2010年9月27日 星期一

Ode to Autumn 余光中譯



秋之頌




Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875.

J. Keats

CCLV. Ode to Autumn

SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, 5
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease; 10
For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; 15
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook; 20
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barrèd clouds bloom the soft-dying day 25
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river-sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; 30
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

2010年9月24日 星期五

New Bond Street

"世界最大的私營房產公司「高緯環球」(Cushman & Wakefield)的一份報告顯示,英國倫敦新邦德街(New Bond Street)已超過巴黎的香榭麗舍大道,成為歐洲租金最貴的商業街,聚集了阿瑪尼(Armani)等各種頂級奢侈品牌。"http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/trad/uk/2010/09/100923_life_rent.shtml



Bond Street is a major shopping street in London which runs through Mayfair from Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. It is one of the principal streets in the West End shopping district and is more upmarket than nearby Regent Street and Oxford Street. It is in the Mayfair district of London, and has been a fashionable shopping street since the 18th century. Technically "Bond Street" does not exist: The southern section is known as Old Bond Street, and the northern section, which is rather more than half the total length, is known as New Bond Street. This distinction, however, is not generally made in everyday usage.



英國小說中的倫敦名(4)

龐德(或邦德)
Bond Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.answers.com/topic/bond-street?method=22

龐(邦)德與Virginia Wolf 很有緣。譬如說,小說『達洛衛夫人』 (1925),原為短篇『達洛衛夫人在龐(邦)德』(1923) 問市。(Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - 1925The story of Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, first appeared as a short story, Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street, published in 1923. The novel was published in 1925.)
這本雖說是意識流作品,不過有些景,最能影響主角之心境。

「邦德使她著迷,旺季中的邦德清晨吸引著她:上旗幟飄揚,兩旁商店林立,毫無俗氣的炫耀…..父親在那兒買衣服達五十年之久…..」(引上海譯文版;台北的志文版,注解比較多,或許更佳……)
(Jean Moorcroft Wilson points out how Woolf uses external scenes in London to reflect the characters' internal reality (see pp 125-126 re MD). She illustrates with quotations about Clarissa on Bond Street (see p 11, beginning with "Bond Street fascinated her"))
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Bond Street tube station is a London Underground station on Oxford Street, near the junction with New Bond Street. The entrance to the station is inside a shopping arcade on Oxford Street.
The station is on the Central Line between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus and on the Jubilee Line, between Baker Street and Green Park. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station was first opened on 24 September 1900 by the Central London Railway, three months after the first stations on the Central Line opened. Jubilee Line services commenced on 1 May 1979.



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Howards End by Forster, E. M.
Sabin drove slowly down Bond Street, and was rewarded by seeing her brougham outside a famous milliner's.

mil•li•ner (mĭl'ə-nər)
n.
One that makes, trims, designs, or sells hats.
[Probably alteration of Middle English Milener, native of Milan, from MILAN, the source of goods such as bonnets and lace.]
brougham (brūm, brū'əm, brōm, brō'əm)
n.
1. A closed four-wheeled carriage with an open driver's seat in front.
2. An automobile with an open driver's seat.
3. An electrically powered automobile resembling a coupé.
[After Henry Peter Brougham, First Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), Scottish-born jurist.]
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
In Bond Street he found a hansom with a good horse.

Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
She even made George Osborne contribute, and nothing loth (for he was as free-handed a young fellow as any in the army), he went to Bond Street, and bought the best hat and spenser that money could buy.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace
In that of the Bond Street jeweller it was a trusty accomplice; in the present instance, a more intimate knowledge of the house.
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Bond Street tube station is a London Underground station on Oxford Street, near the junction with New Bond Street. The entrance to the station is inside a shopping arcade on Oxford Street.
The station is on the Central Line between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus and on the Jubilee Line, between Baker Street and Green Park. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station was first opened on 24 September 1900 by the Central London Railway, three months after the first stations on the Central Line opened. Jubilee Line services commenced on 1 May 1979.
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習題一:Virginia Woolf 在『普通讀者』上如何引邦德的裁縫師作為比喻?
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia
Towards the end of the morning, however, Catherine, having occasion for some indispensable yard of ribbon which must be bought without a moment's delay, walked out into the town, and in Bond Street overtook the second Miss Thorpe as she was loitering towards Edgar's Buildings between two of the sweetest girls in the world, who had been her dear friends all the morning.


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習題一:Virginia Woolf 在『普通讀者』上如何引邦德的裁縫師作為比喻?

習題二:
"My dear Mrs. Palmer!"
"Upon my honour I did.--I met Colonel Brandon Monday morning in Bond-street, just before we left town, and he told me of it directly."
"You surprise me very much. Colonel Brandon tell you of it! Surely you must be mistaken. To give such intelligence to a person who could not be interested in it, even if it were true, is not what I should expect Colonel Brandon to do."
"But I do assure you it was so, for all that, and I will tell you how it happened. When we met him, he turned back and walked with us; and so we began talking of my brother and sister, and one thing and another, and I said to him, 'So, Colonel, there is a new family come to Barton cottage, I hear, and mama sends me word they are very pretty, and that one of them is going to be married to Mr. Willoughby of Combe Magna. Is it true, pray? for of course you must know, as you have been in Devonshire so lately.'"

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - Volume II, Chapter VII (29)spacer. Previous Chapter | Table of Contents | Next Chapter • Back to E-Texts. Sense and Sensibility ... "Bond Street, January. "MY DEAR MADAM,. "I have just had the honour of receiving your letter, for which I beg to return my sincere ...

2010年9月19日 星期日

the owl was a baker's daughter

卞之琳先生的翻譯《丹麥王子哈姆雷特悲劇》卞之琳譯

Ophelia warns, "They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be."

Owl was a Baker's Daughter — Infoplease.com

- [ 翻譯此頁 ]Owl was a Baker's Daughter. (The). According to legend, our Saviour went into a baker's shop to ask for something to eat. The mistress of the shop instantly ...


貓頭鷹_Owl(北美館提供)

2010年9月18日 星期六

passages of proof




Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 7 :|: Open Source Shakespeare

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But what I know love is begun by time;
And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. ... Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home. 3275 ...


passages of proof 注
by instances drawn from experience

所以卞之琳先生的翻譯:
只是我知道愛心是時會引起的
我從經驗證明的事實裡看見過
愛的火花會隨時間而冷淡的