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Scene II.A room in the castle.
Enter Othello and Emilia.
Othello.You have seen nothing,then?
Emilia.Nor ever heard,nor ever did suspect.
Othello.Yes,you have seen Cassio,and she together.
Emilia.But then I saw no harm,and then I heard
Each syllable that breath made up between them.
Othello.What?Did they never whisper?
Emilia.Never,my lord.
Othello.Nor send you out o'the way?
Emilia.Never.
Othello.To fetch her fan,her gloves,her mask,nor nothing?
Emilia.Never my lord.
Othello.That's strange.
Emilia.I durst,my lord,to wager she is honest,
Lay down my soul at stake.If you think other,
Remove your thought;it doth abuse your bosom.
If any wretch have put this in your head,
Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse,
For if she be not honest,chaste,and true,
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第二场城堡中的一室
奥赛罗及埃米莉亚上。
奥赛罗那么你没有看见什么吗?
埃米莉亚没有看见,没有听见,也没有疑心到。
奥赛罗你不是看见卡西奥跟她在一起吗?
埃米莉亚可是我不知道那有什么不对,而且我听见他
们两人所说的每一个字。
奥赛罗什么!他们从来不曾低声耳语吗?
埃米莉亚从来没有,将军。
奥赛罗也不曾打发你走开吗?
埃米莉亚没有。
奥赛罗没有叫你去替她拿扇子,手套,脸罩,或是什
么东西吗?
埃米莉亚没有,将军。
①wager['weida] ν打赌
奥赛罗那可奇怪了。
埃米莉亚将军,我敢用我的灵魂打赌她是贞洁的。要
是您疑心她有非礼的行为,赶快除掉这种思想吧,
② requite [ri'k wait] v报答;
因为那是您心理上的一个污点。要是哪一个混蛋把
回报
这种思想放进您的脑袋里,让上天罚他变成一条
③serpent['sa:pant]n.蛇(尤
指大蛇或毒蛇)
蛇,受永远的诅咒!假如她不是贞洁、贤淑而忠诚
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ACT IV
There's no man happy;the purest of their wives
Is foul as slander.
Othello.Bid her come hither;go.
Exit Emilia.
She says enough;yet she's a simple bawd
That cannot say as much.This is a subtle whore,
A closet lock and key of villainous secrets
And yet she'll kneel and pray;I have seen her do't.
Enter Desdemona with Emilia.
Desde.My lord,what is your will?
Othello.Pray you chuck,come hither.
Desde.What is your pleasure?
Othello.Let me see your eyes;
Look in my face.
Desde.What horrible fancy's this?
Othello.Some of your function,mistress,
Leave procreants alone and shut the door;
Cough,or cry hem,if anybody come.
Your mystery,your mystery;nay dispatch.
Exit Emilia.
Desde.Upon my knees,what doth your speech import?
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.
Othello.Why?what art thou?
Desde.Your Wife,my lord,your true and loyal wife.
Othello.Come swear it,damn thyself;
Lest being like one of heaven,the devils themselves
Should fear to seize thee.Therefore be double-damn'd;
Swear thou art honest.
Desde.Heaven doth truly know it.
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第四幕【
的,那么世上没有一个幸福的男人了:最纯洁的妻
子,也会变成最丑恶的淫妇。
奥赛罗叫她到这儿来:去。(埃米莉亚下)她的话说
得很动听:可是这种拉惯皮条的人,都是天生的利
嘴。这是一个狡猾的淫妇,一肚子千刁万恶,当着
人却会跪下来向天祈祷:我看见过她这一种手段。
①villainous[vil3nes】a.邪
恶的
埃米莉亚偕苔丝狄蒙娜重上。
苔丝狄蒙娜我的主,您有什么吩附?
奥赛罗过来,乖乖。
苔丝狄蒙娜您要我怎么样?
奥赛罗让我看看你的眼晴;瞧着我的脸。
苔丝狄蒙娜这是什么古怪的念头?
奥赛罗(向埃米莉亚)你去干你的事吧,女士:把门
2procreant [praukriant]n
关了,让我们两人在这儿谈谈心。要是有人来了,
夫妻
你就在门口咳嗽一声。干你的贵营生去吧:快,
快!(埃米莉亚下)
苔丝狄蒙娜我跪在您的面前,请您告诉我您这些话是
什么意思?我知道您在生气,可是我不懂您的话。
奥赛罗嘿,你是什么人?
