王子复仇记，哈姆雷特的故事

this is the sad story of hamlet, young prince of denmark, whose father died two months before the story begins. hamlet' s father was king of denmark and hamlet was his only son. the king died a strange death while he was sleeping in the garden of his castle. it was believed that he had been bitten to death by a poisonous snake. he was such a wise and kind king that he was loved by all the people in the nation. his son, hamlet, of course, loved him far more than anyone else in the world.
hamlet was so sad and sorrowful that he never stopped wearing black clothes. there was something else which made hamlet even sadder. his mother, gertrude, married hamlet' s uncle, claudius, who was a brother of the late king. after hamlet' s father died, claudius became king of denmark and married gertrude. young hamlet did not like him because he was not as wise and kind as his father. he was a man of unkindly character. hamlet did not in the least want his mother to marry such a man. he became angry with both of them and came to despise his mother as well as his uncle.
这是讲述年轻丹麦王子哈姆雷特的悲伤故事，他的父亲在故事开始前两个月去世。哈姆雷特的父亲是丹麦国王，而哈姆雷特则是他的独生子。国王在城堡的花园中睡觉时突然离奇地死去，大家都认为他是被一条毒蛇给咬死的。他是一位睿智仁慈的国王，因此全国人民都很爱戴他。当然，国王的儿子哈姆雷特要比世上的任何人更爱他。
哈姆雷特很伤心难过，因此他一直穿着黑色的丧服。另外还有一件令哈姆雷特更加伤心的事，那就是他的母亲葛楚德嫁给哈姆雷特的叔叔克劳迪斯，也就是已故国王的弟弟。在哈姆雷特的父亲去世之后，克劳迪斯成为丹麦的国王并且取了葛楚德。年轻的哈姆雷特并不喜欢他的叔叔，因为他不像自己的父亲那么睿智仁慈，他是一个本性无情的人。哈姆雷特一点也不愿意他的母亲嫁给这种男人。他对他们倆感到非常气愤，因而看不起他的母亲和叔叔。

the bell of the castle was ringing. it was exactly midnight. suddenly a ghost in the form of the late king appeared in the darkness. it looked pale and sad. looking at the ghost, the two guards of the castle and horatio, hamlet' s best friend, were surprised and terrified. they wondered if something bad was going to happen in denmark. they decided to tell their prince what they had seen .
the next day they went to hamlet and told him that they had seen the ghost of king hamlet. hamlet doubted it at first, but wanted to make sure himself. he asked them to take him to see the ghost that night. they agreed.
late at night hamlet, horatio and one of the guards went to the top of the walls. it was very cold and dark there. some time after they got there, the ghost in armor suddenly appeared out of the darkness. as his friends had told him, hamlet saw that the ghost was exactly like his dead father.
he called out, "king, father! why did you come here out of the grave?"
the ghost did not answer him, but looked at him sadly and made a sign for him to follow. his friends did not want to let hamlet follow the ghost because they thought it might be an evil spirit and do something badto him. but he did follow the ghost. while hamlet and the ghost walked away into the darkness, his friends had to wait anxiously there worrying about his safe return .
at the end of the walls of the castle the ghost stopped and began to talk to hamlet, "i am the ghost of your father. i wanted to rule denmark peacefully until you grew up and became king after me. but two months ago, while i was sleeping in the beautiful garden of the castle, my brother claudius came and put poison into my ear. i was instantly killed. hamlet! be brave and kill him for me. but never kill or hurt my wife, for she is your mother. let her repent for what she has done. that is enough for her. what i have told you is true. i tell you again. i was not killed by a poisonous snake, but by my brother claudius. never forget what i have told you, my dear son. good-bye, hamlet!"
then the ghost disappeared into the mist of the dark sky. upon hearing this, hamlet became excited and was even more furious with claudius and his mother. he made up his mind to kill his uncle and let his mother repent for her sins.

