Sonnet18

Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s Day?

(By William Shakespeare)

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
能不能让我来把你比拟做夏日?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
你可是更加温和,更加可爱:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
狂风会吹落五月里开的好花儿,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
夏季的生命又未免结束得太快:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
有时候苍天的巨眼照得太灼热,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
他那金彩的脸色也会被遮暗;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,
每一样美呀,总会离开美而凋落,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
被时机或者自然的代谢所摧残;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
但是你永久的夏天决不会凋枯,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
你永远不会失去你美的仪态;

Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
死神夸不着你在他的影子里踯躅,

When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
你将在不朽的诗中与时间同在;

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
只要人类在呼吸,眼睛看得见,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
我这诗就活着,使你的生命绵延.