一言为定，爱人。海伦娜来了，我必须走了，明晚见。

　　Helena上场

　　Helena: Hello! Hermia.

　　嗨，荷米亚。

　　Hermia: I’m so glad to see you, my friend!

　　我很高兴见到你，我的朋友。

　　Helena: But Demetrious love you.Oh, teach me how to attract his eyes, please? 但是狄米崔斯爱的是你，请教我如何吸引他的目光吧?

　　Hermia: Take comfort, he no more shall see my face. Tomorrow night Lysander and myself will leave this place. We’ll meet in the wood. Please pray for us and don’t tell others, good-bye! (下)

　　放心吧，他再也不会看见我的脸了，明晚莱赛德和我将要逃离此地，我们相约在森林里见面，请你为我们祈祷，并且不要告诉其他人，再见。

　　Helena: Iwillgoto tell Demetrious of fair Hermia’s flight, and then he’ll pursue her. I just want to have his attention again. (下)

　　我要去告诉狄米崔斯,美丽的荷米亚将要离开，然後他将会去追寻她，而我只是想再看见他的容貌。

　　第二幕第一场 (森林中)

　　The wood was a favorite meeting-place of those little beings known by the name of fairies.这个树林是精灵最喜欢的聚会地点

　　音乐起

　　Oberon: Fetch me the flower which maids call Love in Idleness; the juice of that little purple flower, laid on the eyelids of those who sleep, will make the em, when they awake, love madly the first thing they see.

　　替我把少女们称做``枉费之爱``的花拿来，一旦将那紫色小花的汁液滴在睡眠者的眼皮上，当他们醒来时，便会疯狂的爱上所看到的第一件东西。

　　Puck: Yes,my lord. (下)

　　Oberon: But who comes here? I am invisible.

　　And I will overhear their conference.

　　可是谁到这儿来啦?他们看不见我，让我听一听他们说些什麼。