Antony and Cleopatra

    , and you shall see in him

The triple pillar of the world transform’d

Into a strumpet’s fool.

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, i, 11

你會看到他

原先是世界的三大支柱之一 現在變成

一個娼妓的玩物。triple pillar: i.e. one of the tree pillars. strumpet: a female prostitute. fool: dupe, plaything

There’s beggary in the love that can be reckon’d.

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, i, 15

如果愛情可被測量深淺 就很貧乏。reckon: quantify, calculate, measure. It would be a pretty stingy love if it could be counted and calculated.

O, excellent, I love long life better than figs.

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, ii, 32

啊，好極了，我愛長壽勝過愛無花果。figs were thought to resemble female genitalia.

E’en as the o’erflowing Nilus presageth famine.

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, ii, 50

就像汎濫的尼羅河預告饑荒一樣。（這是開玩笑的話，實際上尼羅河汎濫預告豐收）Like the overflowing Nile predicts famine. (This is a joke, as a matter of fact, the overflowing Nile predicts a good harvest.)

The nature of bad news infects the teller.

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, ii, 95

壞消息的本身感染傳遞消息的使者 成為壞人。The bearer of bad news is often blamed for it. 因為人們不喜歡聽壞消息，往往連帶譴責傳遞消息的人。

(Cleopatra:) Eternity was in our lips and eyes,

Bliss in our brows’ bent;

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, iii, 35

當時你在我的嘴唇和眼睛上看到永恆，

在我彎彎的眉毛上看到幸福；You saw eternity in my lips and eyes, and happiness in the arch of my eyebrows.

O! my oblivion is a very Antony,

And I am all forgotten.

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, iii, 90

唉！我這貴人多忘 成了十足的安東尼，

我忘了一切。

Give me to drink mandragora.  …

That I might sleep out this great gap of time

My Antony is away.

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, v, 4

O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, v, 21

The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm

And burgonet of men.

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, v, 23

Where’s my serpent of old Nile?

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, v, 25

      My salad days,

When I was green in judgment,

   --- Antony and Cleopatra  I, v, 73

當時我年輕，

沒有經驗 不懂事， One’s salad days: a time when one is young and without much experience. green: young and inexperienced.

      Epicurean cooks

Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  II, i, 24

        ; whose beauty claims

No worse a husband than the best of men;

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  II, ii,127

她的美貌足以

匹配最好的男人作丈夫； She is beautiful enough for the best of men.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

Her infinite variety.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  II, ii,234

I have not kept my square; but that to come

Shall all be done by the rule.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  II, iii, 6

      ; music, moody food

Of us that trade in love.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  II, v, 1

音樂是我們談戀愛

情緒低落時的精神糧食。 moody: melancholy.  trade: to have dealings.  Music feeds the melancholy moods of us lovers.

Though it be honest, it is never good

To bring bad news.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  II, v, 85

Come, thou monarch of the vine,

Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne!

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  II, vii, 120

      , we have kiss’d away

Kingdoms and provinces.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  III, x, 7

（Antony和Cleopatra）接吻後 我們斷送了

全部王國和行省。We (Antony and Cleopatra) have kissed away entire kingdoms and provinces.

         he wears the rose

Of youth upon him.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  III, xiii, 20

他的臉頰仍然青春紅潤。His cheeks still bear the pink flush of youth.

‘Tis better playing with a lion’s whelp

Than with an old one dying.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  III, xiii, 94

和一隻幼獅玩耍

比 和一頭垂死老獅玩 安全些。It’s safer to toy with a lion cub than an old dying lion.

Let’s have one other gaudy night.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  III, xiii, 182

讓我們再過一個歡樂的夜晚。gaudy: joyous, festive. Let’s have one more festive night.

To business that we love we rise betimes,

And go to ‘t with delight.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  IV, iv, 20

做我們喜歡的事 我們會早起，

並且欣然以赴。When we love our job we get up early and go to it joyfully.

Unarm, Eros, the long day’s task is done,

And we must sleep.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  IV, xiv, 35

解除武裝吧，Eros, 白天漫長的任務已完成，

我們該睡覺了。Remove your armor, Eros, the long day’s work is over, and it is time to sleep.

        ; but I will be

A bridegroom in my death, and run into ‘t

As to a lover’s bed.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  IV, xiv, 99

但是我要

擁抱死亡 像新郎擁抱新娘，奔赴

愛人的床。But I will embrace death as a bridegroom does his bride, and rush to it as to a lover’s bed.

        , the bright day is done,

And we are for the dark.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  V, ii, 193

我們光明的人生已經結束，

現在僅存黑暗。The bright day of our lives is over, and now there will only be darkness.

(I know that) a woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  V, ii, 274

女人僅是適合眾神的一道菜，只要魔鬼未曾把她加以料理。dress: prepare (term from cookery). A woman is a dish fit only for the gods, as long as the devil hasn’t prepared the meal.

      I have

Immortal longings in me.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  V, ii, 280

我渴望不死永生。I long to be immortal.

As she would catch another Antony

In her strong toil of grace.

    --- Antony and Cleopatra  V, ii, 347

As if she would charm another Antony.

Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall: here is my space.
(Antony, Act 1 Scene 1)

Egypt, thou knew'st too well
My heart was to thy rudder tied by th'strings
And thou shouldst tow me after.
(Antony, Act 3 Scene 11)

I found you as a morsel cold upon
Dead Caesar's trencher.
(Antony, Act 3 Scene 13)

The odds is gone
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon.
(Cleopatra, Act 4 Scene 15)

Antony 
Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see
Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
I'th'posture of a whore.
(Cleopatra, Act 5 Scene 2)

Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies
A lass unparalleled.
(Charmian, Act 5 Scene 2)

She shall be buried by her Antony,
No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
A pair so famous.
(Caesar, Act 5 Scene 2)