"All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare

譯者: Carol Wang 審譯者: Helen Chang

“All the World’s a Stage”

《人生七計》

from "As You Like It"

選自《皆大歡喜》

by William Shakespeare

作者：威廉 · 莎士比亞 翻譯：林語堂先生

All the world’s a stage,

天地一劇場，

And all the men and women merely players;

眾生皆戲子；

They have their exits and their entrances;

出將又入相，

And one man in his time plays many parts,

淨丑相輪替，

His acts being seven ages.

人生不滿百，七齣皆演備。

At first the infant,

初期為嬰兒，

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;

飽笑飢即啼。

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

次為小男兒，書包日日攜，

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

晨光照顏色，

Unwillingly to school.

上學遲棲棲。

And then the lover,

情竇既已開，

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

唏噓聲如雷，

Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.

好作美人行，狂歌詠畫眉。

Then a soldier,

繼馳驅疆場，

Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,

出口唯「媽的」， 卻說大丈夫，黑髯壯聲氣，

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

人言偶逆耳，揮拳即交至，

Seeking the bubble reputation

欲博一英名，

Even in the cannon’s mouth.

鎗口亦不避。

And then the justice,

繼即為法官，

In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,

滿腹皆閹雞，腹既已便便，

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

豐髯亦得體，

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

脫口皆成文，

And so he plays his part.

兩目惟正視。

The sixth age shifts

此齣既已完，

Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,

即穿軟拖屣，

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

昔年剩腰褲，綽綽有餘地，

His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide

兩頰已下垂，

For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,

眼鏡戴上鼻，

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

昔年聲宏亮，

And whistles in his sound.

今則何嘰嘰。

Last scene of all,

六齣既已終，

That ends this strange eventful history,

末幕了全戲，

Is second childishness and mere oblivion;

老耄返童騃，前事盡忘記；

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

眼既不知色，口復不知味， 牙齒全脫落，茫茫返蒙昧。