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Ode: Intimations of Immortality VII

作者Author / William Wordsworth 威廉．華滋華斯

ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

原文與注釋(Text and Annotation): VII

7. (Summary)
Behold the Child among his newborn blisses,
A six years' Darling of a pygmy size!
See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,
Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,	90
With light upon him from his father's eyes!
See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,
Some fragment from his dream of human life,
Shaped by himself with newly-learned art;
A wedding or a festival,	95
A mourning or a funeral;
And this hath now his heart,
And unto this he frames his song:
Then will he fit his tongue
To dialogues of business, love, or strife;	100
But it will not be long
Ere this be thrown aside,
And with new joy and pride
The little actor cons another part;
Filling from time to time his "humorous stage"	105
With all the Persons, down to palsied Age,
That Life brings with her in her equipage;
As if his whole vocation
Were endless imitation.

Line / No.	Word or Phrase	Annotation
第七節大意：就這樣，孩童們快快樂樂的過其家庭生活。並且迷惑於世俗的事物，不斷的效仿成人的行徑。
7/87	newborn	新生的。
7/87	blisses	福佑，喜悅。[back]
88	six-years' Darling	一般認為指的是Coleridge之子Hartley。
88	pygmy	very smail.[back]
89	'mid	amidst被…包圍。
89	of his own hand	of his own making自己製造的。[back]
90	Fretted	teased逗惱。
90	Sallies	playful attacks戲謔。[back]
92	plan or chart	計劃與圖表。[back]
93	fragment	片斷。[back]
94	newly-learned art	剛學到的技巧。[back]
95	festival	慶。[back]
96	mourning	喪。[back]
98	frames	編（歌）。[back]
99	fit his tongue	adapt his tongue，改口說。[back]
100	strife	爭鬥。[back]
102	thrown aside	棄置一旁。[back]
104	cons	studies; learns, 學。
104	Part	角色。[back]
105	humorous stage	反覆無常的舞台，有各種不同的角色。"humorous stage"一語出自伊莉莎白時期詩人Samuel Daniel的一首十四行詩。在Daniel時代，humorous意謂capricious (fanciful反覆無常的)同時也指戲劇中出現的各種不同人物及性格。[back]
106	palsied Age	癱瘓的歲月，指老年期。[back]
107	equipage	行列。[back]
108	vocation	使命。[back]
109	endless imitation	無盡的模倣。[back]