經(jīng)典譯文名作翻譯欣賞：托馬斯布朗論和諧

　　it is my temper, and i like it the better, to affect all harmony: and sure there is musick even in the beauty, and the silent note which cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. for there is a musick where ever there is a harmony, order, or proportion: and thus far we may maintain the music of the sphears; for those well-ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. whatsoever is harmonically composed delights in harmony; which makes me much distrust the symmetry of those heads which declaim against all church-musick. for my self, not only for my obedience, but my particular genius, i do embrace it: for even that vulgar and tavern-musick, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer. there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers: it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of god; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding. in brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of god.

　　我生性耽愛一切之和諧，于此，我且頗以自得;確實，甚至在鴆彼得所奏放的無聲音籟之中與美感之內(nèi)，無不有音樂的存在，其吐音之佳妙迥出一般樂器之上。此亦緣音樂即在和諧、秩序與比例勻稱之中，而星際樂聲一說至少可以此為部分依據(jù);其秩序井然之動作，節(jié)拍分明之步武，此在常人耳中雖悄無聲息，然在穎慧者聽來，確乃和諧無藝之妙樂。大凡和諧構(gòu)成之物，必喜和諧，據(jù)此，則彼輩攻擊一切教堂音樂者，其頭腦之中是否尚有勻稱二字，我實不能不深致疑慮。至于我自己，我對上述之音樂確實服膺無已，此固與我之虔誠信仰有關(guān)，亦系我的特殊稟賦所致;甚即通常旅店之俚俗音樂，所敘不出嬉樂激切之情，尚能使我對那最初制曲人于胸臆之中頓生仰慕之忱與遙深之想;其中圣潔處有非人耳所能察覺者。它是茫茫世界蕓蕓眾生的一篇佶屈恢詭的天啟，使上下塵寰徹悟之后捧供識者聆賞的一闕悠揚的妙樂。要言之，它是上徹天聽的玲瓏曼妙的仙籟的陣陣和諧。