1. An Excerpt from Dr. Faustus  

(Dr. Faustus is the greatest of Marlowe's plays,

in which the old German legend is freely reshaped.

Faustus is a great scholar who has a strong desire to acquire all kinds of knowledge. He is bored of his

present study on the academic curriculum and turns

to black magic. By conjuration he calls up

Mephistophilis, the Devil's servant.

Faustus makes a bond to sell his soul to the Devil

in return for twenty-four years of life in which he may have the services of Mephistophilis to give him everything he desires. With the help of the Devil,

Faustus brings his magical art into full play

and sees the Pope, Alexander the Great and even the beautiful Helen of Greece. Meanwhile Faustus has

experienced much internal conflict, symbolized in the appearances of both Good Angel and Bad Angel. In the final scene, there remains only the terrifying soliloquy in which the anguish of the hero's mind is poignantly expressed. The following selection is taken from act one, which is about the signing of the bond.

ACT I

SCENE 3

[Enter FAUSTUS to conjure.]

FAUST. Now that the gloomy shadow of the night,

Longing to view Orion's drizzling look,

Leaps from the antarctic world unto the sky

And dims the welkin with her pitchy breath,

Faustus, begin thine incantations

And try if devils will obey thy hest,

Seeing thou has prayed and sacrificed to them.

Within this circle is Jehovah's name

[He draws the circle on the ground.]

Forward and backward anagrammatical,

The breviated names of holy saints,

Figures of every adjunct to the heavens

And characters of signs and erring stars,

By which the spirits are enforced to rise.  

Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute

And try the uttermost magic can perform.

[Thunder.] 

[Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS in the shape of a dragon.]

I charge thee to return and change thy shape;

Thou art too ugly to attend on me.

Go, and return an old Franciscan friar;

That holy shape becomes a devil best.

[Exit MEPH.]

I see there's virtue in my heavenly words:

Who would not be proficient in this art?

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中文翻译：

第一幕

第三场

[浮士德上场，准备施法。]

浮士德：此刻，黑夜的阴郁暗影，

渴望窥见猎户座泪雨般的面容(1)，

从南极世界跃入天际，

以漆黑的吐息遮蔽苍穹。

浮士德，开始你的咒语吧，

试试魔鬼是否会听从你的命令，

既然你已向他们祈祷并献祭。

这圆圈内写着耶和华之名

[他在地上画了一个圆圈。]

正读倒读皆成符咒，

还有诸位圣徒的缩写尊号，

诸天星象的图形，

以及星座与游星的符号，

凭此可强令幽灵现身。

莫惧，浮士德，务必坚定，

且看这法术的极致威能。

[雷鸣声。]

[梅菲斯托菲利斯以龙形登场。]

我命你退下，换副模样；

这般丑陋，怎配侍奉我身。

去，化作年迈的方济会修士——

那圣洁皮囊最衬魔鬼本真。

[梅菲斯托菲利斯退场。]

看来我神圣的咒语确有奇效：

谁不愿精通此等法术？

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注释：

1. "Orion's drizzling look" 可能指猎户座在夜空中朦胧如泪的星象，或暗示不祥之兆。

译文尽量保留原文的诗歌韵律与古雅风格，同时将宗教术语（如"Jehovah"译为"耶和华"）、文化意象（如"Franciscan friar"译为"方济会修士"）等适配中文表达。

How plain is this Mephistophilis,

Full of obedience and humility!

Such is the force of magic and my spells.

Now, Faustus, thou art conjurer laureate  

That canst command great Mephistophilis:

Quin redis, Mephistophilis, fratris imagine!

[Re-enter MEPHISTOPHILIS like a Friar.]

Meph.Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do?

FAUST. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live

To do whatever Faustus shall command,

Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere

Or the ocean to overwhelm the world.

Meph. I am a servant to great Lucifer

And may not follow thee without his leave;

No more than he commands must we perform.

FAUST. Did not he charge thee to appear to me?

Meph. No, I came now hither of my own accord.

FAUST. Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee?

Speak!

