§cast## FABULAE INTERLOCUTORES.
ANTIPHO, adolescens.
## 剧中的人物。
CHAEREA, adolescens.
安提丰，青年。
CHREMES, adolescens rusticus.
凯雷亚，青年。
DORIAS, ancilla.
克雷墨斯，乡下青年。
DORUS, eunuchus.
多里亚斯，女仆。
GNATHO, parasitus.
多鲁斯，宦官。
LACHES, senex.
格纳托，帮闲。
PARMENO, servus.
拉克斯，老人。
PHAEDRIA, adolescens.
帕尔梅诺，奴隶。
PYTHIAS, ancilla.
派德里亚，青年。
SANGA, lixa.
皮提亚斯，女仆。
SOPHRONA, nutrix.
桑加，随军仆役。
THAIS, meretrix.
索普罗娜，奶妈。
THRASO, miles.
泰伊斯，妓女。
§subject_1INTRODUCTION. PAMPHILA and Chremes were the children of an Athenian citizen.
色拉索，军人。
Pamphila, while an infant, was carried off from her home at Sunium by robbers, and by them sold to a merchant of Rhodes.
故事梗概。
He presented her to a courtesan of that place, who had her brought up with her own daughter Thais as her younger sister.
潘菲拉和克雷墨斯是一个雅典公民的孩子。
When Thais grew up she removed to Athens with a lover of hers, who at his death left her all his property.
潘菲拉在婴儿时期，在苏尼翁的家中被强盗拐走，并被他们卖给了一个罗得岛的商人。
She then kept company with a soldier named Thraso, who went to Caria after living with her a short time.
商人把她送给了当地的一个妓女，该妓女将她与自己的女儿泰伊斯一起抚养长大，视其为妹妹。
Meanwhile her mother had died, and her uncle wishing to realize money by Pamphila, who was beautiful and accomplished, sold her to Thraso, who happened to be at Rhodes on his return to Athens, and carried her with him intending to make a present of her to Thais.
泰伊斯长大后，与她的一个情人一起搬到了雅典，该情人在临终前将所有财产留给了她。
During his absence, however, Thais had found a new lover, one Phaedria, son of Laches.
后来，她与一个名叫色拉索的军人交往，色拉索与她生活了很短一段时间后便前往卡里亚。
This Thraso discovers on his return, and in order to secure his footing with her, makes his present conditional upon Phaedria’s dismissal.
在此期间，泰伊斯的母亲去世了，而潘菲拉的叔叔想通过卖掉美丽且多才多艺的潘菲拉来换取钱财，于是将她卖给了色拉索（色拉索在返回雅典的途中恰好在罗得岛），色拉索带着她，打算把她作为礼物送给泰伊斯。
This causes Thais great perplexity, for she is really attached to Phaedria, and yet much wishes to get possession of Pamphila, whose history she has learnt in part, and whom she hopes to restore to her Athenian family, intending by so doing to make herself friends in Athens.
然而，在他离开期间，泰伊斯找到了一个新情人，即拉克斯的儿子派德里亚。
Accordingly she shuts her door against Phaedria.
色拉索回来后发现了这一点，为了巩固自己与她的关系，他提出将派德里亚赶走作为赠送礼物的条件。
§subject_2He is at first highly incensed at her conduct;
这让泰伊斯非常为难，因为她确实爱着派德里亚，但又非常想得到潘菲拉，她已经了解了潘菲拉的部分身世，并希望将她送还给她的雅典家人，企图以此在雅典结交朋友。
but after an interview with her, consents to absent himself from Athens for a day or two, that she may have time to obtain Pamphila from Thraso.
因此，她对派德里亚闭门不纳。
Before he goes he gives orders that an Ethiopian slave, and an eunuch whom he has bought for Thais, shall be taken to her house. At this moment Thraso sends Pamphila under the escort of Gnatho his follower.
他起初对她的行为感到非常愤怒；但在与她会面后，同意离开雅典一两天，以便她有时间从色拉索那里得到潘菲拉。
On her way to Thais’ house she is seen in the street by Chaerea, Phaedria’s brother, who at first sight falls desperately in love with her, and hurries after her, but being detained on his way by an old friend of his father’s, arrives just too late to see her taken into the house.
在他离开之前，他吩咐将他为泰伊斯买的一个埃塞俄比亚奴隶和一个宦官送到她家。
Here he falls in with Parmeno, his father’s slave, and between them they concoct the scheme on which the plot of the play turns.
就在这时，色拉索在他的随从格纳托的护送下送来了潘菲拉。
Chaerea is dressed up in the eunuch’s clothes and conducted to Thais’ house, where he soon has an opportunity of carrying out his intended scheme, during the absence of Thais at Thraso’s house;
在去泰伊斯家的路上，她在街上被派德里亚的弟弟凯雷亚看见，凯雷亚对她一见钟情，急忙在后面追赶，但由于在路上被他父亲的一位老朋友耽搁了，等他到达时，刚好错过了看到她被带进屋里的那一幕。
after which he makes his escape.
在这里，他遇到了他父亲的奴隶帕尔梅诺，两人共同策划了该剧剧情发展的核心计谋。
This event causes the greatest consternation in the household; and is no less distressing to Thais, who finds her plan for restoring Pamphila to her relations thus awkwardly frustrated.
凯雷亚穿上宦官的衣服，被带到泰伊斯家，在泰伊斯去色拉索家不在期间，他很快得到了执行预定计划的机会，之后他便逃走了。
For in the meantime she has obtained some interviews with Chremes, the brother of Pamphila, and has nearly identified Pamphila when the catastrophe comes to her knowledge.
这件事在家里引起了极大的混乱；对泰伊斯来说也同样痛苦，因为她发现自己将潘菲拉送还给亲人的计划就这样尴尬地受挫了。
Phaedria, too, is much disconcerted at discovering that his present has worked so much mischief.
因为在此期间，她已经与潘菲拉的哥哥克雷墨斯见了几次面，并且在得知这一灾难性事件时，已经几乎确认了潘菲拉的身份。
All parties, in fact, are at their wit’s end, with the exception of Chaerea, who, upon discovering Pamphila’s history, makes the best amends he can by undertaking to marry her.
派德里亚在发现自己的礼物造成了如此大的灾难后，也感到非常困惑。
Pythias meanwhile, Thais’ maid, pays off old scores by driving Parmeno to divulge the whole matter to Laches, father of Chaerea and Phaedria.
事实上，除了凯雷亚之外，所有人都束手无策，凯雷亚在得知潘菲拉的身世后，通过承诺娶她来尽其所能做出补偿。 与此同时，泰伊斯的女仆皮提亚斯通过逼迫帕尔梅诺向凯雷亚和派德里亚的父亲拉克斯吐露事情的全部经过，从而报了宿怨。