66 Sonnet 18
十四行诗(第18首)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
我怎么能够把你来比作夏天？
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
你不独比它可爱也比它温婉：
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
狂风把五月宠爱的嫩蕊作践，
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
夏天出赁的期限又未免太短：
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
天上的眼睛有时照得太酷烈，
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
它那炳耀的金颜又常遭掩蔽：
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
被机缘或无常的天道所摧折，
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
没有芳艳不终于雕残或销毁。
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
但是你的长夏永远不会雕落，
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
也不会损失你这皎洁的红芳，
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
或死神夸口你在他影里漂泊，
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
当你在不朽的诗里与时同长。
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
只要一天有人类，或人有眼睛，
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
这诗将长存，并且赐给你生命。
单词讲解
thee:（old use or poetic objective case of）thou,即you
thou art:（old use）you are
lease n.
英语词意：allotted time
date n.
the eye of heaven:天的眼睛，此处喻指太阳
英语词意：i.e.sun
fair from fair：第一个fair指美好的事物，如美人，第二个fair指美貌，同fairness beautiful thing from beauty
by chance
英语词意：by fortune, good or ill
course n.
英语词意：order or process
untrimmed adj.
英语词意：stripped of its beauty thy
fair thou ow'st
英语词意：beauty you own
brag v.
英语词意：brag that
eternal lines
英语词意：lines of immortal verse
this
英语词意：i.e. my poetry
life n.
英语词意：immortality