Shakespeare | Twelfth Night&3&
上海外国语大学英语教授、博导
Quotations from Shakespeare’s plays ----Twelfth Night. All the Chinese versions are basically taken from Liang Shiqiu’s translations.
1. In nature there’s no
none can be call’d deform’d but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil are empty trunks o’erflourish’d by the devil. (From Twelfth Night Act III Scene IV)
人生没有缺憾，除了心地不良；无所谓残废，除了狠毒的心肠：德行既是美，但是貌美而心恶，不过是恶魔所雕饰的空躯壳。
Appreciation & Critical Comments：
a. No blemish is real blemish except the blemish in the mind.
b. Unkind thoughts and deeds are regarded as deformed thoughts and deeds.
c. The agreement of what is inside and what is outside grants us perfections, so virtue is beauty.
d. The inside evil renders trunks empty overflourished with beauteous surface by the devil.
2. My foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends I am abused. (From Twelfth Night Act V Scene I)
我的敌人却直告我是蠢驴：所以在我的敌人手里，先生，我可以增进我的自知之明，而在我的朋友们手里，我只是被戏弄。
Appreciation & Critical Comments：
a. From what your enemies criticize you and condemn you, you gain more self- so your enemy sometimes offers a looking-glass which reflects your imperfections.
b. But from your friends and those near and dear to you, you gain more praises, compliments and celebrations, which might confound you to such an extent that you are blind to your own blemishes and weak points. So you are abused by your friends.
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