双语美文《别丢掉》林徽因!许渊冲译,膜拜经典!
Don’t cast away
This handful passion of the bygone day,
Which flows like running water soft and light
Beneath the cool and tranquil fountain,
At dead of night,
In pine-clad mountain,
As vague as sighs, but you
Should e’er be true.
别丢掉
这一把过往的热情,
现在流水似的,
轻轻
在幽冷的山泉底,
在黑夜,在松林,
叹息似的渺茫,
你仍要保存着那真!
The moon is still so bright;
Beyond the hills the lamp sheds the same light.
The sky be sprinkled with star on star,
But I do not know where you are.
It seems
You hang above like dreams.
You ask the dark night to give back your word,
But its echo is heard
And buried though unseen
Deep, deep in the ravine.
一样是月明,
一样是隔山灯火,
满天的星
只使人不见,
梦似的挂起,
你向黑夜要回
那一句话——你仍得相信
山谷中留着
有那回音!
Do not throw away
That scoop of passion from the past.
Even though passion flows softly like water
At the bottom of a cool mountain spring
In a pine grove on a dark night
And sighs an elusive sigh,
You must still preserve that truth.
The moon is still bright;
The lights below the hills are still on;
The sky is still full of stars
Hanging like dreams.
You ask the night for
Those words back - you must still believe
Their echoes
In the valley.
(Michelle Yeh 译)
这首诗是许渊冲最早期的作品。在董卿采访许渊冲时,他说到当时在西南联大时,有个叫周颜玉的漂亮姑娘。许渊冲和她邻桌。1939年7月12日,他将林徽因的《别丢掉》、徐志摩的《偶然》两首译诗及一封英文信投进了女生宿舍信箱。但无奈周颜玉已经订婚,他只能作罢。50年后,当许渊冲获得国际大奖的消息传出后,这位远在台湾的女同学寄来了信。
许渊冲,生于江西南昌。从事文学翻译长达六十余年,译作涵盖中、英、法等语种,翻译集中在中国古诗英译,形成韵体译诗的方法与理论,被誉为“诗译英法唯一人” ,北京大学教授,翻译家。在国内外出版中、英、法文著译六十本,包括《诗经》、《楚辞》、《李白诗选》、《西厢记》、《红与黑》、《包法利夫人》、《追忆似水年华》等中外名著。
2014年8月2日许渊冲荣获国际翻译界最高奖项之一的“北极光”杰出文学翻译奖 ,系首位获此殊荣亚洲翻译家。
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