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《你的长夏，永不凋零》
莎士比亚十四行诗·第十八首

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
我能否将你比作夏日？
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
你比夏天更可爱更温和；
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
狂风会把五月的花苞吹落地，
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
夏天总是这般稍纵即逝；
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
有时太阳的光线太过灼热，
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
常常遮暗他金黄色的面孔；
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
美的事物总不免要凋落，
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
偶然的，或是随自然流转而变化；
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
但属于你的长夏永不会褪色，
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
你不会失去你俊美的仪容；
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
死神也不能逼掇你在他阴影里游走，
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
你将永恒于这不朽诗篇；
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
只要人能呼吸，眼能视物，
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
此诗就会不朽，与你千秋流芳。