|
|
发表于 2022-7-11 19:25:15
|
显示全部楼层
本帖最后由 entropy 于 2022-7-11 19:28 编辑 - `- a. l/ r6 J1 ]4 r
, }% q/ u0 _' W
prest = pressed . r- M5 `& Q) u! ~) A9 K
prest: (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of press.
; I1 q; u5 m( f! k
+ B$ x/ ]2 i6 J+ x" Dparaphrase:
6 R2 h0 G8 m) b7 W4 A"Lo! Some that we loved as the best that time and fate could produce have already drunk their cup and now lie at rest."* G! J, b, J/ ?+ a9 @- Z
: b: y. A& F* y3 }6 ~9 _解读:
: ~% d2 D: |+ d: h9 FThe best of humanity is likened to a good wine Vintage; their lives are likened to drinking a cup of wine before they creep off to Rest (die).) q; @5 C1 [0 T0 f$ H; Q
, F8 `6 ]% g3 |7 ^$ v1 Y
FitzGerald’s phrase “some we loved, the loveliest and the best” recalls the poignant events surrounding the composer Berlioz and the re-burial of his two wives.7 D* I( Q9 D5 _5 O+ O' q, d
$ I6 R8 E* Z) [9 j1 _作者笔记(译稿):+ U4 L& P& V8 M8 E8 c2 D
The two dead women lie there now in peace, awaiting the time when I shall bring my own share of corruption to the same charnel-house.$ r& I- ?5 b" K$ w! y8 M! V
/ P; l6 e$ B6 M+ P0 E/ ]1 U! T( KI am in my sixty-first year; past hopes, past illusions, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions. My son is almost always far away from me. I am alone. My contempt for the folly and baseness of mankind, my hatred of its atrocious cruelty, have never been so intense. And I say hourly to Death: ‘When you will.’ Why does he delay?” F3 S" t4 H6 g; n, u+ P6 d
1 o: z8 z3 ]3 B& z* j8 ?( ? O$ ]+ gcarpe diem! 我们永远不知道明天和泥头车谁先到来。
) @, U- d' G! e1 S3 ?2 J. [% E7 b5 G; F5 h& M9 D+ M; c" L3 t
参考: b" ~) J# V: T) |9 _- `
https://www.bobforrestweb.co.uk/ ... _by_verse_notes.htm
. @: Y) u( ]2 `' h+ \' B! V |
|