[Stage] Hamlet and the Players enter.
[舞台] 哈姆雷特和表演者们进入。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as
many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier
spoke my lines.
请照我给你说的那样重复这段台词—流畅自然地。如果你像许多现在的演员那样夸张地表演，我宁愿让城里的传呼员来念这些台词。

Nor do not saw the air too much with
your hand thus, but use all gently, for in the very
torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of
passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that
may give it smoothness.
不要像这样用你的手做夸张的手势。只要稍微做一点—因为要真正传达激情的旋风，你必须以平和真实的方式呈现。

Oh, it offends me to the soul to
hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion
to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the
groundlings, who for the most part are capable of
nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise.
哦，当我听到一些过度激动的演员戴着假发大声吼叫他的“激情”台词时，我真是讨厌—为了给站在舞台前面的没文化的观众留下印象，竭力刺破观众的耳膜，他们大多数只能欣赏吵闹的声音和哑剧表演。我会鞭打一个演霸王角色过火的家伙。

I would
have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant. It
out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.
那比那些古老的戏剧里希律王大吼大叫还要糟糕。请千万不要那样做。

First Player（第一演员）
I warrant your honor.
我会照你说的做。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be
your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to
the action, with this special observance that you
o’erstep not the modesty of nature.
也不要太温和。要让你的判断引导你。把动作和台词精准地契合在一起。千万不要表演过火，显得不自然。

For anything so
overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both
at the first and now, was and is to hold, as ’twere,
the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature,
scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the
time his form and pressure.
夸张的表演是戏剧应有的反面。表演的目的—无论是从一开始还是直到现在—都是向自然、美德、恶习，以及时代精神映射出一面镜子。

Now this overdone or come
tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot
but make the judicious grieve, the censure of the which
one must in your allowance o’erweigh a whole theatre of
others
.
如果你过度表演或时间掌握不好，可能会逗得不懂行的人笑，但会让那些懂戏的人感到悲哀。你应该更在乎一个懂戏的爱好者的评价，而不是整个剧场的无知观众。

Oh, there be players that I have seen play and
heard others praise (and that highly), not to speak it
profanely, that, neither having th’ accent of Christians
nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man,
我见过一些被人称赞的演员，但他们—不是说粗俗—连个像样的基督徒、异教徒或者是普通人都演不好。

have so
strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of
nature’s journeymen had made men and not made them well,
they imitated humanity so abominably.
他们昂首阔步，吼叫得像一些被初学的上帝制造出来的野兽—他们模仿人，但做得极其糟糕。

First Player（第一演员）
I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us,
sir.
先生，我希望我们的表演团体几乎已经彻底消除了这个毛病。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
O, reform it altogether! And let those that play your
clowns speak no more than is set down for them,
哦，完全消除它。而且确保小丑们只说给他们写的台词

for
there be of them that will themselves laugh to set on
some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too,
though
in the meantime some necessary question of the play be
then to be considered.
—因为他们中的一些人会为了逗一些愚蠢的观众笑，而与此同时剧情的重要部分正在展开。

That’s villainous, and shows a
most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go, make
you ready.
那是恶劣的，而且显示了那些冒犯者可悲的野心，为了在戏剧的牺牲下来获得关注。去吧，准备好。

[Stage] The Players exit.
[舞台] 表演者们离开。

[Stage] Polonius, Guildenstern, and Rosencrantz enter.
[舞台] 波洛涅斯、吉尔登斯特恩和罗森克兰茨进入。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
How now, my lord! Will the king hear this piece of
work?
有什么消息，我的主人？国王会来看演出吗？

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
And the queen too, and that presently.
会的，还有王后，很快就会来。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Bid the players make haste.
告诉表演者们快点。

[Stage] Polonius exits.
[舞台]波洛尼乌斯退场。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Will you two help to hasten them?
你们俩愿意帮助加快演员的速度吗？

