（莎士比亚图书馆系列第一辑）威尼斯商人（英文导读版）

莎士比亚图书馆系列:威尼斯商人(英文导读版)讲述年轻的威尼斯人巴萨尼奥欲向贝尔蒙特脱富有的女继承人鲍西娅求婚，便向好友威尼斯商人安东尼奥告贷三千块金币。由于自己投资的商船尚未回港，未有余资，安东尼奥于是又转向犹太商人夏洛克借钱，哪知夏洛克因与安东尼奥屡有过节，便趁此机会与巴萨尼奥签订合同，规定后者若有违约则要割一磅肉作为赔偿。随后，得知安东尼奥的商船行踪不明后，夏洛克前来索取他的一磅肉，鲍西娅和其侍女假扮律师和书记为其解围。在法庭上，鲍西娅聪明地答应夏洛克可以剥取安东尼奥的任何一磅肉，只是，如果流下一滴血的话，就用他的性命及财产来补赎。就这样，夏洛克阴谋失败，并且获罪判刑。

 作者：威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare，1564年4月23日—1616年4月23日）
英国文学史上的杰出戏剧家，也是西方文艺史上的杰出作家
全世界卓越的文学家，被誉为“人类文学奥林匹斯山上的宙斯”。
他流传下来的作品包括37部戏剧，154首十四行诗，两首长叙事诗。
他的戏剧有各种主要语言的译本，且表演次数远远超过其他任何戏剧家的作品。

出版社：中译出版社
1、中译出版社( 原中国对外翻译出版有限公司)成立于1973年，先后隶属于国家出版局、新闻出版总署，现为中国出版集团公司、中国出版传媒股份有限公司所属单位。
2、成立之初主要负责项目是联合国资料翻译。40多年来，在多语种、多学科互译和出版的实践中，创立了“中译翻译”和“中译出版”两大品牌
3、成为一个人才资源丰厚，科技手段先进，产品质量上乘的国 家级翻译、出版机构。
4、拥有由国内一流、享誉海外的翻译界专家组成的顾问团。
5、是经国务院批准成立的国 家级翻译出版机构。
6、是中国出版集团公司创始单位之一。                                                               

CONTENTS
Literature Study Guide … ………………………………… 1
The Merchant of Venice
Dramatis Personæ … ……………………………………… 29
Act I … …………………………………………………… 31
Act II ……………………………………………………… 56
Act III ……………………………………………………… 92
Act IV ………………………………………………………126
Act V … ……………………………………………………152                                                               

ACT I
SCENE I.—Venice. A Street.
Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SALANIO.
Ant. In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
Salar. Your mind is tossing on the ocean;
There, where your argosies with portly sail,—
Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,
Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,—
Do overpeer the petty traffickers,
That curtsy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Salan. Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,
The better part of my affections would
Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still
Plucking the grass to know where sits the wind;
Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads;
And every object that might make me fear
Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt
Would make me sad.
Salar. My wind, cooling my broth,
Would blow me to an ague, when I thought
What harm a wind too great might do at sea.
I should not see the sandy hour-glass run
But I should think of shallows and of flats,
And see my wealthy Andrew dock’d in sand
Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs
To kiss her burial. Should I go to church
And see the holy edifice of stone,
And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,
Which touching but my gentle vessel’s side
Would scatter all her spices on the stream,
Eurobe the roaring waters with my silks;
And, in a word, but even now worth this,
And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought
To think on this, and shall I lack the thought
That such a thing bechanc’d would make me sad?
But tell not me: I know Antonio
Is sad to think upon his merchandise.
Ant. Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it,
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate
Upon the fortune of this present year:
Therefore, my merchandise makes me not sad.
Salar. Why, then you are in love.
Ant. Fie, fie!
Salar. Not in love neither? Then let’s say you are sad,
Because you are not merry: and ’twere as easy
For you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry,
Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed
Janus,
Nature hath fram’d strange fellows in her time:
Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper,
And other of such vinegar aspect
That they’ll not show their teeth in way of smile,
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.