英文原文

*Shall I compare thee to a summer's day？*

*Thou art more lovely and more temperate:*

*Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,*

*And summer's lease hath all too short a date:*

*Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,*

*And often is his gold complexion dimmed；*

*And every fair from fair sometime declines,*

*By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd；*

*But thy eternal summer shall not fade,*

*Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st；*

*Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,*

*When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

*So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,*

*So long lives this and this gives life to thee.*

中文翻译

我能否将你比作夏日？

你更可爱且更温婉：

狂风摇曳五月的娇嫩花蕾，

夏日的时光却太过短暂：

有时天空的烈日灼得眼睛发烫，

常使金色的容颜失色；

每个美丽的事物总会有凋零时，

或因偶然，或因自然的变迁；

但你的永恒夏日永不褪色，

永葆你钟爱的美丽；

死亡也无法将你囚禁于阴暗，

当你在时光的诗行中永恒生长：

只要人类还能呼吸或眼睛还能看见，

这份美好将永远赋予生命。

补充说明

此诗通过夏日短暂与永恒的对比，赞颂了被比作“永恒夏日”的爱人，强调其美貌与青春的永驻。诗中“eternal summer”成为文学中经典的永恒意象。