莎士比亞十四行情詩精選（七十五）

　　So are you to my thoughts as food to life,

Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;

And for the peace of you I hold such strife

As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.

Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon

Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure;

Now counting best to be with you alone,

Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:

Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,

And by and by clean starved for a look;

Possessing or pursuing no delight

Save what is had, or must from you be took.

Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,

Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

翻譯：
　　我認為你就像我的，濟命之糧，

或者就像，大旱天的喜雨初降；

你的不動聲色，讓我寢食難安，

活像守財奴，被人發現了埋藏；

像喜歡誇富，又怕露富的傢伙，

懷疑會被慣竊高手，偷走錢囊；

一邊算計着，最好能獨佔花魁，

同時又要別人只能，羨慕分享；

有時候，真是受不了你那漠視，

卻又忍不住偷偷，搜尋你眼光；

擁有或追求？我根本無從選擇，

或這一切還須聽從，你的主張。

就這樣導致我，天天消化不良；

時而匱乏，時而又是需求過量。

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