Rosencrantz（罗森克朗兹）
Ay, my lord.
是的，我主。

[Stage] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern exit.
[舞台]罗森克兰茲和吉登斯特恩退场。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
What ho, Horatio!
你好，霍雷修！

[Stage] Horatio enters.
[舞台]霍雷修进场。

Horatio（霍雷修）
Here, sweet lord, at your service.
我亲爱的主，这儿我服侍您。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Horatio, thou art e’en as just a man
As e’er my conversation coped withal.
霍雷修，你是我见过的最具人格之光的人。

Horatio（霍雷修）
O my dear lord—
哦，我亲爱的主——

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Nay, do not think I flatter.
For what advancement may I hope from thee
That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,
To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be
flattered?
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.
不，不要认为我在奉承你。我能从你这个仅仅有好意支撑的人那里得到什么呢？为什么会有人去奉承一个穷人？不，只去奉承那些富人，或者向那些可能以金钱或恩惠回应的人鞠躬。

Dost thou hear?
Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
And could of men distinguish, her election
Hath sealed thee for herself, for thou hast been—
As one in suffering all that suffers nothing—
A man that Fortune’s buffets and rewards
Hast ta’en with equal thanks.
你明白我吗？既然我有权力和能力去区分人，我的灵魂选择了你作为朋友，因为你是—忍受一切，因此不让任何事物让你受苦—接受命运所有的跌宕起伏，无论正面或负面，都以一样的镇定感激接受的人。

And blessed are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
That they are not a pipe for Fortune’s finger
To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him
In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.
那些拥有完美激情和理性平衡的人是幸福的，因为他们不能简单地被命运以任何方式玩弄。给我找一个不受自己情绪奴役的人，我会使他靠近我的心—是的，在我心中的心，就像我对待你一样。

—Something too much of this.—
There is a play tonight before the king.
One scene of it comes near the circumstance
Which I have told thee of my father’s death.
但我已经说了太多。今晚将在国王面前上演一出戏。其中一个场景非常接近我告诉你的关于我父亲死亡的情况。

I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,
Even with the very comment of thy soul
Observe mine uncle. If his occulted guilt
Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
It is a damnèd ghost that we have seen,
And my imaginations are as foul
As Vulcan’s stithy.
在那个场景中，请用你所有的注意力观察我的叔叔。如果他隐藏的罪行在那个场景中没有被揭示出来，那么那个鬼就是恶魔—而我关于我叔叔的想法是肮脏和错误的。

Give him heedful note.
For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,
And after we will both our judgments join
In censure of his seeming.
像我一样认真的观察他。然后，我们会见面并共同得出他是否有罪的结论。

Horatio（霍雷修）
Well, my lord.
If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,
And ’scape detecting, I will pay the theft.
很好，我的主，我会密切观察他。如果他设法偷走了任何东西，我没有注意到的话，我承诺付赔偿费。

[Stage] A Danish march plays. Trumpets play. Claudius enters with Gertrude, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and other lords attendant with Claudius ’s guard carrying torches.
[舞台]丹麦的进行曲在播放。喇叭在吹奏。克劳狄乌斯带着格特鲁德、波洛尼乌斯、奥菲利娅、罗森克兰茲、吉登斯特恩和其他服从克劳狄乌斯的贵族进场，他们的保镖拿着火把。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
They are coming to the play. I must be idle.
Get you a place.
他们来了。我必须看起来什么也没做。找个座位。

Claudius（克劳狄斯）
How fares our cousin Hamlet?
哈姆雷特，你过得怎样，我的侄子？

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Excellent, i’ faith, of the chameleon’s dish. I eat the
air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.
很好！实际上，我像变色龙一样食空气—尽管它充满了承诺。这样不是养鸡的方法。

Claudius（克劳狄斯）
I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet. These words
are not mine.
我不知道你在说什么，哈姆雷特。这些话没有回答我的问题。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
No, nor mine now.
同样，也没有回答我的。

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor.
我曾经做过，我的主。而且我被认为是个好演员。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
What did you enact?
你扮演过什么角色？

