醉过才知酒浓，爱过才知情重，你不能做我的诗，正如我不能做你的梦。 没想到莎翁的一生还能做成情景喜剧，其作品的典型情节全被融入进生活的荒唐中作梗。 正值盛年的莎翁一点文青的样子也没有，只是个靠写戏讨生活的伦敦漂，每次都需赶春运马车到家，在埃文河畔斯特拉特福德，剧院，伦敦蜗居孕育一般人看不懂的黄色诗歌和笑点需要靠脚注的喜剧。 这部剧就是莎翁的原材料，未经加工，他参与其中，苦中有乐，却不知正确地应用在未来的作品里，罗密欧与朱丽叶是爱情喜剧，借钱还肉不还血的桥段他原本打算带进坟墓，不懂拉丁文却可以写如此晦涩的情诗给同性异性偶像求爱。 无法得知这个有才有志青年怀着满满的墨水在伦敦打拼的心路历程，“鹊起之鸦”的名号叫得再响也不过是个拿演员薪水操文化人心，却不被主流剑桥毕业生认同的作家。世间百相他从底层体会到发迹，平视伟人，同情普通人，贴着骨肉去讲故事，用自己的语言，拐了几个弯的语言。 由此，莎翁为“鹊起之鸦”这种鄙夷称呼伤神，急于得到认同，赶着换穿时兴的裤袜，毫无文人风骨可言，这正是他的生活独特的所在，这种体现方式像他的戏剧，不想要的偏要来，渴求的非要转几个弯才出现。 正是因为剑桥毕业的富家子们把他隔离在上流梦外，莎翁的作品才不流俗，脑洞才得以开得清奇。

第4集：十四行诗

葛林的独白Some chink（裂缝） in the armour of his propriety（礼节）. Some lewd scandal, or base crime, With which to dispatch him to the dungeon or the gallows.

solvent没有债务的。 Nailed it.搞定了。 By Jupiter's hairy armpit.（完成了十四行诗集）Iambicpentameter is my bitch. A sonnet is like the idle wind when it bubbleth within, you have to let it out.一首诗出来了，就像泡泡一样，你得让它放出来。

A play is but a puff of air. A player's stinking breath doth give it life, but no sooner is it spoke than 'tis lost amid the burps and fartle barfles of the groundlings. But the published poem lives forever.表现莎士比亚还是最看重诗歌的，所以他自称诗人。 groundling特指没鉴赏力的低俗观众。

The sonnets are what the kids are digging and ever shall. Make the epic verse cycle look so last century.使长篇史诗像是过时。

Young people have such short attention spans these days.借古讽今，真是一句经典。

Don't get clever with me. 别和我抖机灵。

每次经典commuter的抱怨： Coach crash at the Watford turnpike. Well, it wasn't the crash that delayed us, amazingly the local watch clear that up with some efficiency. But all who then pass must slow to a snail's pace to gawp at the wreck.看热闹的不嫌事大。

You are so crap.你真烂。

常用词汇：sirrah小子（sir的缩小版）

posh上流贵族。这个词在英国就是一个核心词汇，是英国社会的总奥秘。本篇中就像罗伯特green。

bolingbrokes就是蛋蛋的意思，有时候也就是：胡说，就好像南京话骂人“卵子”。这部剧经常用。比如第3集，show a pair of bolingbrokes.原因就是这个词其实是英国历史上最有名的战将。

一个最常用的后缀是—ton，经常用在不雅词汇中。第1集就有duffington，smuglington，wankington，bitchington。tosslington，stinkington

going all diddly-doo-dah （over our Kate） 和我们的Kate对上了眼。 Take a shine to you.

