Walt Whitman - Beginners 汉译

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How dear and dreadful they are to the earth,

How they inure to themselves as much as to any - what a paradox appears their age,

How people respond to them, yet know them not,

How there is something relentless in their fate all times,

How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward,

And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.

1860

初学者

他们是怎样受大地供养的，（每隔一段时间才出现，）

他们对大地说来又是怎样可亲可畏，

他们又怎样适应了自己如同适应其他——他们的时代又显得何等自相矛盾，

人们是这样对他们作出反应的，然而又并不理解他们，

他们的命运又怎样每时每刻都显得令酷无情，

每时每刻又怎样错选了崇敬和奖励的对象，

又怎样为了取得伟大的收获必须付出同样无情的代价。