Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
译文:
天真的预示
(英)威廉 布莱克
一粒沙里看出一个世界,
一朵花里藏着一个天堂,
把无限放在你的手上,
永恒在刹那间收藏。
需要补充一点,若是以我们常用的划分时代的方法,那么,布莱克(1757-1827)已经是近代诗人了。但是英语世界有它的特殊性,因为英语崛起得比较晚,作为英国诗歌之父的乔叟(约1343~1400)已经是十四世纪的人了,所以,如果要简单的古诗的话,怕是不太好找。
泰戈尔呢,是十九世纪末二十世纪初的人,恐怕又太近了。
1: GROUND WATERDo you know much of our fresh water comes from underground?And this is where many mysterious springs(1) may be found.You see, some parts of the ground are permeable and some not,Because of the impermeable parts, much fresh water have we got.Permeable means water can go through it and impermeable means it cannot.The impermeable ground layer will stop the water, collecting it like a pot.We can sink a well because of underground water,Life's liquid we have when other sources falter.Where does this fresh water come from?Well, for starters, you may thank the sun.That's right! The sun evaporates water from oceans and lakes and clouds form.The fresh water is then dropped back down to earth allowing new life to be born.But also realize not all water is used by us or evaporates,Or runs back to the nearest ocean or nearby lake.But over millions of years, in the ground does much of it soak,Which is mighty good news for us and other kindly folk.Because often we can find fresh water far away from a stream,And when we do, the wonder of it can often make us beam.Simply from the permeability or impermeability of sediment and rock,We find the liquid of life, this secret we do unlock.2: WATER CYCLEThe amount of water on earth always remains the same,And water will often gravitate from whence it originally came.It all starts with evaporation from our oceans and lakes,And this process, does for us, much fresh water make.Fortunately, salt is a solid and does not evaporate.It is this important fact that very much rests our fate.For animals, plants and humans can't drink water with salt.If we did, it would soon bring life to a screeching halt.Now as this water evaporates, it vaporizes into clouds,Which at times produces thunder, known to be quite loud.These clouds have tons of water, yet they float in the air,Releasing their water over oceans and land, seemingly without a care.The water is in tiny droplet form and the cloud is very very large,So the average density is less than the air, floating like a giant barge.The fresh water nourishes the land, making it green,Changing it in ways both invisible and seen.And plants, using photosynthesis(2), get the water they need,Growing the farmer's crops in which we readily feed.Plant's excess water evaporates back to the air through transpiration(3),Similar to how your body cools itself through evaporating perspiration.This water vapor doesn't disappear but will be used many times more,Perhaps from that pitcher in the fridge from whence you a cold drink pour.If water did not from one state to another, readily pass,Perhaps the earth would be like Jupiter, another big ball of gas.3: WATER WONDERDo you know that, without water, they'd be no life?So usable fresh water should never be considered rife. Less than one percent of all water is available to drink,So next time you use water, make sure you carefully think,How rare this magical fluid is in usable liquid state,How everything depends on it, yes even our own fate.The atoms of water have an electrical bond(4),Which form the molecules of H2O you can see in a pond.Water can exist as a solid, liquid or gas,And, from one state to another, does water often pass.The star of all this is the energy of the sun,Changing the state of water by the kiloton.Forming mighty glaciers and vaporous clouds,Often working in silence but other times quite loud.Raining and snowing fresh water seemingly for us,Nourishing our bodies but also forming rust.In the universe, liquid water is extremely rare,Always use water with respect and utmost care.Do you know water will eventually dissolve everything(5)?Often forming beautiful landscapes in ways to make us sing.The earth has a fixed amount of water that circulates around.Sometimes you can hear it; sit quietly and don't make a sound. 4: WETLANDSThe drainage area of a river system is called its watershed,While erosion and deposition change the land in ways seen and unsaid.Ponds and lakes form within the depressions in the land,Where sunlight hits, there will be many plants instead of sand.Convection forces circulate the water in the lakes,While refreshing the water of nutrients(6) in its seasonal wake.Convection forces are caused by density differences between hot and cold.The heat in your home works on this same principal we've been told.As the sun heats the surface of a pond or lake,Temperature difference in the water makes it circulate.Wetlands are covered with water for a good part of the year,Filtering our water and breeding mosquitoes, listen, can you hear?The many different animals who call the wetlands home,。