夫妻互称： Doll或love，男的喊 Wife。

Bastable=bastard混蛋的意思。arse-mongrel

bloke家伙的意思。对男子的友好称呼，尤用于指称说话人认识且喜欢的男性。同义词有chap，fellow，guy。

第1集：

weirdo怪人。明显是现代词汇的移借。形容词是weird。

A middle aged man with two half cocoanuts down his bodies形容当时男扮女装的演员用椰壳来表现女性性征。

A Complete turnip.傻子怪人。

'tis thy sweet and youthful timbre I would feign here.这里只想借用你甜美青春的音色。

The monosyllabic series of grunts that passes for your conversation.不是那种单音节的粗蠢爆发。

Romantic ingenue(尤指电影或戏剧中的)天真少女（法）

shush(尤指通过“嘘”声或把手指竖在嘴唇上)要某人安静，嘘

Posh birds love a bit of rough.贵妇就喜欢来点粗。

Marry beneath me.下嫁

Up the duffington上了当。

Flowery.花哨的东西。

Ale and pie, a good morrow'd be nice.啤酒加派，一天心情不会坏。莎士比亚的早餐。

Refreshment cart.更新的车厢。

Bechambered hugger-tugger同性恋。

Downy-scrotumed squeakers lack depth.这些阴囊上还长着细毛的二乙子缺乏深度。

Lady acting is illegal.女人不能演戏。

Master Bater（与 Masturbate谐音）这是bottom的笑话。

You are corruptly using your public position To further your own private interests.你在滥用职权，以公谋私。

I now must play nursey, nursey, wipey nosey To a rogering, roistering, student clodhopper.我必须给个乳臭未干的小子当保姆。

His very birth did guarantee him advancement.特权阶层的保障。

insufferable smuglington难以忍受的自大狂（讲Kempe），在我写的角色来源一文中，我讲到了，这个意大利演员是有真实原型的。

Parasitic creature寄生虫。

Oxbridge yobo牛津小伙子（打趣Oxford， Cambridge， Young boys=yobo）

They join clubs called the Burst Ballsack And the Fisted Peasant.牛津小伙子参加的俱乐部都很暴力。 Where they gorge and fight and roger and quaff till they coat the walls with gut-porridge.让我想起了《故园风雨后》的情节。

arse-mongel混蛋 wankington神经质

Her most billowingly flatulent fartle-barthal Be more sweetly scented than all the perfumes of Arabia.屁都比阿拉伯的香料香。

the randy little ponce 小矮种马。randy：性兴奋的; 性欲冲动的; ponce：娘娘腔的男人; 同性恋男子

Mistress Sauce Quickly makes your loans tremble and your codpiece cry “woof, woof”. 这位男扮女装的演员能否让你的腰部颤抖，遮阴布疯狂呢？codpiece遮阴布(15、16世纪欧洲男子加贴在紧身裤中，常带装饰)

good e'en, old apothecary晚安，老药商。

Has a spotted cod-dangle And a murky discharge （其实是形容梅毒） 阴囊全是斑点，精液也比较黑。

Good lad, cold, stiff, unbending. Just as a gentleman should be.冰冷坚硬而不屈，这就是绅士所必须的品质。

varsity 牛津和剑桥大学的，形容贵族。 总结一下，这第1集本来是为了介绍角色，没想到却写的非常骚。所以观众大笑不断。

第2集the play's the thing：

A grumpy little bitchington脾气大的小婊子。

A sentence sounds better if you mix up the words a bit.倒装效果好。 It's one of my best tricks.（ word jumbling）

bitch slap 暴打

We need bums on seat. 我们需要观众老老实实坐在板凳上。

My dumplings aren't droopy. I've just got very high belly button.我的胸也没有下垂，只是我肚脐上的纽扣太靠上了。 Quae mihi quia ego stulta..当个无知的女人真羞耻

Selfish bastable自私的混蛋。

A country bumsnoff（bumsnot） fresh off the Coach.一个刚刚进城的农二。 （马洛）royster，酒徒的意思。韦氏词典上说应该拼为ROISTER（engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking） Your name is like a cold sore.冻疮。 It's on everybody's lips.

（说格林）preening supercilious plague pustule得意洋洋 高傲的 瘟疫 脓包

Kid, Nash, Beaumont, Marlowe, Greene都是上过剑桥的。

An oik of Avon.乡巴佬 A town school spotty grotty也是歧视的词语。

a gaggle of snootish paperloins （oxbridge）snaffle all the influence, jobs and cash.上层占尽了好处。

by Saint Cuthbert's codpiece我以圣卡斯波特的阴囊布发誓。 It's bleeding obvious.

