Two Gentlemen of Verona

维洛那二绅士

by William Shakespeare 莎士比亚

02SCENE IV. 第四场

Milan.

米兰。

The DUKE's palace.

公爵府中一室

Enter SILVIA, VALENTINE, THURIO, and SPEED

凡伦丁、西尔维娅、修里奥及史比德上。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

Servant!

仆人！

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Mistress?

小姐？ 

SPEED

史比德

Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you.

少爷，修里奥大爷在向您怒目而视呢。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Ay, boy, it's for love.

嗯，那是为了爱情的缘故。 

SPEED

史比德

Not of you.

他才不爱您呢。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Of my mistress, then.

那就是爱这位小姐。 

SPEED

史比德

'Twere good you knocked him.

我看您该好生揍他一顿。 

Exit

（下。）

SILVIA

西尔维娅

Servant, you are sad.

仆人，你心里不高兴吗？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Indeed, madam, I seem so.

是的，小姐，我好像不大高兴。

THURIO

修里奥

Seem you that you are not?

好像不大高兴，其实还是很高兴吧？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Haply I do.

也许是的。 

THURIO

修里奥

So do counterfeits.

原来是装腔作势。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

So do you.

你也一样。 

THURIO

修里奥

What seem I that I am not?

我装些什么腔？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Wise.

你瞧上去还像个聪明人。 

THURIO

修里奥

What instance of the contrary?

你凭什么证明我不是个聪明人？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Your folly.

就凭你的愚蠢。 

THURIO

修里奥

And how quote you my folly?

何以见得我愚蠢？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

I quote it in your jerkin.

从你这件外套就看得出来。

THURIO

修里奥

My jerkin is a doublet.

我这件外套是好料子。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Well, then, I'll double your folly.

好吧，那就算你是双料的愚蠢。 

THURIO

修里奥

How?

什么？ 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

What, angry, Sir Thurio! do you change colour?

咦，生气了吗，修里奥？瞧你脸色变成这样子！ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Give him leave, madam; he is a kind of chameleon.

让他去，小姐，他是一只善变的蜥蜴。 

THURIO

修里奥

That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live in your air.

这只蜥蜴可要喝你的血，它不愿意和你共戴一天。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

You have said, sir.

你说得很好。 

THURIO

修里奥

Ay, sir, and done too, for this time.

现在我可不同你多讲话了。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

I know it well, sir; you always end ere you begin.

我早就知道你总是未开场先结束的。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.

二位，你们的唇枪舌剑倒是有来有往的。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

'Tis indeed, madam; we thank the giver.

不错，小姐，这得感谢我们的供应人。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

Who is that, servant?

供应人是谁呀，仆人？

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the fire.

就是您自己，美丽的小姐；是您把火点着的。

Sir Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks, and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.

 修里先生的词令也全是从您脸上借来的，因此才当着您的面，慷他人之慨，一下全用光了。 

THURIO

修里奥

Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

凡伦丁，你要是跟我斗嘴，我会说得你哑口无言的。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers, for it appears by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.

那我倒完全相信；我知道尊驾有一个专门收藏言语的库房，在你手下的人，都用空言代替工钱； 从他们寒伧的装束上，就可以看出他们是靠着你的空言过活的。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

No more, gentlemen, no more:--here comes my father.

两位别说下去了，我的父亲来啦。

Enter DUKE

公爵上。

DUKE

公爵

Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset.

西尔维娅，你给他们两位包围起来了吗？

Sir Valentine, your father's in good health:

凡伦丁，你的父亲身体很好；

What say you to a letter from your friends Of much good news?

你家里有信来，带来了许多好消息，你要不要我告诉你？

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

My lord, I will be thankful.

殿下，

To any happy messenger from thence.

我愿意洗耳恭听。 

DUKE

公爵

Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman?

你认识你的同乡中有一位安东尼奥吗？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman To be of worth and worthy estimation And not without desert so well reputed.

是，殿下，我知道他是一位德高望重的士绅，享有良好的声誉是完全无愧的。 

DUKE

公爵

Hath he not a son?

他不是有一个儿子吗？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Ay, my good lord; a son that well deserves The honour and regard of such a father.