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
I did enact Julius Caesar. I was killed i’ th’ Capitol.
Brutus killed me.
我扮演过朱利叶斯·凯撒。我在国会大厦被杀。是布鲁特杀了我。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf
there.—Be the players ready?
他居然可以如此残忍的杀掉一个如此重要的人。演员们准备好了吗？

Rosencrantz（罗森克朗兹）
Ay, my lord. They stay upon your patience.
是的，我的主。他们只等你召唤他们。

Gertrude（格特鲁德）
Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.
过来，我亲爱的哈姆雷特。坐在我旁边。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
No, good mother. Here’s metal more attractive. [sits
next to Ophelia]
谢谢，我好母亲。这里有更引人入胜的东西。 [他坐在奥菲莉亚旁边]

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
[to Claudius] Oh, ho, do you mark that?
[对克劳狄乌斯] 哈！你听到了吗？

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
我的女士，我应该躺在你的腿上吗？

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
No, my lord.
不，我的主。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
I mean, my head upon your lap?
我是说，把我的头放在你的腿上？

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
Ay, my lord.
是的，我的主。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Do you think I meant country matters?
你以为我在讲性事吗？

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
I think nothing, my lord.
我什么也没想，我的主。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs.
躺在女孩的腿之间，这是个美好的想法。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
What is, my lord?
什么是美好的，我的主？

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Nothing.
什么也不是。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
You are merry, my lord.
你今晚很快乐，我的主。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Who, I?
谁，我吗？

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
Ay, my lord.
是的，我的主人。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do but be
merry? For, look you, how cheerfully my mother looks,
and my father died within these two hours.
哦，上帝——那个终极操纵者。除了快乐外，一个人还能做什么呢？比如，看看我母亲多么快乐——而我的父亲仅仅去世两个小时。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
Nay, ’tis twice two months, my lord.
不，我的主人，已经四个月了。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I’ll
have a suit of sables. O heavens! Die two months ago and
not forgotten yet?
这么久了？那么愿魔鬼穿上黑色的丧服，而我穿上一套精美的皮草。天哪！他已经去世两个月了，难道还没有被遗忘？

Then there’s hope a great man’s
memory may outlive his life half a year.
我想还有希望，对一位伟人的回忆可能会比他本人活得更久。

But, by ‘r
Lady, he must build churches then, or else shall he
suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose
epitaph is “For, oh, for, oh, the hobby-horse is
forgot.”
但是，我的上帝，他必须为此建造教堂，否则他就得忍受被遗忘，就像流行歌曲中的那匹玩具马：“嘿咻，嘿咻，玩具马已经被遗忘了。”

[Stage] Trumpets play. The pantomime begins. A king and queen enter and embrace each other lovingly. She kneels before him and makes a show of her devotion to him. He lifts her up and rests his head on her neck, then lies down on a bank of flowers. She sees he is asleep, and leaves. Soon another man enters, takes the crown off the sleeping king’s head and kisses it, then pours poison in the king’s ear, and exits. The queen returns and finds the king dead. She weeps passionately. The killer returns, along with three others, and pretends to grieve with the queen. The dead body is carried away. The killer woos the queen with gifts. For a while she is cold and unwilling, but eventually accepts his advances.
[舞台] 吹起喇叭。哑剧开始。一位国王和一位女王走出来，深情地拥抱彼此。她跪在他面前，表现出对他的忠诚。他将她扶起，让她的头靠在自己的脖子上，然后躺在一片花坛上。她发现他睡着了，然后离开。很快，另一个男人走近，从睡着的国王头上取下皇冠并吻它，然后在国王的耳朵里倒毒药，然后离开。女王回来发现国王已经死了。她痛苦地哭泣。杀害者带着其他三人回来，假装和女王一起悲痛。死者的身体被抬走。杀人者用礼物讨好女王。女王开始时冷淡而不愿接受，但最终接受了他的求爱。

[Stage] The Players exit.
[舞台] 演员们退出。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
What means this, my lord?
这是什么意思，我的主人？