城堡里的钟声响起，此刻正是午夜。突然间一个外形很像已故国王的鬼魂在暗处出现。它的脸色看起来很苍白、悲伤。城堡的两个卫兵和哈姆雷特的挚友荷瑞修看到这鬼魂时，感到非常吃惊害怕。他们怀疑是否有不祥的事会在丹麦发生。他们决定把亲眼看到的事告诉王子。
隔天，他们去见哈姆雷特并且告诉他，他们曾看见过哈姆雷特国王的鬼魂。哈姆雷特起先对这件事感到怀疑，但他想要亲自去证实这件事。他要他们当晚带他去看那个鬼魂，他们同意了。深夜，哈姆雷特，荷瑞修和一名守卫三人来到城墙顶，那里非常寒冷、阴暗，就在他们到达后不久，这个身穿盔甲的鬼魂突然从黑暗之中出现。哈姆雷特看到这个鬼魂跟他死去的父亲简直一模一样，就如他的朋友告诉他的。
他大声地叫:“国王，我的父亲！您为什么离开坟墓到这里来？”鬼魂没有回答他的话，但却很悲伤地看着他，并对他做了个手势，示意他跟着它去。哈姆雷特的朋友不想让他跟着鬼魂走，因为他们认为它可能是邪恶的鬼魂，而且会对他不利。但是哈姆雷特仍然跟着鬼魂而去。当哈姆雷特和鬼魂离去走入黑暗之中时，他的朋友们只得在那儿焦虑地等待并担忧他能否平安地回来。
在城墙的尽头，鬼魂停下脚步，开始对哈姆雷特说：“我是你父亲的鬼魂，我本想和平地统治丹麦直到你长大成人继承我的王位。但是两个月前，当我在城堡里美丽的花园中睡觉时，我的弟弟克劳迪斯走到我身边把毒药塞入我的一只耳朵里。我立即就被他毒死了。哈姆雷特！勇敢点替我杀了他，但是绝不要杀害或伤害我的妻子，因为他是你的母亲。让她去为她所做的事后悔，这对她来说已经够了。我所告诉你的都是事实。我再告诉你一遍，我不是被毒蛇咬死的，而是被我的弟弟克劳迪斯害死的。一定要记住我告诉你的事，我亲爱的儿子，再见了，哈姆雷特。”
然后鬼魂在满布雾气的夜空中消失不见。哈姆雷特一听到这个秘密，显得激动万分并对克劳迪斯和他的母亲更加愤恨不已。他决定要杀死他的叔叔并让他的母亲为她的罪行忏悔。

hamlet' s friends were anxious about him and came to look for him. they found hamlet kneeling down and looking up at the dark sky praying to god. hamlet noticed them coming to him. he stood up and sincerely asked them not to tell anyone what had happened that night. they all agreed and made a firm promise not to tell anyone about it, swearing on hamlet' s sword.
that very night hamlet decided to pretend that he had gone mad in order to have a better chance to kill claudius. he decided not to tell his plan to any of his friends except horatio .
since hamlet saw the ghost, he had often thought of his dead father and of his promise to the ghost. he became sadder each day. he was not a young, merry prince as he used to be. before his father' s death, he was interested in many things, such as books, art, music and plays. but now he gave them all up. to everyone, he seemed to act very strangely. he became rude to everyone in the castle and behaved like a mad man.
he hardly ever spoke to ophelia , a beautiful lady whom he had deeply loved. before, they would talk happily and take walks in the woods near the castle. he would talk to her so sweetly and gently that ophelia was deeply in love with him. but now he was quite different. therefore, polonius, ophelia' s father, did not want his daughter to love hamlet anymore because of his strange behavior.
哈姆雷特的朋友们很担心他的安危就来寻找他，他们发现哈姆雷特跪在地上，望着黑暗的天空向上帝祈祷。哈姆雷特注意到他们来了，便站了起来，很诚挚地要求他们不要把当晚发生的事告诉任何人。他们全都答应了，并且对着哈姆雷特的剑发誓，许下坚定的承诺绝不把这件事告诉任何人。
就在那天晚上，哈姆雷特决定装疯以便有更好的机会去杀克劳迪斯。除了荷瑞修之外，他决定不把他的计划告诉他的任何朋友。
自从哈姆雷特见过父亲的鬼魂后，他常常想到亡父以及他对鬼魂所做的承诺。他一天比一天更加悲伤，已经不再像是从前那位年轻、快乐的王子了。在他父亲去世之前，他对很多事情都有兴趣，例如读书、艺术、音乐和戏剧。但是现在他把那些兴趣都放弃了。对每个人来说，他的行为举止似乎非常怪异。他对城堡中的每个人都很粗暴，言行举止像个疯子一样。
他几乎不曾跟他深爱的美丽的欧菲莉亚说过话。以前，他们会在离城堡不远的树林里散步，愉快地谈心。他会很甜蜜很温柔地跟她说话，因而欧菲莉亚深爱着他，但是如今他变了很多。因此，欧菲莉亚的父亲普罗尼尔斯因为哈姆雷特怪异的行为举止而不希望他的女儿再爱他。

one day hamlet came to ophelia, who was knitting in her room, and spoke wildly to her. he appeared half-naked, wearing a dirty shirt with no hat on his head. she gave back all the letters and valuable rings that she had received from hamlet.
"i will not meet you anymore," she said to him. hamlet left her, feeling even more miserable.
she told her father everything that had occurred in her room. when polonius heard this from his daughter, he believed he knew what had made hamlet go mad. he thought that hamlet had gone mad because of his love for ophelia . polonius went to claudius and gertrude to let them know what caused hamlet's madness. he told them that the love affair between hamlet and ophelia was the true cause of his madness.
claudius always doubted what he heard from his men. he commanded two men who used to be hamlet' s friends when they were children to find out the true reason why he had been acting so strangely recently. he also asked polonius to arrange an unexpected meeting of the two lovers so that they could carefully observe hamlet' s behavior.

