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Hamlet By William Shakespeare

1. I want to express my deep thanks to editors Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine for creating these indispensable editions of Shakespeare’s works, which incorporate the best of textual scholarship with a richness of commentary that is both inspired and engaging.

  • indispensable = (adj) sangat diperlukan, yang harus ada, tidak boleh tidak
  • engaging = (adj) yang menarik hati, yang menyenangkan

2. Hamlet, now free to act, mistakenly kills Polonius, thinking he is Claudius. Claudius sends Hamlet away as part of a deadly plot

  • mistakenly = salah

3. Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night, That, if again this apparition come, He may approve our eyes and speak to it.

  • entreated (verb) memohon, meminta dengan sangat
  • along = (Prep) bersama
  • apparition = (nomina) penampakan, hantu
4. Sit down awhile, And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story, What we have two nights seen

  • assail = (verb) menyerang, menyerbu, membantah
  • fortified = (adj) diperkuat, dibentengi 
5. Last night of all, When yond same star that’s westward from the pole Had made his course t’ illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one

  • yond = (adv) disana, disebelah sana
  • westward = (adj) barat
  •  illume = illuminate = (verb_ menerangi
6. Peace, break thee off! Look where it comes again.

  • thee = kamu, kalian
7. How now, Horatio, you tremble and look pale

  • tremble (verb) gemetar
8. I might not this believe Without the sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes

  • sensible = (adj) masuk akal
  • avouch = (verb) mengaku, meyakinkan
9. So frowned he once when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.

  • frowned = (verb) mengerutkan kening, bermuka masam
  • smote = (verb) memukul, menghantam
  • sledded = (Nomina) kereta luncur

10. This bodes some strange eruption to our state

  • bodes = (verb) pertanda, alamat, menandakan
11. We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence, For it is as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery

  • majestical = agung
  • invulnerable = (adj) kebal
  • vain = sia-sia, sombong, percuma
12. Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty

  • haste = (nomina) bergegas

13. ’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father. But you must know your father lost a father, That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow

  • commendable = (adj) terpuji
  • mourning = duka, ratapan, tangis, percintaan
  • filial = berbakti, berkenaan dengan anak perempuan
14. But to persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness.

  • perseve = (verb) tekuh, gigih, ngotot
  • obstinate = (adj) keras kepala, tegar, gigih
  • condolement = (nomina) belasungkawa
  • impious = (adj) jahat, tak beriman, tak bertuhan
15. It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschooled

  • unfortified = (adj) tidak dibentengi, (makanan) tanpa suplemen tambahan

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