小丑与乞丐

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Inside the hut crouched a filthy, half-naked man, 草棚里蜷缩着一个浑身脏兮兮、光着半截身子的男人，

babbling nonsense and claiming devils were chasing him. 嘴里胡言乱语，嚷嚷着恶鬼正在追他。

He called himself Poor Tom. 他自称是“可怜的汤姆”。

It was really Edgar, disguised as a mad beggar, 其实他是埃德加，假扮成了一个疯癫的乞丐，

hiding from his father's soldiers. 正躲避着父亲手下士兵的追捕。

Lear stared at him in wonder. 李尔满脸诧异地盯着他。

"Is man no more than this? “难道人不过就是这个样子吗？

A poor, bare, forked animal." 一个可怜兮兮、赤条条的两脚动物。”

And he began tearing off his own fine clothes. 说着，他也开始撕扯自己身上那身华服。

The king who had once owned everything now envied a beggar who owned nothing. 曾经拥有一切的国王，如今竟羡慕起一个一无所有的乞丐。

In his madness, 在这阵癫狂中，

Lear began to understand what he had never seen as king: 李尔终于看懂了他做国王时从未看清的事：

the hunger of the poor, the injustice of the powerful. 穷人的饥饿，与掌权者的不公。

"O, I have taken too little care of this!" “唉，我以前对这些实在太不放在心上了！”

Madness sometimes speaks truths that pride is too proud to say. 傲慢耻于说出口的真话，有时候疯话反倒给道破了。

Then old Gloucester arrived with a torch, 这时，老格洛斯特举着火把赶了过来，

secretly bringing help for the king. 偷偷给国王送来了帮助。

It was a kindness that would cost him terribly. 而这份善意，将让他付出极为惨痛的代价。