【美联英语】卡梅伦-卡梅伦首相发表文章：永恒的莎士比亚(中英文对照)1.pdfVIP

两分钟做个小测试，看看你的英语水平 /test/quwen.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供 ：卡梅伦首相发表文章：永恒的莎士比亚（中英文对照）1 Shakespeare Lives 永恒的莎士比亚 British Prime Minister David Cameron 英国首相大卫·卡梅伦 This year’s four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the greatest playwrights of all time. It is a moment to celebrate the extraordinary ongoing influence of a man who– to borrow from his own description of Julius Caesar– “doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus.” 今年是英国戏剧大师威廉·莎士比亚去世400周年。我们怀念他的伟大作品 ，也向他永存于世的影响力致敬。 正如名剧 《裘力斯·凯撒》中的台词 ，“他像一位巨人 ，跨越了这狭隘的世界”。 Shakespeare’s legacy is without parallel: his works translated into over 100 languages and studied by half the world’s schoolchildren. As one of his contemporaries, Ben Jonson, said: “Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time.” He lives today in our language, our culture and society– and through his enduring influence on education. 莎翁的作品被翻译成 100多种语言 ，被全世界一半的学生诵读 ，其传播之广 ，前所未有。同时代的剧作家 本·琼森曾说 ， 莎士比亚超越了时代 ，他将永世不朽。”今天 ，他仍然活在我们的语言、文化和社会中 ， 对教育的影响弥久常新。 Shakespeare played a critical role in shaping modern English and helping to make it the world’s language. The first major dictionary compiled by Samuel Johnson drew on Shakespeare more than any other writer. Three thousand new words and phrases all first appeared in print in Shakespeare’s plays. I remember from my own childhood how many of them are found for the first time in Henry V. Words like dishearten, divest, addiction, motionless, leapfrog– and phrases like once more unto the breach”, band of brothers” and heart of gold” – have all passed into our language today with no need to reference their original context. Shakespeare als pioneered innovative use of grammatical form and structure– including verse without rhymes, superlatives and the connecting of existing words to make new words, like bl– whiledstained the pre-eminence of his plays also did much to standardise spelling and grammar. 莎翁在构建现代英语