Stitch me up like a pair of winter drawers.

第3集。

I need a guaranteed smash to cement my reputation, And sadly, lovey-dovey, smoothie-woochie just ain't gonna cut it.嗲嗲的言情剧做不到那一点。

Hunting Catholics for Walsingham's torture chamber.马洛打击异教徒。这一点请见我的另外一篇角色源头的文章。

This one true pure and divine faith that Henry VIII basically invented so that he could dump his missus and have it away with bonker Boleyn. A romance so spiritually true, pure and divine, that it went from rumpy-pumpy, lovey-dovey, to chopy-woppy, heady-deady in just three years. 概括了亨利八世的婚史。

You've just gotta strut！Carry off tights like that. You're too apologetic, just get out there and show the world that you don't give a damn（tosslington）.马洛的态度论。

而莎士比亚呢？ I crave approval and people sense that in me. So I'm very needy.I want to be liked and so for some dark reason located deep in the humans that people are less inclined to like me. ……What we lack in easy charm, we must make up for with talent and hard work.

Hate my gutlings排水沟，这里意为肚子里的货。嫉妒天才。 His review is an absolute stinkington.毒刺啊。（后面还有 Salty barbs） We contrive to bring the good ones to the notice of our friends while letting the bad ones eat into our souls until the day we die.对待评论。

抱怨印刷对评论带来的影响。 Woe to Albion（英国） that through this new invention Any clueless arsemongle may make his puerile Twitterings known to the world. A groat-worth of wit.（四便士的银币）

conker康克戏，斗板栗(儿童游戏，双方用系在绳上的板栗轮流互击，以击破对方的。有时也翻译成七叶果)Perhaps the British will develop their own autumn traditions, beyond schoolboy conker fights and fireworks on November 5, if climatic changes result in more intense colour. 如果气候变化导致秋叶颜色更浓烈的话，那么，在男孩子们的七叶树果游戏以及11月5日的烟火表演之外，英国人可能会形成自己的秋季传统。

Form fitting tights, everyone will see I've got balls.英国贵族穿的外裤会突出他的阴部。 Go a-prancings in silken tights of figure-hugging Italian cut.（后面有： People will see the contours of your bolingbrokes）

The apparel oft proclaims the man.（ Clothes maketh the man）人靠衣装。 He looked like a massive futtocking cod dangle. 最后马洛得到的《马尔他的犹太人》，确实是记在他的名下的。剧中的出演也确实是这个犹太人毒死了一个修道院的修女。

平时看英剧美剧，不看字幕也大都能听懂，不用一直盯着字幕看。但《Upstart Crow》这部戏，就算我聚精会神地盯着英文字幕看，依然有很多时候不知道他在讲什么。（当然，B站英文字幕的错漏，要负很大一部分责任。我能理解，平台为了净化舞台，很多地方在中文翻译时无法翻译出来。但英文字幕原文都会有这么多错就很离谱了。）

在看了一整季（又换了正确的英文字幕）之后，总算大致摸清了规律，具备知识储备之后，开始看第二季时就顺利了很多。

1. 莎士比亚时代的中古英语

莎士比亚生活的时代处在中古英语向早期现代英语演变的时期，因此莎士比亚的作品里仍然会遗留一些中古英语的词汇。例如，在第一季中，莎士比亚的女儿Susanna就曾经吐槽《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中“wherefore art thou”，为什么意思是“why are you”而不是“where are you”（art=are，thou=you）。这是因为在莎士比亚时代，where=what或which，所以wherefore= for what或why，表示原因。这种拼词方式，在现在还是有沿用。例如，很多正式法律文件中仍然会有hereinafter这种词语。（当然，在plain English运动下，也越来越少了。）

