The Comedy of Errors

    (almost at fainting under)

The pleasing punishment that women bear-

   --- The Comedy of Errors  I, i, 45

婦女所承受愉快的折磨（懷孕） The pleasing punishment: pregnancy

For we may pity, though not pardon thee.

    --- The Comedy of Errors  I, i, 97

我（公爵）會憐憫你，雖然不能寬恕你。

(; for they say,) every why hath a wherefore.

   --- The Comedy of Errors  II, ii, 43

每一個為甚麼都有一個理由。（諺語）/ 每一件事情都有它的道理。every … wherefore is a proverb. There is a reason for everything.

There’s no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature.

   --- The Comedy of Errors  II, ii, 72

男人自然禿了頭 就沒有再生頭髮的時候。

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

   --- The Comedy of Errors  III, i, 26

幾樣小菜和大大歡迎 造就愉快的宴會。A little food and a huge welcome makes a joyous feast.

O, villain, thou hast stol’n both mine office and my name:

The one ne’er got me credit, the other mickle blame.

   --- The Comedy of Errors  III, i, 44

嘔，壞蛋，你偷了我的職位和姓名：

前者對我沒有好處，後者招致不少批評。  office: function. mickle: much.  You jerk! You’ve stolen both my job and my name:

True, the job never did me much good, and my name only ever got me in trouble.

There is something in the wind,

   --- The Comedy of Errors  III, i, 69

箇中有蹊蹺，There is a secret plan or undertaking.

If everyone knows us and we know none,

‘Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.

   --- The Comedy of Errors  III, ii, 152

The venom clamors of a jealous woman

Poisons more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.

   --- The Comedy of Errors  V, i, 69

好嫉妒的女人 惡意的叫罵

比瘋狗咬人還傷。 venom: venomous. A jealous woman’s poisonous ranting is worse than the bite of a rabid dog.

We came into the world like brother and brother,

Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.

   --- The Comedy of Errors  V, i, 425

我們像孿生兄弟來到這世間，

讓我們携手而行，不分後先。