有一天，哈姆雷特来找正在房内编织的欧菲莉亚，并且粗鲁蛮横地跟她说话。他穿着一件脏衬衫，没有戴帽子，半裸地出现在她面前。她还给他从他那儿收到的所有信件和珍贵的戒指。
“我不想再看到你，”她对他说。哈姆雷特离开了他，内心感到更加痛苦。
欧菲莉亚把在房内发生的一切事情告诉他的父亲。当普罗尼尔斯从她女儿口中听到这件事时，他相信他知道是什么原因使得哈姆雷特发疯。他认为哈姆雷特是因为爱欧菲莉亚才发疯的。普罗尼尔斯去见克劳迪斯和葛楚德，让他们知道造成哈姆雷特发疯的原因。普罗尼尔斯禀告他们，哈姆雷特和欧菲莉亚之间的爱情才是哈姆雷特发疯的真正原因。
克劳迪斯总是怀疑从他的手下那边听来的消息。他命令小时候曾经是哈姆雷特的朋友的两名手下去找出为什么哈姆雷特最近行为这么怪异的真正原因。他也要求普罗尼尔斯去为这对情人安排一次意外的相会，以便他们能够仔细观察哈姆雷特的举止表现。

hamlet' s two old friends met him when he was saying some strange things to himself alone in the hall of the castle. they begged him to tell them the true cause of his madness. but he would not tell them anything, and instead made fools of them.
one day when hamlet was unhappy and worried by the memory of the ghost and the promise he had made, a group of actors came to visit him. they were the same players that hamlet used to enjoy seeing. he welcomed them. then they acted a short play for him.
it was a sad story about a good king who was poisoned to death by his brother. and this man became king and married the queen. they played it so well, with tears in their eyes, that the scene seemed real. while hamlet was watching them, he felt very angry with himself. he said to himself, "those players can cry for the sad king whom they have never met. but in my case i have done nothing at all for my poor father who was killed by my uncle claudius. what a coward i am!"
when the play was over, he thought of a good plan. he decided to have them play it once again in front of the king and queen the next day. he also asked them to add a few lines of his own to the play so that he could make the play more like what had happened to his father. hamlet said to himself, "if claudius is really guilty, his face will turn pale while he is watching the play. then i will know that what the ghost told me is true. i will watch his face very carefully."

哈姆雷特的两位老友见到他时，他正独自一个人在城堡里胡言乱语。他们请求他告诉他们他发疯的真正原因，但是他非但没有告诉他们，反而还捉弄他们。
有一天，当哈姆雷特想到父亲的鬼魂和他对鬼魂所做的承诺而显得郁郁寡欢和忧虑时，一群演员来看他。他们是哈姆雷特以前喜爱观赏的同一群演员。哈姆雷特欢迎他们的到来，接着他们为他表演一出短剧。
那是叙述一位好国王被他的弟弟毒死的悲伤故事。他的弟弟后来当了国王并且娶了皇后。他们含泪演出表演得真好，以致于这一幕戏好像是真的一样。当哈姆雷特看着他们表演的时候，他对自己感到非常的生气。他对自己说：“那些演员可以为这个他们从没见过面的悲哀的国王而哭泣，而以我的立场，我却没有为被我叔叔克劳迪斯杀死的可怜的父亲尽过任何力。我真是一个懦夫！”
这出戏结束时，他想到了一个好计划。他决定要他们隔天在国王和皇后面前再表演一次，他也要求他们在剧中加一些他自己想的台词，以使这出戏更像发生在他父亲身上的事。哈姆雷特对自己说：“假如克劳迪斯真的有罪，当他在观赏这出戏时，他的脸将会变得苍白。那个时候我就会相信鬼魂告诉我的事是真的，我会非常仔细地注意他脸上的表情。”
he told his plan to horatio, his best friend in the castle, and also asked him to watch the king' s face with the greatest care.
hamlet went to the king and queen to tell them that he would like to invite them to a play the next evening. they agreed to see the play. they hoped that hamlet was at last getting better and would come to accept them as his father and mother. he said good night to claudius and gertrude, pretending that he was happy that night.
on his way back to his own room, he met ophelia, who looked so sad and unhappy in the hall. the king and polonius were hiding behind the curtains of the hall, trying to listen to their conversation.
hamlet said to ophelia, "i don' t love you anymore. we are all dirty animals on this earth. ophelia, you are one of these dirty ones, too. go to a nunnery. go away right now, you dirty woman!"
ophelia was too surprised at his words to say anything to him. it was such a strange and mad thing to say. polonius thought his guess was right. but the king still doubted hamlet' s madness.
the king, the queen and polonius entered a large room where the play was to be shown to the whole court. the king sat with the queen. hamlet sat by the side of ophelia. horatio sat facing the king in order to watch him carefully.
他把他的计划告诉在城堡内的挚友荷瑞修，也要他很仔细地注意国王脸上的表情。
哈姆雷特去见国王和皇后，告诉他们他想邀请他们隔天晚上去欣赏戏剧。他们同意去看这出戏。他们希望哈姆雷特的病情终于能好转起来，并能渐渐接受他们做他的父母亲。哈姆雷特向克劳迪斯和葛楚德说晚安，那天晚上并装出很愉快的样子。
在回到他房间的路上，他在大厅遇到欧菲莉亚，她看起来既伤心又难过。国王和普罗尼尔斯躲在大厅的窗帘后面，设法要听到他们在说些什么。
哈姆雷特对欧菲莉亚说：“我不再爱你了。我们都是世上卑劣的动物。欧菲莉亚，你也是其中之一，去女修道院，现在就去，你这卑劣的女人。”
欧菲莉亚对于他所说的话大感吃惊，以致于搭不上他的话。说出这样的字眼真是荒诞疯狂。普罗尼尔斯认为他的猜测是正确的。但是国王仍旧对哈姆雷特发疯一事感到怀疑。
国王、皇后和普罗尼尔斯走进一间大房间，这出戏即将在这里表演给整个宫廷的人欣赏。国王和皇后坐在一起，哈姆雷特从在欧菲莉亚的旁边，荷瑞修面对国王坐下来为了能仔细地注意他。

