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The Face of the Bard Portrait Casts Shakespeare in a New Light
原来莎翁长得这副模样
CNNANCHOR:Now, William Shakespeare was the greatest writer in the English language, as he's been considered, but what did he actually look like?
CNN主播:威廉·莎士比亚被认为是最伟大的英文作家，但他究竟长得什么模样呢?
CNNANCHOR :Experts now say they have the answer in a picture worth a lot more than a thousand words. So, Nicholas Glass has more.
CNN主播:如今专家说，他们的答案就在一张价值胜过千言万语的作品中。尼可拉斯·葛莱斯有更详尽的报道。
NICHOLAS GLASS, ITV REPORTER :Somewhere in the melee behind me is this new discovery, this new portrait, it is claimed of William Shakespeare. It's owned by an Anglo-Irish family, the Cobbs, and it's been hanging in their drawing room in their house outside Dublin for the better part of 200 years.
ITV记者 尼古拉斯·葛莱斯:这个新发现就在我身后的混乱人群之中--有一幅新发现的肖像画，据称画中人是莎士比亚。画作的拥有者是一个爱尔兰裔家族。两百年来，这幅画大部分时间都挂在他们都柏林城郊宅邸的丽室中。
It was mislabeled as being Sir Walter Raleigh. The gentleman sumptuously attired in the height of Jacobean fashion, doublet and collar of Italian lace-long-nosed, fine-bearded, keen-eyed and, to our surprise, blessed with a fullish head of hair.
这幅画原本被误以为是为瓦特·莱利爵士的画像。画中的绅士身着最时髦的雅各布宾风格华服，紧身上衣加上意大利蕾丝边衣领长鼻子、胡琵整齐、眼神锐利，出乎我们意料的是，他有幸拥有几乎满头的丰盈头发。
There's intelligence here, a presence. Is this William Shakespeare as we've never seen him before, a penetrating likeness painted during his lifetime? So good is the portrait that one imagines the subject sat for it.
画作很传神，栩栩如生。由于我们都未曾见过莎士比亚，这幅画里的他是否极为神似?是否是他在世时所绘的呢?这张肖像画惟妙惟肖，会让人想象到画中人就坐在那里让人给他画像。
NICHOLAS GLASS, ITV REPORTER:We know so little about Shakespeare the man, what he was like as a friend, a lover, a husband. Our idea of what he looked like is based on the engraving in the "First Folio." The Anglo-Flemish engraver Martin Droeshout has almost certainly based his image on something else. Could it have been this painting?
ITV记者 尼古拉斯·葛莱斯:我们对于莎士比亚所知不多，不清楚他作为朋友、爱人和丈夫是何模样。我们对于莎翁长相的想法是以《第一对开本》这幅版画为依据的。几乎可以确定的是，安格鲁佛兰德裔的雕版画家马丁·德罗肖特是根据别的东西来制作出他的版画的。可能是这幅肖像画吗?
There's compelling evidence that this portrait was commissioned and indeed owned by the Earl of Southampton, and for some Shakespeare scholars, that's persuasive enough.
有充分的证据显示，这张肖像网是委托之作，且确实是南汉普顿的伯爵所拥有。对一些研究莎上比亚的学者而言，这些就够有说服力了。
