唐祈·《老妓女》英译

夜，在阴险地笑，

有比白昼更惨白的

都市浮肿的跳跃，叫嚣……

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> 

夜使你盲目，太多欢乐的窗

和屋，你走入闹市中央，

走进更大的孤独。

听，淫欲喧哗地从身上

践踏：你——肉体的挥霍者啊，罪恶的

黑夜，你笑得象一朵罂粟花。

无端的笑，无端的痛哭，

生命在生活前匍匐，残酷的

买卖，竟分成两种饥渴的世界。

最后，抛你在市场以外，唉，那个

衰斜的塔顶，一个老女人的象征

深凹的窗：你绝望了的眼睛。

你塌陷的鼻孔腐烂城一个洞，

却暴露了更多别人荒淫的语言，

不幸的名字啊，你比他们庄严。

An Old Prostitute

Tang Qi

The night, is sneering viciously;

The jumping of bloated cities

Is whiter than the white day, clamouring…

The night blinds you; too many joyful windows

And houses; you enter into the center of downtown,

And enter into greater loneliness.

Hark, the lust overrides blatantly on the

Body: you — waster of carnal body, the villainous

Night, you are smiling like a poppy flower.

To smile for no reason, to cry for no reason;

Life lies prostrate before subsistence; cruel

Business, is divided into two hungry and thirsty worlds.

In the end, you are thrown out of the market; alas, the

Declining tower top, symbol of an old woman

A deep-sunken window: your eyes of despair.

Your caved-in nostril is decomposed into a cave,

But more incontinent words by other people are revealed.

Ill-fated name, O, you are more sublime than them.