拉金：那些树

那些树


The Trees
那些树

原作：菲利浦·拉金

张祈 译
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The trees are coming into leaf
那些树正长出叶子，
Like something almost being said;
象某些事物几乎存于语言；
The recent buds relax and spread,
那些新芽轻松地伸展，
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
它们的绿色里有一点悲戚。
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Is it that they are born again
它们是否再次生存
And we grow old? No, they die too,
而我们正在变老？不，它们也在死，
Their yearly trick of looking new
一年一度，它们看起来新鲜的诡计
Is written down in rings of grain.
已经写进那树干的年轮。
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Yet still the unresting castles thresh
然而每个五月，那不安的城堡
In fullgrown thickness every May.
依然在成熟的粘稠里翻滚。
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
去岁已逝，它们好象在说，
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
重新开始，重新，重新。