章节正文
文章总共2页
LEADER
My son, we should avail us of the gifts that gods confer.
HIPPOLYTUS
Go in, my faithful followers, and make ready food within the
house; a well-filled board hath charms after the chase is o'er. Rub
down my steeds ye must, that when I have had my fill I may yoke them
to the chariot and give them proper exercise. As for thy Queen of
Love, a long farewell to her.
(HIPPOLYTUS goes into the palace, followed by all the ATTENDANTS
except the LEADER, who prays before the statue of APHRODITE.)
LEADER
Meantime I with sober mind, for I must not copy my young master,
do offer up my prayer to thy image, lady Cypris, in such words as it
becomes a slave to use. But thou should'st pardon all, who, in youth's
impetuous heat, speak idle words of thee; make as though thou
hearest not, for gods must needs be wiser than the sons of men.
(The LEADER goes into the palace. The CHORUS OF
TROEZENIAN WOMEN enters.)
CHORUS (singing)
strophe 1
A rock there is, where, as they say, the ocean dew distils, and
from its beetling brow it pours a copiousstream for pitchers to be
dipped therein; 'twas here I had a friend washing robes of purple in
the trickling stream, and she was spreading them out on the face of
warm sunny rock; from her I had the tidings, first of all, that my
mistress-
antistrophe 1
Was wasting on the bed of sickness, pent within her house, a
thin veil o'ershadowing her head of golden hair. And this is the third
day I hear that she hath closed her lovely lips and denied her
chaste body all sustenance, eager to hide her suffering and reach
death's cheerless bourn.
strophe 2
Maiden, thou must be possessed, by Pan made frantic or by
Hecate, or by the Corybantes dread, and Cybele the mountain mother. Or
maybe thou hast sinned against Dictynna, huntress-queen, and art
wasting for thy guilt in sacrifice unoffered. For she doth range
o'er lakes' expanse and past the bounds of earth upon the ocean's
tossing billows.
antistrophe 2
Or doth some rival in thy house beguile thy lord, the captain of
Erechtheus' sons, that hero nobly born, to secret amours hid from
thee? Or hath some mariner sailing hither from Crete reached this port
that sailors love, with evil tidings for our queen, and she with
sorrow for her grievous fate is to her bed confined?
epode
Yea, and oft o'er woman's wayward nature settles a feeling of
miserable helplessness, arising from pains of child-birth or of
passionate desire. I, too, have felt at times this sharp thrill
shoot through me, but I would cry to Artemis, queen of archery, who
comes from heaven to aid us in our travail, and thanks to heaven's
grace she ever comes at my call with welcome help. Look! where the
aged nurse is bringing her forth from the house before the door, while
on her brow the cloud of gloom is deepening. My soul longs to learn
what is her grief, the canker that is wasting our queen's fading
charms.
(PHAEDRA is led out and placed upon a couch by the NURSE and
attendants. The following lines between the NURSE and PHAEDRA are
chanted.)
NURSE
O, the ills of mortal men! the cruel diseases they endure! What
can I do for thee? from what refrain? Here is the bright sunlight,
here the azure sky; lo! we have brought thee on thy bed of sickness
without the palace; for all thy talk was of coming hither, but soon
back to thy chamber wilt thou hurry. Disappointment follows fast
with thee, thou hast no joy in aught for long; the present has no
power to please; on something absent next thy heart is set. Better
be sick than tend the sick; the first is but a single ill, the last
unites mental grief with manual toil. Man's whole life is full of
anguish; no respite from his woes he finds; but if there is aught to
love beyond this life, night's dark pall doth wrap it round. And so we
show our mad love of this life because its light is shed on earth, and
because we know no other, and have naught revealed to us of all our
earth may hide; and trusting to fables we drift at random.
PHAEDRA (wildly)
Lift my body, raise my head! My limbs are all unstrung, kind
My son, we should avail us of the gifts that gods confer.
HIPPOLYTUS
Go in, my faithful followers, and make ready food within the
house; a well-filled board hath charms after the chase is o'er. Rub
down my steeds ye must, that when I have had my fill I may yoke them
to the chariot and give them proper exercise. As for thy Queen of
Love, a long farewell to her.
(HIPPOLYTUS goes into the palace, followed by all the ATTENDANTS
except the LEADER, who prays before the statue of APHRODITE.)
LEADER
Meantime I with sober mind, for I must not copy my young master,
do offer up my prayer to thy image, lady Cypris, in such words as it
becomes a slave to use. But thou should'st pardon all, who, in youth's
impetuous heat, speak idle words of thee; make as though thou
hearest not, for gods must needs be wiser than the sons of men.
