哈姆莱特： 让我代你们说明来意，免得你们泄漏了自己的秘密，有负国王、王后的付托。我近来不知为了什么缘故，一点兴致都提不起来，什么游乐的事都懒得过问；在这一种抑郁的心境之下，仿佛负载万物的大地，这一座美好的框架，只是一个不毛的荒岬；这个覆盖众生的苍穹，这一顶壮丽的帐幕，这个金黄色的火球点缀著的庄严的屋宇，只是一大堆污浊的瘴气的集合。
人类是一件多么了不得的杰作！多么高贵的理性！多么伟大的力量！多么优美的仪表！多么文雅的举动！在行为上多么像一个天使！在智慧上多么像一个天神！宇宙的精华！万物的灵长！可是在我看来，这一个泥土塑成的生命算得了什么？人类不能使我发生兴趣；不，女人也不能使我发生兴趣，虽然从你现在的微笑之中，我可以看到你在这样想。
HAMLET：I will tell you why. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no feather. I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air—look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire—why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. No, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say