the play began. in the play the king and queen were talking on the bench in the beautiful garden. the queen said to the king, "i will love you forever. i will never marry another man if you should die before me. only women that kill their husbands marry again. " the king in the play was very glad to hear this. as the king fell asleep, the queen left him alone. just after she left, the king's brother came near the sleeping king and poured a deadly poison into his ear. he was soon killed by this cunning brother who had long wanted to become king and marry the queen.
seeing this scene, claudius turned pale and became very angry. he shouted, "stop the play at once. " he stood up and went out of the room with the queen.
horatio and hamlet saw the king show every sign of fear and anger. hamlet was now quite sure that the ghost had told him the truth. he himself became excited and firmly decided to revenge his father as soon as he could. when the queen came back into her room, she was very worried about her son, who had made the king furious. she wanted to know why hamlet asked the group of players to show such a disgraceful play before the king. she sent for hamlet.

这出戏开始演出了。戏里的国王和皇后正坐在美丽的花园里的长椅上聊天。皇后对国王说：“我永远爱你！万一你比我先死的话，我决不会再嫁给其他的男人。只有杀死他们丈夫的女人才会再嫁。”戏中的国王听到这席话很高兴。国王睡着时，皇后留下他独自一人。就在皇后离去之后，国王的弟弟靠近熟睡中的国王，把致命的毒药倒入耳朵里面。国王很快就被这个长久以来一直渴望成为国王并且娶到皇后的狡猾的弟弟毒死。
克劳迪斯一看到这幕戏，脸色变得苍白，而且感到非常愤怒。他大声叫喊：“立刻停演。”他站起来跟皇后走出这个房间。
荷瑞修和哈姆雷特看到国王显露出种种害怕、愤怒的迹象。哈姆雷特此时十分确信鬼魂告诉他的真相。他本人显得很激动，并下定决定要尽快替他父亲报仇。皇后回到他的房间里时，很为激怒国王的儿子担忧。她想知道为什么哈姆雷特要这群演员在国王面前表演这么可耻的戏剧。她派人去请哈姆雷特过来。

hamlet hurriedly walked to her room where she was uneasily waiting for him. on the way to his mother' s room, hamlet saw claudius kneeling down to pray in his room. he thought he could kill him right then. but he did not do it. he said to himself, "if i kill him when he is praying to god, he will not go to hell. i had better kill him when he is angry or doing something bad. then he is sure to go to hell. " so he stopped thinking of killing claudius for the moment.
hamlet did not know that the doubting king had commanded polonius to hide behind the curtains in the queen' s room so that he could see what might happen there. as soon as hamlet came into her room, his mother began to scold him for what he had done to the king. she said angrily, "you have made your father very angry. you must beg his pardon."
hamlet would not listen to her, but answered back. he said, "it is you who are to blame. you married that unkind and unkingly uncle of mine so soon after my father' s death.
you should be ashamed of your deed. i will never accept him as my father. he does not deserve to be king of denmark. i will tell you again. it is not i but you and that dirty claudius that should repent."

