Spring

春天

By Thomas Nashe Translated by： John Yu

作者:托马斯•纳什 翻译：John Yu

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king;
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

春天, 甜美的春天,是一年之中的快乐之王显现;

那时花儿朵朵争艳,而姑娘们跳着舞围了一圈,

寒冷不再刺脸,艳丽的鸟儿吊着嗓子在练:

克古,佳佳,扑味,吐味吐!

The palm and may make country houses gay,
Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay,
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

棕榈叶和山楂花，打扮着田舍人家，

小羊在欢蹦乱跳地玩耍,牧羊人把笛子吹了一整天才罢,

而我们耳旁始终听到的旋律是这样的快乐潇洒:

克古,佳佳,扑味,吐味吐!

The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
Young lovers meet, old wives a sunning sit,
In every street these tunes our ears do greet,
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
Spring! the sweet Spring!

田野香气芬芳, 雏菊亲吻着我们的脚掌,

小伙子们幽会姑娘,老妇们正在嗮太阳,

在每条街这样旋律回响在我们的耳旁:
克古,佳佳,扑味,吐味吐!

春天,甜美的春天!

About the author:

Thomas Nashe was born in Lowestoft in 1561, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. After graduating in 1586, he became one of the "University Wits", a circle of writers who came to London and wrote for the stage and the press. In 1589 his preface to Robert Greene's Menaphon was published. It attacked contemporary writers who plagiarized from classical authors, and praised Spenser and Greene. Nashe's best-known work, the novel The Unfortunate Traveller, or The Life of Jack Wilton (1594) is now thought to have been the first picaresque novel in English.

作者简介：

托马斯·纳什于1561年出生在洛斯托夫特，就学于剑桥大学圣约翰学院。1586年毕业后，他成为了“大学才子”之一，“大学才子”是一个到伦敦来为舞台 和新闻界写作的作家圈子。1589年他为罗伯特·格林的新书Menaphon而写的序言出版。它抨击那些抄袭经典的当代作家，赞扬了斯宾塞和格林。纳什最著名的的作品<<不幸的旅客>>， 或者<<杰克威尔顿的生活>>（1594），现在被认为是英国的第一本流浪汉小说。