As You Like It

Your heart’s desires be with you!

      --- As You Like It  I, ii, 200

願你心想事成！  I hope you get what you desire!

Hereafter, in a better world than this,

I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

      --- As You Like It  I, ii, 284

日後，比現今環境好時，

我想要更瞭解你更加愛你。In … world: i.e. when circumstances are more favorable. Later, in a better circumstances than this one, I would like to get to know you and love you better.

Thus must I from the smoke into the smother,

From tyrant Duke unto a tyrant brother.

    --- As You Like It  I, ii, 287

這麼一來我得跳出煎鍋入火坑，

離開兇暴公爵到兇暴哥哥家中。

from the smoke into the smother: out of the frying pan and into the fire

O, how full of briars is this working-day world!

    --- As You Like It  I, iii, 11

啊，這令人厭煩的世界有那麼多荊棘！

Oh, this wearisome world is full of thorns!

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

    --- As You Like It  I, iii, 110

美色比金子更快引來盜賊。provoketh: arouses

Sweet are the uses of adversity,

Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;

    --- As You Like It  II, i, 12

患難的好處是甜蜜，

就像蟾蜍，醜而有毒，

頭上卻頂著一顆寶石；uses: benefits.  toad … head. A widespread belief. The jewel was supposed to have great curative power against disease. venomous: producing poisonous liquid.  Adversity has sweet benefits, like the ugly, poisonous toad who wears a precious jewel in its forehead.

Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,

Frosty, but kindly.

    --- As You Like It  II, iii, 52

所以我上了年紀 像是有生氣的冬季，

雖然冷，但是自然。kindly: natural; pleasant

Therefore, my old age is like a strong, vigorous winter, cold but natural.

Thou art not for the fashion of these times,

Where none will sweat but for promotion.

       --- As You Like It  II, iii, 59

你是不合時宜的，

當今沒有人肯努力 除非為了晉升。Your approach isn’t the fashion these days, when no one works hard except for a promotion.

(When I was at home I was in a better place,) but traveller must be content.

       --- As You Like It  II, iv, 11

但是旅行的人必須知足。（隨遇而安）

Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover

As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow.

    --- As You Like It  II, iv, 26

你年輕時也跟情人

一模一樣長夜爬在枕頭上歎息。

Even if in your youth you were as true a lover as ever sighed into your pillow all night long.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

    --- As You Like It  II, iv, 54

我們是真情人 會有怪異的行為。

Those of us who are really in love will have the strangest actions.

Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of.

    --- As You Like It  II, iv, 57

ware: aware.  You speak more wisely than you know. Your words are wiser than you are aware of.

Who doth ambition shun,

And loves to live I’ th’ sun,

Seeking the food he eats,

And pleased with what he gets.

    --- As You Like It  II, v, 38

誰能把雄心避開，

喜歡住在那野外，

尋找食物好充饑，

尋得滿心是歡喜。Shun: to avoid something. live … sun: i.e. live a free open-air life.

I met a fool I’ th’ forest,

A motley fool.

   --- As You Like It  II, vii, 12

我在森林裡遇見過一個傻子，

一個穿花衣的傻子。

motley: wearing motley, the parti-colored costume of professional jesters.

And thereby hangs a tale.

   --- As You Like It  II, vii, 28

說來話長。

And there’s a story behind that.

If ladies be but young and fair,

They have the gift to know it:

      --- As You Like It  II, vii, 37

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

    --- As You Like It  II, vii, 139

世界是座舞臺，

所有男男女女只是演員：

他們各有入場和出場；

．．．．結束這齣奇異多事的歷史劇，

是返老還童，全然失憶，

沒有牙齒，沒有眼睛，沒有滋味，沒有一切。

Mewling: crying.  puking: vomiting.  Sighing like furnace: i.e. emitting sighs as a furnace emits smoke.  bearded…pard: with long mustaches like the feelers of the leopard or panther.  Jealous in honor: jealously protective of his honor.  sudden: rash.  saws: maxims.  modern instances: trite illustrations. sixt: sixth.  pantaloon: foolish old man.  his: its.  history: chronicle play.  mere: utter. Sans: without

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

        --- As You Like It  II, vii, 181

多數友誼係假，多數愛情只是愚。feigning: false

    he that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends;

        --- As You Like It  III, ii, 24

人若缺乏金錢、財產和滿足便是沒有三個好朋友；wants: lacks. means: property.

