Quotations from Shakespeare’s plays ——The Two Gentlemen of Verona. All the Chinese versions are basically taken from Liang Shiqiu’s translations.
1. How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently all humbled kiss the rod! (From The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act I Scene II)
这痴爱真是难以捉摸,好像是一个暴躁的婴儿,抓他的乳母,。
Appreciation & Critical Comments
Love reduces two things, namely, wisdom and purse, so love could render one foolish. When one is foolish due to too deep love, his moods are just a vane of constantly varying caprices, just like a test baby eager for his mother’s milk.
2. Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey and kill the bees that yield it with your stings! (From The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act I Scene II)
简直是毒害的黄蜂一般,吮取甜蜜而螫死酿蜜的蜜蜂。
Appreciation & Critical Comments
Here wasps are considered injurious, too eager to take sweet honey bees have yielded while bees are deemed eternally busy gathering honey from a profusion of flowers. It seems that wasps are the parasitic and exploiting class while bees are the laboring people.
3.I see things too, although you judge I wink. ((From The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act I Scene III)
我也看见了不少事情,虽然你以为我是瞎了眼。
Appreciation & Critical Comments
It is human weakness that most people tend to see their own merits and others’ demerits. That’s why they often over-assess their own virtues and capabilities and under-assess others’ virtues and capabilities. More often than not, when intoxicated by their own progress and achievements, they may even go so far as to believe that they themselves are men of sagacious insight into realities and far foresight into distant future while others are so shortsighted as if on the brink of being blind even to obvious realities.
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