介绍： All the world’s a stage
By William Shakespeare
(from As You Like It, spoken by Jaques)

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking i...

介绍： All the world’s a stage
By William Shakespeare
(from As You Like It, spoken by Jaques)

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

世界是一个舞台
朱生豪 译

全世界是一个舞台，
所有的男男女女不过是一些演员；
他们都有下场的时候，也都有上场的时候。
一个人的一生中扮演着好几个角色，
他的表演可以分为七个时期。最初是婴孩，
在保姆的怀中啼哭呕吐。
然后是背着书包、满脸红光的学童，
像蜗牛一样慢腾腾地拖着脚步，
不情愿地呜咽着上学堂。然后是情人，
像炉灶一样叹着气，写了一首悲哀的诗歌咏着
他恋人的眉毛。然后是一个军人，
满口发着古怪的誓，胡须长得像豹子一样，
爱惜着名誉，动不动就要打架，
在炮口上寻求着泡沫一样的荣名。然后是法官，
胖胖圆圆的肚子塞满了阉鸡，
凛然的眼光，整洁的胡须，
满嘴都是格言和老生常谈；
他这样扮了他的一个角色。
第六个时期变成了精瘦的趿着拖鞋的龙钟老叟，
鼻子上架着眼镜，腰边悬着钱袋；
他那年轻时候节省下来的长袜子，
套在他皱瘪的小腿上显得宽大异常；他那朗朗的男子的口音
又变成了孩子似的尖声，
像是吹着风笛和哨子。
终结着这段古怪的多事的历史的最后一场，
是孩提时代的再现，全然的遗忘，
没有牙齿，没有眼睛，没有口味，没有一切。

 
The world as a stage
- In this famous monologue, the character (narrator) compares the world to a stage and divides a human’s life into seven ages. Life is a performance and every role is predetermined.
- The division indicates life as a cycle, starting from an infant and ending with second childishness.
- This metaphor, though often cited, is not Shakespeare’s creation. Juvenal, the ancient Roman poet, wrote one of the earliest version of this metaphor: “All of Greece is a stage, and every Greek’s an actor.”

在这场著名的独白中，叙述者把世界比作一个舞台，把人生分为七个阶段。人的一生便成了一场演出，在每个阶段所扮演的角色都是既定的。人生的第一阶段从嗷嗷啼哭的婴儿开始，而最后一个阶段又回归童年，其中暗含生命是一个轮回。
将世界比作舞台并不是莎士比亚的首创。古罗马诗人尤维纳利斯就曾写过类似的比喻：“希腊是一个舞台，每个希腊人都是演员。”

Features of each stage
- The role in each stage is characterized by a distinctive sound. For example, the “mewling” infant, the “whining” school boy, the “sighing” lover, the soldier “full of strange oaths”, the justice “full of wise saws and modern instances”, the old man with “pipes and whistles in his sound”. The last role falls into silence, which is vocalized through the four /s/ sounds in the last sentence.

莎士比亚在这篇独白中给每个阶段的人物都赋予了特定的声音特征。比如，啼哭的婴儿，抱怨着不想上学的少年，叹气的情人，满口奇怪誓言的士兵，说着格言的法官，声音尖利的老人。在人生的最后一个阶段，这些嘈杂的声音都化为无声。作者用四个s开头的词作为结尾，读起来更有寂静悲伤的感觉。
 
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