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Marry, this is miching mallecho. It means mischief.
这意味着我们正在玩一些恶作剧。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
Belike this show imports the argument of the play.
这个哑剧很可能让人感觉到剧本的主要情节。

[Stage] The actor who will introduce the play enters.
[舞台] 序幕——一个将要介绍剧本的演员——走上舞台。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
We shall know by this fellow. The players cannot keep
counsel. They’ll tell all.
我们会从这家伙那里了解真相。演员们不能保守秘密。他们会告诉你所有的。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
Will he tell us what this show meant?
他会告诉我们哑剧的含义吗？

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Ay, or any show that you will show him. Be not you
ashamed to show, he’ll not shame to tell you what it
means.
是的，或者你向他展示的任何其他东西。只要你不羞于展示，他就不会羞于告诉你它的含义。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
You are naught, you are naught. I’ll mark the play.
你真好色，好色。我正在看演出。

Prologue（序幕）
For us and for our tragedy,
Here stooping to your clemency,
We beg your hearing patiently.
呼吁你的宽容，我们恳请你耐心地观看我们的悲剧表演。

[Stage] The Prologue exits.
[舞台] 序幕退出。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring?
那是序幕还是戒指上的铭文？

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
‘Tis brief, my lord.
我的主，那是很短的。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
As woman’s love.
如同女人的爱情一样短暂。

[Stage] Actors playing the roles of King and Queen enter.
演员国王和演员王后登场。

Player King（剧中国王）
Full thirty times hath Phoebus’ cart gone round
Neptune’s salt wash and Tellus’ orbèd ground,
地球围绕太阳转了三十次；月亮在大海上的光华增减；

And thirty dozen moons with borrowed sheen
About the world have times twelve thirties been,
Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands
Unite commutual in most sacred bands.
以及地球上短短的三十年把我们的心连在一起，神圣的婚姻之和把我们的手结合在一起。

Player Queen（剧中王后）
So many journeys may the sun and moon
Make us again count o’er ere love be done.
But woe is me! You are so sick of late,
So far from cheer and from your former state,
That I distrust you.
但愿我们还能继续彼此爱护三十年。但我感到忧虑。你最近病魔缠身——与你从前的欢快相比，那如此不同——我为你担心。

Yet though I distrust,
Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must.
For women fear too much, even as they love,
And women’s fear and love hold quantity,
In neither aught, or in extremity.
但虽然我担心，不要让它扰乱你，我的主。恋爱中的女人总是惶恐。对于女人来说，恋爱和恐惧是并存的——无论是否有理由担心。

Now what my love is, proof hath made you know,
And as my love is sized, my fear is so:
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear.
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
我已证明了我的爱情的质量。我的爱情深沉，我的恐惧也一样深重。当一个人的爱情很深，小小的烦恼就会变得很大。小小的恐惧放大了，就是大爱的标志。

Player King（剧中国王）
Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too.
My operant powers their functions leave to do.
事实上，我很快就会离开你，爱人。我的体力日益衰弱，失去功能。

And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,
Honored, beloved, and haply one as kind
For husband shalt thou—
我将在这个美丽的世界上离开你，我尊敬的爱人。也许你会找到另一个丈夫——

Player Queen（剧中王后）
Oh, confound the rest!
Such love must needs be treason in my breast.
诅咒所有的其他人！爱上别人将是我心中的背叛。

In second husband let me be accursed!
None wed the second but who killed the first.
如果我嫁第二个丈夫，愿我遭遇诅咒。只有杀了她第一任丈夫的女人才会再嫁。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
[aside] Wormwood, wormwood.
[自言自语] 这真苦涩！

Player Queen（剧中王后）
The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
二婚的原因可能是金钱，但决不会是爱情。

A second time I kill my husband dead
When second husband kisses me in bed.
当我的第二任丈夫在床上吻我时，它就像是再次杀死我的第一任丈夫。

