威尼斯商人

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ANTONIO
I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;
And if it stand, as you yourself still do,
Within the eye of honour, be assured,
My purse, my person, my extremest means,
Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.
BASSANIO
In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
The self-same way with more advised watch,
To find the other forth, and by adventuring both
I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,
Because what follows is pure innocence.
I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,
That which I owe is lost; but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
As I will watch the aim, or to find both
Or bring your latter hazard back again
And thankfully rest debtor for the first.

安東尼奧        好巴薩尼奧，請您告訴我吧。只要您的計划跟您向來的立身行事一樣光明正大，那么我的錢囊可以讓您任意取用，我自己也可以供您驅使；我愿意用我所有的力量，幫助您達到目的。
巴薩尼奧        我在學校里練習射箭的時候，每次把一枝箭射得不知去向，便用另一枝同樣射程的箭向著同一方向射去，眼睛看准了它掉在什么地方，就往往可以把那失去的箭找回來；這樣，冒著雙重的險，就能找到兩枝箭。我提起這一件儿童時代的往事作為譬喻，因為我將要對您說的話，完全是一种很天真的思想。我欠了您很多的債，而且像一個不听話的孩子一樣，把借來的錢一起揮霍完了；可是您要是愿意向著您放射第一枝箭的方向，再射出您的第二枝箭，那么這一回我一定會把目標看准，即使不把兩枝箭一起找回來，至少也可以把第二枝箭交還給您，讓我仍舊對于您先前給我的援助做一個知恩圖報的負債者。

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ANTONIO
You know me well, and herein spend but time
To wind about my love with circumstance;
And out of doubt you do me now more wrong
In making question of my uttermost
Than if you had made waste of all I have:
Then do but say to me what I should do
That in your knowledge may by me be done,
And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak.
BASSANIO
In Belmont is a lady richly left;
And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,
Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes
I did receive fair speechless messages:
Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued
To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:
Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
For the four winds blow in from every coast
Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece;
Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strand,
And many Jasons come in quest of her.
O my Antonio, had I but the means
To hold a rival place with one of them,
I have a mind presages me such thrift,
That I should questionless be fortunate!

安東尼奧        您是知道我的為人的，現在您用這种譬喻的話來試探我的友誼，不過是浪費時間罷了；您要是怀疑我不肯盡力相助，那就比花掉我所有的錢還要對不起我。所以您只要對我說我應該怎么做，如果您知道哪件事是我的力量所能辦到的，我一定會給您辦到。您說吧。
巴薩尼奧        在貝爾蒙特有一位富家的嗣女，長得非常美貌，尤其值得稱道的，她有非常卓越的德性；從她的眼睛里，我有時接到她的脈脈含情的流盼。她的名字叫做鮑西婭，比起古代凱圖的女儿，勃魯托斯的賢妻鮑西婭來，毫無遜色。這廣大的世界也沒有漠視她的好處，四方的風從每一處海岸上帶來了聲名藉藉的求婚者；她的光亮的長發就像是傳說中的金羊毛，把她所住的貝爾蒙特變做了神話中的王國，引誘著無數的伊阿宋１前來向她追求。啊，我的安東尼奧！只要我有相當的財力，可以和他們中間無論哪一個人匹敵，那么我覺得我有充分的把握，一定會達到愿望的。

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ANTONIO
Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;
Neither have I money nor commodity
To raise a present sum: therefore go forth;
Try what my credit can in Venice do:
That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,
To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.
Go, presently inquire, and so will I,
Where money is, and I no question make
To have it of my trust or for my sake.
Exeunt

安東尼奧        你知道我的全部財產都在海上；我現在既沒有錢，也沒有可以變換現款的貨物。所以我們還是去試一試我的信用，看它在威尼斯城里有些什么效力吧；我一定憑著我這一點面子，能借多少就借多少，盡我最大的力量供給你到貝爾蒙特去見那位美貌的鮑西婭。去，我們兩人就去分頭打听什么地方可以借到錢，我就用我的信用做擔保，或者用我自己的名義給你借下來。（同下。）

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SCENE II: Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
Enter PORTIA and NERISSA

第二場　貝爾蒙特。鮑西婭家中一室

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PORTIA
By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of
this great world.
NERISSA
You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in
the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and
yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit
with too much as they that starve with nothing. It
is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the
mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but
competency lives longer.
PORTIA
Good sentences and well pronounced.
NERISSA
They would be better, if well followed.

