第一章 一个海外游子迷醉在沂蒙山麓
白昼正在消逝,朦胧的黄昏
使大地上的动物停止了
它们一天的辛苦:而我独自一人
正在准备着自己来支持
旅程和怜悯这两种搏斗,
这个,我的不误的记忆将要叙述。
——但丁
Daylight is fading away, fuzzy-edging shadows of dusk;
The animals on earth
Stopped
Daily hard workings of them and get their lazy rest.
But alone I am ready to keep my journey on and take
A pity on both sides of the struggle; this lore well-shaped shall be told through my clean memory.
——Dante
Interpretation section注释条款
1、Dante: 但丁(意大利诗人,1265-1321),此節为 《炼狱篇》第十歌)."第二歌 浮吉尔叙述俾德丽采的请求"。
2、 fuzzy-edging shadows of dusk:黄昏朦胧参差的暗影。
3、take a pity on both sides of the struggle: 怜悯这两种搏斗。
4、 lore:n. (专门的)知识;学问;口头传说;[动]眼端,眼光; 这裏代表着但丁经歷的巡礼的孤独,路途的艰巨,沿途发生的和那等待着他的景象的悲惨,以及对他自己力量的不确定。
月明星稀,
群山幻象丛生
抬头仰望,峰颠上
瀑布抛一条大道;
那人生的险境,
仿佛铺砌白银,
闪闪烁烁,
直达山顶。
山,无边无际。
梦,似幻似真。
一个白发苍苍的老人,
手持古槐虬枝,
翻过断崖石笋,
孑然独行于寂寞大地。
萧瑟秋风中,
匍匐在矮树荒草的坟茔。
这个海外归来的游子,
抗美援朝的老兵,
跪在妻子坟前,
手摸泥土,冰冷,
脸頬上,热泪滚滚:
“四十年匆匆草草,
时光的碎片哪里追寻?
激情点燃的血液,
曾在年轻的脉管流动;
多少人穿越战火,
转瞬间消失了踪影。
相约四十年后再相见,
当年的出发地——申城。
(待续)
Chapter One
Soul-wandering a wanderer without any border
In the Yi-Meng Mountains
The moon bright and stars have been thin; all
The mountains ragged make fancy within it.
See skywards the casted wild road of the waterfall
On the peak of the mountain, of my being that
Is a cornered condition, flashing
With silver dots
Rippling as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing
Upwards
The peak of the mountains
The skylines of the hills endless
And the vague dreams are fancying but alternated with the real ones.
There is a gray-haired man over the precipice and stone shoots,
Makes a walking tour with a Sophora japonica stick on the lonesome earth
And in the whistling autumn-wind to a grave surrounded by the low bushes
And wasted land of grasses,
He bends to memory dear: his wife with him in her eyes.
In the world as a qualified old solder
He is a tramp of the war to resist the U.S. and aid North Korea;
Now the veiled sun in vain on the air over
The gloomy grave—the circumstances make the one—where
He kneels down the front of it;
The bitter earth, glowing old earth, so cold touching his palms
And the tears on the cheeks streaming down mutely hot
Watering beneath
So long the dry grasses
Where are those fragments
Of Time while have hurriedly gone for the forty years?
Emotion-burning young blood-miles-long had flowed through their vein-valves;
And trod the never-cleared way across the war plain, how many soldiers
Disappeared in a split-second, without a trace?
But there is the promised dating again of the forty years—
The watching that forever is keeping
as cold are the stars of the night—for my day of returning
In the Shen-City we departed from since.
While whiten the grave-top snowdrops
And dust-stopped are the lips;
What the clouds could tell?
注释:
1、the ragged mountains:adj. 参差不齐的,凹凸不平的;粗糙刺耳的。
2、make fancy within it:幻象丛生。
3、skywards:adv. 向着天空,向天空地.
4、the casted wild road of the waterfall :瀑布抛出的一条荒野大道。
5、my being :我們人類。
6、a cornered condition:险境。
7、as a will-o'-the-wisp:发出捉摸不定的光芒。
注释:
1、the vague dreams are fancying but alternated with the real ones: 梦,似幻似真。
2、Sophora japonica stick: 古槐虬枝.
3、the precipice and stone shoots: 断崖石笋.
4、a grave surrounded by the low bushes and wasted land of grasses: 在矮树荒草的坟茔
5、to memory dear: his wife with him in her eyes: 珍惜的記憶:他的妻子他妻子眼裏的他自己。
注释:
1、a tramp: n. 流浪汉;游民,流浪汉;; vi. 步行;踩;踏;漂泊 vt; 践踏;踏实;
2、the war to resist the U.S. and aid North –Korea: 抗美援朝戰争。
3、the gloomy grave:潦草颓败的坟茔。
4、veiled sun: 遮着一层云彩的太陽。
5、in vain on the air:在虚空中徒劳。。。
6、bitter earth:苦土。
注释:
1、fragment: n. 碎片;片段,未完成的部分;(将文件内容)分段 vt. (使)碎裂,破裂,分裂 vi. 破碎,碎裂.
2、hurriedly: adv.;仓促地,匆忙地,草率地;匆猝.
3、the gloomy grave:潦草颓败的坟茔。
4、veiled sun: 遮着一层云彩的太陽。
5、in vain on the air:在虚空中徒劳。。。
6、since: adv, 以前。
7、the Shen-City:申城
8、(have had)whiten the grave-top snowdrops:雪片白了坟頭。
9、dust-stopped are the lips:尘土封住了嘴唇。
05、07、2019 (一稿)