Player King（剧中国王）
I do believe you think what now you speak,
But what we do determine oft we break.
Purpose is but the slave to memory,
Of violent birth, but poor validity,
Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree,
But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.
我相信这就是你现在的想法。但我们发誓要做的事我们往往没有做。意愿受记忆的驱使。它们一开始很强烈，随着时间的推移而逐渐消退——就像一个未成熟的苹果粘在树上，但在成熟的时候自己掉到地上。

Most necessary ’tis that we forget
To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt.
What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
我们必须忘记才能满足我们自己的义务。我们在激情中承诺做的事情，一旦那种激情消散，我们就会忘记。

The violence of either grief or joy
Their own enactures with themselves destroy.
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament.
Grief joys, joy grieves on slender accident.
悲伤或快乐可能会鼓励我们采取行动，但那种行动的冲动随着悲伤或快乐的消逝而消退。悲伤变成了快乐，快乐变成了悲伤，都源于命运的小小转折。

This world is not for aye, nor ’tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change.
For ’tis a question left us yet to prove,
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
世界总有一天会灭亡，所以爱情也会随着命运的改变而改变，并不奇怪。爱情是否推动你的命运，或者你的命运推动爱情，仍是一个待回答的问题。

The great man down, you mark his favorite flies.
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.
And hitherto doth love on fortune tend,
当伟大的人跌倒，他会被人遗弃。当穷人升起，敌人变成朋友。爱情也是伴随着幸福的变化而变化。

For who not needs shall never lack a friend,
And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
Directly seasons him his enemy.
有钱的人从不缺朋友，而向朋友借钱的人却会变成敌人。

But, orderly to end where I begun,
Our wills and fates do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown.
我要回到我开始的那个观点：我们的渴望和我们的命运永远无法相匹配。因此，我们的计划永远无法达到我们所希望的结果。

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
So think thou wilt no second husband wed,
But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
我们想要发生的事情和实际发生的事情永远不会相同。所以你认为你永远不会再次结婚，但当我死去时，这些想法也会随之消逝。

Player Queen（剧中王后）
Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light.
Sport and repose lock from me day and night.
To desperation turn my trust and hope.
愿地球不再给我食物，天空不再给我光明；愿我既无休息也无闲暇，白天和夜晚；愿我的信任和希望转变为绝望；

An anchor’s cheer in prison be my scope.
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy
Meet what I would have well and it destroy.
愿我能期待的安慰只有廉价的监狱食物；愿所有将欢乐转为悲哀的力量摧毁我所有的欲望。

Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife
If, once a widow, ever I be wife!
如果我在成为寡妇后再次结婚，就愿我现在和永远都不得安宁。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
If she should break it now!
如果她违反了这个誓言呢？

Player King（剧中国王）
‘Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile.
My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
The tedious day with sleep.
你发誓真诚。亲爱的，让我一个人呆会儿。我感觉有些困，我想通过睡眠逃避这无聊的一天。

[Stage] The Player King sleeps.
[Stage] 玩家国王入睡。

Player Queen（剧中王后）
Sleep rock thy brain,
And never come mischance between us twain.
愿你睡得安逸，愿任何命运的颠覆都不会在我们之间插足。

[Stage] The Player Queen exits.
[Stage] 玩家王后退出。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Madam, how like you this play?
夫人，你觉得这个剧怎么样？

Gertrude（格特鲁德）
The lady protests too much, methinks.
我觉得那位女士承诺得有些过头了。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Oh, but she’ll keep her word.
哦，但是她会信守承诺的。

Claudius（克劳狄斯）
Have you heard the argument? Is there no offense in ’t?
你知道剧情吗？有没有什么冒犯的地方？

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
No, no, they do but jest. Poison in jest. No offense i’
th’ world.
不，没有，这只是假设。只是一个小玩笑。完全没有冒犯之处。

Claudius（克劳狄斯）
What do you call the play?
这部戏的名字是什么？

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
The Mousetrap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the
image of a murder done in Vienna.
捕鼠器。为什么问这个呢？这个剧恰恰重现了在维也纳发生的一场谋杀案。

