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| Sonnet 129 |
| 作者Author / William Shakespeare 威廉．莎士比亞 |
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Sonnet 129
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| Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame |
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| Is lust in action, and till action, lust |
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| ls perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame, |
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| Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; |
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| Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight: |
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| Past reason hunted, and no sooner had, |
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| Past reason hated as a swallowed bait, |
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| On purpose laid to make the taker mad: |
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| Mad in pursuit and in possession so; |
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| Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; |
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| A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe; |
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| Before, a joy proposed, behind, a dream. |
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| All this the world well knows yet none knows well |
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| To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. |
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expense |
消耗；用盡之意。 |
| spirit |
即vital spirit生命力之意。亦可做精液(semen)解。[back] |
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lust in action |
性行為。[back] |
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Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame/Is lust in action |
倒裝句，意思是"Lust in operation is a shameful waste of one's vial spirit."（性行為是消耗人的生命力之一種可恥的行為。）此處"waste"是個雙關語，意與"waist"同。[back] |
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till action |
性行為之前。[back] |
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...perjured,...not to trust |
作者在此一共用了九個形容詞來形容色慾可使人滅絕人性。為了滿足色慾，好色之徒可以欺騙(perjured)，殺人(murderous, bloody)，不怕人譴責(full of blame)，野蠻(savage)，走極端 (extreme)，粗魯(rude)，殘忍(cruel)，不為人所信任(not to trust)。[back] |
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straight |
right away立刻之意。 |
| Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight |
這句話的主詞是性行為(lust in action)，意思是說，享受性行為之後立刻就看不起性行為。[back] |
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Past |
beyond (past reason = beyond reason = extremely = madly故其意與第四行之"extreme" ，第九行之"mad"同。[back] |
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Past reason hunted…to make the taker mad |
這句話的主詞是"lust"，意思是說：非理性地追求色欲的滿足，然而一旦色欲得逞，卻又恨之入骨，作者將色欲比擬「魚餌」，吞食之後，脫身不能，恨之欲狂。[back] |
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mad |
作者可能在暗示與妓女發生關係後因恐感染梅毒，所以說色欲可置入於瘋狂之地(make the taker mad)。[back] |
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A bliss in proof |
A bliss during the experiences 意指性行為過程是一種極樂之經驗。[back] |
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dream |
emptiness空虛，失落。亦以解為惡夢(night-mare)。[back] |
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knows well |
在此為'know how'之意。[back] |
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shun |
避免。 |
| heaven |
天堂，極樂之意，指色欲美好如天堂。莎翁說"I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap." (Henry VI, Act III, ii, 148)。 |
| hell |
地獄，指一切痛苦與空虛的感覺。[back] |
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