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SONNET #5
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there;
Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:
Then, were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was:
But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
1、hours(读两个音节）：同第5行time 一样指“时间”之神。frame:shape，造就。
2、gaze:object gazed om，指“容貌”。
3、the very same:the same to lovely face.
4、unfair(v.t.):make ugly.fairly:in beauty.此行可意译为：And make ugly what now excels in beauty.
6、confounds:destroys.him:it,i.e. summer,there:in winer.
7-8、这两行为独立主格结构，意义与5-6行连上，好比行首有个with.
7、Sap:Vital juice circulating in plants；树液，植物生长液。checked:stoppped.lusty:vigorous,well-growing.
8、o'ersonwed:buried in snow；撇号（apostrsphe)表示省略字母v，从而压缩一个音节，又见第10行pris'ner=prisoner。
9、summer's distillation:essence of summer flower，主要指从玫瑰花中提炼出来的香精。were not...left:if there were not left.
10、walls of glass:cd mqb 6.3注。
11、effect:product,结晶。were bereft:would be taken away.
12、Nor...nor:此行省略了一个动词，原意是：There would be neither it (i.e. beauty's effcet) nor any remembrance of what ia was .nor no:双重否定，仍为否定，这是伊丽莎白时代英惯用法。
14、leese but their show:lose only their outward form.still:always.sweet：香；此字在莎士比亚著作中有时可解“悦耳”、“美妙”、“性格令人喜爱”，但很少解作“甜”。
日期: 2007年4月14 周六