卷四（三）　双鱼、十度区间与有害的度数（白羊）

Of Pisces

［双鱼］

Spread watry influence, and incline to Sail; / To trust their Lives to Seas, to plow the Deep, / To make fit Rigging, or to build a Ship.

散布水的影响，使人倾向航行；把性命托付给大海，耕耘深渊，制作合用的索具，或者建造船只。

In short. what e're can for a Fleet be fram'd, / A thousand Arts, too numerous to be nam'd.

总之，凡是能为一支船队打造的东西，上千种技艺，多得叫不出名字。

Beside to steer, observe the Stars, and guide / As they direct, and never lose the Tide.

此外还有掌舵，观察星辰，照星辰的指引驾船，从不错过潮汐。

To know the Coasts, the Winds, the Ports, and Shores; / To turn the Helm, or ply the bending Oars; / To sweep smooth Seas with Nets, to drag the Sand, / And draw the leaping Captives to the Land, / Lay cheating Wires, or with unfaithful bait, / The Hook conceal, and get by the deceit:

熟知海岸、风向、港口与滩岸；转动船舵，或摇动弯曲的桨；用网扫过平静的海面，拖过沙底，把跳跃的俘虏拉上岸；布下骗人的钓线，或用不忠的鱼饵藏起鱼钩，靠欺骗得利：

To fight at Sea, to stain the Waves with blood, / Whilst War lies floating on th' unstable flood: / Fruitful their Births, of Pleasure fond, engage / In Love are quick, but changing with their Age.

在海上作战，用血染红波浪，而战争就漂浮在不稳的洪流之上：他们所生的人子女多，喜好享乐，在爱情中急切，却随年岁而改变。

The Tenths and the Lords of the third part of each sign

［十度区间与各星座三分之一的主宰］

Thus rule the Twelve, these Powers they singly own, / And these would give if they could work alone.

十二星座就这样统治，这些力量是它们各自独有的；假如它们能单独起作用，就会给予这些。

But none rules All its own degrees, they joyn / Their friendly forces with some other Sign, / As 'twere compound, and equal parts receive / From Other Signs, as they to Others give: / Thus each hath Thirty parts, and each resigns / Two Thirds of those degrees to other Signs:

但没有一个星座统治自己全部的度数，它们把友好的力量与别的星座联合，仿佛是复合的，从别的星座接受相等的份，也同样给予别的星座：这样每个星座有三十份，每个都把其中三分之二的度数让给别的星座：

We call these portions (Art new words will frame,) / The Tenths, the Number doth impose the Name: / So hid is Truth, so many Vails are spread / Coy Nature's Face, and hide her Gloomy Head, / So many are the little Niceties, / So intricate, and puzling are the Skies, / Not easie to be read by common Eyes.

我们称这些份为（技艺会造出新词）「十度区间」，是数目给了它这个名字：真理藏得这样深，羞怯的自然脸上蒙着这么多层面纱，遮住她幽暗的头；细微之处这样多，诸天这样错综难解，平常的眼睛不容易读懂。

For one appearance in another lies, / Conceals its Powers, and Acts in disguise; / And that which Lurks, and subtly interferes / Hath different Powers from that which then appears.

因为一种外貌藏在另一种外貌里，隐藏自己的力量，乔装着行事；那潜伏着、暗中干预的，与当时显现出来的，有不同的力量。

Not Day, but piercing Thought must clear this Sky, / The Labour of thy Mind, not of thy Eye; / Press bravely on, and pass the Gloomy Cloud, / Enter, and view the inside of the God; / The Path is dark, and lest thy Mind should stray / I'll boldly lead, and shew the nearest way;

照亮这片天的不是白昼，而是锐利的思考，是你心智的劳作，不是你眼睛的劳作；勇敢地向前，穿过幽暗的云，进去，看看这位神的内部；道路黑暗，为免你的心智迷路，我将大胆引路，指给你最近的路；

I'll Sing what League the different Parts combines, / And shew how others Rule in other Signs.