(The LEADER goes into the palace. The CHORUS OF
TROEZENIAN WOMEN enters.)
CHORUS (singing)
strophe 1
A rock there is, where, as they say, the ocean dew distils, and
from its beetling brow it pours a copiousstream for pitchers to be
dipped therein; 'twas here I had a friend washing robes of purple in
the trickling stream, and she was spreading them out on the face of
warm sunny rock; from her I had the tidings, first of all, that my
mistress-
antistrophe 1
Was wasting on the bed of sickness, pent within her house, a
thin veil o'ershadowing her head of golden hair. And this is the third
day I hear that she hath closed her lovely lips and denied her
chaste body all sustenance, eager to hide her suffering and reach
death's cheerless bourn.
strophe 2
Maiden, thou must be possessed, by Pan made frantic or by
Hecate, or by the Corybantes dread, and Cybele the mountain mother. Or
maybe thou hast sinned against Dictynna, huntress-queen, and art
wasting for thy guilt in sacrifice unoffered. For she doth range
o'er lakes' expanse and past the bounds of earth upon the ocean's
tossing billows.
antistrophe 2
Or doth some rival in thy house beguile thy lord, the captain of
Erechtheus' sons, that hero nobly born, to secret amours hid from
thee? Or hath some mariner sailing hither from Crete reached this port
that sailors love, with evil tidings for our queen, and she with
sorrow for her grievous fate is to her bed confined?
epode
Yea, and oft o'er woman's wayward nature settles a feeling of
miserable helplessness, arising from pains of child-birth or of
passionate desire. I, too, have felt at times this sharp thrill
shoot through me, but I would cry to Artemis, queen of archery, who
comes from heaven to aid us in our travail, and thanks to heaven's
grace she ever comes at my call with welcome help. Look! where the
aged nurse is bringing her forth from the house before the door, while
on her brow the cloud of gloom is deepening. My soul longs to learn
what is her grief, the canker that is wasting our queen's fading
charms.
(PHAEDRA is led out and placed upon a couch by the NURSE and
attendants. The following lines between the NURSE and PHAEDRA are
chanted.)
NURSE
O, the ills of mortal men! the cruel diseases they endure! What
can I do for thee? from what refrain? Here is the bright sunlight,
here the azure sky; lo! we have brought thee on thy bed of sickness
without the palace; for all thy talk was of coming hither, but soon
back to thy chamber wilt thou hurry. Disappointment follows fast
with thee, thou hast no joy in aught for long; the present has no
power to please; on something absent next thy heart is set. Better
be sick than tend the sick; the first is but a single ill, the last
unites mental grief with manual toil. Man's whole life is full of
anguish; no respite from his woes he finds; but if there is aught to
love beyond this life, night's dark pall doth wrap it round. And so we
show our mad love of this life because its light is shed on earth, and
