Provider:Fr. Pierre Demer /談德義神父
| My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; | 1 |
| Coral is far more red than her lips' red; | |
| If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; | |
| If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. | |
| I have seen roses damasked, red and white, | 5 |
| But no such roses see I in her cheeks; | |
| And in some perfumes is there more delight | |
| Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. | |
| I love to hear her speak, yet well I know | |
| That music hath a far more pleasing sound; | 10 |
| I grant I never saw a goddess go; | |
| My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. | |
| And yet by heaven I think my love as rare | |
| As any she belied with false compare. |
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mistress | 女朋友，意中人。[back] |
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Coral | 珊瑚。[back] |
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dun | 暗褐色。詩中所描述的是一位dark lady，所以用dun, black等形容詞。[back] |
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wires | 依照Petrarchan sonnet的傳統，指柔絲。 |
| black wires | 指黑髮。此處可能有粗黑的暗示。[back] | |
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damasked | 雜色；斑駁的。To damask意指餌以雜色的花紋。而被認為大馬士革(Damascus)原產的 damask rose則是粉紅色的。莎士比亞在此似乎一語雙指。[back] |
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reeks | exhaled，吐氣。參閱Love's Labour's Lost IV, iii, 140: "sighs reek from you."在現代英語中 reek有發生強烈臭氣的意義似乎以用於伊利莎白時代的英文。[back] |
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go | walk。[back] |
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my love | 我的情人，指dark lady。[back] |
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As…compare | any she指任何女子；belied=(過去分詞) given a false idea，予人錯誤的看法； compare指文學上的譬喻(literary comparison); False compare即指寫 Petrachan sonnet的詩人描述其意中人的譬喻。參閱書中 Petrarchan's Sonnet Convention一段。[back] |
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