53 | 寄往紐約的信 - Letter to NY

Hi everyone, welcome to the Leisure Park.

Today I want to share with you a poem ‘letter to N.Y.’, written by Elizabeth Bishop.

Letter to N.Y.

For Louise Crane

In your next letter I wish you'd say

我希望你在下一封信里說說

where you are going and what you are doing;

你想去的地方你要做的事情

how are the plays, and after the plays

那些戲怎么樣，散場以后

what other pleasures you're pursuing:

你還有哪些別的娛樂？

taking cabs in the middle of the night,

在午夜時分搭乘出租車

driving as if to save your soul

匆忙的像是要拯救自己的靈魂

where the road goes round and round the park

那里道路不斷圍繞公園

and the meter glares like a moral owl,

計費器瞪著眼睛如垂死的貓頭鷹

and the trees look so queer and green

樹木顯得異常的古怪和綠

standing alone in big black caves

孤單地站在又大又黑的洞穴前

and suddenly you're in a different place

突然，你置身于另一個地方

where everything seems to happen in waves,

那里事件像波浪一樣接連發(fā)生

and most of the jokes you just can't catch,

大多數(shù)玩笑你弄不明白

like dirty words rubbed off a slate,

像石板上擦掉的幾句臟話

and the songs are loud but somehow dim

歌聲嘹亮可多少有點朦朧

and it gets so terribly late,

天色已經(jīng)黑得不能再黑了

and coming out of the brownstone house

從棕色的石頭屋子里出來

to the gray sidewalk, the watered street,

你到了灰白灑了水的人行道上

one side of the buildings rises with the sun

建筑物的一側(cè)太陽會升起

like a glistening field of wheat.

像一片搖擺不停的小麥田

—Wheat, not oats, dear. I'm afraid

親愛的，是小麥不是燕麥。我猜

if it's wheat it's none of your sowing,

這些小麥的種子不是你撒播的

nevertheless I'd like to know

無論如何我都渴望了解

what you are doing and where you are going.

你想做的事情你要去的地方

今天的節(jié)目就到這里啦。歡迎訂閱Leisure Park閑時公園。下期節(jié)目我們將一起欣賞電影《小婦人》的中經(jīng)典語錄。See you next time.