哈姆雷特匆忙地走向她的房间，那时她正在房间内不安地等候他。在去他母亲房间的路上，哈姆雷特看到克劳迪斯跪在他的房间内祷告。他心想他现在可以杀了克劳迪斯，但是他并没有这样做。他对自己说：“我若在他向上帝祷告的时候杀了他，他将不会下地狱。我最好在他生气或是做错事的时候杀他，这样他就一定会下地狱。” 于是他此刻先抛开想杀克劳迪斯的念头。
哈姆雷特不知道这位疑心的国王早已命令普罗尼尔斯躲在皇后房内的窗帘后面，以便他能看到那里可能发生的事。哈姆雷特一走进她的房间，他的母亲就为他对国王所做的事开始责骂他。她很生气地说：“你激怒了你的父亲，你必须去请求他原谅你。”
哈姆雷特不听她的话，反而顶嘴说：“该受责备的是你。你在我父亲去世后这么快就嫁给我那个心怀不仁、不配当国王的叔叔。你才应该为你的行为感到羞耻。我绝不接受他做我的父亲。他没有资格当丹麦的国王。我再告诉你一遍，该忏悔的不是我，而是你和那个卑劣的克劳迪斯。”
the queen became excited at hearing this and tried to run out of the room. hamlet grabbed her by the wrist so roughly that she was frightened and cried out, "are you going to kill me? help! help!"
on hearing the queen' s cry for help, polonius, who was hiding behind the curtains, also cried, "hamlet! don't hurt the queen. someone! help the queen!"
hamlet shouted, "what is that? a rat?" thinking that it was claudius, he drew his sword and rushed to the curtains. the man behind the curtains fell dead. hamlet was shocked to see the dead body of polonius, ophelia' s father, there.
"oh, hamlet. what a cruel thing you have done!" cried the queen in terror.
hamlet answered, "no, it is not i but you that have done a cruel thing."
then suddenly, the ghost of his father appeared before them. his mother could neither see nor hear it. it said, "hamlet, do not harm the queen, because she is your mother; kill claudius as quickly as possible. now, hamlet, get out of this room!"
"yes, i will, father," said hamlet to the ghost. the queen thought that hamlet was really mad. hamlet obeyed his father's advice and left the queen and the dead body of polonius .

皇后听了这些话变得很激动，想设法逃离房间。哈姆雷特狠狠地抓住她的手腕，以致于她感到害怕而大叫说：“你是不是想杀我？救命啊！救命啊！”
躲在窗帘后面的普罗尼尔斯一听到皇后喊救命，也大叫说：“哈姆雷特，不要伤害皇后！来人啊！救救皇后！”
哈姆雷特大叫说：“那是什么？老鼠吗？”哈姆雷特以为那个人是克劳迪斯，他拨出剑冲向窗帘。窗帘后的人跌落在地上死了。哈姆雷特看到地上欧菲莉亚的父亲普罗尼尔斯的尸体，大感震惊。
“哦！哈姆雷特。你做了一件好残忍的事啊！”皇后惊恐地大叫。
哈姆雷特回道：“我没有，做了一件残忍的事的不是我而是你。”
那时，他父亲的鬼魂突然出现在他们的面前。他的母亲既看不见也听不到鬼魂说话的声音。鬼魂说：“哈姆雷特，不要伤害皇后，因为她是你的母亲；尽快杀死克劳迪斯。哈姆雷特，现在就离开这个房间！”
“好的，我会的，父亲。”哈姆雷特对鬼魂说。皇后认为哈姆雷特是真的疯了。哈姆雷特遵照他父亲的劝告，离开皇后和普罗尼尔斯的尸体。

the queen hurried to the king and told him that hamlet had killed polonius in his madness. upon hearing this, he thought of an evil plan. he said to himself, "hamlet was mad enough to kill his lover's father. he may kill me, too. i must send him somewhere else. i cannot live with such a dangerous person."
claudius made up his mind to send hamlet over to england with his two men who used to be hamlet' s old friends. he had the two men deliver a letter to the english king, in which he asked him to kill hamlet as soon as they arrived in england. though hamlet had killed one of claudius's noblemen, all the people in the nation loved him very much. that was why claudius could not kill hamlet.
hamlet and the two men set sail for england. while on board the ship, hamlet asked himself why he was sent abroad. he became very uneasy. he suspected that claudius must have planned something bad. he didn't trust his two old friends, either.
while the two men were sleeping in the ship, hamlet found the letter written by the king. he read it and knew the king's plan. hamlet had a good idea. he rubbed out his name and wrote the names of the two men instead.

