莎士比亚十四行诗全集:第5篇

 　　Those hours that with gentle work did frame, 时光老人曾用精雕细刻

　　The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, 刻出这众目所归的美颜，

　　Will play the tyrants¹ to the very same, 也会对它施暴虐于某一天，

　　And that unfair which fairly doth excel: 叫倾国之貌转眼丑态毕现。

　　For never-resting Time leads summer on, 因为那周流不息的时光将夏季

　　To hideous² winter and confounds him there, 带到可憎的冬季里摧残，

　　Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, 令霜凝树脂，叫茂叶枯卷，

　　Beauty o'ersnowed and bareness everywhere. 使雪掩美色，呈万里荒原。

　　Then, were not summer's distillation³ left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, 那时若没有把夏季的香精提炼成破璃瓶中的液体囚犯，

　　Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft⁴, 美的果实亦将随美而消殒，

　　Nor it nor no remembrance what it was. 那时美和美的回忆都成过眼云烟。

　　But flowers distilled⁵ though they with winter meet, 但如果花经提炼，纵使遇到冬天,

　　Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet. 虽失掉外表，骨子里却仍然清甜。

1 tyrants   

专制统治者( tyrant的名词复数 )； 暴君似的人； （古希腊的）僭主； 严酷的事物

参考例句：

• The country was ruled by a succession of tyrants. 这个国家接连遭受暴君的统治。
• The people suffered under foreign tyrants. 人民在异族暴君的统治下受苦受难。

2 hideous   

adj.丑陋的，可憎的，可怕的，恐怖的

参考例句：

• The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare.整个经历就像一场可怕的噩梦。
• They're not like dogs,they're hideous brutes.它们不像狗，是丑陋的畜牲。

3 distillation   

n.蒸馏，蒸馏法

参考例句：

• The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century.通常认为，蒸馏法是阿拉伯人在11世纪发明的。
• The oil is distilled from the berries of this small tree.油是从这种小树的浆果中提炼出来的。

4 bereft   

adj.被剥夺的

参考例句：

• The place seemed to be utterly bereft of human life.这个地方似乎根本没有人烟。
• She was bereft of happiness.她失去了幸福。

5 distilled   

adj.由蒸馏得来的v.蒸馏( distil的过去式和过去分词 )；从…提取精华

参考例句：

• The televised interview was distilled from 16 hours of film. 那次电视采访是从16个小时的影片中选出的精华。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Gasoline is distilled from crude oil. 汽油是从原油中提炼出来的。 来自《简明英汉词典》