Christina Rossetti（克里斯蒂娜·罗塞蒂,1830－1894）是英国诗人，写了题材和体裁多样的浪漫的、虔诚的以及写给儿童的诗歌。给她带来盛名的作品有长诗Goblin Market，情诗Remember, 以及圣诞歌In the Bleak Midwinter中的歌词。

Remember这首诗描写一位女子临终前对所爱的人说的话，她本要爱人记住她，但意识到这样可能会给爱人带来痛苦和悲伤，所以她情愿爱人忘记她以幸福地生活。

一、原诗与译稿  

* 阅读这首诗的时候，记住女诗人是因患癌症辞世的，或许有助于更深刻的理解和领会。

二、原诗词汇与句型难点解析以及翻译理据

1、  hold作及物动词，可以解释为To keep from departing or getting away: Hold the bus!（别让车子动！） 而Hold sb. by the neck的意思就是“按着某人的脖子不让他动弹”。据此，第三行的…hold me by the hand解释为：拉着我的手不让我离开，与“hold my hand”有区别，后者仅仅表示“握着我的手”而已。

2、  "And afterwards remember, do not grieve:"这行用冒号结尾，意味着后面几行是给出的原因。在" For if ...once I had," 这两行中，For提示原因，if引导的从句省略了should，即："if the darkness and corruption (should) leave a vestige of the thoughts that once I had," 。

3、  最后两行"Better…you should forget ...Than that you should remember..." 是对前一行"A vestige of the thoughts" 的说明，即if the darkness and corruption should leave a vestige of the thoughts that once I had, it (the vestige which should be left) would be that (it would be much better that) you should forget me and smile (than that you should remember and be sad).

4、  the darkness and corruption这个短语仅仅用了一个定冠词，所表达的意思与the darkness and the corruption不同。试比较：the husband and wife与the husband and the wife。

5、  by far（与 far and away相同）意为to a great degree。 例句：She is by far the shortest student in the class. She is greater by far than anyone playing today. He is far and away the greatest tennis player I've ever seen.

三、其他译者译文选录

在互联网上通过百度搜索“想念”、“思忆”加上作者名，可以找到好几个译文版本。值得关注的有“猎人的诗情画意(独一无二诗歌翻译专门博客/频繁更新全部原创）”发表的题为《记住》的一篇译文。http://blog.tianya.cn/blogger/post_show.asp?BlogID=880201&PostID=21562658&idWriter=0&Key=0

谨提供 百度空间的一首译文。题为《想念》：

请想念我吧，当我已经不在－－

不在这里，在远方，寂静的田园；

当你已不能握住了我的手腕，

握住了我的手，我欲去又徘徊。

请想念我吧，当你已不能天天

为我描述我俩的未来的圆梦，

光是想念我吧；再相随相从，

在一起祷告，谈心，已经太晚。

但要是你把我忘怀了片刻，

又重新想起；请也不必叹息，

如果原先属于我的思忆，

被黑暗和腐蚀留下一丝痕迹－－

那么，宁愿你忘怀了而欢笑，
不要，不要你记住了而哀悼。

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四、关于原诗及其作者

如何理解这首诗，有人提出过这样的问题：What does Remember by Christina Rossetti mean?

得到了如下被认为最好的回答（Best Answer）：

The poem "Remember" was written by Christina Rossetti--- an English poet. It is a sonnet with 14 lines and has a rhyme scheme of a b b a a b b a and c d d e c e. "Remember" is about a woman (the narrator) who knows her death is imminent. It gives the reader visual images of someone speaking to their loved ones on their death bed. During the first eight lines she expresses her longing to always be remembered. In the last six lines, the narrator completely changes her mind because she realises that remembering her may cause the person she loves (the person she is addressing in this poem) grief. As a result, she decides that she would rather be forgotten so he can be happy.

In the first line the poet begins with the words "Remember me when I am gone away", showing her desire to never be forgotten. The idea of separation is also introduced. The pain of her separating from her loved one is stressed when she tells him that he will not be able to "hold [her] by the hand" or even experience the "future that [he] plann'd" for them. Furthermore, from the fourth line---"Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay", one can tell that the narrator is uncertain whether she loves this person or not.

Later on in the poem the narrator finally realises that if he remembers her then he might "remember and be sad". Although she wants to be remembered, she does not want him to grieve. She decides that it would be "better by far" that he should "forget and smile"---be happy without memories of her---rather than "remember and be sad". This poem is particularly memorable because it is about a woman that is selfless enough to advice her family to smile instead of grieving from her memories.

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