The Wasteland-5

The Wasteland (T.S. Eliot)

Part 5 WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
五、雷說的話

AFTER the torchlight red on sweaty faces
在汗濕的面孔被火把照亮後
After the frosty silence in the gardens
在花園經過寒霜的死寂後
After the agony in stony places
在岩石間的受難後
The shouting and the crying
還有吶喊和哭號
Prison and place and reverberation of thunder of spring over distant mountains
監獄、宮殿和春雷在遠山的回音振蕩以後
He who was living is now dead
那一度活著的如今死了
We who were living are now dying with a little patience
我們曾活過而今卻僅有一點耐心垂死著
Here is no water but only rock
這裡沒有水只有岩石
Rock and no water and the sandy road
有石而無水，只有砂路
The road winding above among the mountains
砂路迂回在山嶺中
Which are mountains of rock without water
那是石頭而完全沒有水的山嶺
If there were water we should stop and drink
要是有水我們會停下來啜飲
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
在岩石間怎能停下和思想
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
汗是干的，腳埋在沙子裡
If there were only water amongst the rock
要是岩石間有水多么好
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
死山的嘴長著蛀牙，吐不出水來
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
人在這裡不能站，不能躺，不能坐
There is not even silence in the mountains
這山間甚至沒有安靜
But dry sterile thunder without rain
只有干打的雷而沒有雨
There is not even solitude in the mountains
這山間甚至沒有閑適
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
只有怒得發紫的臉嘲笑和詈罵
From doors of mudcracked houses
從干裂的泥土房子的門口
If there were water
如果有水
And no rock
而沒有岩石
If there were rock
如果有岩石
And also water
也有水
And water
那水是
A spring
一條泉
A pool among the rock
岩石間的清潭
If there were the sound of water only
要是只有水的聲音
Not the cicada
而不是知了(蟬)
And dry grass singing
和枯草的歌唱
But sound of water over a rock
而是水流石上的清響
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
還有畫眉鳥在松林裡唱歌
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
淅瀝淅瀝瀝瀝瀝
But there is no water
可是沒有水
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
那總是在你身邊走的第三者是誰？
When I count, there are only you and I together
我數算時，只有你我兩個人
But when I look ahead up the white road
可是我沿著白色的路朝前看
There is always another one walking beside you
總看見有另一個人走在你的身旁
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
裹著棕色的斗篷蒙著頭巾走著
I do not know whether a man or a woman
我不知道那是男人還是女人
—But who is that on the other side of you?
──但在你身旁走的人是誰？
What is that sound high in the air
那高空中響著什么聲音
Murmur of maternal lamentation
好似慈母悲傷的低訴
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
那一群蒙面人是誰
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
涌過無邊的平原，跌進乾裂的土地
Ringed by the flat horizon only
四周只是平坦的地平線
What is the city over the mountains
那山中是什么城
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
破裂，修好，又在紫紅的空中崩毀
Falling towers
倒下的樓閣呵
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
耶路撒冷、雅典、亞歷山大、
Vienna London 375
維也納、倫敦
Unreal
呵，不真實的
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
一個女人拉直她的黑長的頭發髮
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
就在那絲弦上彈出低訴的樂音
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
蝙蝠帶著嬰兒臉在紫光裡
Whistled, and beat their wings
呼嘯著，拍著翅膀
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
頭朝下，爬一面變黑的牆
And upside down in air were towers
塔樓倒掛在半空中
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
敲著回憶的鐘，報告時刻
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
還有歌聲發自空水槽和枯井。
In this decayed hole among the mountains
在山上這個傾坍的洞裡
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing over the tumbled graves, about the chapel
在淡淡的月光下，在教堂附近的起伏的墓上，草在歌唱
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
那是空的教堂，只是風的家。
It has no windows, and the door swings,
它沒有窗戶，門在搖晃，
Dry bones can harm no one.
乾的骨頭傷害不了任何人。
Only a cock stood on the rooftree
只有一只公雞站在屋脊上
Co co rico co co rico
咯咯嘰咯，咯咯嘰咯
In a flash of lightning.
在電閃中叫。
Then a damp gust bringing rain
然後，隨著一陣濕風 帶來了雨。
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
恆河干涸，疲萎的葉子
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
等待下雨，烏黑的雲
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
在遠方集結，在喜馬萬山上。
The jungle crouched, humped in silence.
林莽蜷伏著，沉默地蜷伏著。
Then spoke the thunder
於是雷說話了
D A
噠
Datta: what have we given?
噠塔︰我們給予了什么？
My friend, blood shaking my heart
我的朋友，血激蕩著我的心
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
一剎那果決獻身的勇氣
Which an age of prudence can never retract
是一輩子的謹慎都贖不回的
By this, and this only, we have existed
我們靠這，僅僅靠這而活著
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
可是我們的訃告從不提它
Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider
它也不在善意的蜘蛛覆蓋的記憶裡
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
或在尖下巴律師打開的密封下
In our empty rooms
在我們的空室中
D A
噠
Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
噠亞德萬︰我聽見鑰匙
Turn in the door once and turn once only
在門上轉動一下，只轉動了一下