鮑西婭        真的，尼莉莎，我這小小的身体已經厭倦了這個廣大的世界了。
尼莉莎        好小姐，您的不幸要是跟您的好運气一樣大，那么無怪您會厭倦這個世界的；可是照我的愚見看來，吃得太飽的人，跟挨餓不吃東西的人，一樣是會害病的，所以中庸之道才是最大的幸福：富貴催人生白發，布衣蔬食易長年。
鮑西婭        很好的句子。
尼莉莎        要是能夠照著它做去，那就更好了。

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PORTIA
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to
do, chapels had been churches and poor men's
cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that
follows his own instructions: I can easier teach
twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the
twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may
devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps
o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the
youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the
cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to
choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may
neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I
dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed
by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,
Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?
NERISSA
Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their
death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,
that he hath devised in these three chests of gold,
silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning
chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any
rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what
warmth is there in your affection towards any of
these princely suitors that are already come?
PORTIA
I pray thee, over-name them; and as thou namest
them, I will describe them; and, according to my
description, level at my affection.
鮑西婭        倘使做一件事情就跟知道應該做什么事情一樣容易，那么小教堂都要變成大禮拜堂，窮人的草屋都要變成王侯的宮殿了。一個好的說教師才會遵從他自己的訓誨；我可以教訓二十個人，吩咐他們應該做些什么事，可是要我做這二十個人中間的一個，履行我自己的教訓，我就要敬謝不敏了。理智可以制定法律來約束感情，可是熱情激動起來，就會把冷酷的法令蔑棄不顧；年輕人是一頭不受拘束的野兔，會跳過老年人所設立的理智的藩篱。可是我這樣大發議論，是不會幫助我選擇一個丈夫的。唉，說什么選擇！我既不能選擇我所中意的人，又不能拒絕我所憎厭的人；一個活著的女儿的意志，卻要被一個死了的父親的遺囑所箝制。尼莉莎，像我這樣不能選擇，也不能拒絕，不是太叫人難堪了嗎？
尼莉莎        老太爺生前道高德重，大凡有道君子臨終之時，必有神悟；他既然定下這抽簽取決的方法，叫誰能夠在這金、銀、鉛三匣之中選中了他預定的一只，便可以跟您匹配成親，那么能夠選中的人，一定是值得您傾心相愛的。可是在這些已經到來向您求婚的王孫公子中間，您對于哪一個最有好感呢？
鮑西婭        請你列舉他們的名字，當你提到什么人的時候，我就對他下几句評語；憑著我的評語，你就可以知道我對于他們各人的印象。

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NERISSA
First, there is the Neapolitan prince.
PORTIA
Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but
talk of his horse; and he makes it a great
appropriation to his own good parts, that he can
shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his
mother played false with a smith.

尼莉莎        第一個是那不勒斯的親王。
鮑西婭        嗯，他真是一匹小馬；他不講話則已，講起話來，老是說他的馬怎么怎么；他因為能夠親自替自己的馬裝上蹄鐵，算是一件天大的本領。我很有點儿疑心他的令堂太太是跟鐵匠有過勾搭的。

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NERISSA
Then there is the County Palatine.
PORTIA
He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you
will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and
smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping
philosopher when he grows old, being so full of
unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be
married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth
than to either of these. God defend me from these
two!

尼莉莎        還有那位巴拉廷伯爵呢？
鮑西婭        他一天到晚皺著眉頭，好像說，“你要是不愛我，隨你的便。”他听見笑話也不露一絲笑容。我看他年紀輕輕，就這么愁眉苦臉，到老來只好一天到晚痛哭流涕了。我宁愿嫁給一個骷髏，也不愿嫁給這兩人中間的任何一個；上帝保佑我不要落在這兩個人手里！

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NERISSA
How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?
PORTIA
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but,
he! why, he hath a horse better than the
Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than
the Count Palatine; he is every man in no man; if a
throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will
fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I
should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me
I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I
shall never requite him.
NERISSA
What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron
of England?

尼莉莎        您說那位法國貴族勒·滂先生怎樣？
鮑西婭        既然上帝造下他來，就算他是個人吧。憑良心說，我知道譏笑人是一樁罪過，可是他！嘿！他的馬比那不勒斯親王那一匹好一點，他的皺眉頭的坏脾气也胜過那位巴拉廷伯爵。什么人的坏處他都有一點，可是一點沒有他自己的特色；听見畫眉唱歌，他就會手舞足蹈；見了自己的影子，也會跟它比劍。我倘然嫁給他，等于嫁給二十個丈夫；要是他瞧不起我，我會原諒他，因為即使他愛我愛到發狂，我也是永遠不會報答他的。

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NERISSA
What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron
of England?
PORTIA
You know I say nothing to him, for he understands
not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latin, French,
nor Italian, and you will come into the court and
swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English.
He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can
converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!
I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round
hose in France, his bonnet in Germany and his
behavior every where.

尼莉莎        那么您說那個英國的少年男爵，福康勃立琪呢？
鮑西婭        你知道我沒有對他說過一句話，因為我的話他听不懂，他的話我也听不懂；他不會說拉丁話、法國話、意大利話；至于我的英國話是如何高明，你是可以替我出席法庭作證的。他的模樣倒還長得不錯，可是唉！誰高興跟一個啞巴做手勢談話呀？他的裝束多么古怪！我想他的緊身衣是在意大利買的，他的褲子是在法國買的，他的軟帽是在德國買的，至于他的行為舉止，那是他從四面八方學來的。