月光多么恬静地睡在山坡上How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon

How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon
from Lorenzo, Acte V, Scene 1（The Merchant of Venice）
― William Shakespeare

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold:

There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it…

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils,
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus,
Let no such man be trusted, mark the music.

月光多么恬静地睡在山坡上
（选自莎士比亚《威尼斯商人》箄五幕 第一场）
---摘自朱生豪译本

月光多么恬静地睡在山坡上！
我们就在这儿坐下来，
让音乐的声音悄悄送进我们的耳边；
柔和的静寂和夜色，
是最足以衬托出音乐的甜美的。
坐下来，杰西卡。瞧，天宇中
嵌满了多少灿烂的金钹；

你所看见的每一颗微小的天体，
在转动的时候都会发出天使般的歌声，
永远应和着嫩眼的天婴的妙唱。
在永生的灵魂里也有这一种音乐，
可是当它套上这一具泥土制成的
俗恶易朽的皮囊以后，
我们便再也听不见了。

灵魂里没有音乐，
或是听了甜蜜和谐的乐声而不会感动的人，
都是擅于为非作恶、使奸弄诈的；
他们的灵魂像黑夜一样昏沉，
他们的感情像鬼域一样幽暗；
这种人是不可信任的。听这音乐！

爱上英语其实很简单！

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