是，殿下，他有一个克绍箕裘的贤嗣。 

DUKE

公爵

You know him well?

你和他很熟悉吗？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

I know him as myself; for from our infancy We have conversed and spent our hours together:

我知道他就像知道我自己一样，因为我们从小就在一起同游同学的。

And though myself have been an idle truant, Omitting the sweet benefit of time To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection, Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that's his name, Made use and fair advantage of his days; His years but young, but his experience old; His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe; And, in a word, for far behind his worth Comes all the praises that I now bestow, He is complete in feature and in mind With all good grace to grace a gentleman.

我虽然因为习于游惰，不肯用心上进，可是普洛丢斯——那是他的名字——却不曾把他的青春蹉跎过去。 他少年老成，虽然涉世未深，识见却超人一等； 他的种种好处，我一时也称赞不尽。 总而言之，他的品貌才学，都是尽善尽美，凡是上流人所应有的美德，他身上无不具备。 

DUKE

公爵

Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good, He is as worthy for an empress' love As meet to be an emperor's counsellor.

真的吗？要是他真是这样好法，那么他是值得一个王后的眷爱，适宜于充任一个帝王的辅弼的。

Well, sir, this gentleman is come to me, With commendation from great potentates; And here he means to spend his time awhile:

现在他已经到我们这儿来了，许多大人物都有信来给他吹嘘。 他预备在这儿耽搁一些时候，

I think 'tis no unwelcome news to you.

我想你一定很高兴听见这消息吧。

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Should I have wish'd a thing, it had been he.

那真是我求之不得的。 

DUKE

公爵

Welcome him then according to his worth.

那么就准备着欢迎他吧。

Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio; For Valentine, I need not cite him to it:

我这话是对你说的，西尔维娅，也是对你说的，修里奥，因为凡伦丁是用不着我怂恿的；

I will send him hither to you presently.

我就去叫你的朋友来和你相见。

Exit

（下。）

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

This is the gentleman I told your ladyship Had come along with me, but that his mistress Did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks.

这就是我对您说起过的那个朋友； 他本来是要跟我一起来的，可是他的眼睛给他情人的晶莹的盼睐摄住了，所以不能脱身。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

Belike that now she hath enfranchised them Upon some other pawn for fealty.

大概现在她已经释放了他，另外有人向她奉献他的忠诚了。

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still.

不，我相信他仍旧是她的俘虏。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

Nay, then he should be blind; and, being blind How could he see his way to seek out you?

他既然还在恋爱，那么他就应该是盲目的； 他既然盲目，怎么能够迢迢而来，找到了你的所在呢？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes.

小姐，爱情是有二十对眼睛的。 

THURIO

修里奥

They say that Love hath not an eye at all.

他们说爱情不生眼睛。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself:

爱情没有眼睛来看见像你这样的情人；

Upon a homely object Love can wink.

对于丑陋的事物，它是会闭目不视的。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

Have done, have done; here comes the gentleman.

算了，算了。客人来了。

Exit THURIO

修里奥下

Enter PROTEUS

普洛丢斯上。

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Welcome, dear Proteus!

欢迎，亲爱的普洛丢斯！

Mistress, I beseech you, Confirm his welcome with some special favour.

小姐，请您用特殊的礼遇欢迎他吧。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

His worth is warrant for his welcome hither, If this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from.

要是这位就是你时常念念不忘的好朋友，那么凭着他的才德，一定会得到竭诚的欢迎。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship.

这就是他。小姐，请您接纳了他，让他同我一样做您的仆人。

SILVIA

西尔维娅

Too low a mistress for so high a servant.

这样高贵的仆人，侍候这样卑微的女主人，未免太屈尊了。 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

Not so, sweet lady: but too mean a servant To have a look of such a worthy mistress.

哪里的话，好小姐，草野贱士，能够在这样一位卓越的贵人之前亲聆謦咳，实在是三生有幸。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Leave off discourse of disability:

大家不用谦虚了。

Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant.

好小姐，请您收容他做您的仆人吧。 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

My duty will I boast of; nothing else.

