When You Are Old 当你老了
作者WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 叶芝(1865-1939),用英语写作的爱尔兰诗人,早年曾参加爱尔兰独立运动,但后来脱离政治运动,专心致力与文学写作。其诗风受布莱克影响较深;后与法国诗派接触,使他的诗又带上了唯美注意和象征主义色彩。叶芝在1923年获得诺贝尔文学奖,是一位对现代诗歌具有重大影响的诗人。叶芝在1889年遇见女演员、爱尔兰独立运动战士Maud Gonne,并爱上了她,他曾多次向她求婚,但均遭拒绝,但他终生爱慕着她,为她写下了许多诗,《当你老了》就是其中一首。
When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire,take down this book,
And slowly read,and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once,and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur,a little sadly,how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
当你老了,头白了,睡思昏沉,
炉火旁打盹,请取下这部诗歌,
慢慢读,回想你过去眼神的柔和
回想它们过去的浓重的阴影;
多少人爱你年轻环畅的时候
爱慕你的美貌出于假意或真心,
只有一个人爱你那朝圣者的灵魂,
爱你老去的容颜的痛苦的皱纹。
躬身在红光闪耀的炉火旁,
凄然的低语,爱为何消逝,
在头顶的山上他缓缓踱着步子,
将脸隐没在了群星之中。
The More Loving One ——W.H.Auden/W.H.奥登
让我们成为更有爱心的人
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
仰望群星的时分,我一清二楚,
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
尽管它们关怀备至,我亦有可能赴地府,
But on earth indifference is the least
可是尘世间我们丝毫不必畏惧
We have to dread from man or beast.
人类或禽兽的那份冷漠。
How should we like it were stars to burn
倘若群星燃烧着关怀我们的激情,
With a passion for us we could not return?
我们却无法回报,我们作何感想?
If equal affection cannot be,
倘若无法产生同样的感情,
Let the more loving one be me.
让我成为更有爱心的人。
Admirer as I think I am
尽管我自视为群星的崇拜者,
Of stars that do not give a damn,
它们满不在乎,
I cannot, now I see them ,say
现在我看群星,我却难以启齿,
I missed one terribly all day.
说我成天思念一颗星星。
Were all stars to disappear or die
倘若所有的星星消失或者消亡,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
我应该学会仰望空荡的天空,
And feel its total dark sublime,
同时感受天空一片漆黑的崇高,
Though this might take me a little time.
虽然这样可能要花费一点时间。
their search. I found one and because of my shaking hands, I could barely get it to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those. "I looked through the bars at my jailer. He did not make eye contact with me. I called out to him 'Have you got a light?' He looked at me, shrugged [3]and came over to light my cigarette. "As he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently locked with mine. At that moment, I smiled. I don't know why I did that. Perhaps it was nervousness, perhaps it was because, when you get very close, one to another, it is very hard not to smile. In any case, I smiled. In that instant, it was as though a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn't want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated a smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but stayed near, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.
"I kept smiling at him, now aware of him as a person and not just a jailer. And his looking at me seemed to have a new dimension[4] too. 'Do you have kids?' he asked. " 'Yes, here, here.' I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled for the pictures of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them. My eyes filled with tears. I said that I feared that I'd never see my family again, never have the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. "Suddenly, without another word, he unlocked my cell and silently led me out. Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. There, at the edge of town, he released me. And without another word, he turned back toward the town.
"My life was saved by a smile." Yes, the smile―the unaffected, unplanned, natural connection between people.. I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could recognize each other, we wouldn't be enemies. We couldn't have hate or envy or fear.
