William Shakespeare - The Sonnets (57) 汉译

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Being your slave what should I do but tend,

Upon the hours, and times of your desire?

I have no precious time at all to spend;

Nor services to do till you require.

Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,

Whilst I (my sovereign) watch the clock for you,

Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,

When you have bid your servant once adieu.

Nor dare I question with my jealous thought,

Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,

But like a sad slave stay and think of nought

Save where you are, how happy you make those.

    So true a fool is love, that in your will,

    (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill.

 

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既然是你的奴仆，我能做什么

除了时刻等着你想到把我使唤？

我自己并无宝贵的时间可消磨，

也无事可做，直到你把我差遣。

我不敢责怪这绵绵不尽的时光，

当我为主人你看守着这个时钟；

我不敢想离别会令人伤心断肠，

当你对你的仆人说出那声保重；

我也不敢怀猜忌之心询问探究

你会去向何方，去做什么事情，

而只像个伤心奴仆想一个念头；

你所到之处的那些人多么幸运。

所以爱真是个地地道道的白痴，

任你为所欲为，它都认为没事。

 

（曹明伦 译）