皇后急忙跑去见国王并告诉他哈姆雷特已经在疯狂之下杀死了普罗尼尔斯。国王一听到这件事，就想到了一个恶毒的计划。他自言自语道：“哈姆雷特已经疯狂到杀他爱人的父亲，他也会杀死我。我必须把他遣送到别的地方去。我不能跟这么危险的人生活在一起。”
克劳迪斯决定把哈姆雷特连同他两个手下一起送英格兰，这两个手下曾经是哈姆雷特的老友。他叫这两个手下带一封信给英格兰国王。信中他要求英格兰国王在他们一到达英格兰时就杀死哈姆雷特。虽然哈姆雷特曾经杀死一个克劳迪斯的贵族，但是全国百姓仍然很爱戴他，那就是为什么克劳迪斯不能杀死哈姆雷特的原因。
哈姆雷特和那两个人坐船出发前往英格兰。在船上的时候，哈姆雷特自问他为什么会送往国外。他显得非常不安。他怀疑克劳迪斯一定有什么恶毒的计划。他也不相信人的两个老朋友。
趁着这两个人在船上睡觉的时候，哈姆雷特发现这封国王写的信。他看了这封信也知道了国王的计划。哈姆雷特想到了一个好主意，他擦掉信上自己的名字，换写上这两个人的名字。

the next day hamlet' s ship was attacked by pirates. hamlet was so brave that he jumped onto the pirates' ship and fought against them. while hamlet was fighting, his ship sailed away. at last he was caught as a prisoner by several strong pirates. he told them that he was the prince of denmark. then they suddenly became kind to him and promised his safe return to denmark. hamlet thanked them and promised to reward them after he became king of denmark.
when hamlet went ashore, he wrote to claudius, telling him of his return to denmark. he said in the letter that he would like to tell him everything that had happened at sea. he did not refer to the letter written to the english king. he also wrote to his best friend, horatio, asking him to come to meet him the next day.
the following day they met and hamlet told horatio that the king had planned to kill him in england. they began walking toward the castle.
as they came near the castle, they saw two old men digging a grave. "whose grave are you digging, old men?" asked hamlet. they answered so uncertainly and strangely that hamlet could not understand what they were saying. little did he think that it was a grave for his dear ophelia.

隔天，哈姆雷特的船遭到海盗的攻击。哈姆雷特很勇敢地跳上海盗船跟他们战斗。当哈姆雷特在战斗之际，他的船趁机开走了。最后他被几个强壮的海盗抓住而沦为阶下囚。他告诉海盗们他是丹麦的王子。这时海盗们突然对他仁慈起来并答应让他安全返回丹麦。哈姆雷特很感谢他们并且允诺在他当了丹麦国王以后会奖赏他们。
哈姆雷特上岸时，就写信给克劳迪斯，告诉他他已经返回丹麦了。他在信中表示他想将海上所发生的事一一告诉克劳迪斯。他没有提到那封写给英格兰国王的信。他也写信给他的挚友荷瑞修，要荷瑞修次日来见他。
第二天他们见面了，哈姆雷特把国王计划在英格兰要杀死他本人的事告诉了荷瑞修。他们开始朝城堡的方向走去。
他们来到城堡附近时，看见两个老人家正在挖一个墓穴。“老伯，你们正在挖谁的墓穴呢？”哈姆雷特问道。他们的回答既不确定又很怪异，以致哈姆雷特无法了解他们在说些什么。他万万没想到这个墓穴是用来埋葬他心爱的欧菲莉亚的。

while hamlet was away from denmark, a very sad thing had happened to ophelia . she began to lose her mind after she learned that her father had been killed by hamlet. from then on she often walked around the castle alone, singing sadly. one day when she was walking near a stream, singing a sad love song, she found some pretty flowers there. trying to pick them up, she slipped down the bank into the stream. some time later she was found drowned. neither hamlet nor horatio knew about this unhappy event.
a few minutes later, a group of men and women came to the grave. hamlet and horatio saw, among them, the king and queen, and laertes, ophelia's brother. they were carrying the dead body of ophelia. hamlet and horatio hid themselves behind the bushes in order that they might not be seen by them.
ophelia was laid into the grave. the priest began the funeral service for her. while the priest was praying, the queen threw some beautiful flowers into the grave, saying, "now that you are dead, i hope you may have peace in heaven, my dear sweet lady. i had hoped that you would become my hamlet's wife. "
哈姆雷特离开丹麦的时候，一件令人非常伤心的事发生在欧菲莉亚的身上。在她获知她的父亲被哈姆雷特杀死之后，她便失去理智了，从那时起，她就经常一个人悲伤地唱着歌,绕着城堡走。有一天当她唱着一首哀伤的情歌，走近一条小溪流时，她发现那里有一些美丽的花朵。她设法要去摘那些花，却自溪岸失足滑到溪里去了。过了一段时间，她被人发现时已经溺死了。哈姆雷特和荷瑞修都不知道这件不幸的事。
过了几分钟，一群男女来到墓穴边。在人群之中哈姆雷特和荷瑞修看到国王和皇后以及欧菲莉亚的哥哥莱尔提斯，他们正在抬着欧菲莉亚和遗体。哈姆雷特和荷瑞修躲在矮树丛后面，以免被他们看见。
欧菲莉亚被安置在墓穴内。牧师开始为她举行葬礼仪式。当牧师正在祷告的时候，皇后撒了一些花到墓穴里，同时说道：“我亲爱的小姐，既然你已经去世了，我希望你在天堂可以得到安宁。我曾希望你能成为我的儿子哈姆雷特的妻子。”
then suddenly laertes jumped into the grave and held her in his arms.
"you were the loveliest sister in the world. why did you kill yourself? bury me alive beside you, " cried laertes.
upon hearing laertes' words, hamlet rushed out of the bushes and jumped into the grave. he intended to take ophelia into his arms.
"i loved ophelia much more than you, laertes. give me back my ophelia," cried hamlet to him.
as laertes thought hamlet was responsible for his sister's death as well as for his father's, he wanted to kill him. he said to hamlet, "it is you, hamlet, who killed my father and sister. though you are the prince of our country, i cannot forgive you. i will kill you here, today, for my poor family."
they started fighting in the grave. but soon they were separated by the other men who were there.
after hamlet and horatio had left the grave of ophelia, the king called laertes to him and told him that he had an idea. he advised laertes to have a friendly sword fight with hamlet at the hall of the castle the next day. upon hearing the king' s plan, laertes agreed with him. this wicked king, claudius, was going to capitalize on the grief and anger of laertes for the death of his father and sister to destroy hamlet .

