莎士比亞十四行詩第十八首

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer"s day 我該不該把你比作怡人的夏天？

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:你卻比她更加可愛更加溫情。

Rough winds do shake the darling buds ofMay,五月的嬌蕊總是被狂風吹斷，

And summer"s lease hath all too short adate：夏天也只是一道短暫的美景。

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,蒼穹的目光有時會過於灼熱，

And often is his gold complexion dimm"d;那金色的臉龐也常黯淡無光。

And every fair from fair sometime declines,人間一切瑰麗終將失去秀色，

By chance, or nature"s changing course,untrimm"d；湮沒於不測風雲和世事滄桑。

But thy eternal summer shall not fade，但是，你常青的夏季永不消逝，

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; 你擁有的美麗也將永不折損，

Nor shall Death brag thou wander"st in hisshade,或許死神的陰影會籠罩著你，

When in eternal lines to time thou growest; 你卻和這不朽的詩句千古長存。

So long as men can breathe, or eyesGahsee，只要人類還在呼吸、眼睛還在欣賞文庫

So long lives this, and this gives life tothee.我的詩就會活著，令你生命綻放。