徐慧·《古栈道》英译

是寻找梦中丢失的羊群？

是追求峡谷外面

那朵绯红的云？

我的倔强的祖先呵，

你用淌血的手凿出这条小道

——万张绝壁的腰上

         一条缥缈的细神。

哎，夔门内有的是沃土，

缀满白花的野蔷薇枝条，

勾住了你的衣襟；

山泉低吟：

停下吧，停下吧，

不要前行……

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呵，大自然撒出的种子

哪一块土地不能生根？

你却让一个深蓝色的希望

沿着这艰险的道路爬行，

——是对陌生世界

朦朦胧胧的憧憬呵，

不是为了生存。

 

The Ancient Passageway

Xu Hui

 

Was it to find lost sheep in a dream

Or to seek that crimson cloud

Beyond the ravine

Where my indomitable forefathers

Chiseled out this passage with their bloody hands—

Half way up the steep cliff of a thousand feet

A slender rope afloat in mid-air?

Ah, within the Kui Gate the soil is rich.

Wild roses blooming white on the boughs

Tug at your sleeves,

The hill stream whispers:

O stop, please stop,

Don’t go forward…

 

Seeds scattered by nature

Take root on every piece of soil,

But you have le a deep blue hope

Make its steep climb along this perilous passage,

—to the strange world

Ah, these vague longings are

Not merely for surviving.