就在那时莱尔提斯突然跳进墓穴中，将欧菲莉亚抱在怀中。
“你是世上最美丽的妹妹。为什么你要自杀呢？将我活埋在你身边吧，”莱尔提斯哭着说。
哈姆雷特一听到莱尔提斯的话，立刻从矮丛后冲出来跳进墓穴中。他想要把欧菲莉亚抱入怀中。
“我比你更爱欧菲莉亚，莱尔提斯，哈姆雷特对莱尔提斯大叫。
因为莱尔提斯认为哈姆雷特要为他妹妹和父亲的死负责，所以他真想杀死他。他对哈姆雷特说：“哈姆雷特，杀死我父亲和妹妹的是你。虽然你是我国的王子，但是我不会宽恕你。今天我要在这里为我可怜的家人杀死你。
他们开始在墓穴中打斗。但是很快地他们被在场的其他人拉开了。
哈姆雷物和荷瑞修离开墓穴之后，国王召唤莱尔提斯到他跟前，告诉他说他有一个好主意。国王建议莱尔提斯隔天在城堡的大厅跟哈姆雷特举行一场击剑友谊赛。莱尔提斯一听到国王的计划，立刻表示同意。克劳迪斯这个邪恶的国王将要利用莱尔提斯因为他父亲和妹妹的死而产生的悲伤和愤怒来铲除哈姆雷特。

the king suggested that laertes should use a sharp sword with poison on the tip of it. such a sword was very dangerous, so, of course, it was not allowed in a friendly fight. if laertes struck hamlet hard with the sword, he would be killed within a few minutes. laertes was so good at fencing that the king was sure that he would kill hamlet during the match. the king intended to have hamlet use a blunt sword. however, in case hamlet should win the contest, he prepared a glass of poisoned wine. he was going to offer it to hamlet, pretending to admire his victory. he hoped hamlet would drink it and die.
one of the king' s men came to hamlet to tell him about the contest between hamlet and laertes the next day. he accepted the proposal at once, as he thought it was just a friendly contest.
the next day a number of people came to the hall where the contest was to be held. they had been looking forward to seeing the contest between the two young men. the king and queen sat at the table on which the glass of poisoned wine had been placed.

国王建议莱尔提斯使用一把尖端涂有剧毒的利剑。这种剑相当危险，因此，友谊赛中当然是不可以使用这种剑的。如果莱尔提斯用这种剑把哈姆雷特杀成重伤，那么他在几分钟之内就会丧命。莱尔提斯是一位剑术高手，因此国王相信他一定能在比赛中杀死哈姆雷特。国王想让哈姆雷特使用一把钝剑。然而，万一哈姆雷特赢了这场比赛，国王已准备了一杯毒酒。他会假装庆贺哈姆雷特的胜利，把这杯毒酒赐给他。国王希望哈姆雷特喝了这杯酒后就死去。
国王的一位亲信来见哈姆雷特，告诉他关于隔天他和莱尔提斯之间的比赛。哈姆雷特立刻接受这个提议，因为他认为那只是一场友谊赛而已。
隔天一群人来到即将举行比赛的大厅。他们一直期望能欣赏到这两位年轻人的比赛。国王和皇后坐在放有那杯毒酒的这一桌。

before the contest, hamlet asked laertes to forgive him for killing his father by accident. they shook hands with each other. at first hamlet seemed to be winning. he fought more skillfully than laertes, but both of them seemed to become very tired. the king said, "stop the fight. have a rest for a while." they stopped fighting. all the people watching gave them a big hand. hamlet' s mother was very glad to see how strong her son was. claudius offered the glass of poisoned wine to hamlet, saying, "have a drink, hamlet."
"no, thank you. i will drink it after the contest," said hamlet. after a short while, they began to fight again.
this time laertes seemed to fight better and at last he struck hamlet slightly on the shoulder with his sharp sword. seeing this, the queen became very excited. she felt so thirsty that she picked up the poisoned glass of wine from the table and drank half of it. the king was too absorbed in watching the fight to notice her drinking the poisoned wine. to his deep regret, he had not said anything to her about the poisoned wine.

