【#蕭叔叔的英國文學課】莎士比亞談淚水
“Ah but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds, and they are rich and ransom all ill deeds.”
蕭叔9譯：「唉，見你楚楚可憐流住珍珠一樣嘅眼淚，我又點捨得同你計你做過咩仆街嘢呢？」
這兩句來自Sonnet 34，講的是兵仔（莎翁）被女神（或男神）欺騙、折磨、情緒勒索；本來打算反面，但一看到女神楚楚可憐的流淚，就即時軟下來了（心軟啦）。
全詩：
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o’ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
‘Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
For no man well of such a salve can speak
That heals the wound and cures not the disgrace:
Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:
The offender’s sorrow lends but weak relief
To him that bears the strong offence’s cross.
Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,
And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds.
9譯莎翁：
「DNGH又話出太陽，等我冇帶雨褸出街，點知落狗屎搞到我濕L晒！你出番太陽都冇用㗎啦。道歉？道LLM。不如你殺完人同人家屬道歉啦屌。唉，不過⋯⋯見到你楚楚可憐咁喊住嘅樣⋯⋯我又點嬲得落吖？」
蕭叔叔
