突破口
可是耳旁忽然轰隆隆,金鼓齐鸣,
1 ambuscade
/embas'keid/n.埋伏
他跳起来,他醒了,空空地吓了一阵,
health /hel0/n.(祝健
康的)干杯
就狠狠地祷告了两句,
anon/'nn/ad.不久
以后
又躺下闭上眼睛。
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Drums in his ear,at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two,
And sleeps again.This is that very Mab
That plats the manes2 of horses in the night,
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled much misfortune bodes:
This is the hag,when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she-
Romeo Peace,peace,Mercutio,peace!Thou talkst of nothing.
Mercutio True,I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air,
And more inconstant than the wind,who woos
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And,being angered,puffs away from thence,
Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
Benvolio This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves:
Supper is done,and we shall come too late.
Romeo I fear,too early:for my mind misgives
Some consequence,yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels,and expire the term
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就是这个马太婆!
她半夜里没事儿
把马鬃编成长辫子儿:
①plait/plet/.编成辫
就是她!闹神闹鬼,
2 mane/mein/n.(马等
把丑女人的头发团成圆饼子儿。
的鳞毛
3 clf /elf/n.精灵
也就是她,当着大姑娘朝天仰在床上,
④locks/5ks/n.头发
sluttish /slAtij/a懒
就要压在她们身上
惰的,递竭的
6 untangle /'An'tangl/v.
叫她们尝尝,先学一点名堂,
解开纠结,解开
再也不怕重量。
⑦hag /haeg/m巫婆,老
丑婆
也就是她
罗密欧够了够了,墨故求,够了,
你就说了一大堆废话。
墨故求
谁说不是?
我说的是梦嚜。
8 idle"aid/a懒惰的,
闲散的
梦是闲人们的玩意儿,
一团空空的幻想。
像空气一样虚无缥缈.
比风还要轻薄浮躁,
方才它还爱着北方冰雪的胸.
puff /pAf∥n,喷出,张
一会儿生了气,
开
puff away吹风,吹气
鼓起嘴就投到南边露水的怀里。
班浮柳
你说的这一阵风都把我们吹得要变主意了。
人家晚饭就要吃完,
我们再不去,就会太晚。
罗密欧
我怕还是太早,不该去呢。
D revel /revl/.作乐,
我心里总是不自在,
狂欢
il expire /iks'paia/r,期
今晚欢乐的结果料不定就坏。
满,终止
2term/ta:m/n.期限
也许这段恹气的生命轻轻地送了呢。
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