We think of the key, each in his prison
我們想到了鑰匙，每人在囚室裡，
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
想著鑰匙，每人認定一間牢房
Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours 415
只在黃昏時，靈界的謠傳
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
使失意的考瑞雷納斯有一刻甦醒
D A
噠
Damyata: The boat responded
噠密阿塔︰小船歡欣地響應
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar
那熟於使帆和搖槳的手
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded gaily, when invited,
海是平靜的，當受到邀請時, 你的心靈會歡欣地響應，
beating obedient to controlling hands
聽命於那控制的雙手
I sat upon the shore fishing,
我坐在岸上垂釣，
with the arid plain behind me
背後是一片枯乾的荒野，
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
是否我至少把我的園地整理好？
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
倫敦橋崩塌了崩塌了崩塌了
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
於是他把自己隱入煉獄的火中
Quando fiam ceu chelidon—O swallow swallow
何時我能象燕子──呵燕子，燕子
Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie
阿基坦王子在塌毀的樓閣中
These fragments I have shored against my ruins 430
為了支撐我的荒墟，我撿起這些碎片 　　
Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.
當然我要供給你。海若尼莫又瘋了。
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
噠嗒。噠亞德萬。噠密呵塔。
Shantih shantih shantih
善蒂，善蒂，善蒂。

The Wasteland-4

The Wasteland (T.S. Eliot)

Part 4 DEATH BY WATER
四、溺死

PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
扶裡巴斯，那腓尼基人，死了兩星期，
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell
他忘了海鷗的啼喚和深海裡的巨浪，
And the profit and loss.
以及利潤和損失。
A current under sea
海底的一股洋流
Picked his bones in whispers.
低語著啄他的骨頭。
As he rose and fell
就在一起一落之間
He passed the stages of his age and youth
他經歷了蒼老和青春的階段
Entering the whirlpool.
而進入旋渦。
Gentile or Jew
猶太或非猶太人呵，
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
你們轉動輪盤和觀望風向的，
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
想想他，也曾像你們一樣英俊而高大。

The Wasteland-3

The Wasteland (T.S. Eliot)

Part 3 THE FIRE SERMON
三、火的說教

THE river's tent is broken:
河上的帳蓬破了︰
the last fingers of leaf clutch and sink into the wet bank.
最後殘留的枝葉猶戀戀不去終於落進潮濕的河堤。
The wind crosses the brown land, unheard.
風吹過褐色的大地，沒有被人聽見。
The nymphs are departed.
河上的嬌娃美女已經離去。
Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
親愛的泰晤士河，輕柔地流吧，直到我唱完我的歌。
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
河上沒有空酒瓶，沒有三明治的廢紙片，
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
也沒有絲手絹，硬紙盒，香煙頭
Or other testimony of summer nights.
或者其他表明夏天夜晚的証據。
The nymphs are departed.
嬌娃美女都已離去。
And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors;
她們的朋友，城裡頭兒腦兒的逍遙的公子們，
Departed, have left no addresses.
也已離去，沒有留下地址。
By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept...
在萊蒙湖畔我坐下來低泣……
Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,
親愛的泰晤士河，輕柔地流吧，直到我唱完我的歌。
Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
親愛的泰晤士河，輕柔地流吧，因為我說得不大聲也不久。
But at my back in a cold blast I hear
但是在我身後，在一陣冷風中我聽見
The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.
屍骨的格格聲和吃吃的笑聲傳向四方。
A rat crept softly through the vegetation
一隻老鼠輕輕爬過草叢
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
拖著黏滑的肚子在河堤上行走
While I was fishing in the dull canal On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
而我在一個冬天的薄暮，離煤氣廠後面不遠 在那條滯緩的運河上釣魚
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
沉思我的兄王在海上的遇難