微 笑
“一想到自己明天就没命了,不禁陷入极端的惶恐。我翻遍了口袋,终于找到一支没被他们搜走的香烟,但我的手紧张得不停发抖,连将烟送进嘴里都成问题,而我的火柴也在搜身时被拿走了。 “我透过铁栏望着外面的警卫,他并没有注意到我在看他,我叫了他一声:‘能跟你借个火吗?’他转头望着我,耸了耸肩,然后走了过来,点燃我的香烟。 “当他帮我点火时,他的眼光无意中与我的相接触,这时我突然冲着他微笑。我不知道自己为何有这般反应,也许是过于紧张,或者是当你如此靠近另一个人,你很难不对他微笑。不管是何理由,我对他笑了。就在这一刹那,这抹微笑如同火花般,打破了我们心灵间的隔阂。受到了我的感染,他的嘴角不自觉地也现出了笑容,虽然我知道他原无此意。他点完火后并没立刻离开,两眼盯着我瞧,脸上仍带着微笑。
“我也以笑容回应,仿佛他是个朋友,而不是个守着我的警卫。他看着我的眼神也少了当初的那股凶气,‘你有小孩吗?’他开口问道。 “‘有,你看。’我拿出了皮夹,手忙脚乱地翻出了我的全家福照片。他也掏出了照片,并且开始讲述他对家人的期望与计划。这时我眼中充满了泪水,我说我害怕再也见不到家人。我害怕没机会看着孩子长大。他听了也流下两行眼泪。 “突然间,他二话不说地打开了牢门,悄悄地带我从后面的小路逃离了监狱,出了小镇,就在小镇的边上,他放了我,之后便转身往回走,不曾留下一句话。
“一个微笑居然能救自己一条命。”“是的,微笑是人与人之间最自然真挚的沟通方式。如果我们能用心灵去认识彼此,世间不会有结怨成仇的憾事;恨意、妒嫉、恐惧也会不复存在。
背景介绍:
《微笑》是法国作家安东尼?圣艾修伯里的作品,圣艾修伯里是名飞行员,二次大战对抗纳粹时被击落身亡,之前他也曾参加西班牙内战打击法西斯分子。他根据这次经验写了一篇精彩的故事――《微笑》。他的代表作《小王子》是美国人都很熟悉的童话故事。
[glow=255,red,2]O
Sailor,
Come
Ashore
啊!水手,上岸吧[/glow]
(Part
I)
O
sailor,
come
ashore
啊!水手,上岸吧
What
have
you
brought
for
me?
你给我带来什么?
Red
coral
,
white
coral,
海里的珊瑚,
Coral
from
the
sea.
红的,白的。
(Part
II)
I
did
not
dig
it
from
the
ground
它不是我从地下挖的
Nor
pluck
it
from
a
tree;
也不是从树上摘的;
Feeble
insects
made
it
它是暴风雨的海裹In
the
stormy
sea.
弱小昆虫做成的。
by
C.
G.
Rossetti
[glow=255,red,2]THE
WIND
风[/glow]
Who
has
seen
the
wind?
谁曾见过风的面貌?
Neither
I
nor
you;
谁也没见过,不论你或我;
But
when
the
leaves
hang
trembling,
但在树叶震动之际,
The
wind
is
passing
through.
风正从那里吹过。
(Part
II)
Who
has
seen
the
wind?
谁曾见过风的面孔?
Neither
you
nor
I;
谁也没见过,不论你或我;
But
when
the
trees
bow
down
their
heads,
但在树梢低垂之际,
The
wind
is
passing
by.
风正从那里经过。
~by
C.
G.
Rossetti
A
Red,
Red
RoseO
my
luve
is
like
a
red,red
rose
That's
newly
sprung
in
June;O
my
luve
is
like
the
melodie,
That's
sweetly
play'd
in
tuneAS
fair
art
thou
,my
bonie
lass,
So
deep
in
luve
am
I,And
I
will
luve
thee
still,my
dear,Till
a'the
seas
gang
dry.Till
a'the
seas
dry,my
dear,
And
the
rocks
melt
wi'the
sun!And
I
will
luve
thee
still,
my
dear,
While
the
sands
o'life
shall
run.And
fare
thee
weel,my
only
luve,
And
fare
thee
weel,a
while!And
I
will
come
again
,my
luve,Tho'it
ten
thousand
mile!这是Burns最有名的一首诗之一,以爱情为中心的浪漫诗。吐露的是一个农民爱的心声。诗的内容不难,主仔细看看就明白了。三分钟应该是够的。
这里有两首英语诗歌。中文翻译也有:
http://hi.baidu.com/laochangsha/blog/item/8b07b5867b7dd83e66096e5e.html
http://hi.baidu.com/laochangsha/blog/item/034da0b7746d66f430add1fb.html