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ACT I
〔Enter Chorus.J
Chorus Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groaned for and would die,
With tender Juliet matched,is now not fair.
Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,
Alike bewitched by the charm of looks,
But to his foe supposed he must complain,
And she steal love's sweet bait②from fearful hooks③:
Being held a foe,he may not have access
To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;
And she as much in love,her means much less
To meet her new beloved anywhere:
But passion lends them power,time means,to meet,
Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.(Exit.]
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第二幕
〔致词人上。
致词人
如今旧情已经躺在死亡的床上,
①gape/geip/.裂开,张
新爱赶着跑来承继,
嘴
为着从前的美人他曾经唉叹发狂,
眼前比起温柔的朱丽叶,简直算不得美丽。
现在罗密欧又爱了一个人,也被那个人爱,
两个都被销魂的面貌迷醉;
这段相思啊,需要罗密欧在他的仇人面前告
哀,
②bait /beit/n.饵
朱丽叶也是从杀人的钓钩上偷尝了爱情的甜
③hook /huk/n.钩子
味。
双方都是仇敌,罗密欧没有可能和她接近,
④vow /vau/n.誓约
倾吐爱人们常说的誓言,
而她呢,一般深爱,更没有本领,
在任何地方和她的新欢相见。
⑤temper'tempa/,冲
然而热情付给他们勇气,时间给他们方法,
淡,缓和
叫奇甜绝苦都调融在见面的刹那。
6 extremity /iks'tremiti/
m极端,困境
〔致词人下。
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Romeo and fuliet
Scene 1
Capulet's garden;to the one side the outer wall with a lane
beyond,to the other Capulet's house showing an upper
window
Enter Romeo alone in the lane.)
Romeo Can I go forward when my heart is here?
Turn back,dull earth,and find thy centre out.
[He climbs the wall and leaps2 into the garden.
[Enter Benvolio with Mercutio in the lane.Romeo listens
behind the wall.]
Benvolio Romeo,my cousin Romeo!
Mercutio He is wise,And on my life hath stolen him home to bed.
Benvolio He ran this way and leapt this orchard wall.
Call,good Mercutio.
Mercutio Nay,I'll conjure too.
Romeo,humours,madman,passion,lover!
Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh;
Speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied:
Cry but 'Ay me!',pronounce but 'love'and'dove';
Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,
One nickname for her purblind son and heir,
Young Abraham Cupid,he that shot so trim
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罗密欧与朱丽叶「
第一景
梵萝那,凯布花园,一边,垣墙处一条
①anc /ein/n.小路,小
小巷,另一边是凯布家的一扇窗
巷
〔罗密欧上。
罗密欧(走到凯布花园墙侧,忐忑不止,四顾踌躇,
耽心后面朋友们跟来,望着花园)
②leap /li:p/v.跳跃,跃
我的心明明在此地停留,我还能向前走么?
过
转过身来吧,失了魂的肉体,去把你的灵魂
找到。(他爬上垣墙,跳进花园内)
[班浮柳与墨故求追上。罗密欧在墙后听。
班浮柳(喊叫)罗密欧!罗密欧表弟!罗密欧!
墨故求
他聪明,我敢说他已经偷偷回家睡去了。
③orchard'o:tfad/n.果
园
班浮柳(指着墙)他从这边跑来的,跳进了这个花园。
叫他,墨故求!
④conjure /'kAnd3a/u.
以咒文召唤
墨故求
(揶揄)不只是叫,我还得招魂。
(作势)罗密欧!怪物!疯子!热昏了头的!爱
迷了窍的1
出来吧,像一声长叹,把你叹出来吧!
只要你肯哼出一句诗,我就不再叫你了,
⑤gossip'gosip/m.闲
聊,闲话
(一气说下去)
你只要喊一声“哀!天!”或者说“我的爱
@trim/trim/.整理,修
饰:a整齐的
呀”,“我的小鸽子”
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Romeo and fuliet
When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid.
He heareth not,he stirreth not,he moveth not;
The ape is dead,and I must conjure him.
I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot,straight leg,and quivering thigh,
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us.
Benvolio An if he hear thee,thou wilt anger him.
Mercutio This cannot anger him.'Twould anger him
To raise a spirit in his mistress'circle
Of some strange nature,letting it there stand
Till she had laid it and conjured it down;
That were some spite.My invocation
Is fair and honest;in his mistress'name
I conjure only but to raise up him.
Benvolio
Come!He hath hid himself among these trees
To be consorted with the humorous night:
Blind is his love and best befits the dark.
Mercutio If love be blind,love cannot hit the mark.
Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
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罗密欧与朱丽叶
对我那碎嘴的爱神妈妈说一句好听的话,
给她瞎了眼睛的儿子起个外号,
那小爱神,神弓手,他的箭射得这样准,
①ape/eip/n.猿
叫多情的皇帝哥菲爱上那要饭的女孩。
(突停,听不着回音,对班浮柳)》
②scarlet/'ska:lit/n深
红色,绯红色
他没有听见,不出声,简直没有一点动静;
③quiver /kwiva/".颤
那猴儿大概是死了,我得招他的魂。
抖,振动
④demesne /di'mein/n.
这次我用若瑟林明亮的眼晴来招你的魂,
私有地,领地
adjacent /a'd3eisant/
用她高高的前额,用她红红的嘴唇,
a毗连的,邻近的
用她纤小的双足,用她笔直的腿,
用她颤巍巍的两股,
再招引你,用那两股相近的田土!
你出来吧,显露你的真相吧!
班浮柳
如果他听见你这样开玩笑,你一定引起他的
气来。
墨故求
这引不起他的气,引得起来他爱人圈圈里那
一点火。
这火可来得怪,叫那个东西直挺挺!
直等到他的爱人圈够了它,才把它哄得低头。
⑥invocation
这真要费点劲!我的咒语老老实实,
/inv3 'keifan/n.析祷,
符咒
我用他情人的名字招魂,也是为着唤出他的
挺劲。
⑦consort/kons3:t/粒,陪
班浮柳
算了,他藏在这些树里面,要跟潮湿的夜晚
伴,结交
睡在一道。
角humorous
hju:maras//a[古]
他的爱是盲目的,所以混在夜里最好。
潮湿的
墨故求
如果爱是盲目,爱人就射不中那箭靶。
⑨medlar/medla/n.枸
杞,枸杞子
现在他睡在那“桃”儿树下面,
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Romeo and fuliet
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.
O Romeo,that she were,
O that she were An open-arse and thou a poperin pear!
Romeo,goodnight.I'll to my trucklebed;
This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep.
Come,shall we go?
Benvolio Go then,for'tis in vain
To seek him here that means not to be found.
〔They go.J
Scene 2
Capulet's garden
〔Enter Romeo.J
Romeo He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Juliet appears aloft at the window.)
But soft!What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east,and Juliet is the sun.
Arise,fair sun,and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou,her maid,art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid,since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
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