我将歌唱怎样的盟约把不同的部分结合起来，指出别的星座怎样在其他星座里统治。

Of Aries

［白羊］

For instance, Aries shakes his shining Fleece, / And governs the First Ten of his Degrees: / But next the Bull, and next the Twins do claim / The second, and third Portions of the Ram: / Thus three times Ten Degrees the Ram divide, / And He, as many others as preside / In his Degrees, so many Fates affords / His proper Powers being temper'd by his Lords.

例如，白羊抖动他闪亮的羊毛，统治他度数中的第一个十度：而接下来金牛、再接下来双子，要求白羊的第二份与第三份：这样三个十度分割了白羊；有多少别的星座主管他的度数，他就给予多少种命运，他自己的力量由他的主宰们调和。

Of Taurus

［金牛］

Thus lies the Ram, next view the threatning Bull, / His case is different, he hath none to Rule: / For in his First Ten Parts the Crab's obey'd, / I'th' Second Leo, and i'th' Third the Maid.

白羊就是这样；再看那威胁人的金牛，他的情形不同，他没有一份由自己统治：因为在他的第一个十度里，人们服从巨蟹，第二个是狮子，第三个是处女。

Yet he seems stubborn, and maintains his Throne, / And all Their Powers he mixeth with his Own.

然而他似乎很固执，守住自己的王座，把它们全部的力量与自己的力量混合。

Of Gemini

［双子］

The feeble Twins just Libra's Scales possess, / Then Scorpio, and the rest of their Degrees / Bold Sagittarius subjects to his flame, / With Bow full drawn, as to defend his claim.

柔弱的双子，天秤的秤正好占有它的第一份，然后是天蝎，其余的度数由勇敢的射手置于他的火焰之下，弓拉得满满，仿佛在捍卫他的权利。

An equal share in Empire all maintain, / But keep not the same order in their Reign.

它们都维持着相等的统治份额，但统治的次序却不相同。

Of Cancer

［巨蟹］

For Cancer's Sign, as in the Goat he sways, / Resigns his first third Portion to His Rays: / For when he bears the Sun oppos'd in site, / His Day is equal to the Others Night: / This is the Reason why these Two combine, / And each hath the same Portion in each Sign.

因为巨蟹的星座，正如他在摩羯里掌权，也把他的第一个三分之一让给摩羯的光线：因为当摩羯在相对的位置承载太阳时，他的白昼等于对方的黑夜：这就是这两个星座结合的原因，彼此在对方的星座里占有同样的份。

His second part the Vrn with watry Beams / O're-flows, and Pisces rule in the Extreams.

他的第二份由水瓶以水的光线漫过，双鱼统治最末的一份。

Of Leo

［狮子］

The Lion minds his Partner in the Trine, / And makes the Ram first Ruler in his Sign; / And then the Bull, with whom he makes a Square, / I'th' Second Reigns; His Sextile Twins declare / Their Third pretence, and Rule the other share.

狮子记得他三分相上的伙伴，让白羊在他的星座里做第一个主宰；然后是与他成四分的金牛，统治第二份；与他成六分的双子提出第三份的要求，统治其余的份额。

In Cancer

［处女］

The Crab is chiefly Honour'd by the Maid, / The first place his, and there his Sway's obey'd; / The next is Leo's, and the last her own, / She Rules unenvy'd in her petty Throne.

巨蟹主要受处女尊崇，第一份是他的，在那里人们服从他的统治；第二份是狮子的，最后一份是她自己的，她在自己小小的王座上统治，不招人嫉妒。

In Libra

［天秤］

The Ram's Example Libra takes, and bears / A likeness in this Rule, as in the Years; / For as He in the Spring, Her Scales do weigh / In Autumn equal Night with equal Day: / The first She Rules her self, next Scorpio's plac't, / And Sagittarius Lords it o're the last:

天秤效法白羊，在这条规则上与他相似，正如在年岁里与他相似；因为正如他在春天，她的秤在秋天把相等的黑夜与相等的白昼称平：第一份她自己统治，其次是天蝎，射手主宰最后一份：

In Scorpio

［天蝎］

In Scorpio's first Degrees the Goat presides, / Next Young Aquarius pours his flowing Tides; / Next Pisces Rules, for they in Waves delight, / The Flood pursue, and claim an easie Right.

