dying fall漸弱的收尾

把愛到厭倦倒過來說：先用過量把慾望喂死，一句寫盡痴纏的代價。

give me excess of something that it ...

想說好過頭反會膩時，套 give me excess of 誇張表態。

Give me too much of a good thing and I'll tire of it. ／ A little more and the pleasure turns to poison for me.

literary

在 excess of it 後稍停，surfeiting 重讀，句尾 die 輕輕收住。

Give me excess of this show until I never want to watch it again. 就讓我把這劇一次看個夠，直到再也不想看。

只為那一下漸弱反覆聽同一樂句，把沉溺寫得又輕又準。

That X again ... it had a Y

重看或重聽某個心動片段時，可說 That ... again。

Play that part again; it tapers off so sweetly. ／ Once more the same phrase, for the way it fades.

literary

That strain again 後稍停，dying 拉長，fall 收低。

That chorus again; it had a slow fade I can't get enough of. 再把那段副歌放一遍，結尾慢慢淡出，我怎麼聽都不夠。

把想像比作變幻無窮的海，一句點破愛意迷人全在它會造形。

so full of X is Y that it is Z

形容某人想像豐富、滿腦子畫面時，可借用這句。

Fancy is crowded with shapes and wildly inventive. ／ Imagination brims with forms, itself the wildest of them.

literary

fancy 重讀，that it alone 連讀，fantastical 尾巴輕揚。

So full of shapes is her imagination that every page surprises me. 她的想像滿是畫面，每一頁都讓我驚喜。

用「現在不如從前」寫興味轉淡，音樂和人心一起變味，一句話說盡。

It is not so ... now as it was before.

形容熱情或味道消退時用，語氣要淡；正式場合說會顯得矯情，別用。

It has lost the sweetness it once had. ／ Not as lovely now as it was then.

literary

It is not so 輕帶，sweet now 重讀，as it was before 放慢收住。

The song is not so moving now as it was before. 這首歌現在不像從前那樣打動人了。

把一見鍾情誇張成「淨化瘟疫」，用最重的比喻寫最初的動心，莎劇式告白全在這句。

When mine eyes did see ... first, me thought ...

半開玩笑地形容一見傾心時用，帶古典腔；日常認真表白會顯得做作。

The first time I saw her, the whole room cleared. ／ One look from her and the air felt clean.

literary

when mine eyes 輕帶，did see Olivia first 重讀，me thought 後稍頓，pestilence 放慢收住。

When my eyes did see the city first, I thought the rain had washed it clean. 我第一眼看見這座城市時，覺得雨把它洗得乾乾淨淨。