對小釗的回應，並等待他的好作品

因本人不喜歡跟人爭論，加上最近很忙，所以本不想對小釗的點評作出具體回應。 Plumber要明天才來，他不來我也做不了什麽，今天仔細看了一下小釗的點評，在此作一個簡略回應。同時，我還在等待小釗的翻譯佳作，希望他不要保守。

小釗點評： 第二段：“就美而言，自然優於打扮，端莊、優雅勝於自然。此係美中極品”，原文motion一詞應該指的是言談舉止，而不隻是氣質的“端莊、優雅”，這就是為什麽下文說畫不出來，如果僅是端莊優雅的氣質，還是能畫出來的。“美中極品”也不妥，意思應該是“美之要旨所在”。

聚曦亭說明：真是如此！我們平時常說“舉止端莊、優雅”，端莊與優雅正是跟舉止搭配的。

 

小釗點評： 第三段：“大美者，其骨骼比例自有某些特征”，“某些特征”不妥，因為特征在中文裏意思並不是“特別的征象”，而是feature，原文是指由有異於常人之處、異象。

聚曦亭說明：proportion當然指人體的比例。西方繪畫講究解剖與透視法，所以這裏用“骨骼比例”非常恰當。

 

小釗點評：第三段：“此非意指畫工無法畫出前所未有之好像”，這一句中文讀起來有歧義，好像是畫工的作品比以前的作品都好，其實原文意思是“畫像並非不能勝於本人”。

聚曦亭說明：此兩人所追求的就是“前所未有之好像”（to make one excellent）

 

小釗點評： 第四段：“容貌，分而察之，難以悅目；合而觀之，卻能賞心。”，原文並不是泛指，而是指有些容貌（A man shall see faces你會看到有些臉是這種情況，世間幾多容貌），譯文變成泛稱所有容貌，道理上就講不通了，因為並不是所有容貌都是分而察之，一無是處。

聚曦亭說明：當然是泛指，所以用A man shall see faces，不帶定冠詞，不然就要用 the faces!

 

小釗點評： 第四段："若美貌實出於端莊，溫文爾雅之氣質隨年歲倍增則不足為奇"，對motion的理解，見1。

聚曦亭說明：已說明，見上。

 

小釗點評： 第五段：“老年出格”，out of countenance意思和“出格”相反。

聚曦亭說明：小釗看走了眼，countenance在這裏不作“麵容”解，而作Obsolete . bearing; behavior解，所以譯作“出格”。見www.dictionary.com第五條。

 

 

附英譯文

 

Of Beauty

論美貌

 

Francis Bacon

弗朗西斯•培根

 

(1561-1626)

 

VIRTUE is like a rich stone, best plain set; and surely virtue is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features; and that 

 

hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. Neither is it almost seen, that very beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue; 

 

as if nature were rather busy, not to err, than in labor to produce excellency. And therefore they prove accomplished, but not of great 

 

spirit; and study rather behavior, than virtue. 

美德如寶石。寶石者，非素雅之鑲嵌不能盡顯其光彩，故美德之光彩，非俊雅而非嬌豔、非端莊而非僅僅美豔之身軀不能盡顯。然，大美之人中鮮見美德者，仿

 

佛造化忙不擇優，為求無過而舍求至美。此何為美人雖有相貌但乏品性，重外表而輕美德也。

 

But this holds not always: for Augustus Caesar, Titus Vespasianus, Philip le Belle of France, Edward the Fourth of England, Alcibiades of 

 

Athens, Ismael the Sophy of Persia, were all high and great spirits; and yet the most beautiful men of their times. In beauty, that of favor, 

 

is more than that of color; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favor. That is the best part of beauty, which a picture 

 

cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life. 

然，此非恒理，奧古斯都•凱撒大帝、提圖斯•威斯帕鹹努斯大帝、法王菲利普、英王愛德華四世、雅典人阿爾西巴阿底斯、波斯王伊斯邁耳皆屬其時代品性高尚

 

且相貌極美之人。就美而言，自然優於打扮，端莊、優雅勝於自然。此係美中極品，非繪畫所能表達，非一目而能了然。

 

There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the 

 

more trifler; whereof the one, would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to 

 

make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter may make a 

 

better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by rule. 

大美者，其骨骼比例自有某些特征。阿佩利斯與艾伯特•丟勒一樣荒唐，此二者，一人按幾何比例、一人取數人麵部最佳部位繪極品之美像。而吾以為，此法造像

 

，除畫工本人，無人垂愛。此非意指畫工無法畫出前所未有之好像；而僅指，畫工作畫不能循規蹈矩，而必須巧思妙創（恰似樂工創作美音那樣）。

 

A man shall see faces, that if you examine them part by part, you shall find never a good; and yet altogether do well. If it be true that the 

 

principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel, though persons in years seem many times more amiable; pulchrorum 

 

autumnus pulcher; for no youth can be comely but by pardon, and considering the youth, as to make up the comeliness. 

容貌，分而察之，難以悅目；合而觀之，卻能賞心。若美貌實出於端莊，溫文爾雅之氣質隨年歲倍增則不足為奇。諺曰：“美哉，金秋！”故，若非仗其青春優

 

勢，若非觀者寬心以待，青年無俊者。

 

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little 

 

out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.

美貌似夏日之鮮果，易腐，難存；美貌常使青春放浪，老年出格。當然，無須重申，如其輝映美德，必使其增色；如其光照惡行，定使其愧疚。

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