• 2008年07月24日

  The Hllow Men 空心人 (海绵翻译注解版)

  The Hollow Men                         空心人
               T.S. Eliot                                                  托马斯•斯特恩斯•艾略特
     

  
  Mistah Kurz - he dead.                          空心的库尔兹先生——他死了
  A penny for the Guy!                            给老盖伊一便士吧

                                                          注（全句出自康拉德小说《黑暗的心》
                                                          盖伊是英国国会爆炸案的主角，
                                                          后一句是一句儿歌，当年我也唱过）

                I                                             一

  We are the hollow men                          我们是空心人
  We are the stuffed men                         我们是填充标本
  Leaning together                                  互相依靠着
  Headpieces filled with straw. Alas!           哎，脑袋中装满了浆糊
  Our dried voices, when                          当我们一起悄声耳语
  We whisper together                             我们干枯的声音
  Are quiet and meaningless                      是如此寂静又没有意义
  As wind in dry grass                              就像穿过干草的风声
  Or rat's feet over broken glass                或是老鼠踩过碎玻璃
  In our dry cellar.                                  在我们的地下室里的干瘪噪声

  Shape without form, shade without color, 没有形态的形式，没有色彩的色度
  Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;  半身不遂的力量，没有姿态的姿势
                                                         （这一句真难翻译，别的版本都是乱翻）

  Those who have crossed                        那些穿越死亡王国的帷幕
  With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom目光凌厉的人们
  Remember us - if at all - not as lost          如果真的能记住我们
  Violent souls, but only                            绝不是作为暴虐的灵魂
  As the hollow men                                 只是一群空心人
  The stuffed men.                                   一群填塞出来的标本

  
                 II                                               二

  Eyes I dare not meet in dreams                那些我不敢直视的眼睛
  In death's dream kingdom                        在这死者的梦之国度
  These do not appear:                             绝不会出现
  There,the eyes are                                那里这些眼睛是
  Sunlight on a broken column                    映在石柱上的阳光
  There, is a tree swinging                         那里，有一棵在摇曳
  And voices are                                      声音
  In the wind's singing                              在风中歌唱
  More distant and more solemn                  比一颗陨落的星球
  Than a fading star.                                更加遥远，更加肃穆

  Let me be no nearer                               让我最接近它          
  In death's dream kingdom                        死亡的梦之国度
  Let me also wear                                    让我穿起
  Such deliberate disguises                         这些蓄意的伪装
  Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves         老鼠的外衣，乌鸦的皮肤
  In a field                                               田野里交叉的竹竿
  Behaving as the wind behaves                  像墙头草一样，跟着风的方向
  No nearer-                                            最接近----

  Not that final meeting                             黄昏之国里
  In the twilight kingdom.                           并非最终的集会

  
             III                                                     三

  This is the dead land                               这是死亡的土地
  This is the cactus land                             这是仙人掌的土地
  Here the stone images                             在这里，石像树立
  Are raised, here they receive                    在这里，它们接受
  The supplication of a dead man's hand        亡灵祈祷的手
  Under the twinkle of a fading star.             在陨星闪烁的光芒之下

  Is it like this                                           是否就是这样
  In death's other kingdom                           在死亡的另一个王国
  Waking alone                                          独自醒来
  At the hour when we are                          那时我们
  Trembling with tenderness                         正为柔情而颤抖
  Lips that would kiss                                  嘴唇也会亲吻
  Form prayers to broken stone.                    写给碎石的祷文

  
              IV                                                        四

  The eyes are not here                              那些犀利的目光不在这里
  There are no eyes here                             这里没有眼睛
  In this valley of dying stars                        在这死亡星球的峡谷中
  In this hollow valley                                  在这空空如也的峡谷中
  This broken jaw of our lost kingdom.            山谷是我们遗失王国的断颚
  In the last of meeting places                      在最终集会的地方
  We grope together                                   我们一起摸索
  And avoid speech                                     决不交谈
  Gathered on this beach of the tumid river     聚集在泛滥的河滩

  Sightless, unless                                      视而不见，除非
  The eyes reappear                                   那双眸再度出现

  
  As the perpetual star                                如同永恒之星降临
  Multifoliate rose                                       死亡的黄昏之国里
  Of death's twilight kingdom                        多叶的蔷薇
  The hope only                                         空虚之人的
  Of empty men.                                        唯一希望

  
                V                                                        五

  Here we go round the prickly pear               我们围绕着仙人掌果走
  Prickly pear prickly pear                            仙人掌果，仙人掌果
  Here we go round the prickly pear               我们围绕着仙人掌果走
  At five o'clock in the morning.                    在清晨的五点钟

  Between the idea                                    在意念
  And the reality                                       与现实之间
  Between the motion                                在提议
  And the act                                           和行动之间
  Falls the Shadow                                    有阴影降临

  For thine is the Kingdom                                因为汝即是王国

  Between the conception                          在观念
  And the creation                                    和创造之间
  Between the emotion                              在情感
  And the response                                   与回应之间
  Falls the Shadow                                    有阴影降临
      Life is very long                                        生命是条长河

  Between the desire                                 在欲求
  And the spasm                                       和抽搐间
  Between the potency                              在潜在
  And the existence                                   和存在间
  Between the essence                              在本质
  And the descent                                     与遗传之间
  Falls the Shadow                                    有阴影降临
       For Thine is the Kingdom                          因为汝即是王国

  For Thine is                                            因为你也是
  Life is                                                         生命也是
  For Thine is the                                       因为你是那
  This is the way the world ends                   这就是这个世界终结的方式
  This is the way the world ends                   这就是这个世界终结的方式
  This is the way the world ends                   这就是这个世界终结的方式
  Not with a bang but with a whimper.           不是在一声惊雷当中结束，
  

   
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