because we know no other, and have naught revealed to us of all our
earth may hide; and trusting to fables we drift at random.
PHAEDRA (wildly)
Lift my body, raise my head! My limbs are all unstrung, kind
- statue [´stætʃu:]
n.塑像，雕像 (初中英语单词) - goddess [´gɔdis] n.女神 (初中英语单词)
- attendant [ə´tendənt] n.随员 a.伴随的 (初中英语单词)
- trifling [´traifliŋ] a.微小的；轻浮的 (初中英语单词)
- witness [´witnis] n.见证人 vt.目击 (初中英语单词)
- solemn [´sɔləm] a.严肃的；隆重的 (初中英语单词)
- temple [´tempəl] n.庙宇；寺院；太阳穴 (初中英语单词)
- wretched [´retʃid] a.可怜的；倒霉的 (初中英语单词)
- passion [´pæʃən] n.激情；激怒；恋爱 (初中英语单词)
- suffering [´sʌfəriŋ] n.痛苦；灾害 (初中英语单词)
- payment [´peimənt] n.支付；报酬；报偿 (初中英语单词)
- worship [´wə:ʃip] n.&v.崇拜；敬仰 (初中英语单词)
- mistress [´mistris] n.女主人；情妇；女能手 (初中英语单词)
- wreath [ri:θ] n.花圈；花环；圈状物 (初中英语单词)
- meadow [´medəu] n.草地；牧场 (初中英语单词)
- shepherd [´ʃepəd] n.牧羊人 vt.带领 (初中英语单词)
- purity [´pjuəriti] n.纯净；贞洁 (初中英语单词)
- cunning [´kʌniŋ] a.&n.狡猾(诡诈)的 (初中英语单词)
- neglect [ni´glekt] vt.&n.疏忽；忽视；忽略 (初中英语单词)
- wisdom [´wizdəm] n.智慧，聪明，才智 (初中英语单词)
- faithful [´feiθfəl] a.忠实的；可靠的 (初中英语单词)
- farewell [feə´wel] int.再见 n.&a.告别 (初中英语单词)
- pardon [´pɑ:dən] n.&vt.原谅；饶恕；赦免 (初中英语单词)
- chorus [´kɔ:rəs] n.合唱；齐声 v.合唱 (初中英语单词)
- stream [stri:m] n.河 vi.流出；飘扬 (初中英语单词)
- purple [´pə:pl] n.紫色 a.紫(红)的 (初中英语单词)
- sickness [´siknis] n.生病；呕吐，恶心 (初中英语单词)
- hither [´hiðə] ad.到此处 (初中英语单词)
- welcome [´welkəm] a.受欢迎的；可喜的 (初中英语单词)
- disappointment [,disə´pɔintmənt] n.失望；挫折 (初中英语单词)
- absent [´æbsənt, əb´sent] a.不在的 vt.使缺席 (初中英语单词)
- mental [´mentl] a.精神的；心理的 (初中英语单词)
- virgin [´və:dʒin] a.处女(般)的 n.处女 (高中英语单词)
- mortal [´mɔ:tl] a.致命的 n.凡人 (高中英语单词)
- vengeance [´vendʒəns] n.报复，复仇 (高中英语单词)
- therein [ðeə´rin] ad.在那里，在其中 (高中英语单词)
- scourge [skə:dʒ] v.&n.鞭(打)；严惩 (高中英语单词)
- joyous [´dʒɔiəs] a.充满快乐的 (高中英语单词)
- hearing [´hiəriŋ] n.听力；听证会；审讯 (高中英语单词)
- renowned [ri´naund] a.有名的，有声望的 (高中英语单词)
- chariot [´tʃæriət] n.古时双轮战车 (高中英语单词)
- tidings [´taidiŋz] n.消息，音信 (高中英语单词)
- frantic [´fræntik] a.发狂的；急忙的 (高中英语单词)
- mariner [´mærinə] n.海员；水手 (高中英语单词)
- refrain [ri´frein] v.抑制；忍住 n.迭句 (高中英语单词)
- chamber [´tʃeimbə] n.房间；议院；会议室 (高中英语单词)
- naught [nɔ:t] n.无；零 (高中英语单词)
- amazon [´æməzən] n.女战士 (英语四级单词)
- forfeit [´fɔ:fit] n.罚金 a.丧失了的 (英语四级单词)
- wherefore [´weəfɔ:] ad.为什么；因此 (英语四级单词)
- rightly [´raitli] ad.正义地；正确地 (英语四级单词)
- wasting [´weistiŋ] a.&n.浪费(的) (英语四级单词)
- beguile [bi´gail] vt.欺骗；消磨(时间) (英语四级单词)
- grievous [´gri:vəs] a.痛苦的；严重的 (英语四级单词)
- manual [´mænjuəl] a.用手(操作)的 n.手册 (英语四级单词)
- bastard [´bæstəd] n.私生子 a.私生的 (英语六级单词)
- greenwood [´gri:nwud] n.绿林 (英语六级单词)
- mystic [´mistik] a.神秘的；难以理解的 (英语六级单词)
- peerless [´piələs] a.无比的；无匹敌的 (英语六级单词)
- beauteous [´bju:tiəs] a.美的，美丽的 (英语六级单词)
- scythe [saið] n.长柄大镰刀 (英语六级单词)
- august [ɔ:´gʌst] a.尊严的；威严的 (英语六级单词)
- copious [´kəupiəs] a.丰富的；冗长的 (英语六级单词)
- expanse [ik´spæns] n.广阔；宽阔的区域 (英语六级单词)
- wayward [´weiwəd] a.任性的；不易控制的 (英语六级单词)
- helplessness [´helplisnis] n.无能为力 (英语六级单词)
- canker [´kæŋkə] n.癌肿病；毒害 (英语六级单词)
- respite [´respait] n.暂缓 vt.缓期执行 (英语六级单词)
- trusting [´trʌstiŋ] a.信任的；相信的 (英语六级单词)
文章总共2页
文章标签:翻译 译文 翻译文
章节正文
京公网安备 11011202003401号