And on the king my father's death before him.
和在他之前我的父王的駕崩。
White bodies naked on the low damp ground
白色的屍體赤裸在低窪潮濕的地上，
And bones cast in a little low dry garret,
屍骨卻被扔在一座低矮而乾燥的小閣樓裡，
Rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year.
年復一年只是被老鼠踩得格格作響。
But at my back from time to time I hear
但是在我背後我不時聽見
The sound of horns and motors,
汽笛和馬達的聲音，
which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.
到春天它 就要把斯維尼帶給波特太太。
O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter and on her daughter
啊!　明月光皎皎 照耀著波特太太和她的女兒
They wash their feet in soda water
她們在蘇打水裡洗腳
Et, O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
Twit twit twit
唧 唧 唧
Jug jug jug jug jug jug
佳 佳 佳 佳 佳
So rudely forc'd.
那麼粗暴地強行非禮
Tereu
特魯
Unreal City
虛幻的城市
Under the brown fog of a winter noon
在一個冬天中午的褐色霧靄下
Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant
尤吉尼德斯先生，從斯密爾納來的商人
Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants
沒刮鬍子，帶著一滿袋無核葡萄乾
C.i.f. London: documents at sight,
CIF倫敦︰見票即付
Asked me in demotic French
他以通俗的法語邀請我
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
上炮台街旅館去共進午餐
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
隨後去梅特羅波爾消磨周末。
At the violet hour,
在暮靄漸濃的時刻，
when the eyes and back turn upward from the desk,
這時眼睛和背脊從辦公桌上抬起，
when the human engine waits like a taxi throbbing waiting,
這時人類的發動機像突突地震動著等待開動的計程車那樣等待著，
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
我，泰瑞西士，雖然雙目失明，跳動在兩個性別之間，
Old man with wrinkled female breasts,
長著皺巴巴女性乳房的老頭兒，
can see at the violet hour,
卻能看見在這暮靄漸濃的時刻，
the evening hour that strives homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
蹣跚歸去的黃昏正把海員從海上帶回家去，
The typist home at teatime,
打字員到喝茶時刻回了家，
clears her breakfast,
收拾早餐的杯碟，
lights her stove, and lays out food in tins.
點起爐子，擺出罐頭食品。
Out of the window perilously spread her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
她那險凜凜伸出窗外晒晾的連褲內衣正領受著夕陽最後余輝的愛撫，
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
長沙發上（夜裡便是她的臥床）
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
堆著她的襪子、拖鞋、背心和緊身胸內衣。
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
我，泰瑞西士，長著皺巴巴乳房的老頭
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest—
看到這番景象，就能預知其余──
I too awaited the expected guest.
我也在等候那位期待中的客人。
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
他，滿臉粉刺的年輕人來了，
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
小房地產經紀人的辦事員，一副大膽盯視的目光，
One of the low on whom assurance sits
那份自信擱在一個地位低微的人身上
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
就好像一個布雷德福的百萬富翁戴了頂大禮帽。
The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
現在時機對他有利，正如他所猜測的那樣，
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
晚飯已經吃過，她感到又無聊又疲倦，
Endeavours to engage her in caresses
鼓起勇氣上去跟她溫存一番
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
也許還不致受到責備，即使她並不希望這樣。
Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
亢奮地，下定決心他立即發動襲擊；
Exploring hands encounter no defence;
探索的雙手沒有遇到防衛；
His vanity requires no response,
他的虛榮原不要求對方回答