Gonzago is the duke’s
name, his wife Baptista. You shall see anon. ‘Tis a
knavish piece of work, but what o’ that?
公爵的名字叫 Gonzago，他的妻子是 Baptista。你很快就会看到。这确实是一个恶作剧的作品，但是谁会在意呢？

Your majesty
and we that have free souls, it touches us not. Let the
galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.
你和我都有清白的良心，所以这与我们无关。让那些有罪的人畏惧。我们可以无所顾忌地观看。

[Stage] Lucianus enters.
[舞台] 卢西安努斯进场。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king.
这就是卢西安努斯，国王的侄子。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
You are as good as a chorus, my lord.
您简直就像一位解说员，我的主。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
I could interpret between you and your love, if I could
see the puppets dallying.
如果你为我表演一个小型木偶戏，我也可以做你和你的情人之间的实况解说。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
You are keen, my lord, you are keen.
您真是机智，我的主，而且思维敏捷。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge.
你可以卸掉我的锐气，但那可能会让你哀鸣。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
Still better and worse.
您的笑话越来越好，即使您的礼仪越来越差。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
So you must take your husbands.—Begin, murderer. Pox,
leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come, “The croaking
raven doth bellow for revenge—”
“无论好坏”，这是当你嫁给一个丈夫时你要许下的誓言。

Lucianus（卢西安努斯）
Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time
agreeing,
Confederate season, else no creature seeing,
恶意的念头，愿意动手的手，致命的毒药，以及行动的机会。黑夜的阴暗保护我：没有人可以看见我。

Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,
With Hecate’s ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,
Thy natural magic and dire property
On wholesome life usurp immediately. [pours poison into Player King ’s ears]
你这令人厌恶的猛毒混合物，被赫卡忒诅咒并污染，用你的致命属性剥夺健康和生命。[他将毒药倒入了角色国王的耳朵里]

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
He poisons him i’ th’ garden for ’s estate. His name’s
Gonzago. The story is extant, and writ in choice
Italian. You shall see anon how the murderer gets the
love of Gonzago’s wife.
他在花园里毒杀国王以取得王国。国王的名字叫冈扎哥。原来的故事是用意大利语写的。你们马上就会看到凶手如何赢得冈扎哥的妻子的爱情。

[Stage] Claudius stands up.
[舞台] 克劳狄斯站起来。

Ophelia（奥菲莉亚）
The king rises.
国王站起来了。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
What, frighted with false fire?
什么——他害怕空枪吗？

Gertrude（格特鲁德）
How fares my lord?
我的主，你感觉怎么样？

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
Give o’er the play.
停止这场戏。

Claudius（克劳狄斯）
Give me some light, away!
打开灯。我要走了!

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
Lights, lights, lights!
灯光，灯光，灯光!

[Stage] Everyone except Hamlet and Horatio exits.
[舞台] 除了哈姆雷特和霍雷修，所有人都离开了。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The hart ungallèd play.
For some must watch while some must sleep.
So runs the world away.
[像演员一样背诵]让被射中的鹿去独自哭泣，而未受伤的鹿去玩耍。有些人必须守望，而另一些人必须睡觉——这就是世界的运行方式。

Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers—if the
rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me—with two
Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship
in a cry of players?
[对霍雷修]你不觉得，如果我把羽毛扎在头上，鞋子上装饰一些花朵，凭我的演技，即便我的生活遭遇不顺，我也能找到一个演员团队找工作吗？

Horatio（霍雷修）
Half a share.
他们可能会给你半份股份。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
A whole one, I.
应该给我一整份。

For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
This realm dismantled was
Of Jove himself. And now reigns here
A very, very—pajock.
[如演员般背诵]你知道的，我最亲爱的达蒙，这个王国失去了它似宙斯的国王。现在谁在统治？一个大，大的——孔雀。

