海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 | 朗读《无事生非》（第二场第三幕）

BENEDICK.This can be no trick: the conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: itseems her affections have their full bent. Love me! why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured: they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive the love come from her; they say too that she will rather die than give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy are they that hear their detractions and can put them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'ti a truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her. I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?这不会是诡计；他们谈话的神气是很严肃的；他们从希罗嘴里听到了这一件事情，当然不会有假。他们好像很同情这姑娘；她的热情好像已经涨到最高度。爱我！哎哟，我一定要报答她才是。我已经听见他们怎样批评我，他们说要是我知道了她在爱我，我一定会摆架子；他们又说她宁死也不愿把她的爱情表示出来。结婚这件事我倒从来没有想起过。我一定不要摆架子；一个人知道了自己的短处，能够改过自新，就是有福的。他们说这姑娘长得漂亮，这是真的，我可以为他们证明；说她品行很好，这也是事实，我不能否认；说她除了爱我以外，别的地方都是很聪明的，其实这一件事情固然不足表示她的聪明，可是也不能因此反证她的愚蠢，因为就是我也要从此为她颠倒哩。也许人家会向我冷嘲热讽，因为我一向都是讥笑着结婚的无聊；可是难道一个人的口味是不会改变的吗？年轻的时候喜欢吃肉，也许老来一闻到肉味道就要受不住。难道这种不关痛痒的舌丸唇弹，就可以把人吓退，叫他放弃他的决心吗？
No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day! she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in her.不，人类是不能让它绝种的。当初我说我要一生一世做个单身汉，那是因为我没有想到我会活到结婚的一天。贝特丽丝来了。天日在上，她是个美貌的姑娘！我可以从她脸上看出她几分爱我的意思来。
BEATRICE.Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.他们叫我来请您进去吃饭，可是这是违反我自己的意志的。
BENEDICK.Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.好贝特丽丝，有劳枉驾，辛苦您啦，真是多谢。
BEATRICE.I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come.我并没什么辛苦可以领受您的谢意，就像您这一声多谢并没有辛苦了您。要是这是一件辛苦的事，我也不会来啦。
BENEDICK.You take pleasure then in the message?那么您是很乐意来叫我的吗？
BEATRICE.Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach, signior: fare you well.是的，这乐意的程度可以让您在刀尖儿上挑得起来，可以塞进乌鸦的嘴里硬死它。您肚子不饿吧，先生？再见。
BENEDICK.Ha! Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner; there's a double meaning in that I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me. That's as much as to say, any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks. I will go get her picture.哈！“他们叫我来请您进去吃饭，可是这是违反我自己的意志的，”这句话里含着双关的意义。“我并没什么辛苦可以领受您的谢意，就像您这一声多谢并没有辛苦了您。”那等于说，我无论给您做些什么辛苦的事，都像说一声谢谢那样不费事。我要向她讨一幅小像去。