在天蝎最初的度数里，摩羯主管；其次是年轻的水瓶倾泻他流动的潮水；再其次双鱼统治，因为它们喜爱波浪，追随洪流，要求一份轻易得来的权利。

In Capricorn

［摩羯］

The grateful Goat doth Cancer's Gift repay, / His First Third part resigning to his Ray; / I'th' next the Lion shakes his flaming Mane, / The last feels modest Virgo's gentle Rein.

感恩的摩羯报答巨蟹的馈赠，把他的第一个三分之一让给巨蟹的光线；第二份里狮子抖动他火焰的鬃毛，最后一份感受端庄的处女温和的缰绳。

In Aquarius

［水瓶］

The Young Aquarius Libra's Scales command, / Restrain his Youth, and check his turning Hand; / The next Ten parts bright Scorpio's Rays enjoy, / Then Sagittarius Rules the giddy Boy:

天秤的秤指挥年轻的水瓶，约束他的青春，止住他倾倒的手；其次十份由明亮的天蝎的光线享有，然后射手统治这个轻浮的男孩：

In Pisces

［双鱼］

Pisces comes last, and sheds a watry flame, / Its First Degrees resigning to the Ram: / The Bull's the next, his own the last are found, / Content with the last Portion of the Round.

双鱼排在最后，洒下水的火焰，把它最初的度数让给白羊：其次是金牛的，最后几度是它自己的，它满足于这一圈的最后一份。

The usefulness of this Doctrin of the Lords

［主宰之说的用处］

This thing consider'd well thy Mind prepares / To know the secret guidance of the Stars; / They interchange their Powers, they mix their Laws, / And all agree to make one Common Cause; / For these Divisions do unite the Sky, / The more they part the closer is the Tye.

把这件事好好想过，你的心智就准备好去认识星辰秘密的引导；它们交换彼此的力量，混合它们的法则，全都一致地成就一项共同的事业；因为这些划分使天空联合，分得越细，纽带越紧。

But now, lest Error should thy Mind surprise, / Believe not the Appearance of the Skies; / They make a shew, they spread a Glaring Light / To lead thee on, but never guide thee right; / Let Active Thought assisting Sense pursue / Coy Truth's retreat, and take an open view:

但现在，为免错误突然攫住你的心，不要相信诸天的外表；它们做出一番景象，散布耀眼的光，引你向前，却从不正确地指引你；让活跃的思考协助感官，去追寻羞怯的真理藏身之处，把它看个明白：

What ever Things are born, their Minds receive / The fatal Temper which that Sign can give / That governs in the Tenths, the Foreign Ray, / Tempers the Mass, and forms the easie Clay.

凡是出生的东西，它们的心都接受统治那十度区间的星座所能给的命定性情，那外来的光线调和这团物质，塑造这团柔顺的泥土。

A Thousand Reasons for this Truth appear / From different Births belonging to One Star; / Of all those Creatures, that at once do see / The Light, scarce Two can perfectly agree; / But different Tempers all the shapes adorn, / As various as the Bodies that are born:

这条真理有上千个理由可证，就是属于同一个星座的种种不同的出生；在同时见到光明的一切生物中，难得有两个完全相合；各种形体都带着不同的性情，就像所生的身体一样各式各样：

For though one Chiefly Rules, yet others joyn / And change the proper influence of that Sign: / These Interchanges all our Thoughts distract, / We think on other Signs, whilst others Act.

因为虽然一个星座主要统治，别的星座却加入进来，改变那个星座本来的影响：这些交换使我们的思想全都纷乱，我们想的是一些星座，起作用的却是另一些。

Thus neither singly will the Ram bestow / A Love to Cloathing, nor the Bull to Plough; / To Hunt the Lion, nor the Crab to Trade; / Learning the Twins, nor Eloquence the Maid; / The Scales to weigh, to measure, and to gage, / Nor Poys'nous Scorpio arm unhappy Rage;

所以白羊不会单独赐人对衣料的喜爱，金牛不会单独赐人耕犁；狮子不会单独使人狩猎，巨蟹不会单独使人经商；双子不会单独给学问，处女不会单独给口才；天秤不会单独使人称重、丈量、量桶，有毒的天蝎也不会单独武装不幸的狂怒；

The Fish to Sail, nor the Youth's Urn inspire / To work in Water, nor the Goat in Fire.

