To be or not to be, "生存还是毁灭", 这句话是整个英语中被引用最多的一句之一, 出自莎士比亚的名剧, 哈姆雷特. 这次兔老爹我就来赏析讲解一下这段经典独白.

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

生存或毁灭, 这是个问题:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them.

是否应默默的忍受坎坷命运之无情打击,

还是应与深如大海之无涯苦难奋然为敌,

并将其克服.

此二抉择, 究竟是哪个较崇高?

To die—to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd.

死即睡眠, 它不过如此!

倘若一眠能了结心灵之苦楚与肉体之百患,

那么, 此结局是可盼的!

To die, to sleep;

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause—there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

死去, 睡去...

但在睡眠中可能有梦, 啊, 这就是个阻碍:

当我们摆脱了此垂死之皮囊,

在死之长眠中会有何梦来临?

它令我们踌躇,

使我们心甘情愿的承受长年之灾.