片中常见的中古英语：

第二人称（现代英语you）：thou主格，thee宾格；thy 物主形容词

dost=do（第二人称）；doth=do（第三人称）；didst=did（第二人称）

hast=have（第二人称）；hath=has（第三人称）

'tis=it is。以撇号省略 it 当中的 i-， 在莎士比亚时代的英文当中常见

canst=can

wilt=would

morrow= morning

e'en=evening

sirrah=sir，依据上下文的不同，可以是表尊称的“先生”，也可以是朋友之间“老兄”（剧中也有用cuz=cousin 表示“老兄”）

Going all diddly doodah，在伊丽莎白时代表示“坠入爱河"（fall in love）

ere=before; ere long=soon

Albion：指英国，来源于希腊语。剧中Will经常说“Woe to Albion”，可以理解为抱怨英国世风日下

forsooth=in truth

methinks=it seems to me

2. 莎士比亚轶事

剧中有很多嘲讽或影射莎士比亚本人轶事的桥段，如果不了解莎士比亚的背景，也会经常get不到小点。最明显的就是片名：Upstart Crow，有翻译为“新贵”，也有翻译为“鹊起之鸦”，我觉得后者更能表示出对暴发户的轻蔑之意。Upstart Crow的出处，剧中也直接拍了出来，源自Robert Greene在1592年出版的一本小册子里对莎士比亚的攻击‘…for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Player’s hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a country’（有一个用我们的羽毛装扮起来的鹊起之鸦，用伶人的皮包裹了一颗恶虎的心，并自以为能像你们中最优秀者那样，写出慷慨激昂的素体诗：他做了无所不为的打杂工，就自以为是全国唯一能‘震撼舞台’（ShaKe-scene是影射莎士比亚的名字ShaKe-speare）的人）。

Up the duff: 指怀孕，剧中有好几次提到，莎士比亚与妻子Anne结婚，是因为未婚先孕。历史上也确有其事，莎士比亚17岁与27岁的Anne结婚，当时Anne已经有三个月的身孕。There are many lines in the show about Shakespeare only marrying Anne because ‘he got her up the duffington’. But it is true that they did marry when Anne was three months pregnant-she was 27-years-old and Shakespeare was just 17-years-old!

Hugger Tugger：原意是指纨绔子弟，剧中 Robert Greene 经常用来指gay。莎士比亚是否为gay一直有争论，剧中出现的南安普顿伯爵三世就是最有争议的一位。

bearbaiting, 也叫 bullbaiting，指“斗熊”，一种在12世纪开始流行于英国的观赏性体育运动，基本上是纵容一只或以上的斗牛犬与一只被拴著的熊搏斗，在19世纪因为被指“不人道”而被禁止。“斗熊”经常在戏院里上演，这些戏院经常被称为“bear gardens”。

3. Ben Elton的造词法

本剧的编剧Ben Elton经常在剧中调侃莎士比亚创造了很多英文中的新词，例如glass ceiling，potato chips等。实际上，Ben Elton也在剧中创造了很多似是而非的单词，词典中查不到，因此也造成了本剧一定的观剧门槛。

Ben Elton最大一类的造词，是将现代社会中很多swearing不雅词汇，用加后缀-ton等方式假装为伊丽莎白时代的词语（由于部分过于不雅，就不写中文了）：

bolingbrokes: testicles

arseington: arse

arse-mongel: arse

boobikins: boob

bitchington: bitch

barstable: bastard

pisslingtonned: to be drunk

purititties: Puritans （清教徒）

cod-dangle: penis.