Meph. That was the cause, but yet per accidens,

For when we hear one rack the name of God,

Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ,

We fly in hope to get his glorious soul;

Nor will we come unless he use such means

Whereby he is in danger to be damned;  

Therefore the shortest cut for conjuring

Is stoutly to abjure the Trinity

And pray devoutly to the prince of hell.

FAUST. So I have done, and hold this principle,

There is no chief but only Belzebub.

这梅菲斯托菲勒斯多么顺从谦卑！  

全因魔法与咒语之力。  

浮士德，你如今已是冠冕巫师，  

能号令伟大的梅菲斯托菲勒斯：  

“速现形，梅菲斯托菲勒斯，以修士之貌！”  

（梅菲斯托菲勒斯以修士形象重上。）  

梅菲：浮士德，此刻你要我做什么？  

浮士德：我要你终生侍奉我，  

执行我一切命令——  

哪怕让月亮坠出天轨，  

或令海洋淹没世界。  

梅菲：我是大魔王路西法的仆从，  

未经他许可不得听命于你；  

我们只遵从他的意志。  

浮士德：难道不是他命你现身？  

梅菲：不，我此次出于自愿而来。  

浮士德：莫非我的咒语召唤了你？说！  

梅菲：咒语是契机，但仅是表象。  

当凡人亵渎上帝之名、  

背弃圣经与救主基督，  

我们便飞驰而至，觊觎其灵魂；  

唯有他自陷永劫，  

我们方会响应。  

故召唤恶魔的捷径，  

是悍然唾弃三位一体，  

虔诚向地狱之王祈祷。  

浮士德：我正是如此，并深信：  

唯别西卜为众魔之主。

Faust

To whom Faustus doth dedicate himself.

This word "damnation" terrifies not me,

For I confound hell in Elysium;

My ghost be with the old philosophers!

But leaving these vain trifles of men's souls --

Tell me, what is that Lucifer thy lord?

Meph

Arch-regent and commander of all spirits.

Faust

Was not that Lucifer an angel once?

Meph

Yes, Faustus, and most dearly loved of God.

Faust

How comes it, then, that he is prince of devils?

Meph

O, by aspiring pride and insolence,

For which God threw him from the face of heaven.

Faust

And what are you that live with Lucifer?

Meph

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,

Conspired against our God with Lucifer,

And are forever damned with Lucifer.

Faust

Where are you damned?

Meph

In hell.

Faust

How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?

Meph

Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:

Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God,

And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,

Am not tormented with ten thousand hells

In being deprived of everlasting bliss?

O Faustus, leave these frivolous demands

Which strike a terror to my fainting soul!

Faust

What, is great Mephistophilis so passionate

For being deprived of the joys of heaven?

Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude,

And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.

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翻译

浮士德：

浮士德将自身献予何人？  

“诅咒”一词吓不倒我，  

因我将地狱混同于极乐净土；  

愿我之魂与古时哲人同在！  

且抛开这些关于人类灵魂的虚妄琐事——  

告诉我，你的主上路西法究竟是何物？  

梅菲斯特：  

众灵之总摄政与统御者。  

浮士德： 

那路西法岂非曾是天使？  

梅菲斯特：  

正是，浮士德，他曾是上帝最钟爱之子。  

浮士德： 

那他为何堕落为群魔之首？  

梅菲斯特：

啊，皆因骄狂傲慢，  

上帝遂将其逐出天国。  

浮士德：  

与路西法同住者，尔等又是何人？  

梅菲斯特：  

乃随路西法堕落之悲苦灵魂，  

曾与其共谋背叛吾神，  

如今永世与路西法同受天谴。  

浮士德： 

尔等受谴于何处？  

梅菲斯特：

地狱。  

浮士德： 

既如此，你何以脱离地狱现身此地？  

梅菲斯特： 

此地即地狱，我从未逃脱：  

岂不知我曾亲睹神颜，  

饱尝天国永恒之欢愉，  

而今被褫夺极乐，  

岂非日日受万重炼狱煎熬？  

浮士德啊，莫再问此轻浮之言，  

徒令吾濒死之魂战栗！  

浮士德： 

哈！伟大的梅菲斯特竟为失却天国之乐悲恸？  

且随浮士德修习男儿坚毅，  

唾弃那永不可得之虚妄欢愉！  

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Go, bear these tidings to great Lucifer:  

Seeing Faustus hath incurred eternal death  

By desperate thoughts against Jove’s deity,  

Say he surrenders up to him his soul  

So he will spare him four and twenty years,  

Letting him live in all voluptuousness,  

Having thee ever to attend on me;  

To give me whatsoever I shall ask,  

To tell me whatsoever I demand,  

To slay mine enemies and aid my friends,  

And always be obedient to my will.  

