在喬叟的House of Fame《聲譽之堂》中,講述了所謂的「名聲」是如何被造就以及它如何在毫無根據的情況下造成廣大的影響。書中在主角到達所謂的聲譽之堂之前,作者先重述了伊里亞德與黛朵的故事。強調很多事情其實都不是外表看起來的那樣,很多時候人們都被那附加上的「名聲」所誤導了:
Therfor be no wight so nice,
To take a love only for chere,
Or speche, or for friendly manere;
For this shal every woman finde:
That som man of his pure kinde
Wol shewen outward the faireste,
Til he have caught that what him leste,
And thane wol he caused finde
And swere how that she is unkind,
Or false, or privy double was.
Therefore, let no person be so simpleminded as to take a lover only on the basis of outward appearance. For this shall every woman find: that it is the essential nature of a certain kind of man to exhibit his fairest side (just) until he has gotten what he wanted, and then he will invent justification. He will swear that she is cruel, unfaithful or secretly two-timing.
因此,希望大家都不會傻到只用外表來判斷該不該愛一個人。因為每個女生都應該知道一點:男人的天性就是會把自己最好的一面展現出來。等到他們得到真正想要的,他就會開始發展出毫無憑據的藉口。他會對大家發誓都是因為女人們太殘忍,太不忠實或是常常腳踏兩條船。
os: 在這個人人都有可能動過小手腳的年代,不知道是不是還有很多人依舊是「外貌協會」。但我想美麗的樣貌無疑地會帶來許多名聲,但至於是什麼樣的名聲,或是那名聲所帶來的影響一定都是好壞參半的。想想看,現在看到新聞上或是路上特別漂亮的人,你心裡會由衷地超讚,還是會先懷疑所謂的美貌是否天生如此?
Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. Norton Critical Edition.
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Therfor be no wight so nice,
To take a love only for chere,
Or speche, or for friendly manere;
For this shal every woman finde:
That som man of his pure kinde
Wol shewen outward the faireste,
Til he have caught that what him leste,
And thane wol he caused finde
And swere how that she is unkind,
Or false, or privy double was.
Therefore, let no person be so simpleminded as to take a lover only on the basis of outward appearance. For this shall every woman find: that it is the essential nature of a certain kind of man to exhibit his fairest side (just) until he has gotten what he wanted, and then he will invent justification. He will swear that she is cruel, unfaithful or secretly two-timing.
因此,希望大家都不會傻到只用外表來判斷該不該愛一個人。因為每個女生都應該知道一點:男人的天性就是會把自己最好的一面展現出來。等到他們得到真正想要的,他就會開始發展出毫無憑據的藉口。他會對大家發誓都是因為女人們太殘忍,太不忠實或是常常腳踏兩條船。
os: 在這個人人都有可能動過小手腳的年代,不知道是不是還有很多人依舊是「外貌協會」。但我想美麗的樣貌無疑地會帶來許多名聲,但至於是什麼樣的名聲,或是那名聲所帶來的影響一定都是好壞參半的。想想看,現在看到新聞上或是路上特別漂亮的人,你心裡會由衷地超讚,還是會先懷疑所謂的美貌是否天生如此?
Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. Norton Critical Edition.
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