futtocking: f*ck

wankington: masturbation

bumshank/ le: both an anus and a person who acts like an anus

country bumshank/ le or bumsnot: any person who lives outside London

cock-snobbled folderols: entitled posh boys （特权阶级、上流阶层）

pamperloin: person of wealth and power （有权有钱的人）

puffling pants：指都铎时代男人穿的马裤（裤脚束紧长及膝部的裤子）

【句子和短语】
Timeless is the word as in "feels like goes on for bloody ever."
I thought I was actually outside my own body watching myself die.
What qualifies him to be judge?
a young bud scare yet in bloom 情窦初开
Test the boundaries, challenge the form
Push the boundaris, mash it up
the clothes make the man人靠衣装
relief pours out of me 如释重负
Sometimes it's the only way I have of expressing the breadth and depth of my comic instincts. So live with it, yeah?
live with it （你就接受吧/没什么可抱怨的/事实就是如此）
take the hint 明白潜台词
Minimal is the new epic/less is more
the last straw 最后一根救命稻草
【词汇】
playwright剧作家
winter knickers 秋裤
picky 挑剔
lengthy/copious 冗长的（用来吐槽莎剧的时长）
sublime/bewitching极好的
ale麦芽酒
bromance 基情 （哈哈哈哈哈哈哈）
appaling 惊恐的
soliloquy独白
it's mideval很老土
aghast恶心
grim business生意不景气
可以用来自夸的一堆词（2333）：
decent,industrious,fair-minded,egalitarian
fit and well, also honest, wise, good-humoured, even-tempered and possessed of a sparkling, dry wit.
tummy/front door 剖腹/顺产
light and breezy （用来形容comedy)
relatable 有代入感的，能产生共鸣的，

好想找剧本来看啊！

以下台词转自：http://wanderingbakya.com/upstart-crow-season-1-wherefore-art-thou-shakespeare/

William Shakespeare Quotes from BBC Two’s Upstart Crow – Season 1 (and what they mean):

“The two tunnels that lie beneath the bridge be blocked. “ – William Shakespeare, when he means “snotted nose”.

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo.” – William Shakespeare when he means, “Why are you Romeo?”

“Leaping amphibian caught in the ruby pipe which starts with a swallow but knows not of birds.” – William Shakespeare when he means, “Have you got frog in your throat?”

“We unleash the most parasitic creature in Christendom.” – William Shakespeare, when he means “the English posh boy”.

“If you write a play, I fear it would be like that which stinks but be not fish, fertilizes plants but be not compost, and is the last stage of the digestive process but be not a glass of port in a pipe of tobacco.” – William Shakespeare, when he means “crap”.

“And so am I like the fulsome cleavage of a buxom saucy wench.” William Shakespeare, when he means “much looked down upon”.

“It won’t stay in that which supports a hat but be not a hook, has a crown but be not a king, and is fringe with hair but be not my balling brooks.” – William Shakespeare, when he means “earlobe”.

“You be that which though it have tits have no breasts, and though it have balls be not a game of tennis.” – William Shakespeare, when he means “man”.

Other Quotes from BBC Two’s Upstart Crow – Season 1:

“Love is the angry thorn upon the false rose, and I, am a prick.” – Florian Greene

“Where she breathes, flowers bloom. Where she sings, pixies dance. Her most billowingly flatulent fartle barfle be sweetly scented than all the perfumes of Arabia.” – Florian Greene

“I always think that a sentence sounds better if you mix up the words of it. It’s one of my best tricks.” – William Shakespeare (David Mitchell)

“As a dramatist, I take the view that a fat man with an ax saying, “Close your eyes, love” Thwack isn’t quite as compelling theater as Frigid Liz bitchslapping her cutesome Caledonian cals, Mary, in a bit of queen on queen action.” – William Shakespeare

“You can’t be an actor, you’re a girl. Where will you put the coconuts?” – William Shakespeare

“Clever girl is an ugly girl, Kate.” – Christopher Marlowe (Tim Downie)

“Your name is like a cold sore. It’s one everybody’s lips.” – William Shakespeare to Christopher Marlowe

“I must hasten to insert my nose between the set of the next royal buttocks before other oily courtiers fill the gap.” – Robert Greene (Mark Greene)

“Getting a bad review is much worse than getting the plague, because at least with the plague, the person who gave it to you dies.” – William Shakespeare to Bottom

“The noble peacock does not hang his head. He displays his bumshanks with magnificent feathery plumes.” – Christopher Marlowe to William Shakespeare after the latter receives a bad review.

“If I turn up in form-fitting tights, everyone will see I’ve got balls.” – William Shakespeare

“What is a potato but a starchy tuber? What is tobacco but a dried weed? What is a corn cob but a big yellow bubbly dildo?” – William Shakespeare