我将以能够奉侍左右，勉效奔走之劳，作为我最大的光荣。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

And duty never yet did want his meed:

尽职的人必能得到酬报。

Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress.

仆人，一个庸愚的女主人欢迎着你。 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

I'll die on him that says so but yourself.

这话若出自别人口里，我一定要他的命。

SILVIA

西尔维娅

That you are welcome?

什么话，欢迎你吗？ 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

That you are worthless.

不，给您加上庸愚两字。 

Re-enter THURIO

修里奥重上。

THURIO

修里奥

Madam, my lord your father would speak with you.

小姐，老爷叫您去说话。 

SILVIA

西尔维娅

I wait upon his pleasure.

我就来。

Come, Sir Thurio, Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome:

来，修里奥，咱们一块儿去。新来的仆人，我再向你说一声欢迎。

I'll leave you to confer of home affairs; When you have done, we look to hear from you.

现在我让你们两人畅叙家常，等会儿我们再谈吧。 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

We'll both attend upon your ladyship.

我们两人都随时等候着您的使唤。

Exeunt SILVIA and THURIO

（西尔维娅、修里奥、史比德同下。） 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Now, tell me, how do all from whence you came?

现在告诉我，家乡的一切情形怎样？ 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

Your friends are well and have them much commended.

你的亲友们都很安好，他们都叫我问候你。

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

And how do yours?

你的亲友们呢？ 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

I left them all in health.

我离开他们的时候，他们也都很康健。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

How does your lady? and how thrives your love?

你的爱人怎样？你们的恋爱进行得怎么样了？ 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

My tales of love were wont to weary you; I know you joy not in a love discourse.

我的恋爱故事是向来使你讨厌的，我知道你不爱听这种儿女私情。

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Ay, Proteus, but that life is alter'd now:

可是现在我的生活已经改变过来了；

I have done penance for contemning Love, Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me With bitter fasts, with penitential groans, With nightly tears and daily heart-sore sighs; For in revenge of my contempt of love, Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow.

我正在忏悔我自己从前对于爱情的轻视，它的至高无上的威权，正在用痛苦的绝食、悔罪的呻吟、 夜晚的哭泣和白昼的叹息惩罚着我。 为了报复我从前对它的侮蔑，爱情已经从我被蛊惑的眼睛中驱走了睡眠，使它们永远注视着我自己心底的忧伤。

O gentle Proteus, Love's a mighty lord, And hath so humbled me, as, I confess, There is no woe to his correction, Nor to his service no such joy on earth.

啊，普洛丢斯！爱情是一个有绝大威权的君王，我已经在他面前甘心臣服，他的惩罚使我甘之如饴，为他服役是世间最大的快乐。

Now no discourse, except it be of love; Now can I break my fast, dine, sup and sleep, Upon the very naked name of love.

现在我除了关于恋爱方面的谈话以外，什么都不要听； 单单提起爱情的名字，便可以代替了我的三餐一宿。

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

Enough; I read your fortune in your eye.

够了，我在你的眼睛里可以读出你的命运来。

Was this the idol that you worship so?

你所膜拜的偶像就是她吗？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Even she; and is she not a heavenly saint?

就是她。她不是一个天上的神仙吗？ 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

No; but she is an earthly paragon.

不，她是一个地上的美人。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Call her divine.

她是神圣的。 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

I will not flatter her.

我不愿谄媚她。

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

O, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

为了我的缘故谄媚她吧，因为爱情是喜欢听人家恭维的。 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you.

当我有病的时候，你给我苦味的丸药，现在我也要以其人之道还治其人之身。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Then speak the truth by her; if not divine, Yet let her be a principality, Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.

那么就说老实话吧，她即使不是神圣，也是并世无双的魁首，她是世间一切有生之伦的女皇。 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

Except my mistress.

除了我的爱人以外。

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Sweet, except not any; Except thou wilt except against my love.

不，没有例外，除非你有意诽谤我的爱人。

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

Have I not reason to prefer mine own?

我没有理由喜爱我自己的爱人吗？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

And I will help thee to prefer her too:

我也愿意帮助你抬高她的身分：

She shall be dignified with this high honour-- To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss And, of so great a favour growing proud, Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower And make rough winter everlastingly.

