King Henry the Fourth, Part I

So shaken as we are, so wan with care.

     --- King Henry the Fourth, Part I  I, i, 1

In those holy fields

Over whose acres walded those blessed feet

Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed

For our advantage on the bitter cross.

    --- King Henry the Fourth, Part I  I, i, 24

Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.

     --- King Henry the Fourth, Part I  I, ii, 29

      : a purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning;

    --- King Henry IV, Part I  I, ii, 38

星期一夜裡堅決地搶來一袋金子 星期二早上就揮霍光了；resolute: showing great determination.  snatched: grabbed.  dissolute: dissipated.  a bag of gold, brilliantly swiped on a Monday night and extravagantly spent on a Tuesday morning.

(Why, Hal,) ’tis my vocation, Hal; tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

    --- King Henry IV, Part I  I, ii, 116

這是我的職業，黑爾； 一個人努力自己的職業並不是罪惡。It’s my calling, Hal. It’s no sin for a man to follow his calling.

If all the year were playing holidays,

To sport would be as tedious as to work;

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  I, ii, 226

如果一年到頭都是玩樂假日，

那麼玩樂會變得跟工作一樣乏味； tedious: boring  If every day were a vacation, playing would grow as tedious as working.

You tread upon my patience;

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  I, iii, 4

你踐踏我的耐性；tread: set one’s foot down; walk or step.  You’ve walked all over my patience.

    (and wounds,) God save the mark!

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  I, iii, 56

我的天啊！得罪得罪！（但願不是這樣！）God save the mark: God forbid上帝不容許; an exclamation of humorous astonishment, irony, contempt, etc.

A proverbial apologetic phrase used when something unlucky, improper or disagreeable has been mentioned.

God save the mark: origin, perhaps, a formula invoking a blessing on the mark of the cross made to avert evil, and hence used to qualify apologetically or scornfully some remark.

(So cowardly;) and but for these vile guns

He would himself have been a soldier.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  I, iii, 63

; but: except 要不是and that if it hadn’t been for those disgusting guns, he would have been a soldier himself.

(If he fall in, good night,) or sink or swim.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  I, iii, 194

不論成敗；孤注一擲good … swim: i.e. he’s done for, whether he sinks or stays afloat（for a time）.

sink or swim:（saying）used of a situation where one will either fail totally or survive by one’s own efforts.

      O, the blood more stirs

To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  I, iii, 197

喚醒一頭獅子比驚動一隻野兔 更令人興奮！ It takes more courage to wake a sleeping lion than to frighten a rabbit!

(Nay, by God, soft,) I know a trick worth two of that, (i’ faith.)

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  II, i, 40

我知道有更好的辦法，a trick worth two of that: a plan, idea, or suggestion that is vastly superior to another one.

If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I’ll be hanged.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  II, ii, 20

如果這混蛋沒給我藥 吃了會喜歡他，我會被絞死。He must have slipped me a love potion that makes me adore him.

(, my lord fool,) out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

--- King Henry IV, Part I  II, iii, 11

從蕁麻的危險當中，我們安全摘下花朵。We shall pluck a flower of safety from this thorn of danger.

(by this rascal,) I could brain him with his lady’s fan.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  II, iii, 26

我能用他太太的扇子 把他的腦袋打破。I’d break his head open with his wife’s fan.

    (Falstaff, but) a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy,

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  II, iv, 13

一個有活力的、熱情的好孩子，Corinthian: spirited fellow. mettle: ardent temperament, spirit, courage

What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?

--- King Henry IV, Part I  II, iv, 328

半夜起床做甚麼？What is an old man doing out of bed at midnight?

      If to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be lov’d.

    --- King Henry IV, Part I  II, iv, 526

如果肥胖要被憎恨，那麼法老王的瘦母牛會受人喜愛。If being fat means you should be hated, then we should all love Pharaoh’s lean cows.

Pharaoh’s lean kine: see Genesis 41:1-4 : While Joseph was still in prison, the Pharaoh had a dream in which he stood by the river of Nile and saw seven healthy and well fed cows come from the waters. Afterwards, seven thin and sickly cows came out of the river and ate the healthy ones.

I am not in the roll of common men.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  III, i, 42

我不在凡人之列。roll: register, list, catalogue

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew

Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  III, i, 128

我寧可當一隻小貓 喵喵叫

也不願做kitten: young cat. ballet: ballad.  I’d rather be a kitten and say “meow” than be a courtly balladeer.

(And such) a deal of skimble-skamble stuff.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  III, i, 153

一大堆沒頭沒腦的扯淡。 He talks so much mumbo-jumbo that I don’t know what to believe anymore.

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine,

And that’s a feeling disputation,

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  III, i, 204

我瞭解妳的多吻，而妳也瞭解我的吻，

這是感情交流的會話，disputation: conversation.  a feeling disputation: i.e. a conversation by exchange of feelings not words.

He was but as the cuckoo is in June,

Heard, not regarded;

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  III, ii, 75

他只像是六月才來的布穀鳥，

聽得到，而不被人注意；regarded: paid attention to

(Which art) my nearest and dearest enemy?

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  III, ii, 123

我最靠近最可怕的敵人？ dearest: (1) best beloved; (2) direst.

(If not,) the end of life cancels all bands,

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  III, ii, 157

死亡勾消所有契據， bands: deeds, legal documents by which a person binds himself

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  III, iii, 187

你看到我身上的肉比別人多 因此更虛弱。 frailty: physical weakness, or need annotation?

As full of spirit as the month of May,

And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  IV, i, 101

精神飽滿像一年當中的五月，

燦爛奪目不下於仲夏的太陽；

Come let us take a muster speedily.

Doomsday is near, die all, die merrily.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  IV, i, 133

來，讓我們快把部隊集合。

世界末日已到，大家要死得快活。Come on, let’s gather our troops right now. It’s almost doomsday; if we die, we die cheerfully.

To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast

Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  IV, ii, 86

戰爭快要結束 懶惰的士兵才上戰場

宴會正要開始 好吃的客人早已來到。fray: a fight. dull: slow, inactive. keen: fond of something.  An inactive soldier arrives late to a battle, but a hungry guest arrives early for a feast.

(He presently, as) greatness knows itself,

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  IV, iii, 74

偉大有自知之明，knows itself: comes to recognize its power.

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes,

For treason is but trusted like the fox,

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  V, ii, 8

我們終其一生會被用懷疑來檢視，

因為叛逆像狐狸 不被信任， Supposition: suspicion.  stuck full of eyes: i.e. like the many-eyed allegorical figures of suspicion.  For the rest of our lives he and his loyalists will look on us with suspicion. Because of treason is ….

(O gentlemen,) the time of life is short!

To spend that shortness basely were too long

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  V, ii, 81

生命的時間是短暫的！

那短暫時間 羞恥地度過則太長 basely: dishonourably, shamefully

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  V, iv, 65

一條軌道不容兩顆星星同時運行， There isn’t enough room for two stars in the same orbit,

But thought’s, the slave of life, and life, time’s fool,

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  V, iv, 81

但是思想依賴生命，而生命依賴時間， But thought depends on life, and life depends on time,

Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,

But not remembered in thy epitaph!

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  V, iv, 100

惡名就伴隨你長眠墓裡，

而不要記在你的墓誌銘！ ignominy: public shame or disgrace

The better part of valour is discretion,

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  V, iv, 120

勇敢的特質是謹慎， part: quality.  discretion: the quality of being discreet, prudence

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Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

  --- King Henry IV, Part I  V, iv, 148

老天，老天，世人多麼愛說謊！ Lord, Lord, how people love to lie!