And makes a welcome of indifference.
卻招來一種滿不在乎的歡迎。
(And I Tiresias have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
（我，泰瑞西士早先已經歷過
在這同一張長沙發或床上演出的一切
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
我，曾在底比斯城下倚牆而坐
And walked among the lowest of the dead.）
也曾在最卑微的死者中間踽踽獨行。）
Bestows on final patronising kiss,
他親了最後一吻，
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit...
發現樓梯上沒有燈光，便暗中摸索著走了……
She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
她轉身往鏡子裡看了一會，
Hardly aware of her departed lover;
幾乎沒有意識到她已經離去的情人
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
她腦子裡只閃過一個沒有完全形成的念頭︰
'Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.'
“嗯，現在完事了︰真高興這事情已經結束。”
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
當淑女降尊屈從干了蠢事以後
Paces about her room again, alone,
重又在房間裡來回踱步，孤零零的，
She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
她習慣性地用手撫平頭髮，
And puts a record on the gramophone.
接著在唱機上放上一張唱片。
'This music crept by me upon the waters'
“這陣音樂從水面飄到我身邊”
And along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street.
經過斯特蘭德飄到維多利亞女王街。
O City city, I can sometimes hear
哦　城市　城市，我有時能聽見
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street,
在下泰晤士街一家酒吧附近
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
一只曼陀林動人的哀鳴聲
And a clatter and a chatter
還有笑鬧聲和喋喋不休的談話聲
from within where fishmen lounge at noon:
從漁夫們中午休憩的地方傳來，
where the walls of Magnus Martyr hold Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
那兒殉道者馬格納斯教堂的院牆一如既往閃耀著愛奧尼亞的純白和金色的神秘光芒。
The river sweats oil and tar
泰晤士河泛起油污和瀝青
The barges drift with the turning tide
河上畫舫隨著潮流變換而各自飄動
red sails wide
風吹漲了片片紅帆
To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
向著下風在沉重的桅檣上搖動。
The barges wash Drifting logs
畫舫激起波瀾沖擊漂流的圓木
Down Greenwich reach Past the Isle of Dogs.
漂過多格斯半島直瀉格林威治河灣。
Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
喂呵啦啦　咧呀
哇啦啦　咧呀啦啦
Elizabeth and Leicester beating oars
伊莉麗莎白和萊斯特划著漿
The stern was formed A gilded shell
船尾好似一只鍍金的貝殼
Red and gold
紅的和金黃的
The brisk swell rippled both shores
活潑的水浪泛到兩岸
Southwest wind carried down stream the peal of bells
西南風把鐘聲的清響朝下流吹送
White towers
白色的樓塔
Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
喂呵啦啦　咧呀
哇啦啦　咧呀啦啦
'Trams and dusty trees.
“電車和覆滿塵土的樹，
Highbury bore me.
海倍裡給我生命。
Richmond and Kew undid me.
瑞曲蒙和克尤把我毀掉。
By Richmond I raised my knees
在瑞曲蒙我抬起我的膝蓋
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.'
仰臥在狹窄的獨木舟上。”
'My feet are at Moorgate,
“我的腳在摩爾門，
and my heart under my feet.
我的心在我腳下。
After the event he wept.
在那件事後他哭了
He promised "a new start".
他發誓‘重新出發’。
I made no comment. What should I resent?'
我無話可說。這該怨什麼？
'On Margate Sands. 300
“在馬爾門的沙灘上。
I can connect
我能聯結起
Nothing with nothing.
虛空和虛空。
The broken fingernails of dirty hands.
呵，髒手上的破指甲。
My people humble people who expect nothing.'
我們這些卑賤的人無所期望。
la la
啦啦
To Carthage then I came
於是我來到迦太基
Burning burning burning burning
燒啊, 燒啊, 燒啊, 燒啊!
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
主呵，救我出來
O Lord Thou pluckest
主啊，救我 !
burning
燒啊!

