这是为视频配的文字版解说

视频：

最后真的是，相关人士死光光，吃瓜群众得大奖。。。。

关于这个视频的一些注解放在这里。

1. 关于奥菲莉亚(Ophelia)

虽然奥菲莉亚在这部戏里只是个花瓶，但她死亡的场景被英国画家约翰.米莱（John Everett Millais）重现，成为了世界名画。

当年只有19岁的女孩Elizabeth Siddal（伊丽莎白.西德尔）成为了这幅画的模特。米莱让她穿好衣服，泡在浴缸里，用来模仿奥菲莉亚淹死的场景。当时是伦敦的冬天，米莱在浴缸底下放了火，让水温变高。有一次火灭了，而当时米莱太专注于绘画没有注意到，冰凉的水让西德尔得了严重的感冒和肺炎，对她一生的健康都造成影响。后来，西德尔的爸爸让米莱付了医药费。

顺便一说，哈姆雷特那段著名的台词“to be or not to be（是生存还是毁灭）”（Act 3, Scene 1），也是在见奥菲莉亚之前说的。说完这段话，他就告诉奥菲莉亚，不如你赶紧去当尼姑吧....真是神奇的脑回路

2. 戏剧中人物名字

Hamlet  哈姆雷特。丹麦王子

Claudius  克劳迪斯。 丹麦现任国王。他是哈姆雷特的叔叔。

Gertrude  乔特鲁德。丹麦王后，哈姆雷特的母亲。

Ophelia  奥菲莉娅。波洛涅斯的女儿，哈姆雷特的恋人

Polonius  波洛涅斯。奥菲莉亚的父亲。克劳迪斯的御前大臣

Laertes  雷欧提斯。波洛涅斯的儿子。

Rosencrantz  罗生克兰。哈姆雷特大学时的朋友。

Guildernstern  盖登思邓。哈姆雷特的大学时的朋友。

Horatio  霍拉旭。哈姆雷特的密友。

Fortinbras  福丁布拉斯。挪威王子

3. 视频的文字版和单词注释

Hamlet is the prince of Denmark. His father was the king, but he died before the play begins. Hamlet's uncle Claudius has taken over as King and married Hamlet's mother Gertrude. 

At the beginning at the play a ghost appears to some soldiers. He looks just like Hamlet's father, the dead King. The soldiers agree to tell Hamlet all about it.

*ghost  n.鬼    appear  v.出现

Claudius tells Hamlet he has to stop acting so sad about his father's death. Hamlet says he will. But, when he's by himself, 

he says he's disgusted that his mother married Claudius. 

*disgust  v.恶心

Hamlet's girlfriend is Ophelia. Her father Polonius and her brother Laertes try to convince her that Hamlet doesn't love her. They point out that because he's a prince he can't marry whoever he wants. They think he's more likely toseduce her than marry her. Ophelia agrees not to talk to Hamlet any more. 

*convince  v.说服

be more likely to do = prone to do 更倾向于

seduce  v.引诱

Hamlet sees the ghost, who says he is Hamlet's father. He also says that Claudius murdered him by pouring poison in his ear. Hamlet swears to take revenge. He mentions to the soldiers that in the future,he may find it useful to act as if he's crazy. 

*murder  v.谋杀

pour  v.倒

poison  n.毒药

revenge n.复仇

Ophelia tells her father that Hamlet came to see her after she returned his love letters and he seems insane. His clothes were messed up; he was trembling and pale and he looked scared. Polonius now thinks Hamlet really did love Ophelia, and he's gone mad because she rejected him. 

*insane n.疯狂

mess up v.搞乱

tremble v.颤抖

reject  v.拒绝

Claudius and Gertrude ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, some friends of Hamlet's from school, to spend time with them and try to find out why he's been acting crazy. Rosencrantz and Guiledenstern try to cheer Hamlet up by telling him the group of actors has arrived at the castle. Hamlet decides he'll have the actors perform a play that mimics the murder of his father. He wants to see if Claudius reacts to it and shows his guilt. He says the ghost might actually be a lying devil. Claudius's reaction to the play will clear up the mystery.

*cheer up someone = make someone happy

mimic  v.模仿

react  v.反应

guilt  n.罪恶

devil  n.恶魔

mystery  n.神秘的事

Claudius, Gertrude and Polonius want to test the theory that Hamlet is acting crazy because he is lovesick. So they spy on a meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia. Hamlet is very nasty to Ophelia and tells her she should go become a nun.  After hearing this Claudius decides Hamlet is not in love. He does think Hamlet's obsessed with something. And since he thinks Hamlet poses a threat to him, he decides to send him to England.

*theory  理论

spy on someone = keep watch secretly 暗中监视

nasty  adj.令人讨厌的

nun  n.尼姑，修女

obsess with something  v.着迷

pose a threat  v.威胁

That evening, the actors perform the play Hamlet requested. 

When Claudius sees a scene where a king is murdered by having poison poured in his ear, he becomes so upset that he gets up and leaves. Hamlet sees this reaction as proof that Claudius did indeed murder his father.

When Claudius is by himself, he admits he murdered Hamlet's father. He tries to pray for forgiveness but he can't seem to make himself do it. Hamlet comes into the room behind him with a sword, but he decides not to kill him because he thinks Claudius will go straight to heaven if he dies while he's praying and he wants him to go to hell. 

*pray  祈祷

forgiveness 原谅

Hamlet goes to see his mother, not knowing that she's given Polonius permission to hide behind a tapestry and listen to their conversation. Hamlet makes her sit down and tells her she's not leaving until he shows her how bad she really is. Gertrude gets frightened and calls out for help. Hearing her, Polonius calls out for help too. And Hamlet, thinking it's Claudius behind the tapestry stabs Polonius through the cloth and kills him. 

