Sonnet 18

——William Shakespear
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:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st 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.

我能否将你比作夏天？
你比夏天更美丽温婉。
狂风将五月的蓓蕾凋残，
夏日的勾留何其短暂。
休恋那丽日当空，
转眼会云雾迷蒙。
休叹那百花飘零，
催折于无常的天命。
唯有你永恒的夏日常新，
你的美貌亦毫发无损。
死神也无缘将你幽禁，
你在我永恒的诗中长存。
只要世间尚有人吟诵我的诗篇，
这诗就将不朽，永葆你的芳颜。

To tell the truth, I prefer the Chinese version better than the original one. Cuz there are so so so many words that I don't know. Only by reading the Chinese version can I feel something from it. He sang the praise of "thee" in such a direct way that even I am overwhelmed by the enthusiasm he showed. To me, the last sentence is my favorate. The words are big, and the meaning is profound.

There is another version on the internet, the ancient Chinese one. Well, I'm not going to put it here; it's so concise and......hard to understand. But you can have a try, it will broaden our horizon, I'M PRETTY SURE.

【original】

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