商禽·《长颈鹿》英译

那个年轻的狱卒发觉囚犯们每次体格检查时长的逐月增加都是在脖子之后

他报告典狱长说：“长官，窗子太高了！”

而他得到的回答却是：“不，他们瞻望岁月。”

仁慈的青年狱卒，不识岁月的容颜，不知岁月的籍贯，不明岁月的行踪；

乃夜夜往动物园中，到长颈鹿栏下，去逡巡，去守候。

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Giraffe

Shang Qin

After the young prison guard noticed that at the monthly physical check-up all the height increases of the prisoners took place in the neck, he reported to the warden: “Sir, the windows are too high!” But the reply he received was: “No, they look up at Time.”

The kindhearted young guard didn’t know what Time looks like, nor its origin and whereabouts, so night after night he patrolled the zoo hesitantly and waited outside the giraffe pen.