双鱼不会单独使人航海，那少年的水瓮不会单独使人从事水上的工作，摩羯也不会单独使人从事火中的工作。

But many joyn, and these mixt Signs bestow / Mixt Inclinations on the Births below: / A subtle and surprizing Task is shown,

而是许多星座联合，这些混合的星座赐给下界所生之人混合的倾向：这是一项精微而令人惊奇的功课，

Encouragements to this Study

［对这门学问的鼓励］

Much have I past, yet still you lead me on; / These things seem dark whilst I the rest explore, / Enjoy my Precepts, and complain no more.

我已走过许多，你却仍引我向前；我探讨其余的时候，这些似乎晦暗；享用我的教诲吧，不要再抱怨。

'Tis God you search for, by my Aid you trie / To climb, and view the inside of the Sky; / Confin'd by Fate, you search its boundless sway, / And seek to know the Laws you must Obey: / The narrow Bounds of your own Breast you pass, / Enjoy the World, and rove in the vast space:

你所寻求的是神，借我的帮助，你尝试攀登，看看天的内部；被命运限制，你却探寻它无边的统治，想知道你必须服从的法则：你越过了自己胸膛的狭窄边界，享有整个世界，在广阔的空间里漫游：

Painful, but always noble things are hard, / Great is the Task, but equal the Reward: / Nor let the various Maze thy Thoughts repress, / Enter, and you are certain to possess.

艰苦，但高贵的事情总是艰难的；任务巨大，报酬也相当：不要让这重重迷宫压住你的思想，进去，你就必定能拥有。

Is Gold thy Aim? What mighty Pains attend? / Mountains are level'd, and the Mines descend / Through Earth's deep Center; though she hides her Store / We tear her up, and reach the hidden Oar: / For shining Gems we cut the burning Zone, / Such Dangers are the value of a Stone:

你的目标是黄金吗？那要伴随怎样巨大的辛劳！山岭被削平，矿井下到大地深深的中心；虽然她把储藏藏起来，我们却把她撕开，够到那隐藏的矿石：为了闪亮的宝石，我们穿过炎热带，这样的危险就是一块石头的价值：

The fearful Farmer makes his Yearly Vow, / And Pain still presseth the deceiving Plow: / In War no Danger's shun'd, we fight for Spoyl, / E'en lazy Luxury leads us on to Toyl; / For Food. and Cloaths from East to West we run, / And Spendthrifts often sweat to be undone.

胆怯的农夫每年许愿，辛劳仍压在那骗人的犁上：在战争中不躲避任何危险，我们为掠夺而战，连懒散的奢侈也引我们去劳苦；为了食物和衣服，我们从东跑到西，挥霍者常常流汗，只为把自己毁掉。

Are perishing Goods worth so much Pains and Cost, / Hard to be got, and in injoyment lost?

会朽坏的财物值得费这么多辛劳与代价吗？得来艰难，享用时又失去。

Then what must Heaven deserve? That Gold, that buys / The rest, how disproportionate a Price!

那么天该值多少？那能买到其余一切的黄金，是多么不相称的价钱！

It asks a higher value, and to gain / The God, lay out thy self, The Price is Man:

它要求更高的价值；要得到神，就得付出你自己，代价是人。

The Good and Bad Degrees of each Sign

［各星座的好度数与坏度数］

Thus Fate's dispos'd, but yet the Work's not done; / For though the Powers of all the Signs are known, / And how they joyn, how each rules every part, / The Skill is small, and incompleat the Art: / Observe the numerous parts of the Degrees / What Heat doth scorch or what the Cold doth freeze, / (Unfruitful both) where too much Moisture flows, / Or Drought doth drain, and various Fates dispose:

命运就这样安排了，可是工作还没完成；因为虽然一切星座的力量都已知道，它们怎样联合、各自怎样统治每一份也已知道，这种本事还小，这门技艺还不完备：还要观察度数的众多部分，哪里热得烤焦，哪里冷得冻结（两者都不结果实），哪里湿气流得太多，哪里干旱把它抽干，各有不同的命运：

For different Qualities in Signs controul, / There's nought all-over-equal in the whole.