比赛开始之前，哈姆雷特为意外杀死莱尔提斯的父亲，请求莱尔提斯原谅他。他们彼此互相握手。起初，哈姆雷特似乎会打赢，他的剑术比莱尔提斯更加高明，但他们两人似乎都显得非常疲累。国王开口说：“比赛暂停，休息一会儿。”他们更停止打斗。所有在场观看的人都对他们两人报以热烈的掌声。哈姆雷特的母亲看到她儿子如此的强壮，感到非常高兴。克劳迪斯赐给哈姆雷特那杯毒酒说：“喝杯酒吧，哈姆雷特。”
“不必了，多谢。比赛结束后我再喝。”哈姆雷特说。片刻之后，他们又开始比赛。
这一次莱尔提斯似乎批得比较好，最后他用利剑轻微地刺伤哈姆雷特的肩膀。皇后看到这一幕显得很激动。她觉得口渴因此顺手拿起桌上的毒酒喝了半杯。国王太专注于观看这场比赛，以致于没有注意到她喝了那杯毒酒。令国王深感后悔的是，他没有把关于毒酒的事告诉她。

during the second half of the fight, the two men dropped their swords and each man happened to pick up the other man's sword. soon hamlet gave laertes a deadly blow with the poisoned sword. no sooner had laertes fallen to the floor than the queen fell from her chair, crying, "i have been poisoned! the wine was poisoned! oh, my dear hamlet!" gertrude soon lay dead. laertes was still alive, though he was mortally wounded.
he cried, "the king planned everything. he is responsible for this unfair sword contest and the poisoned wine. he is to blame. i am very sorry, hamlet." soon after saying this, he died.
hamlet now knew about claudius' s evil plan. he also realized that his own life was slipping away because of the poisoned sword. with the last ounce of his strength, hamlet rushed to the king and struck him with the poisoned sword, saying, "you wicked man! you are sure to go to hell." he also forced the king to drink the rest of the poisoned wine. at last he carried out his promise to his father's ghost.
hamlet was barely able to breathe. then he became aware that horatio was trying to kill himself with his own sword. horatio wanted to join the prince in death.

在下半场比赛中，两个人的剑都掉在地上，而碰巧的是他们各自都捡到对方的剑。不久哈姆雷特用这把毒剑给莱尔提斯致命的一击。莱尔提斯被刺倒在地上，皇后同时从椅子上跌倒在地，大叫说：“我中毒了！这酒有毒！啊！这亲爱的哈姆雷特。”葛楚德很快地倒在地上死了。莱尔提斯虽然受到了致命剑伤，但他仍然活着。
他叫着说：“这一切都是国王的计谋。他必须为这场不公平的剑击比赛和这杯毒酒负责。他应该受到责罚，我感到非常抱歉，哈姆雷特。”说完这些话不久他就死了。
哈姆雷特如今已经知道克劳迪斯恶毒的计谋。他也知道由于这把毒剑，他的生命即将结束。哈姆雷特用尽最后的一点力气，冲向国王用这把毒剑刺杀他，并说：“你这个恶毒的人！你一定会下地狱，”他也逼国王喝下剩余的毒酒。终于他实现对父亲的鬼魂所做的承诺。
哈姆雷特快要断气了。接着他知道荷瑞修企图用自己的剑自杀。荷瑞修想追随王子而死。

"stop it, horatio! listen! you must live to tell this sad story to the world, " cried hamlet gaspingly.
horatio threw away the sword when he heard the last words of hamlet and said, "yes, hamlet. i will, my dear prince of denmark"
he firmly promised that he would tell the true story of hamlet to the world. as soon as hamlet heard these words from horatio, he felt happy and his noble heart stopped beating. everyone present at this terrible scene prayed to god that hamlet might rest in peace. ( the end )
“住手，荷瑞修！听着！你必须活着把这个悲惨的故事告诉全世界的人。”哈姆雷特喘息地叫着说。
他坚定地承诺一定会将哈姆雷特的真实故事告诉全世界。哈姆雷特听到荷瑞修说的话，感到很欣慰，他那颗高贵的心也停止跳动了。每一个目睹此一悲惨情景的人都向上帝祷告祈求哈姆雷特能得到安息。 ( 结束 )