她可以得到这样隆重的光荣，为我的爱人捧持衣裾，免得卑贱的泥土偷吻她的裙角； 它在得到这样意外的幸运之余，会变得骄傲起来，不肯再去滋养盛夏的花卉，使苛酷的寒冬永驻人间。

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

Why, Valentine, what braggardism is this?

嗳呀，凡伦丁，你简直在信口乱吹。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Pardon me, Proteus: all I can is nothing To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing; She is alone.

原谅我，普洛丢斯，我的一切赞美之词，对她都毫无用处； 她的本身的美点，就可以使其他一切美人黯然失色。 她是独一无二的。 

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

Then let her alone.

那么你不要作非分之想吧。

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar and the rocks pure gold.

什么也不能阻止我去爱她。告诉你吧，老兄，她是属于我的； 我有了这样一宗珍宝，就像是二十个大海的主人，它的每一粒泥沙都是珠玉，每一滴海水都是天上的琼浆，每一块石子都是纯粹的黄金。

Forgive me that I do not dream on thee, Because thou see'st me dote upon my love.

不要因为我从来不曾梦到过你而见怪，因为你已经看见我是怎样倾心于我的恋人。

My foolish rival, that her father likes Only for his possessions are so huge, Is gone with her along, and I must after, For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.

我那愚癔的情敌—— 她的父亲因为他雄于资财而看中了他—— 刚才和她一同去了，我现在必须追上他们，因为你知道爱情是充满着嫉妒的。

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

But she loves you?

可是她也爱你吗？ 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Ay, and we are betroth'd: nay, more, our, marriage-hour, With all the cunning manner of our flight, Determined of; how I must climb her window, The ladder made of cords, and all the means Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness.

是的，我们已经互许终身了； 而且我们已经约好设计私奔，结婚的时间也已定当。 我先用绳梯爬上她的窗口，把她接了出来，各种手续程序都已完全安排好了。

Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber, In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel.

好普洛丢斯，跟我到我的寓所去，我还要请你在这种事情上多多指教呢。

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

Go on before; I shall inquire you forth:

你先去吧，你的寓所我会打听得到的。

I must unto the road, to disembark Some necessaries that I needs must use, And then I'll presently attend you.

我还要到码头上去，拿一点必需的用品，然后我就来看你。 

VALENTINE

凡伦丁

Will you make haste?

那么你赶快一点吧。

PROTEUS

普洛丢斯

I will.

好的。

 Exit VALENTINE Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten.

（凡伦丁下） 正像一阵更大的热焰压盖住原来的热焰，一枚大钉敲落了小钉，我的旧日的恋情，也因为有了一个新的对象而完全冷淡了。

Is it mine, or Valentine's praise, Her true perfection, or my false transgression, That makes me reasonless to reason thus?

是我的眼睛在作祟吗？ 还是因为凡伦丁把她说得天花乱坠？ 还是她的真正的完美使我心醉？或者是我的见异思迁的罪恶，使我全然失去了理智？

She is fair; and so is Julia that I love-- That I did love, for now my love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image, 'gainst a fire, Bears no impression of the thing it was.

她是美丽的，我所爱的朱利娅也是美丽的； 可是我对于朱利娅的爱已经成为过去了，那一段恋情，就像投入火中的蜡像，已经全然溶解，不留一点原来的痕迹。 

Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold, And that I love him not as I was wont.

好像我对于凡伦丁的友谊已经突然冷淡，我不再像从前那样喜爱他了；

O, but I love his lady too too much, And that's the reason I love him so little.

啊，这是因为我太过于爱他的爱人了，所以我才对他毫无好感。

How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her!

我这样不加思索地爱上了她，如果跟她相知渐深之后，更将怎样为她倾倒？ 

'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld, And that hath dazzled my reason's light; But when I look on her perfections, There is no reason but I shall be blind.

我现在看见的只是她的外表，可是那已经使我的理智的灵光晕眩不定，那么当我看到她内心的美好时，我一定要变成盲目的了。

If I can cheque my erring love, I will; If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.

我要尽力克制我的罪恶的恋情； 否则就得设计赢得她的芳心。

Exit（下。）