《皆大欢喜》开篇：英文原著带中文翻译

ORLANDO. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayst, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well; and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit. For my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you that keeping, for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred better, for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage and to that end riders dearly hired; but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth, for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from me. He lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me, and the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude. I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it.

奥兰多：亚当，我记得，先父在遗嘱里只给我留了区区一千克朗，而且，正如你所说，他嘱咐我哥哥，要凭着父亲的祝福好好抚养我。我的烦恼就是从这儿开始的。我哥哥杰克斯，他送进学校，据说成绩优异，前途无量。至于我，他却把我留在乡下，或者说得更确切些，是把我闲养在家里，不闻不问。你说，对一个像我这样出身的人来说，这能叫抚养吗？这跟把一头牛关在牛棚里有什么两样？他的马都养得比我好，因为除了喂得膘肥体壮，还教它们腾挪步法，为此不惜重金聘请骑手。可是我呢，他的亲弟弟，在他手下除了长个子，什么也得不到。为此，他粪堆上的畜生也跟我一样，该感激他。除了他如此慷慨地给我的这个「什么也没有」，大自然给我的那点东西，他的脸色似乎也要夺走。他让我跟他的雇工一起吃饭，不让我享有兄弟的名分，而且尽其所能，用不让我受教育的手段，一点点挖掉我身上那点贵气。亚当，就是这件事让我伤心。我觉得我身上有先父的精神，它开始反抗这种奴役了。我再也受不了了，虽然我还不知道有什么好办法能摆脱它。

Enter Oliver.

奥列佛上。

ADAM. Yonder comes my master, your brother.

亚当：那边来的就是我家主人，您的哥哥。

ORLANDO. Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up.

奥兰多：你躲开些，亚当，你就能听见他怎么数落我了。

[Adam retires.]

亚当退到一旁。

OLIVER. Now, sir, what make you here?

奥列佛：喂，先生，你在这儿干什么？

ORLANDO. Nothing. I am not taught to make anything.

奥兰多：什么也没干。没人教过我干什么。

OLIVER. What mar you then, sir?

奥列佛：那你在这儿糟蹋什么，先生？

ORLANDO. Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.

奥兰多：说实话，先生，我在帮你糟蹋上帝造出来的东西，一个可怜的不成器的弟弟，用游手好闲来糟蹋。

OLIVER. Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.

奥列佛：说实话，先生，你最好找点正经事干，然后滚一边去。

ORLANDO. Shall I keep your hogs, and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion have I spent that I should come to such penury?

奥兰多：难道要我去给你喂猪，跟猪一起吃糠？我挥霍掉了哪份浪子的家产，竟落到这般穷困？

OLIVER. Know you where you are, sir?

奥列佛：你知道你在什么地方吗，先生？

ORLANDO. O, sir, very well: here in your orchard.

奥兰多：哦，先生，知道得很清楚：就在你的果园里。

OLIVER. Know you before whom, sir?

奥列佛：你知道你站在谁面前吗，先生？

ORLANDO. Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know you are my eldest brother, and in the gentle condition of blood you should so know me. The courtesy of nations allows you my better in that you are the first-born, but the same tradition takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us. I have as much of my father in me as you, albeit I confess your coming before me is nearer to his reverence.

奥兰多：知道，而且比站在我面前的人了解我，更了解他。我知道你是我的大哥，凭着高贵的血统，你也应该这样认我。各国的礼俗允许你比我尊贵，因为你是长子，可是就算我们之间有二十个兄弟，这规矩也夺不走我的血统。我身上流着父亲的血，跟你一样多，虽然我承认，你比我先出生，因此更接近他的尊严。

OLIVER. What, boy!

奥列佛：什么，小子！

ORLANDO. Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

奥兰多：来呀，来呀，大哥，论这个你还太嫩了。

OLIVER. Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?

奥列佛：你想动手打我吗，恶棍？

ORLANDO. I am no villain. I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice a villain that says such a father begot villains. Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy tongue for saying so. Thou has railed on thyself.

奥兰多：我不是恶棍。我是罗兰·德·博伊斯爵士的小儿子。他是我的父亲，谁说这样的父亲会生出恶棍，谁就是三倍的恶棍。你要不是我哥哥，我这只手不掐住你的喉咙，等那只手把你的舌头拔出来，绝不松开，谁让你说这种话。你这是在骂你自己。

ADAM. [Coming forward.] Sweet masters, be patient. For your father’s remembrance, be at accord.

亚当：（走上前来）两位好主人，请忍耐些。看在对你们父亲的怀念上，和好吧。

OLIVER. Let me go, I say.

奥列佛：放开我，我说。

ORLANDO. I will not till I please. You shall hear me. My father charged you in his will to give me good education. You have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it. Therefore allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes.

奥兰多：我不放，等我乐意了再说。你得听我说。父亲在遗嘱里嘱咐你，要让我受良好的教育。你却把我当庄稼汉一样养，把一切符合绅士身份的品质都对我遮掩、隐瞒起来。父亲的精神在我身上越来越强，我再也受不了了。所以，要么让我接受与绅士相称的教养，要么把父亲在遗嘱里留给我的那份微薄遗产给我。拿了那笔钱，我就自己去闯荡谋生。