哈代: 《身后》
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哈代: 《身后》
Afterwards
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay1
And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings
Delicate-filmed 2 as new-spun silk, will the neighbors say,
“He was a man who used to notice such things?”
If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid’s soundless blink,
The dewfall-hawk3 comes crossing the shades to alight
Upon the wind-warped4 upland thorn, a gazer may think
“To him this must have been a familiar sight.”
If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm5,
When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn
One may say,“He strove that such innocent creatures should come to no harm,6
But he could do little for them; and now he is gone.”
If, when hearing that I have been stilled7 at last, they stand at the door
Watching the full-starred heavens that winter sees,
Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more,
“He was one who had an eye for such mysteries”?
And will any say when my bell of quittance8 is heard in the gloom,
And a crossing breeze cuts pause in its outrollings,9
Till they rise again, as they were10 a new bell’s boom,
“He hears it not now, but used to notice such things?”
身
托马斯 哈代(1840-1928) 当‘今世’之门在我颤抖人生之后关闭,
五月拍打着它那绿叶般的欢快羽翼,
纤柔飘渺如新织丝绸,邻居是否会说,
“他这个人过去总是留心这些东西”?
若在黄昏露降时候,像眼皮一眨那样,
苍鹰无声地掠过阴影,降落在高地
被风吹斜了的荆棘上,凝望者或许会想,
“他对这一切景像一定都很熟悉。”
我若在某个温暖的黑夜过逝,虫蛾飞舞,
刺猬偷偷摸摸穿过草地,有人可能论议,
“他曾经努力保护过这些无辜的小动物,
但是他也无能为力,如今他已离世。”
假如听说我终于安息,人们站在门口,
仰望冬夜布满星斗的天空,是否这种思想
会出现在那些再也见不到我的人们心头?——
“他这个人过去特别关注这些神秘的现像”
当人们在阴郁中听见我辞世的钟声,
一阵微风吹过,轰鸣的钟声遽然中止,
继而又响起像新的钟鸣,那时是否有人会说,一
“他现在听不到了,但过去他总会注意。”
[转贴自《英语鼎诗选译》 何功杰 译注 苏州大学出版社 2011年4月]
1 Present: 拟人化说法,即“今世”。 postern: 边门, 后门。 Tremulous stay: 在战战兢兢中度过。
2 Delicate-filmed: having fine, slender films,如薄膜一般柔软的。
3 Dewfall-hawk: hawk that begins its activities after dewfall夜晚降露时开始活动的鹰。
4 Wind-warped: bent, contorted or twisted out of shape by the wind被风吹歪的。
5 nocturnal blackness: 夜晚的黑暗中。mothy: when moths are active.飞蛾活跃之时。
6 他曾经为保护动物使他们免受损害而努力过。
7 Stilled: quieted,calmed,指安息。
8 quittance: quitting,leaving,离开。 Bell of quittance 辞世(谢世)钟声。
9 outrollings: 此处指the spreading of the sound waves 声波传播开来。
10 as they were: as if they were.