接“一片碧绿”的“关于战争”

来源: lyztoon 于 2007-09-17 00:54:26 [档案] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读：次 (1501 bytes)

远先生的文采，我早已领教过。《河殇》读毕，大有“朝闻道，夕死可矣”之感。

接一片碧绿女士的题目。我也引用莎士比亚《亨利五世》中出征法国的英国士兵对那场战争的质疑的台词来说关于战争。原文在下。汉语译文随后。

But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind
them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to
it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection.

Henry V, Act IV, Scence i.

可是，如果这不是师出有名，那么国王头上的这笔账可有得他算了。打一场仗，有多多少少的腿、多多少少的胳膊、多多少少的头要给砍下来；将来有一天，它们又结合在一起了，就会一齐高声呼号：“我们死在这样一个地方！”有的在咒天骂地，有的在喊叫军医，有的在哭他抛下了苦命的妻，有的高嚷他欠了人家的债还没还，也有的一声声叫他摔手不管的孩子——我只怕死在战场上的人很少有死得像个样儿的！人家既然要流你的血，还能跟你讲什么慈悲？我说，如果这班人不得好死，那么把他们领到死路上去的国王就是罪孽深重了。苦的是小百姓，他们要是违抗了君命，那就是违反了做百姓的名份。

亨利五世，第四幕，第一场。