The Wasteland-2

The Wasteland (T.S. Eliot)

Part 2 A GAME OF CHESS
二、 一局棋

THE Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
她坐的椅子，像金碧輝煌的寶座，
Glowed on the marble,
映照在大理石上熠熠生光，
where the glass held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
高擎明鏡的燈台石柱雕刻著果實累累的葡萄藤蔓
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out
一個金色的丘比特從藤蔓中偷偷望外張望
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
（另一個卻把眼睛藏在他的翅膀後面）
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion;
明鏡把七枝燈座吊燈的燭光反照得加倍明亮，
當她的珠寶從錦匣中射出
炫目的閃光與燈光相遇
桌面上便反射出一片霞光；
In vials of ivory and coloured glass
象牙的、彩色玻璃的小瓶
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
打開了瓶塞，裡面藏著她那些調製的奇異香水，
Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused
粉末的，或液體的軟膏──弄亂了, 搞混了
And drowned the sense in odours;
淹沒了在芳香氳氤中的感官；
stirred by the air That freshened from the window,
裊裊上升的香氣被窗外新鮮空氣拂動，
these ascended in fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
把燭光的延長的火焰扇的更旺，
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
煙霧竄進細工雕刻的凹形鑲板，
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
拂動著方格天花板上的圖案。
Huge sea-wood fed with copper
巨大的銅製的海洋樹林
Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,
煅燒成翠綠和桔紅色，鑲嵌著的彩色寶石，
In which sad light a carvèd dolphin swam.
一個鏤製的海豚在林間陰翳的光線下翻騰嬉水。
Above the antique mantel was displayed
在那古老的壁爐上方，
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
仿佛是一扇眺望林木蔥郁的窗子
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king so rudely forced;
掛著菲洛梅爾變形的圖畫，她被野蠻的國王那麼粗暴地強行非禮；
yet there the nightingale
但夜鶯曾在那兒
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
用她那不可褻瀆的歌聲充塞了整個荒漠
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
而她仍在啼叫，今天這世界仍繼續在啼叫，
'Jug Jug' to dirty ears.
向猥褻的耳朵叫著“佳佳”
And other withered stumps of time
還有往昔的軼事舊聞
Were told upon the walls;
展示在四周牆上；
staring forms leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
惹人注目的形體 身子或向前傾，或倚斜著，叫這四壁圍住的房間禁聲。
Footsteps shuffled on the stair.
樓梯上步履蹀躞。
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
火光下，髮刷下，她的長髮
Spread out in fiery points
散成點點火星
Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
化為語言，接著又將是一片死寂。
'My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. stay with me.
“今晚我心情很亂，是的，很亂。陪著我。
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
跟我說話。為什麼你總不說話。說呀。
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
你在想什麼？想什麼？是什么呀？
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.'
我從來不知道你在想什麼。想想看。”
I think we are in rats' alley
我想咱們是住在耗子的洞穴(長巷)裡，
Where the dead men lost their bones.
死人連自己的屍骨都丟失了。
'What is that noise?'
“那是什麼聲音？”
The wind under the door.
是門下面的風。
'What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?'
“現在又是什麼聲音？風在做什麼？”
Nothing again nothing.
沒有什麼，沒有什麼。 　
'Do you know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember nothing?'
你什麼都不知道？什麼都沒看見？什麼都不記得嗎？
I remember 　　　　　　
我記得
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
那些珍珠原是他的眼睛。
'Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?'
“你是活的還是死的？你腦子裡什么都沒有嗎？”
But
可是
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