因为不同的性质在星座中支配，整体之中没有一处是处处均等的。

For view the Earth, the gliding Streams, or Flood, / Faults are on all sides, Bad is mixt with Good.

看看大地、流淌的溪水或洪流，四面八方都有缺陷，坏与好相混。

Thus Barren Seasons midst the Best appear, / And a small Turn blasts all the Blooming Year.

所以在最好的年景中也会出现荒歉的季节，一点小小的转变就摧残了整个花开的年头。

A Port turns Shelf, and the inglorious Sand / Forfeits that Praise which once its Safety gain'd.

港口变成浅滩，不光彩的沙地丧失了它从前因安全而赢得的赞誉。

Now Streams through Plains in smooth Meanders play, / Then Roar o're Rocks, and force a rugged way.

溪水时而在平原上平滑地蜿蜒嬉戏，时而在岩石上咆哮，强行开出一条崎岖的路。

Such Inequality above appears, / And thus the Sky is vary'd in the Stars; / As Sign from Sign, so from it self the same / Doth disagree, and spread unequal Flame; / And Signs, whose Sovereign influence Births do find / In One Degree, are in the next unkind:

天上也显出这样的不均，天空就这样因星而异；正如星座与星座不同，同一星座与自身也不一致，散布不均的火焰；在一个度数上给出生者至高影响的星座，到下一个度数就变得不友善：

Those things these parts o're-rule. no Joys shall know / Or little Pleasure over-mixt with Woe.

这些部分所统治的人，将不知欢乐，或只有一点欢乐，掺满了悲苦。

The difficulty of putting this Doctrin into Verse

［把这门学说写成诗的困难］

These parts, if such can be to Verse confin'd, / My Muse must Sing, and ease my troubled Mind; / For though 'tis various, yet the Subject's bound / To words but few, and all of equal sound; / So that it must be mean, it must refuse / The turn of Verse, though fashion'd by a Muse.

这些部分，如果它们能被约束在诗里，我的缪斯必须歌唱，让我烦扰的心得到安宁；因为虽然内容繁杂，题材却受限于很少的词语，而且都是同样的声音；所以它必定平庸，必定拒绝诗的婉转，即使出自缪斯之手。

And that, though labor'd, Line must bald appear / That brings ungrateful Musick to the Ear.

那样的诗行，即使费尽心力，也必定显得光秃，给耳朵带来不悦的音乐。

But since I must the Laws of Fate rehearse / The settled Matter must direct my Verse; / No Room for Fiction, I must things declare, / Not as they may be feign'd, but as they are.

但既然我必须复述命运的法则，就必须由已定的内容来指挥我的诗；这里没有虚构的余地，我必须陈述事物，不是照它们可以被编造的样子，而是照它们本来的样子。

It is enough the God is barely shewn, / Rich in himself he shines, and great alone.

只要把神赤裸地显示出来就够了，他自身丰富，独自伟大而光辉。

Nor should the World be so to Words betray'd / As to be thought ennobled by their Aid: / This spurs me on, and I forget my Ease, / The World must be oblig'd, and I must please; / I must, if plainly I these parts comprise; / Then learn the noxious portions of the Skies.

世界也不该被言辞出卖，以至于被认为是靠言辞的帮助才变得高贵：这激励我向前，我忘了自己的安逸，世界必须受惠，我必须取悦；如果我要平实地把这些部分包括进来，我就必须如此；那么，来学习诸天有害的部分吧。

The hurtful Degrees in Aries

［白羊的有害度数］

The Fourth, and the Sixth Portions of the Ram / Are hurtful parts, and spread unlucky flame; / Nor doth the Seventeenth or the next display / A kinder face, or shed a milder Ray: / The Twenty First, Fifth, Seventh spread noxious Beams / The Twelfth, and Fourteenth leaning to Extreams.

白羊的第四与第六份是有害的部分，散布不祥的火焰；第十七份和下一份也不显出更和善的面容，不洒下更温和的光线：第二十一、二十五、二十七份散布有害的光，第十二与第十四份偏向极端。