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• How slow this old moon wanes.

  wane: to become weaker in strength or fluence

• She lingers my desires, like to a step-dame or a dowager, long withering out a young man's revenue.

  step-dame: 后娘，继母

  dowager: an old woman who is, or behaves as if she is, of high social rank

  wither: to become weak and dry and decay

• Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;

  Four nights will quickly dream away the time.

  And then the moon, like to a silver bow new-bent in the heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.

  steep: sink

  bow: 弓

  behold: look at someone or something

  solemnity: 庄严的仪式，指代 the marriage ceremony

• Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,

  And won thy love doing thee injuries

  But I will wed thee in another key,

  With pomp, with triumph, with revelling.

  key: 曲调

  pomp: splendid ceremonial

  triumph: a feeling of satisfication caused by having a great success and victory

  revel: to dance, drink, sing, at a party or in public