美國語文第六冊 第205期:布魯圖和凱西尤的爭吵(3)

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.

凱西尤，不管你怎樣恐嚇威脅，我都不怕;因為正直的居心便是我最有力的武器，你那些話就像一陣毫無意義的風掠過一樣，我全不放在心上。

I did send to you For certain sums of gold, which you denied me;— For I can raise no money by vile means:

我曾經(jīng)派人去向你借些金錢，你拂了我的面子;——因為我不會通過邪惡的手段斂錢的，

By heaven! I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.

上帝啊!我寧愿把自己一滴滴心血熔鑄成錢幣，也不愿從農人粗硬的手里榨取他們那卑賤污穢的銅板。

I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?

我派人向你借錢，為了支付軍餉，你卻拂了我的面子;這哪像凱西尤的作為啊?

Should I have answered Caius Cassius so?

我應不應該也這樣對待蓋尤斯·凱西尤呢?

When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends,

當馬庫斯·布魯圖要是也變得這般吝嗇，像無賴似的鎖住他的錢柜，不與他的朋友們時，

Be ready, gods, with an your thunderbolts; Dash him to pieces! I denied you not. You did.

神啊，就請你們用雷電把他劈得粉身碎骨吧!我并沒有拂你的面子啊。你拒絕我了。

I did not: he was but a fool that brought My answer back.

我沒有，傳我口信的那家伙就是個傻瓜。

 

Brutus hath rived my heart: A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

布魯圖把我的心都劈碎了，一個朋友應當擔待他朋友的過失，可是布魯圖卻把我的過失渲染得格外大。

I do not, till you practice them on me. You love me not. I do not like your faults.

我沒有，是你有負于我的。你不喜歡我。我不喜歡你的過錯。

A friendly eye could never see such faults.

一個朋友的眼里決不容許這種過錯存在。

A flatterer's would not, though they do appear As huge as high Olympus.

布魯圖，在一個阿諛奉承的人眼里，即使有像奧林匹斯山一樣高聳龐大的過錯，也會視而不見的。

Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is aweary of the world;

來，安東尼，來，年輕的屋大維，你們向凱西尤一個人復仇吧，因為凱西尤已經(jīng)厭倦這個世界了，

Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother; Checked like a bondman;

被所愛的人憎恨，被他的兄弟脅迫，像一個奴隸似的被人呵來呵去，

all his faults observed, Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote, To cast into my teeth.

他的一切過失都被人記在本上，爛熟于心，成了當面揭發(fā)我的罪狀。