苔丝狄蒙娜我的主,我是您的妻子,您的忠心不二的
妻子。
奥赛罗来,发一个誓,让你自己死后下地狱吧:因为
你的外表太像一个天使了,倘不是在不贞之上,再
加一重伪誓的罪名,也许魔鬼们会不敢抓你下去
的:所以发誓说你是贞洁的吧。
苔丝狄蒙娜天知道我是贞洁的。
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ACT IV
Othello.Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.
Desde.To whom,my lord?With whom?How am I false?
Othello.Ah Desdemona!Away!away!away!
Desde.Alas the heavy day!Why do you weep?
Am I the motive of these tears,my lord?
If haply you my father do suspect
An instrument of this your calling back,
Lay not your blame on me.If you have lost him,
I have lost him too.
Othello.Had it pleased heaven,
To try me with affliction,had they rain'd
All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head,
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips,
Given to captivity2 me and my utmost hopes,
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience;but alas,to make me
A fixed figure for the time of scorn,
To point his slow unmoving finger at.
Yet could I bear that too,well,very well;
But there,where I have garner'd up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life;
The fountain from the which my current runs,
Or else dries up;to be discarded thence,
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in.Turn thy complexion there,
Patience,thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,
Ay,there,look grim as hell!
Desde.I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.
Othello.Oh,ay,as summer flies are in the shambles,
That quicken even with blowing.Oh thou weed,
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第四幕
奥赛罗天知道你是像地狱一样淫邪的。
苔丝狄蒙娜我的主,我对谁干了欺心的事?我跟哪一
个人有不端的行为?我怎么是淫邪的?
奥赛罗啊,苔丝狄蒙娜!去!去!去!
苔丝狄蒙娜唉,不幸的日子!一一您为什么哭?您
的眼泪是为我而流的吗,我的主?要是您疑心这
次奉召回国,是我的父亲的主意,请您不要怪
我:您固然失去他的好感,我也已经失去他的慈
爱了。
奥赛罗要是上天的意思,要让我受尽种种的折磨:要
是他用诸般的痛苦和耻辱降在我的毫无防卫的头
①sore[s】n.伤心,精神痛
上,把我浸没在贫困的泥沼里,剥夺我的一切自由
苦
和希望,我也可以在我的灵魂的一隅之中,找到
一滴忍耐的甘露。可是唉!在这尖酸刻薄的世上,
②captivity[kap'tivati]n.关
押,监禁
做一个被人戳指笑骂的目标,那还可以容忍:可是
我的心灵失去了归宿,我的生命失去了寄托,我的
活力的源泉干涸了,变成了蛤蟆繁育生息的污池!
③unmoving[nmu:vila.
无动于衷的,冷淡的
忍耐,你朱唇韶颜的天婴啊,转变你的脸色,让它
化成地狱般的狰狞吧!
④gather up收集起
⑤cistern['sistan]m.水塘
⑥cherubin['tferabin]n.智天
使(天堂乐园的守护者)
苔丝狄蒙娜我希望我在我的尊贵的夫主眼中,是一个
贤良贞洁的妻子。
⑦shambles [faemblz]n.屠
宰场
奥赛罗啊,是的,就像夏天的肉铺里的苍蝇一样贞洁,
飞来飞去撒它的卵子。你这野草闲花啊!你的颜色
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ACT IV
Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet,
That the sense aches at thee,would thou hadst ne'er been born.
Desde.Alas,what ignorant sin have I committed?
Othello.Was this fair paper?This most goodly book,
Made to write whore upon?What committed?
Committed?Oh,thou public commoner,
I should make very forges of my cheeks,
That would to cinders burn up modesty,
Did I but speak thy deeds.What committed?
Heaven stops the nose at it,and the moon winks;
The bawdy wind,that kisses all it meets,
Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth,
And will not hear it.What committed?
Impudent2 strumpet!
Desde.By heaven,you do me wrong.
Othello.Are not you a strumpet?
Desde.No,as I am a Christian.
If to preserve this vessel for my lord,
From any other foul unlawful touch
Be not to be a strumpet,I am none.
Othello.What,not a whore?
Desde.No,as I shall be saved.
Othello.Is 't possible?
Desde.Oh,heaven forgive us.
Othello.I cry you mercy then;
I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
That married with Othello.[Raises his voice.]You mistress,
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keep the gate of hell,
Enter Emilia.
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第四幕
是这样娇美,你的香气是这样芬芳,人家看见你嗅
到你就会心疼:但愿世上从来不曾有过你!
苔丝狄蒙娜唉!我究竟犯了什么连我自己也不知道的
罪恶呢?
