[转载]疑难解答：be it ten for one 什么意思？

be it ten for one = should you have ten children rather than one.

SONNET 6 (by William Shakespeare)

Then let not Winter's ragged hand deface 
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd. 
That use is not forbidden usury, 
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thyself to breed another thee, 
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one; 
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee: 
Then what could Death do, if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity? 
    Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair,
    To be Death's conquest and make worms thine heir.

Notes

use,usury:二字同义：（1）investment,指放债，当时高利贷犯禁，放债并不犯禁；（2）sexual use,指娶妻生子，也不犯禁。

be it ten for one = should you have ten children rather than one.

happies: makes happy -- an unusual verb and the only time Shakespeare makes use of it.

pay the willing loan: willingly repay the loan；loan亦含意同use的双关义。

SONNET 6 权威汉译：

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