    , I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm,

       --- As You Like It  III, ii, 73

我是個真實單純的工人：賺取我所食，獲得我所衣，不懷恨別人，不嫉妒別人幸福，高興別人的好運，忍耐自己的不幸。that: what. content…harm: patient in my own misfortune

    , and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck.

        --- As You Like It  III, ii, 76

我最得意的事就是看著我的母羊吃草和小羊吸奶。pride: pleasure or satisfaction

From the east to western Inde,

No jewel is like Rosalind.

    --- As You Like It  III, ii, 88

從東印到西印，

沒有寶石能像羅瑟琳。

Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.

    --- As You Like It  III, ii, 250

難道你不知我是個女人嗎？我想到甚麼，我就得說。

Don’t you know that I’m a woman? Whatever I think, I have to say.

, down on your knees,

And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.

    --- As You Like It  III, v, 57

請下跪，

感謝上天，有一個好男人愛妳。

Get down on your knees and thank heaven for sending you such a good man.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

    --- As You Like It  IV, i, 27

我寧願有個傻子逗我開心 也不要經驗使我悲傷。

Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were gravelled for lack of matter, you might take occasion to kiss.

        --- As You Like It  IV, i, 73

不，你先說話會比較好，當你卡住沒話可說時，你可利用機會接吻。gravelled: stuck, at a loss.  for lack of matter: for lack of something to say

Very good orators when they are out, they will spit, and for lovers lacking matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

        --- As You Like It  IV, i, 75

好的演說家 說不下去的時候，他們會吐口水，至於情人們 沒話說的時候，最妙的法子就是接吻。out: i.e. out of “matter”, spit: to eject something from the mouth. cleanliest shift: cleverest device

    : men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

For ever and a day.

    --- As You Like It  IV, I, 145

    , men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

    --- As You Like It  IV, i, 147

男人求婚時像四月（熱情的），結了婚像十二月（熱情冷了）；女人在少女時像五月（溫和如春天），但是成了人妻就變天。

    ; my affection hath an unknown bottom, like the bay of Portugal.

    --- As You Like It  IV, i, 207

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

    --- As You Like It  V, i, 31

傻子自以為聰明，但是聰明人知道自己是傻子。

Only a fool thinks he’s wise; the wise man knows that he is.

(For your brother and my sister) no sooner met but they look’d; no sooner look’d but they lov’d; no sooner lov’d but they sigh’d; no sooner sigh’d but they ask’d one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy:

      --- As You Like It  V, ii, 32

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

      --- As You Like It  V, ii, 43

但是啊，用另外一個人的眼睛來看幸福 是多麼苦的事。But oh, it’s bitter to look at happiness through another man’s eyes.

It was a lover and his lass,

With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,

That o’er the green corn-field did pass,

In spring time, the only pretty ring time,

When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding,

Sweet lovers love the spring.

      --- As You Like It  V, iii, 16

一個情郎和他的姑娘，

嘿，嗬，嘿 諾呢諾，

走過了青青小麥田，

春天，適宜的結婚季節，

鳥兒唱著，叮 叮 叮 然，

甜蜜情侶喜愛是春天。lass: (in Scotland) a girl; a young woman. corn-field: wheatfield.  ring time: season for weddings

You and you no cross shall part;

You and you are heart in heart;

You to his love must accord,

Or have a woman to your lord;

      --- As You Like It  V, iv, 131

你倆意見不合不能離分；

你倆是心心相印；

妳得同意做他的愛妻，

除非妳想跟女人結縭；cross: disagreement. accord: assent. No disagreement will ever part you; your two hearts are bound together; you must consent to having Silvius as your husband, unless you’d rather be married to a woman;

Wedding is great Juno’s crown,

O blessed bond of board and bed!

      --- As You Like It  V, iv, 141

婚姻是偉大鳩諾所戴的皇冠，

被祝福的同食共寢約章！Juno’s crown: Juno was the goddess of marriage. bond: a written agreement that it is against the law to break

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ‘tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

      --- As You Like It  Epilogue 3