Horatio（霍雷修）
You might have rhymed.
你至少应该押个韵。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
O good Horatio, I’ll take the ghost’s word for a
thousand pound. Didst perceive?
哦，霍雷修。我敢赌一千美元那个鬼魂说的是真的。你看见了吗？

Horatio（霍雷修）
Very well, my lord.
很好，我的主。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Upon the talk of the poisoning?
当演员们提到毒药的时候？

Horatio（霍雷修）
I did very well note him.
我密切关注了他。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Ah ha! Come, some music! Come, the recorders!
哈！请上音乐！吹你们的长笛！

For if the king like not the comedy,
Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy.
因为如果国王不喜欢这出戏，那就是——他就是不喜欢，我这么说。

Come, some music!
现在，音乐来吧！

[Stage] Rosencrantz and Guildenstern enter.
[舞台] 罗森克朗兹和吉尔登斯登进入。

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.
我主，我能和你说句话吗？

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Sir, a whole history.
你可以告诉我一整个故事。

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
The king, sir—
国王，先生——

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Ay, sir, what of him?
是的，他怎么了？

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
Is in his retirement marvelous distempered.
他现在正在他的房间里，非常不高兴。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
With drink, sir?
他因喝酒过量而胃痛？

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
No, my lord, with choler.
不，我主，他在生气。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify
this to the doctor. For, for me to put him to his
purgation would perhaps plunge him into far more choler.
如果你把这些告诉医生，你会更聪明。如果我去治疗他，他只会变得更愤怒。

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame and
start not so wildly from my affair.
我的主，我恳请您理智一些，不要在我所提出的问题上胡言乱语。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
I am tame, sir. Pronounce.
我会听话，先生。你说吧。

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
The queen your mother, in most great affliction of
spirit, hath sent me to you.
你的母亲，王后非常不快乐，派我来找你。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
You are welcome.
你在这里非常受欢迎。

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right
breed.
不，我主，你的客套话在这种情况下毫无意义。

If it shall please you to make me a wholesome
answer, I will do your mother’s commandment. If not,
your pardon and my return shall be the end of my
business.
如果你能给我一个真正的答案，我就会执行你母亲的请求。如果不，我就告辞，结束我的使命。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Sir, I cannot.
先生，我做不到。

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
What, my lord?
不能做什么，我的主？

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Make you a wholesome answer. My wit’s diseased. But,
sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command. Or,
rather, as you say, my mother. Therefore no more but to
the matter. My mother, you say—
给你一个真实的答案。我的思绪不清，但我会尽力给你——或者说，给我的母亲——最好的答案。所以，让我们来谈谈关键的问题。你说我的母亲——

Rosencrantz（罗森克朗兹）
Then thus she says: your behavior hath struck her into
amazement and admiration.
她说你的行为让她震惊无比。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
O wonderful son that can so ’stonish a mother! But is
there no sequel at the heels of this mother’s
admiration? Impart.
哦，多么令人惊喜的儿子，能让我的母亲这么惊艳！但是我母亲的钦佩具体表现在哪里？解释一下。

Rosencrantz（罗森克朗兹）
She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go
to bed.
她想在你睡觉前在她的卧室和你谈话。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have you
any further trade with us?
我会服从，就像她是我的母亲十倍。你还有其他事情要和我处理吗？

Rosencrantz（罗森克朗兹）
My lord, you once did love me.
我主，你曾经喜欢过我。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
And do still, by these pickers and stealers.
我现在还是喜欢你，我向我的双手发誓。

Rosencrantz（罗森克朗兹）
Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do
surely bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny
your griefs to your friend.
主，你的愤怒的原因是什么？你不向朋友透露你的问题，就如同把自己关进了牢房。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Sir, I lack advancement.
先生，我没有未来的指望。

Rosencrantz（罗森克朗兹）
How can that be, when you have the voice of the king
himself for your succession in Denmark?
当国王已经公开宣布你为丹麦王位的继承人，这又怎么可能呢？

