CHORUS (singing) Ah! fortune, fortune! again and yet again the house is entering on a fearful contest for the race of Atreus. FIRST SEMI-CHORUS (chanting) What are we to do? carry tidings to the town, or hold our peace? SECOND SEMI-CHORUS (chanting) It is safer to keep silence, friends. FIRST SEMI-CHORUS (chanting) Look, look at that sudden rush of smoke to the sky in front of the palace, telling its tale in advance! SECOND SEMI-CHORUS (chanting) They are kindling torches to fire the halls of Tantalus; they do not shrink even from murder.英文原著 · 《ORESTES》
CHORUS Thy groans mingle with those of their parents. ADRASTUS Hear me. CHORUS O'er both of us thou dost lament. ADRASTUS Would God the Theban ranks had laid me dead in the dust! CHORUS Oh that I had ne'er been wedded to a husband! ADRASTUS Ah! hapless mothers, behold this sea of troubles! CHORUS Our nails have ploughed our cheeks in furrows, and o'er our heads have we strewn ashes.英文原著 · 《THE SUPPLIANTS》
CHORUS What evils thou hast suffered, what sorrows thou hast seen, thou poor old man! what shall be thy life hereafter? PELEUS Childless, desolate, with no limit to my grief, I must drain the cup of woe, until I die. CHORUS 'Twas all in vain the gods wished thee joy on thy wedding day. PELEUS All my hopes have flown away, fallen short of my high boasts. CHORUS A lonely dweller in a lonely home art thou. PELEUS I have no city any longer; there! on the ground my sceptre do cast; and thou, daughter of Nereus, 'neath thy dim grotto, shalt see me grovelling in the dust, a ruined king.英文原著 · 《Andromache》
Stand here at the door and hear the noise arising in the house. CHORUS (chanting) Thou art already by the bolted door; 'tis for thee to note the sounds that issue from within. And tell me, O tell me what evil can be on foot. PHAEDRA 'Tis the son of the horse-loving Amazon who calls, Hippolytus, uttering foul curses on my servant. CHORUS (chanting) I hear a noise but cannot dearly tell which way it comes. 'tis through the door the sound reached thee. PHAEDRA Yes, yes, he is calling her plainly enough a go-between in vice, traitress to her master's honour. CHORUS (chanting) Woe, woe is me!英文原著 · 《Hippolytus》
ADRASTUS Mothers, raise the wail for the dead departed; cry in answer when ye hear my note of woe. CHORUS My sons, my sons! O bitter words for loving mothers to address to you! To thee, my lifeless child, I call. ADRASTUS Woe! CHORUS Ah me, my sufferings! ADRASTUS Alas! We have endured, alas!- CHORUS Sorrows most grievous.英文原著 · 《THE SUPPLIANTS》
ADRASTUS O citizens of Argos! do ye not behold my fate? CHORUS They see thee, and me the hapless mother, reft of her children. ADRASTUS Bring near the blood-boltered corpses of those hapless chiefs, foully slain by foes unworthy, with whom lay the decision of the contest. CHORUS Let me embrace and hold my children to my bosom in my enfolding arms. ADRASTUS There, there! thou hast- CHORUS Sorrows heavy enough to bear. ADRASTUS Ah me!英文原著 · 《THE SUPPLIANTS》
You and your kiss-ass chorus following you around going, "The Field's medal! The Field's medal!" Why are you still so fuckin' afraid of failure?电影 · 《Good Will Hunting (1997)》
CHORUS [SINGlNG]: Wouldn't it be loverly Where you bound for this year, Eliza? Biarritz?电影 · 《My Fair Lady (1964)》