哦哦哦哦這種莎士比亞式的“拉格”── 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
It's so elegant
多麼文雅
So intelligent
多麼聰明
'What shall I do now? What shall I do?'
“現在我該做些什麼事？我該做什麼呢？”
'I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
“我就這樣衝出去，走在大街上
'With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow?
“披頭散髮的，就這樣。我們明天又做什麼好呢？
'What shall we ever do?'
“我們到底要做什麼？”
The hot water at ten.
熱水十點鐘供應。
And if it rains, a closed car at four.
如果下雨，四點鐘來一輛轎式馬車。
And we shall play a game of chess,
然後我們就下一盤棋，
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
一面睜大著永遠醒著的眼睛等待那一下敲門聲。
When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said—
麗爾的丈夫從部隊復員的時候，我說──
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself,
我可不喜歡吞吞吐吐，我親口對她這麼說，
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
請快點兒，時間到啦
Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart.
如今阿爾伯特要回來啦，你把自己打扮得漂亮點兒。
He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
他準想知道你把他給你的錢 到底做了什麼。
To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there.
為你自己鑲一些牙吧, 他說，當時我在場。
You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set,
你把它們全拔了，麗爾，裝一副漂亮的，
He said, I swear, I can't bear to look at you.
他說，我發誓，我看到你就受不了。
And no more can't I, I said, and think of poor Albert,
我也不能再忍受下去了，我說，想想可憐的阿爾伯特，
He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time,
他在部隊裡待了四年，他想快快活活過日子，
And if you don't give it him, there's others will, I said.
要是你不讓他快活，自然有別人願意呢，我說。
Oh is there, she said. Something o' that, I said.
喔，有嗎，她說。差不多。我說。
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a straight look.
那我倒想知道該向誰表示感謝了，她說，瞪了我一眼。
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
請快點兒，時間到啦
If you don't like it you can get on with it, I said.
要是你不喜歡那樣，你不妨將就著那麼做嘛，我說。
Others can pick and choose if you can't.
別人可是能挑三揀四的，要是你做不到的話。
But if Albert makes off, it won't be for lack of telling.
可要是阿爾伯特跑掉了，那可不是因為沒人警告過你。
You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique.
你應該感到害臊，我說，你看上去多像個老古董。
(And her only thirty-one.)
（可她還只是三十一。）
I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face,
我沒法子，她說，拉長了臉，
It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said.
這都怪我吃的那些藥片，不想再有孩子啦，她說。
(She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.)
（她已經有了五個。生小喬治幾乎要了她的命。）
The chemist said it would be alright, but I've never been the same.
藥店老板說沒事兒，可我再也不似往常了。
You are a proper fool, I said.
你真是個十足的大傻瓜，我說。
Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
嗯，要是阿爾伯特不讓你安生，還會有孩子，我說，
What you get married for if you don't want children?
不想有孩子，那你為了什麼而結婚呢？
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
請快點兒，時間到啦
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
嗯，那個星期天阿爾伯特回了家，他們有了熱的煙火腿，
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot—
他們邀我去吃飯，趁熱品嘗一下煙火腿的美味──
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
請快點兒，時間到啦
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
請快點兒，時間到啦
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
晚安，比爾。晚安，露。晚安，梅。晚安。
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
再見。晚安, 晚安。
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
再見，太太們，再見，好太太們，再見，再見。

