莎士比亞的情詩（8）甚麼是愛
再來一首莎士比亞的 sonnet。今次這首好多人都讀過，是百幾首裡面最出名的幾首之一。題目是：甚麼是愛？
原文：
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.
小弟試譯為現代英文：
Don’t even think that you could convince me there’s no true love.
Love is not love, if it changes when faced with changes, or vanish when the object is no longer.
So what is love?
It is a beacon in the middle of the sea, which looks on tempests and is never shaken.
It is the star that guides every wandering boat – we may not know its worth, but we know it’s up in the sky.
Love doesn’t bow down even to Time, who could only rob us of our rosy lips and cheeks. No, love never changes, but would endure until the end of time.
If you can disprove what I’ve just said, then that could mean only two things: that my words are worth nothing, and no one in the world has ever loved.
【註】上面伯伯選卡的圖，最近情人節在 Facebook 流傳。原圖附有一段感人的文字：
So today I was in Hallmark buying my mom a Happy Birthday card when I noticed this old man stnding in front of the Valentines card section contemplating which one to get. I decide to go over and I ask him “Are you getting a Valentine’s Day for your wife?” in which he replies ‘No my wife died 3 years ago from breast cancer but I still buy her roses and a card and bring them to her grave to prove to her that she was the only one that will ever have my heart’.
A law graduate, philosophy dropout, and linguist-wannabe, Hoiyat Siu is a bilingual fat boy who spent his formative years in Hong Kong and England. He is a lover of fine words and a loather of bullshit, and has an inexplicable zeal for excellence in speech and writing, something he's always trying to inspire in his students. He now makes a humble living by freelance writing, teaching, and speech coaching. His writing appears sporadically in local newspapers and magazines.
what a beautiful story
my opinion:
“It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”
“Whose” refers to “the star’s”.
The star is on the sky and far away from us. It guides boats, but no one knows where the destination is. So, it has unknown value to us. Its height and power, however, are higher and larger than we can imagine.
As the star, love guides us for a period of time in our lives, but, again, no one knows where the destination is, or how far we can go, or the consequence of falling in love. But, love is sacred and ever-lasting. Its power and intensity are beyond our imagination.
so lovely, so sweet, so strong, and so true.
你好蕭SIR~
最近見到一句英文的名言, 而且每一字, 每一句我都明白, 但組合在一起後, 就完全不能理解, 所以希望你可以幫幫手. 句子如下:
“you will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. you won’t be a vice president with a car phone, untile you earn both.”
麻煩你!
請問片中4:43 Siu Sir你用的是什麼英文字典軟件?
我想問下英文文法如何學好?英文文法差有咩方法練?
蕭sir,
你好, 多謝你的分享, 想講下我對呢句 Whose worth’s unknown although his height be taken 嘅睇法: 我想它是想指出星體嘅高度可測, 而星(比喻愛)的價值難求, 或無可估值。星體為航海家指示方向, 相信好多人都知, 但其實透過sextant觀測星體對水平線嘅垂直高度(altitude), 加上天文曆及準確的天文時鐘, 利用球面三角形公式計算, 就可以計出一條position line, 那如果在差不多同一時間內測下兩個星體嘅高度, 就有兩條position line, 交叉成一點, 就可以找出船在海圖上的正確位置, 另外, 如果測下meridian star (azimuth 000或180度) 的高度, 更可直接搵出latitude, 所以星體高度對船員價值不非, 可安全完成航程, 避免撞上淺灘或迷失, 而遇上危險, 相反如果你大概知道自己身處的位置, 也可透過星體高度把時間推算出來, 所以詩中指出星的高度可測, 而所帶給航海家或迷舟的好處多不勝數, 價值亦無法估計, 就像true love 在世間價值無可比擬, 即使你似是接觸到或感受到愛。
星雖有形, 但無可觸碰; 愛則無形, 卻感受心中。