*tapestry  n.挂毯

stab v.捅

Hamlet tells his mother how awful it is that she's sleeping with

Claudius. He doesn't come right out and say Claudius murdered King Hamlet, or that he thinks Gertrude knew about it. He focuses more on how much better his father was the glorious, and tries to make his mother promise not to sleep with Claudius anymore. She tells Hamlet that he's making her feel guilty. The ghost enters and scolds Hamlet for taking so long to get revenge. Hamlet sees the ghost but his mother doesn't. She thinks he's crazy. Hamlet leaves hauling away Polonius's body.

*come right out and say = say something in a very direct way 挑明了直接说

glorious  adj.光荣的

scold  v.责骂

haul  v.拖

body  n.尸体

Claudius sent hamlet to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When he's by himself, he says he's given Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sealed letters, ordering the King of England to put Hamlet to death immediately after opening the letter.

*sealed  adj.密封的

Ophelia loses her mind following her father's death.

*lose somebody's mind = to become crazy 疯了

Laertes returns to Denmark, feeding a noisy crowd of supporters. He blames Claudius for his father's death and his sister's insanity, and threatens to overthrow him. Claudius manages to persuade Laertes that Hamlet is really to blame.

*insanity  n.疯狂

overthrow  v.推翻

manage to  v.费力气做

persuade  v.说服

Horatio gets a letter from Hamlet, saying that the ship he was on was attacked by pirates. Hamlet was taken prisoner by himself and brought back to Denmark. Claudius and Laertes also receive a letter from Hamlet, in which he says he's arrived back to Denmark alone and will come to see Claudius the next day. Now that they know Hamlet didn't die in England. They start plotting a new way to kill him so it's look like an accident.

*plot v.密谋

Gertrude brings the news that Ophelia drowned in a stream.

*stream  n.小河或大溪(small river or large brook)

Two grave diggers talk and joke while digging Ophelia's grave. Hamlet gets into a conversation with one of them. He doesn't yet know that Ophelia is dead. Claudius, Gertrude and Laertes arrive to bury Ophelia They lay here in the ground, but before they can throw earth on her, Laertes leaps to into the grave to hug her one more time. Hamlet finally realizes who they're burying and starts swearing that no one loved Ophelia more than he did. He jumps into the grave too, and he and Laertes fight until they're pulled apart.

*dig  v.挖

grave n.坟墓

bury  v.埋葬

leap  v.跳

Hamlet tells Horatio that on the way to England, he stole the letter that would have sentenced him to death, and wrote a replacement telling the King of England to put Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death. He managed to get free during the pirate attack and then he returned to Denmark.

*sentence v.判刑

A courtier named was Osric interrupts them to invite Hamlet to a fencing match with Laertes to be held in front of the King and Queen. Hamlet agrees.

*courtier n.朝臣

fencing  n.击剑

Before the match Laertes poisons the tip of his sword and Claudius poisons a cup of wine. Hamlet gets the first hit. Claudius is going to give him a precious pearl as a reward and he drops the pearl into the poison cup and offers it to Hamlet but Hamlet says he's not ready to drink yet. Hamlet gets the second hit. Gertrude picks up the poisoned cup drinks from it before Claudius can stop her. 

*tip  n.尖端

precious  adj.珍贵

pearl  n.珍珠

Laertes finally gets a hit wounding Hamlet with a poison sword, and they both get mad and start grappling with each other. In the scuffle they exchange swords, and Hamlet wounds Laertes with the poisoned one. Gertrude collapses and says she's been poisoned. Laertes confesses to Hamlet he poisoned the sword and says they're both going to die.

*wound v.弄伤

grapple  v.扭打

scuffle  n.混战

collapse  v. 倒塌

confess v.坦白

He blames Claudius for the scheme. Hamlet stabs Claudius with the poisoned sword and forces him to drink from the poisoned cup. Claudius dies.

*scheme  n.阴谋

Laertes dies, saying he's sorry for what he's done.

Hamlet tells Horatio to remain behind and tell the truth about everything that has happened.

Then he dies.

Fortinbras, a prince in Norway, arrives with his army on a visit to Claudius. When he sees that the whole royal family is dead, he claims the kingdom for himself.

*royal  adj.皇室

4. 哈姆雷特的原版和现代英语版的对照

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/

5. To be or not to be的原版和现代英语版对照

6. To be or not to be 梁实秋翻译版

死后还是存在，还是不存在，

——这是问题；

究竟要忍受着强暴的命运的矢石，

还是要拔剑和这滔天的恨事拼命相斗，

才是英雄气概呢？死；

——长眠，

——如此而已；

阖眼一睡，若是就能完结心头的苦痛和肉体承受的万千惊扰，

——那真是我们要去虔求的愿望。

死；——长眠；——长眠么！

也许做梦哩！

唉，阻碍就在此了；

我们捐弃尘世之后，在死睡当中会做些什么梦，这却不可不假思索；

苦痛的生活所以能有这样长的寿命，也就是这样的动机所致；

否则在短刀一挥就可完结生命的时候，

谁还甘心忍受这时代的鞭挞讥嘲，

高压者的横暴，

骄傲者的菲薄，

失恋的悲哀，

法律的延宕，

官吏的骄纵，

以及一切凡夫俗子所能加给善人的欺凌？

谁愿背着重担，在厌倦的生活之下呻吟喘汗，若不是因为对于死后的恐惧，

——死乃是旅客一去不返的未经发现的异乡，

——令人心智迷惑，使得我宁可忍受现有的苦痛，而不敢轻易尝试那不可知的苦痛；

所以“自觉的意识”使得我们都变成了懦夫，

所以敢作敢为的血性被思前想后的顾虑害得变成了灰色，

惊天动地的大事业也往往因此而中途旁逸，壮志全消了