All’s Well That Ends Well

 

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  I, i, 56

適度悲傷是死者的權利，過度哀慟是生者的敵人。lamentation: an expression of grief

 

Love all, trust a few,

Do wrong to none.

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  I, i, 64

善待所有的人，信任少數的人，

不對任何人做不好的事。Behave amiably to all, trust a few, don’t wrong anyone.

 

The hind that would be mated by the lion

Must die for love.

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  I, i, 91

母鹿想要和獅子匹配

勢必為愛而死。hind: female deer. The deer that wants to mate with the lion must die in the process.

      Man is enemy to virginity; how may we barricade to against him?

  --- All’s Well That Ends Well  I, i, 112

男人是童貞的敵人；我們要怎麼防禦他？ barricade: to defend something with a barrier

 

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity.

    --- All’s Well That Ends Well  I, i, 126

在自然界 保留童貞並非好的策略。politic: good policy

 

Service is no heritage,

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  I, iii, 23

僕役無恆產， Proverbial, signifying that a servant’s lot brings him in very little to bequeath to his heirs.

 

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage,

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  I, iii, 50

如果男人們安於戴綠帽，那麼他們就不會害怕結婚，If men could be happy to be cuckolds, they wouldn’t be afraid to get married.

 

My friends were poor, but honest, so’s my love.

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  I, iii, 195

雖然我的親友貧窮，但是情操正直，我的愛情也是這樣。friends: relatives, family.  honest: honorable.

 

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there

Where most it promises; and oft it hits

Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  II, i, 142

期待時常落空，而通常

最有希望；fails: is disappointed. hits: proves true.  Often, our expectation fails exactly where we think success most likely to happen, and often we get what we prayed for where hope seems weakest and it seems to make the most sense to despair.

It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks:

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  II, ii, 17

就像是理髮廳的椅子適合各類型屁股： all buttocks: all types of buttocks

 

They say miracles are past,

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  II, iii, 1

 

A young man married is a man that’s marr’d;

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  II, iii, 298

男人早婚 人生毀損；marr’d: damaged

 

      Praising what is lost

Makes the remembrance dear.

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  V, iii, 19

讚頌失去的事物

使得回憶更珍貴。When we praise what we’ve lost, it makes remembering even more dear to us.

 

      (; but) love that comes too late,

Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried.

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  V, iii, 57

來得太晚的愛情，

有如遲遲送達絞首臺的赦免狀。remorseful: compassionate. slowly carried: i.e. arriving too late. Love that comes too late, like a pardon delivered too late to the gallows.

 

All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

   --- All’s Well That Ends Well  V, iii, 333

一切似乎圓滿；如果結尾很合宜，

那般艱苦已盡，更是歡迎來甘飴。 meet: suitable, appropriate