《威尼斯商人》作为一部著名的喜剧,是莎士比亚早期的重要作品之一。在整个戏剧的发展过程中,数字“三”屡次出现,贯穿整个戏剧。其中,莎士比亚安排了三个匣子的选亲过程作为该剧的线索之一,成功地展示给读者一个心理上的测试,使读者从三个匣子的选择过程中了解三个求婚者的性格特征。 As a famous comedy, The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most important early works. Throughout the development of the drama, the number “three” has repeatedly appeared throughout the drama. Among them, Shakespeare arranged the process of choosing the three boxes as one of the clues of the play, and successfully demonstrated to the reader a psychological test that enables the reader to understand the character of the three suitors from the selection process of the three boxes.