奥赛罗这一张皎洁的白纸,这一本美丽的书册,是
要让人家写上“娼妓”两个字的吗?犯了什么罪
恶!啊,你这人尽可夫的娟妇!我只要一说起你
①cinder['sinda]n.灰烬
所干的事,我的两颊就会变成两座熔炉,把廉耻
烧为灰烬。犯了什么罪恶!天神见了它要掩鼻而
过;月亮看见了要羞得闭上眼睛:碰见什么都要亲
吻淫荡的风,也静悄悄地躲在岩窟里面,不愿听
见人家提起它的名字。犯了什么罪恶!不要脸的
2impudent ['impjudont]a.
娼妇!
厚颜无耻的:冒失的
苔丝狄蒙娜天啊,您不该这样侮辱我!
奥赛罗你不是一个娼妇吗?
苔丝狄蒙娜不,我发誓我不是,否则我就不是一个基
督徒。要是为我的主保持这一个清白的身子,不让
③unlawful[anlb:fula,不
淫邪的手把它污毁,要是这样的行为可以使我免去
道德的
娼妇的恶名,那么我就不是娟妇。
奥赛罗什么!你不是一个娼妇吗?
苔丝狄蒙娜不,否则我死后没有得救的希望。
奥赛罗真的吗?
苔丝狄蒙娜啊!上天饶恕我们!
奥赛罗那么我真是多多冒昧了:我还以为你就是那个
嫁给奥赛罗的威尼斯狡猾的娼妇哩。—喂,你这
位刚刚和圣彼得干着相反的差使的,看守地狱门
户的奶奶!
埃米莉亚重上。
1圣彼得(St,Peter),耶稣的十二门徒之一,传说他掌天堂门户
的钥匙。
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ACT IV
You,you,ay,you!
We have done our course;there's money for your pains.
I pray you,turn the key,and keep our counsel
Exit.
Emilia.Alas,what does this gentleman conceive?
How do you,madam?How do you,my good lady?
Desde.Faith,half asleep.
Emilia.Good madam,what's the matter with my lord?
Desde.With who?
Emilia.Why,with my lord,madam.
Desde.Who is thy lord?
Emilia.He that is yours,sweet lady.
Desde.I have none.Do not talk to me,Emilia;
I cannot weep,nor answer have I none
But what should go by water.Prithee tonight
Lay on my bed my wedding sheets.Remember,
And call thy husband hither.
Emilia.Here's a change indeed.
Exit.
Desde.'Tis meet I should be used so,very meet.
How have I been behaved,that he might stick
The small'st opinion on my least misuse②?
Enter Emilia with lago.
Iago.What is your pleasure,madam?How is't with you?
Desde.I cannot tell.Those that do teach young babes
Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
He might have chid me so,for in good faith,
I am a child to chiding
lago.What's the matter,lady?
Emilia.Alas lago,my lord hath so bewhored her,
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第四幕
奥赛罗你,你,对了,你!我们的谈话己经完毕。这
几个钱是给你作为酬劳的:请你开了门上的锁,不
①counsel[kaunsol]n.[废
语]秘密
要泄露我们的秘密。(下)
埃米莉亚唉!这位老爷究竞在转些什么念头呀?您怎
么啦,夫人?您怎么啦,我的好夫人?
苔丝狄蒙娜我是在半醒半睡之中。
埃米莉亚好夫人,我的主到底有些什么心事?
苔丝狄蒙娜谁?
埃米莉亚我的主呀,夫人。
苔丝狄蒙娜谁是你的主?
埃米莉亚我的主就是你的丈夫,好夫人。
苔丝狄蒙娜我没有丈夫。不要对我说话,埃米莉亚:
我不能哭,我没有话可以回答你,除了我的眼泪。
请你今夜把我结婚的被褥铺在我的床上,记好了:
再去替我叫你的丈夫来。
埃米莉亚真是变了,变了!(下)
苔丝狄蒙娜我应该受到这样的待遇,全然是应该的。
我究竞有些什么不检的行为—哪怕只是一丁点
儿一才会引起他的猜疑呢?
埃米莉亚率伊阿古重上。
伊阿古夫人,您有什么吩附?您怎么啦?
2)misuse [mis'ju:z:mis'ju:s]
n错用,误用
苔丝狄蒙娜我不知道。小孩子做了错事,做父亲的总
是用温和的态度,轻微的责罚教训他们:他也应该
这样责备我,因为我是一个娇养惯了的孩子,不惯
受人家责备的。
伊阿古怎么一回事,夫人?
埃米莉亚唉!伊阿古,将军口口声声骂她娼妇,用那
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