Sonnet 18

By William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date;

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

（1）哥本译文

我为何不能将你比作夏天？

只因你比她更可爱更温暖：

狂风在五月蓓蕾耳边呢喃，

倾诉着夏日时光如此短暂。

苍穹之眸偶尔闪耀着璀璨，

却难以辉映他黯淡的容颜；

所有的完美源于昙花一现，

无法逃离轮回的命途多舛。

而你生命的炎夏亘古不变，

何况忘怀你的迷人与美艳；

何况死神唯独与幽影相伴，

永恒的诗篇与你并肩作战。

只要天地间有人懂得赏鉴，

你就会和这诗篇千古流传。

（2）梁实秋译文

我可能把你和夏天相比拟？

你比夏天更可爱更温和：

狂风会把五月的花苞吹落地

夏天也嫌太短促，匆匆而过。

有时太阳照得太热，

常常又遮暗他的金色的脸；

美的事物总不免要凋落，

偶然的，或是随自然变化而流转。

但是你的永恒之夏不会褪色，

你不会失去你的俊美的仪容；

死神不能夸说你在它的阴影里面走着，

如果你在这不朽的诗句里获得了永生；

只要人们能呼吸，眼睛能看东西，

此诗就会不朽，使你永久生存下去。

(3)辜正坤译本

或许我可用夏日把你来比方，但你比夏日更可爱也更温良。

夏风狂作常摧落五月的娇蕊，夏季的期限也未免还不太长。

有时天眼如炬人间酷热难当，但转瞬金面如晦，云遮雾障。

每一种美都终究会凋残零落，难免见弃于机缘与天道无常。

但你永恒的夏季却不会消亡，你优美的形象也永不会消亡。

死神难夸口说你深陷其罗网，只因你借我诗行可长寿无疆。

只要人眼能看，人口能呼吸，我诗必长存，使你万世流芳。

笔者赏析（仅供参考）：

This poem comes from "“Shakespeare's sonnets", which contains 154 sonnets of Shakespeare. This poem is the 18th one, which is also a famous one.

The poem begins with a comparison of "you" with summer. But "you" is much more lovely than the summer, the nature of the most beautiful season and "you" compared to much less. You can overcome these inadequacies of nature. "You" is the eternal of the world, "you" will let the shadow of death in a distant place to stay, let the boast of death will not die. Is poetry, the quintessence of the human spirit, your form? Or you are the spirit of poetry, the soul of mankind.