Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
十四行詩 18 威廉·莎士比亞
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
我能把你比作夏日嗎?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
盡管你更可愛、更溫和;
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
夏日的狂風(fēng)可能會摧殘五月的花兒,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
季節(jié)的限制又減少了可擁有的日光;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
天空的巨眼有時過于灼熱,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
常使自身的輝煌無故湮沒;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
每一種美都會消逝,
By chance,or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
不管愿意或是無奈;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
然而你這盛夏將永存不朽,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
連你所有的美都不會褪去;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
死神不忍逼近,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
生命只會長存;
So long as men can breathe,or eyes can see,
只要人類能呼吸,能看見;
So long lives this and this gives life to thee
我的詩就會存在,而你的生命也會延續(xù)。