悉尼诗人 西贝
红蜘蛛
一只透明的红蜘蛛/ 在水晶瓶里/ 象一颗遗落的红珠/它一动不动/ 蜇伏在瓶底/红色 潜藏某种玄机
当你把瓶翻转/ 并对它说 回到花园里吧/ 它便悬在空中 然后/ 顺着一根丝回到瓶底
那是一根纤细的银丝/ 一次又一次地重复/ 终于 使你不忍再去劝说
甚至使你相信/ 那透明的红魂/带着某种宿命的痛苦/ 固执留守水晶的坟墓
Red spider
In a crystal jar there is a transparent- red spider
Who lies idle at its bottom, on to which her other end of sticky-thread
Has stretched out gluing her
Yet like a lost-pearl with red-dot on it might have held
On the sly some sort of abstruse code. A voice says eagerly to her:
Please release yourself to the garden while the jar overturned
The moment she’d rather shrink the thread up to her shelter
Yet to a new-top now the bottom of the jar in her world
As a restless spirit of a red -pearl floating in air
Seemingly once and again, the self-confinement obstinately she coded on the tiny silver-dream thread she is easily in air
Then never less alone than when alone indeed
Finally the scene makes you stop disturbing her!
Convince in a faraway sense, as a prison of hobbyist
In some sort of fate-sorrow ever-growing the red spider
Being focus of a still-life inside the open-jar
But well-guarded by her own fancy-wise crystal castle
interpretation section 注释条款
1、jar : (圆柱形、大口的)罐子，坛子，瓶子。
2、transparent ：透明的，可为(X光等)透射的；
3、lie：vi; 〔常带述语〕(静止不动地)呆着; lie idle: v. 被搁置不用;不活动。
4、bottom : n; 底部。
5、thread: n; 细丝。Silk thread: 蜘蛛吐的丝；dry thread: 干丝；sticky thread: 粘性丝； 桥丝： bridge thread: 桥丝. other end of sticky-thread: 蜘蛛丝的另一端。
6、stretch out: 延伸；绵延；伸直.
7、glue: vt. 胶合；紧附于 n. 胶水；胶粘物；粘聚力； stretch out gluing on…: 伸直出去粘住了....
【英语语法笔记】动名词是一个动词性的名词，它具有名词绝大多数的特征，也具有动词的特征, 但在动词的各种形态中，只有-ing动名词能作介词宾语。-ing 动名词几乎可以用于所有的“短语动词”的后面。例句：(a) I'll go craze if I think about losing him now.
（b) His obstinate pride kept him from admitting his love for fear of a rebuff.
(c)、the voice of a man facing himself and his world without feeling, without flinching, without hope.
8、In a crystal jar there is a red -transparent spider who lies idle in its bottom, on to which her other end-thread stretches out gluing her . 这两行诗里， 包含一个who 引导的限制性定语从句，修饰前面的名词介词宾语。还有一个which 引导的非限制性定语从句，which 说明前面的名词bottom；
【英语语法笔记】两个动词所表示的动作合成一个,有连续性以及同一逻辑主语。这一句译诗中的 stretches out gluing her on… 就是两个动作合成一个:伸直出去把她粘住在玻璃瓶底.glue on: 用黏性物质将（某物）粘上.例句： (a)he came in running; (b): … and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a windmill.
9、abstruse code ：难解的密码。
10、on the sly： adv;偷偷地、暗地里。Yet like a lost-pearl with red-dot on
it as some sort of abstruse code on the sly being held :象一颗遗落的红珠，红色 潜藏某种玄机
11、the moment : 那时，此刻；一…就….； Please release yourself to the garden while the jar overturned the moment she’d rather shrink the thread up to her shelter： the moment 引导的从句可以看成while 从句的同位语。
12、a new-top：意指杯子一翻转，底部便成了天花板。
the bottom of the jar in her world是a new-top 的同位语。
13、 restless spirit ：不安的灵魂。
14、once and again：一而再，屡次。
15、self-confinement ：自我囚禁。
16、obstinately: adv; 固执地。
17、tiny silver-dream thread：一根纤细的梦幻银丝 。
18、shi is then never less alone than when alone：虽然她孤单，从不感到孤独。
19、Finally the scene makes you stop disturbing her: 终于使你不忍再去劝说
【英语语法笔记】这些动词后面可以跟-ing 动名词或不定式，取决于该单词的词本意以及所要求表达的意思： begin/cease/dread/hate/learn/love/prefer/regret/intent/like/can't bear/continue/forget/omit/remember/neglect/try/stop/need/start等。例句：(a)All voices going around, like bees swarming moving in one but each single too.
20、convince: vt; vt. 使相信，说服，使承认；使明白；使确信；
21、 in a sense : 在某种意义上，在一定程度 上；；in a faraway sense：在某种罕见、非寻常的意义上，
22、 hobbyist ：n. 沉溺于癖好者，嗜好成癖的人。
23、sort of fate-sorrow ever-growing ：某种宿命的持久痛苦
24、focus of a still-life：静物的焦点。
25、fancy-wise：奇特智慧的。
26、well-guarded：仔细呵护着的。
27、crystal castle: 透明的城堡。
（待续）