The Wasteland-1

The Wasteland (T.S. Eliot)
Part 1 THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
一、死者的葬禮
APRIL is the cruellest month,
四月是最殘忍的月份，
breeding Lilacs out of the dead land,
從死去的土地裡培育出丁香，
mixing memory and desire,
把回憶和欲望混合在一起，
stirring dull roots with spring rain.
用春雨 攪動遲鈍的根蒂。
Winter kept us warm,
冬天總使我們感到溫暖，把大地
covering earth in forgetful snow,
覆蓋在健忘的雪裡，
feeding a little life with dried tubers.
用乾燥的塊莖餵養一個短暫的生命。
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee with a shower of rain;
夏天卷帶著一場陣雨 掠過斯塔恩貝格湖，突然向我們襲來；
we stopped in the colonnade,
我們滯留在拱廊下，
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
接著我們在太陽下繼續前行， 走進霍夫加登，
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
喝咖啡閑聊了一個鐘頭。

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
我不是俄國人，原籍立陶宛，是純德國種。
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
那時我們還是孩子，待在大公的府邸，
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
我表哥的家裡，他帶我出去滑雪橇，
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
我嚇壞啦。他說，瑪麗，
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
瑪麗，用力抓緊。於是我們就往下滑去。
In the mountains, there you feel free.
在山裡，在那兒你感到自由自在。
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
夜晚我多半是看書，到冬天我就上南方去。
What are the roots that clutch,
這些盤曲虯結的是什麼根，
what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?
從這堆堅硬如石的垃圾裡長出的是什麼枝條？
Son of man, you cannot say, or guess,
人之子，你說不出，也猜不透，
for you know only a heap of broken images,
因為你只知道 一堆破爛的形像，
where the sun beats,
這裡烈日曝晒，
And the dead tree gives no shelter,
死去的樹不能給你庇護，
the cricket no relief,
蟋蟀不能使你寬慰，
And the dry stone no sound of water.
而乾燥的石頭也不能給你一滴水的聲音。
Only there is shadow under this red rock,
只有這塊紅岩下的陰影，
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
（走進紅岩下的陰影下面來吧，）
And I will show you something different from either
我就會給你展示一樣東西既不同於
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
早晨在你背後大步移動的影子
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
也不同於黃昏時分升起迎接你的影子；
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
我會給你展示一把塵土中的恐懼。
Frisch Weht der Wind 風兒吹得清爽，
Der Heimat Zu
吹向我的家鄉，
Mein Irisch Kind,
我的愛爾蘭孩子，
Wo weilest de?

如今你在何方？
'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
“一年前你最先給我風信子；
'They called me the hyacinth girl.
' 他們叫我風信子姑娘。”
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
─可是等咱們從風信子花園回家，時間已晚，
Your arms full, and your hair wet,
你雙臂滿抱，你的頭發都濕了，
I could not speak,
我一句話都說不出來，
and my eyes failed,
眼睛也看不清了，
I was neither living nor dead,
我既不是活的也不是死的，
and I knew nothing, 我什麼都不知道，
looking into the heart of light, the silence.
茫然諦視那光芒的心，一片寂靜。
Oed' und leer das Meer.
荒涼而空虛是那大海。
Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
索梭斯特裡斯太太，著名的千裡眼，
Had a bad cold, nevertheless is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, 患了重感冒，可她仍然是人所熟知的歐洲最聰明的女人，
With a wicked pack of cards.
她有一副邪惡的紙牌。
Here, said she, is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor,
你瞧，她說， 這張是你的牌，淹死的腓尼基水手，
(Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)
（那兩顆珍珠就是他的眼睛。你瞧﹗）
Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,
這是Belladonna，岩石聖母，
The lady of situations.
善於應變的夫人。
Here is the man with three staves,
這張是擁有三根權杖的男人，
and here the Wheel,
這是輪子，
And here is the one-eyed merchant,
而這是獨眼商人，
and this card, which is blank,
這張牌盡管是空白的，
is something he carries on his back,
是他背上扛著的東西，
Which I am forbidden to see.
卻不準我看那到底是什么。
I do not find the Hanged Man.
我沒有去找那個被吊死的人，
Fear death by water.
害怕被水淹死。
I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring.
我看見簇擁的人群圍成一個圓圈走。
Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone,
謝謝你。假若你見到親愛的埃奎爾太太，
Tell her I bring the horoscope myself:
請告訴她我要親自把占星圖給她送去︰
One must be so careful these days.
這陣子要非常小心。
Unreal City,
虛幻的城市，
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
在冬天早晨的棕色濃霧下，
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
人群流過倫敦橋，那麼多人，
I had not thought death had undone so many.
我沒想到死神竟召回了那麼多人。
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
偶爾發出短促的嘆息，
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
每個人的眼睛都盯著自己的腳尖。
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
他們湧上山岡，沖下威廉王大街，
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
那兒聖瑪麗‧沃爾諾斯教堂的大鐘
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
沉重的鐘聲正敲著九點的最後一響。
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying 'Stetson!
我看見一個熟人，我叫住他︰“斯特森﹗
'You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
你不就是在梅利和我一起在艦隊裡的嗎﹗
'That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
去年你栽在你花園裡的那具屍體，
'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
開始發芽了沒有？今年會開花嗎？
'Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
要不就是突然來臨的霜凍驚擾了它的苗床？
'Oh keep the dog far hence, that's friend to men,
啊，要讓狗離那兒遠遠的，狗愛跟人親近，
'Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!
不然它會用爪子把屍體又刨出來﹗
'You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!'
你﹗偽善的讀者﹗─我的同類─我的兄弟﹗”