[Stage] The Players enter with recorders.
[舞台] 演员们带着唱片进场。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Ay, sir, but “While the grass grows—” The proverb is
something musty—Oh, the recorders! Let me see one.
是的，但正如谚语所说，“草长莺飞……”尽管这是句陈旧的谚语。噢，那些竖笛！让我看看一个。[他拿起一支竖笛]

To withdraw with you, why do you go about
to recover the wind of me as if you would drive me into
a toil?
[他拿起一支竖笛]

[对罗森克兰茨和吉尔登斯特恩，以便只有他们能听见] 退后。你们为何围绕我移动，像是要诱我入伏？

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too
unmannerly.
哦，我主，如果我太过大胆，那只是因为我太过关心您，无暇顾及礼貌了。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this
pipe?
我不懂你在说什么。你会吹这支竖笛吗？

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
My lord, I cannot.
我主，我不会。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
I pray you.
请吹吧。

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
Believe me, I cannot.
真的，我吹不了。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
I do beseech you.
我恳求你。

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
I know no touch of it, my lord.
我不知怎么吹，我主。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your
fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and
it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these
are the stops.
这跟说谎一样简单。用你的手指和拇指覆盖这些孔，然后吹进去，它就会发出最美妙的音乐。看，这里是孔。

Guildenstern（吉尔登斯登）
But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony.
I have not the skill.
但我不会吹任何曲调或旋律。我没有这个技能。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me!
You would play upon me. You would seem to know my
stops. You would pluck out the heart of my mystery. You
would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my
compass.
瞧，你是多么把我当傻瓜。你一直试图弹奏我——就像你确切知道放哪个手指——来引出我的秘密——弹奏出我所有音符的全曲。

And there is much music, excellent voice, in
this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak?
‘Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a
pipe?
这小小的乐器中蕴含了如此多的音乐，然而你却不能让它发声？看在上帝的份上，你认为我比竖笛更容易被弹奏吗？

Call me what instrument you will, though you can
fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.
不论你怎么称呼我为任何乐器——即使你尝试按动我的按钮，你也无法弹奏我。

[Stage] Polonius enters.
[舞台] 波洛尼乌斯进入。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
God bless you, sir.
上帝保佑你，先生。

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently.
我主，女王希望立刻与您谈话。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a
camel?
你看到那边的云了吗？看起来几乎像一只骆驼？

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
By th’ mass, and ’tis like a camel indeed.
看上帝的份上，它确实像一只骆驼。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Methinks it is like a weasel.
在我看来，它像一只鼬。

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
It is backed like a weasel.
它的背就像鼬鼠一样。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Or like a whale.
或者像鲸鱼。

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
Very like a whale.
非常像鲸鱼。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Then I will come to my mother by and by. [aside] They
fool me to the top of my bent.—I will come by and by.
我很快就会去看望我母亲。

Polonius（波洛尼斯）
I will say so.
我会告诉她这些。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
“By and by” is easily said.
说“很快”倒是容易。

[Stage] Polonius exits.
[舞台] 波洛涅斯退场。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
Leave me, friends.
让我独自待会儿，朋友们。

[Stage] Everyone except Hamlet exits.
[舞台] 除了哈姆雷特，所有人退场。

Hamlet（哈姆雷特）
‘Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
现在是夜晚的时刻，女巫们游荡，墓地大开，地狱的恶臭让这个世界充满疾病。

Now could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the bitter day
Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother.—
现在我可以喝下热血，做些让人第二天颤抖的可怕事情。但等等，我现在得去看望我的母亲。

O heart, lose not thy nature, let not ever
The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom.
Let me be cruel, not unnatural.
哦，我的心啊，不要丧失人性，不要变得像内禄那样。让我残酷，但不要变得不人道。

I will speak daggers to her but use none.
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.
How in my words somever she be shent,
To give them seals never, my soul, consent!
我会如同匕首般犀利地对她说话，但我绝不会用匕首。虽然我的话会将她谴责至地狱，但我的灵魂绝不能让这种谴责通过让我杀了她而成为现实。

[Stage] Hamlet exits.
[舞台] 哈姆雷特退场。