Go, and return to mighty Lucifer,  

And meet me in my study at midnight  

And then resolve me of thy master’s mind.  

MEPH. I will, Faustus.  

[Exit.]  

FAUST. Had I as many souls as there be stars  

I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!  

By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,  

And make a bridge thorough the moving air  

To pass the ocean with a band of men;  

I’ll join the hills that bind the Afric shore  

And make that country continent to Spain,  

And both contributory to my crown;  

The Emperor shall not live but by my leave,  

Nor any potentate of Germany.  

Now that I have obtained what I desire  

I’ll live in speculation(8) of this art  

Till Mephistophilis return again.  

浮士德：

去，将这消息带给伟大的路西法：

既然浮士德因亵渎天帝的狂悖之念

已招致永恒的死亡判决

就说他愿献上自己的灵魂

只求换取二十四载的缓刑

让他纵情声色享尽欢愉

并要你永远侍奉左右

予我所有渴求之物

答我一切发问之事

歼灭仇敌，襄助盟友

永做我意志的忠仆

速去禀告尊贵的路西法

子夜时分来我书房复命

带回你主上的最终决断

梅菲斯特：

遵命，浮士德。

[退场]

浮士德：

纵使我的灵魂多如繁星

也愿尽数换取梅菲斯特！

借他之力我将君临天下

在流动的大气中架设飞桥

率领大军横跨重洋

让非洲的群山与西班牙相连

使两大洲皆向我称臣

日耳曼的皇帝与诸侯

生死去留皆由我定夺

既然夙愿已得偿

我将潜心钻研这秘术

静待梅菲斯特归来之时

（翻译说明：保留原作五步抑扬格的韵律感，通过四字格与对仗句式体现古典韵味。"voluptuousness"译为"纵情声色"既符合原文又具中文意境，"speculation of this art"处理为"潜心钻研这秘术"准确传达沉迷魔法的状态。关键意象如"空中飞桥"、"连山填海"等保留奇幻色彩，末句"静待"与开篇"子夜复命"形成时间闭环，增强戏剧张力。）

Notes：

(1) Orion's drizzling look: Orion was traditionally a rainy constellation, appearing at the beginning of winter.  

(2) Quin redis, Mephistophilis, fratris imagine: "Return, Mephistophilis, in the likeness of a friar."  

(3) per accidents: incidentally.  

(4) rack: torment.  

(5) confound...Elysium: do not distinguish between hell and Elysium (the pagan after-world).  

(6) old philosophers**: who lived before the Redemption and neither knew of nor could go to Heaven.  

(7) passionate: sorrowful.  

(8) speculation: contemplation.  

(1) Orion's drizzling look: 猎户座阴雨蒙蒙的凝视——传统上，猎户座被视为带来雨水的星座，在冬季初现天际。  

(2) Quin redis, Mephistophilis, fratris imagine: "归来吧，梅菲斯托菲利斯，以修士之形"（拉丁语，出自《浮士德》相关文本）。  

(3) per accidents: 偶然地（哲学术语，指非本质或附带发生之事）。  

(4) rack: 折磨（动词，指施加痛苦或煎熬）。  

(5) confound...Elysium: 混淆地狱与极乐世界（指不区分基督教地狱与异教冥界乐土）。  

(6) old philosophers: 古代哲学家（特指救赎纪元前的哲人，因不知天堂而永堕幽冥）。  

(7) passionate: 悲怆的（此处非指激情，而是深切的哀伤）。  

(8) speculation: 冥思（指向内的哲学沉思，非现代“投机”之义）。  

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翻译保留术语的文学与宗教语境，同时通过括号补充文化背景，确保中文读者理解原意。