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Much Ado About Nothing
1001 A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 8 戰勝者帶著全班人馬回朝 可說是雙倍的勝利。 achiever: one who accomplishes, winner, victor
He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 15
How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping! --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 27 喜極而泣 要比哭的時候私心竊喜好得多!
He is a very valiant trencherman, (he hath an excellent stomach.) --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 51 trencherman: good eater
(; they never meet but) there’s a skirmish of wit between them. --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 63 skirmish: a fierce argument
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat: --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 75 faith: loyalty
I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books. --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 78 books: i.e. good books, favor
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 118
Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 199
I can be secret as a dumb man; --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 209
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 261 yoke軛
(Here you may see) Benedick the married man. --- Much Ado About Nothing I, i, 267 1010 I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face, I had rather lie in the woollen! --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 29 in the woollen: between woollen blankets, without sheets
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him; --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 36
(, and there live we) as merry as the day is long. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 49
Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 60 marl: clay
For hear me, Hero: wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinquepace; --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 72 Hero, 請聽我說,求婚、結婚、後悔,就像是蘇格蘭急格舞、慢步舞、五步舞; measure: slow, stately dance. cinquepace: lively dance, the steps of which were prob. based on the number five
I have a good eye, uncle, I can see a church by daylight. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 82
Speak low if you speak love. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 99
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love; Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 175 office: business. all: let all
; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 179 Against whose charms: in the face of whose spells. blood: passion
She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 247 poniards: daggers 1020 Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much! --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 306
(I thank it—poor fool,) it keeps on the windy side of care. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 314 windy: windward, i.e. safe
, but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 335
Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 357 情人尚未行婚禮前 時間像拄著拐杖走路。
, and I will tell you my drift. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, i, 387 drift: intent
; he was wont to speak plain and to the purpose (like an honest man and a soldier), --- Much Ado About Nothing II, iii, 18
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster, --- Much Ado About Nothing II, iii, 23
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, iii, 62
Sits the wind in that corner? --- Much Ado About Nothing II, iii, 98 Sit: (of the wind) blow from, be in, a particular direction. Is that how the wind blows?
Bait the hook well, this fish will bite. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, iii, 108
Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. --- Much Ado About Nothing II, iii, 240 sentences: maxims. paper … brain: verbal ammunition. career … humour: course of his inclination 1030 Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. --- Much Ado About Nothing III, i, 106
(, for) from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. --- Much Ado About Nothing III, ii, 8
He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks. --- Much Ado About Nothing III, ii, 12
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it. --- Much Ado About Nothing III, ii, 28 grief: cause of pain
, as a German from the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward, no doublet. --- Much Ado About Nothing III, ii, 35 slops: loose breeches. no doublet: i.e. with his doublet completely covered by a cloak
Are you good men and true? --- Much Ado About Nothing III, iii, 1
To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. --- Much Ado About Nothing III, iii, 14 well-favored: good-looking
If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for. --- Much Ado About Nothing III, iii, 46 make … answer: those that are drunk don’t then agree to go home
(, but I think) they that touch pitch will be defiled. --- Much Ado About Nothing III, iii, 57 defile: to make something dirty
(, and I see that) the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. --- Much Ado About Nothing III, iii, 139 fashion … man: i.e. clothes are more often discarded because the fashion has changed than because they are worn-out. 1040 A good old man, sir, he will be talking; as they say, “When the age is in, the wit is out.” --- Much Ado About Nothing III, v, 33 When … out: an adaptation of the proverb “When ale is in, wit is out.”
O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do! --- Much Ado About Nothing IV, i, 19
Claudio: Will you with free and unconstrained soul Give me this maid, your daughter? Leonato: As freely, son, as God did give her me. --- Much Ado About Nothing IV, i, 24 unconstrained: not imposed against one’s will; (hence) imposing no restraint
O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! --- Much Ado About Nothing IV, i, 35 authority: authenticity
; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. --- Much Ado About Nothing IV, i, 217
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. --- Much Ado About Nothing IV, i, 286 protest: declare
Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves, and it will go near to be thought so shortly. --- Much Ado About Nothing IV, ii, 20
Flat burglary as ever was committed. --- Much Ado About Nothing IV, ii, 50 Flat: absolute, downright
O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this. --- Much Ado About Nothing IV, ii, 56 redemption: He means the opposite.
O that he were here to write me down an ass! --- Much Ado About Nothing IV, ii, 75
Patch griefs with proverbs, --- Much Ado About Nothing V, i, 17 Patch: to cover 1050 Charm ache with air, and agony with words. --- Much Ado About Nothing V, i, 26 air: breath, i.e. words
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, --- Much Ado About Nothing V, i, 35 從來沒有 能耐心忍受牙痛 的哲學家,
, or some of us will smart for it. --- Much Ado About Nothing V, i, 108 smart: to feel a sharp pain
In false quarrel there is no true valour. --- Much Ado About Nothing V, i, 120 false: unfair
What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. --- Much Ado About Nothing V, i, 132 mettle or metal: courage
I was not born under a rhyming planet, --- Much Ado About Nothing V, ii, 40
Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably. --- Much Ado About Nothing V, ii, 72
, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, --- Much Ado About Nothing V, ii, 85 trumpet: trumpeter
Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. --- Much Ado About Nothing V, iii, 3 Done: ruined
Peace, I will stop your mouth. [Kissing her.] --- Much Ado About Nothing V, iv 98 別說了,我要堵住妳的嘴。Peace: be silent 1060 , get thee a wife, get thee a wife. There is no staff more reverent than one tipped with horn. --- Much Ado About Nothing V, iv 122 staff: royal staff. reverent: honorable. tipped with horn: any mention of “horn” is an allusion to the idea that cuckolds sprouted horns from their head.
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