【读诗赏译】 席慕容《青春》及3个英译本
何为青春?美国诗人Samuel Ullman的著名散文诗“Youth”的开头句子如此定义:'Youth is not a time of life;/ it is a state of mind.'。对于他,青春并非岁月刻在脸上的印迹,而是一种超越肉体而追求精神心态平和的心境。
追怀青春,人之常情。已有诸多相关作品,然席慕蓉却独辟蹊径,在此诗中以书作为喻依,描述青春如书般值得珍藏、珍惜,可她也意识到岁月易逝,书本亦会发黄,青春也将不在,留下的却是无限的追忆和依恋。此次选取的三个英译本,译者为英国威尔士班戈大学英语文学院许景城博士、以及两位佚名译者(读者如知译者名字,望在留言处告知,今后会更正并重新推送)。河北卫视双语主播李强朗诵许景城英文译本,新闻主播王益豪朗诵汉语原文,录音师张晖进行音频编辑。特此感谢。
(英文朗诵:李强 中文朗诵:王益豪 音频编辑:张晖)
青春
席慕容 作所有的结局都已写好
所有的泪水也都已启程
却忽然忘了是怎样的一个开始
在那个古老的不再回来的夏日
无论我如何地去追索
年轻的你只如云影掠过
而你微笑的面容极浅极淡
逐渐隐没在日落后的群岚
遂翻开那发黄的扉页
命运将它装订得极为拙劣
含著泪我一读再读
却不得不承认
青春是一本太仓促的书
All finales have been determined
All tears have for the journey departed
Yet I forgot how you, my Youth started
In the old summer never to return
However hard I try to quest
You, my Youth just flits away like a cloud shadow
Your smiling countenance is so pale, so shallow
Vanishing into the mountains after sunset
Turning slowly the yellowed title page
Stapled deadly clumsy by fate
With tears reading again and again
I have to admit
Youth is a fleeting book
翻译时间:2013-12-8
于班戈大学英语文学院
All finale has been written out
All tears have set forward
But I forgot suddenly how it began
In that old summer that never comes back again
No matter how I go for searching
You only pass by at a young age like a cloud shadow
A smiling face super pale and shallow
After sunset gradually faded behind a host of hills
Then to the yellow fly page I turn
Fate binds it up, utmost clumsy
Tears in my eyes,I read again and again
Having to admit that
youth is a book so hastily written
选自:《译世界》公众号,http://www.yeeworld.com/article/info/aid/4710.html
Each of the endings had been written
All the tears been already on the way
But how did it begin we’d forgotten
On that old unrepeatable summer’s day
No matter how I used to follow trace
Thee young, in the flashy floating clouds lost
A softest and faintest smile on thou face
Which day by day disappeared amidst
From hill to hill after the sun’s falling
Then the yellowish title page unfolded
Fortune made it with awfully binding
With tears again and again had I read
Being unwilling to admit the truth
All is rush written in the book of youth
选自:百度百科,词条‘青春(席慕蓉创作诗歌)’。http://baike.baidu.com/subview/5699/8737714.htm
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