哈姆雷特选读

“恺撒死了,你尊严的尸体
也许变了泥把破墙填砌;

啊!他从前是何等的英雄,
现在只好替人挡雨遮风!”

——哈姆雷特|第五幕,第一场;朱生豪译

“Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall t’expel the winter’s flaw!”

Hamlet | Act 5, Scene 1, William Shakespeare

庄子到楚国去,见到一颗死人头骨,用马鞭指着历问死因,夜晚枕着骷髅睡觉,梦中,骷髅说,

你问的那些都是凡人的负担,死人没这些,”无君于上,无臣于下;无四时之事,从然以天地为春秋“,快活着呢。

庄子又问,让你复活返回人世,愿意吗?

骷髅说,可拉倒吧,我这比做王还自在,何必回人间遭那罪?

“哈姆莱特:他(奥斯里克)在母亲怀抱里的时候,也要先把他母亲的奶头恭维几句,然后吮吸。

像他这一类靠着一些繁文缛礼撑撑场面的家伙,正是愚妄的世人所醉心的;

他们的浅薄的牙慧使傻瓜和聪明人同样受他们的欺骗,可是一经试验,他们的水泡就爆破了。”

——哈姆雷特|第五幕,第二场;朱生豪译

“He did comply with his dug before he sucked it.

Thus has he — and many more of the same bevy that I know the drossy age dotes on — only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter, a kind of yeasty collection, which carries them through and through the most fanned and winnowed opinions. And do but blow them to their trials, the bubbles are out.”

Hamlet | Act 5, Scene 2, William Shakespeare

哈姆莱特:”不,我们不要害怕什么预兆;一只雀子的死生,都是命运预先注定的。注定在今天,就不会是明天;不是明天,就是今天;逃过了今天,明天还是逃不了,随时准备着就是了。一个人既然在离开世界的时候,不知道他会留下些什么,那么早早脱身而去,不是更好吗?随它去。”

——哈姆雷特|第五幕,第二场;朱生豪译

“Not a whit. We defy augury.

There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now.

If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be.”

Hamlet | Act 5, Scene 2, William Shakespeare

这边有位从美国底特律移居来的老师,60岁上下的女士,既有加拿大人的坦率友善,又有英裔特有的世故老练,在一个学生来自世界各地的班里,有超强的跨文化协调能力。

一次课间,我给她推荐红楼梦,BLABLA做了不少介绍。然后她认真地看着我说,明白了,我看红楼梦就像你看莎士比亚一样,恐怕都很难看懂。

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