雙語·英美愛情詩歌選 34 女人是男人的影子
- 英文
- 中文
34. That Women Are But Men's Shadows
——B. Jonson
Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say, are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?
At morn and even shades are longest;
At noon they are or short or none:
So men at weakest, they are strongest,
But grant us perfect, they're not known.
Say, are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?
34 女人是男人的影子
瓊生
你跟蹤影子，它竭力逃避，
想要擺脫它，它又追隨你：
同樣，向女人求愛，她總是搖頭，
你不理睬她，她又把你來追求。
那么，我們是否可以這樣稱呼：
女人只是男人的影子？
早上與晚上影子最長，
正午影子縮短甚至消失。
同樣，男人最弱時她們最強；
而當我們完美，她們就湮沒不見。
那么，我們是否可以這樣稱呼：
女人只是男人的影子？
