未選擇的路
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
黃色的樹林裏分出兩條路,
可惜我不能同時去涉足,
我在那路口久久佇立,
我向著壹條路極目望去,
直到它消失在叢林深處。
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
它荒草萋萋,十分幽寂,
顯得更誘人、更美麗,
雖然在這兩條小路上,
都很少留下旅人的足跡,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
雖然那天清晨落葉滿地,
兩條路都未經腳印汙染。
呵,留下壹條路等改日再見!
但我知道路徑延綿無盡頭,
恐怕我難以再回返。
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
也許多少年後在某個地方,
我將輕聲嘆息把往事回顧,
壹片樹林裏分出兩條路,
而我選了人跡更少的壹條,
從此決定了我壹生的道路。
任何選擇都將帶領我們走上壹條截然不同的道路,但是正如湯唯所說,認定了壹件事,就去做,不要等到年老之時,才頹然發出“人生的嘆息”。
第壹首是由卷福朗誦的莎翁名篇《全世界是個舞臺》(All the World's a Stage)。
詩中最為廣為傳頌的壹段,大家壹起來學習下:
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They all have their exits and their entrances.
這世界本是壹座舞臺,
壹切的男男女女只不過是些演戲的人;
他們各自有出場,又各自有退場的時候。
第二首是由抖森朗誦的莎士比亞著名的《十四行詩》中的第18首(Sonnet 18)。
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Sonnet 18
十四行詩
by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
我怎麽能夠把妳來比作夏天?
妳不獨比它可愛也比它溫婉:
狂風把五月寵愛的嫩蕊作踐,
夏天出賃的期限又未免太短:
天上的眼睛有時照得太酷烈,
它那炳耀的金顏又常遭掩蔽:
被機緣或無常的天道所摧折,
沒有芳艷不終於雕殘或銷毀。
但是妳的長夏永遠不會雕落,
也不會損失妳這皎潔的紅芳,
或死神誇口妳在他影裏漂泊,
當妳在不朽的詩裏與時同長。
只要壹天有人類,或人有眼睛,
這詩將長存,並且賜給妳生命。