2: WATER CYCLEThe amount of water on earth always remains the same,And water will often gravitate from whence it originally came.It all starts with evaporation from our oceans and lakes,And this process, does for us, much fresh water make.Fortunately, salt is a solid and does not evaporate.It is this important fact that very much rests our fate.For animals, plants and humans can't drink water with salt.If we did, it would soon bring life to a screeching halt.Now as this water evaporates, it vaporizes into clouds,Which at times produces thunder, known to be quite loud.These clouds have tons of water, yet they float in the air,Releasing their water over oceans and land, seemingly without a care.The water is in tiny droplet form and the cloud is very very large,So the average density is less than the air, floating like a giant barge.The fresh water nourishes the land, making it green,Changing it in ways both invisible and seen.And plants, using photosynthesis(2), get the water they need,Growing the farmer's crops in which we readily feed.Plant's excess water evaporates back to the air through transpiration(3),Similar to how your body cools itself through evaporating perspiration.This water vapor doesn't disappear but will be used many times more,Perhaps from that pitcher in the fridge from whence you a cold drink pour.If water did not from one state to another, readily pass,Perhaps the earth would be like Jupiter, another big ball of gas.。
《致大海To The Sea 》 再见吧,自由的原素! Farewell to you, unharnessed Ocean! 最后一次了,在我眼前 No longer will you roll at me 你的蓝色的浪头翻滚起伏, Your azure swells in endless motion 你的骄傲的美闪烁壮观。
Or gleam in tranquil majesty. 仿佛友人的忧郁的絮语, A comrade's broken words on leaving, 仿佛他别离一刻的招呼, His hail of parting at the door: 最后一次了,我听着你的 Your chant of luring, chant of grieving 喧声呼唤,你的沉郁的吐诉。 Will murmur in my ears no more. 我全心渴望的国度啊,大海! Oh, homeland of my spirit's choosing! 多么常常地,在你的岸上 How often on your banks at large 我静静地,迷惘地徘徊, I wandered mute and dimly musing, 苦思着我那珍爱的愿望。
Fraught with a sacred, troubling charge! 啊,我多么爱听你的回声, How I would love your deep resounding, 那喑哑的声音,那深渊之歌, The primal chasm's muffled voice, 我爱听你黄昏时分的幽静, The primal chasm's muffled voice, 和你任性的脾气的发作! And in your sudden, reckless bounding! 渔人的渺小的帆凭着 The fisher's lowly canvas slips, 你的喜怒无常的保护 By your capricious favor sheltered, 在两齿之间大胆地滑过, Undaunted down your breakers' lips: 但你若汹涌起来,无法克服, Yet by your titan romps have weltered 成群的渔船就会覆没。 And foundered droves of masted ships. 直到现在,我还不能离开 Alas, Fate thwarted me from weighing 这令我厌烦的凝固的石岸, My anchor off the cloddish shore, 我还没有热烈地拥抱你,大海! Exultantly your realm surveying, 也没有让我的诗情的波澜 And by your drifting ridges laying 随着你的山脊跑开! My poet's course forevermore. 你在期待,呼唤…我却被缚住, You waited, called。
I was in irons, 我的心徒然想要挣脱开, And vainly did my soul rebel, 是更强烈的感情把我迷住, Becalmed in those uncouth environs 于是我在岸边留下来…… By passion's overpowering spell. 有什么可顾惜的?而今哪里 Yet why this sorrow? Toward what fastness 能使我奔上坦荡的途径? Would now my carefree sails be spread? 在你的荒凉中,只有一件东西 To one lone goal in all your vastness 也许还激动我的心灵。 My spirit might have gladly sped. 一面峭壁,一座光荣的坟墓… One lonely cliff, the tomb of glory。
那里,种种伟大的回忆 There chilling slumber fell upon 已在寒冷的梦里沉没, The ghost of mankind's proudest story: 啊,是拿破仑熄灭在那里。 There breathed his last Napoleon. 他已经在苦恼里长眠。
There rest for suffering he bartered; 紧随着他,另一个天才 And, gale-borne in his wake, there streams 象风暴之间驰过我们面前, Another kingly spirit martyred, 啊,我们心灵的另一个主宰。 Another regent of our dreams. 他去了,使自由在悲泣中! He passed, and left to Freedom mourning, 他把自己的桂 冠留给世上。
His laurels to Eternity. 喧腾吧,为险恶的天时而汹涌,Arise, roar out in stormy warning: 噢,大海!他曾经为你歌唱。 He was your own true bard, oh Sea! 他是由你的精气塑成的, His soul was by your spirit haunted, 海啊,他是你的形象的反映; In your own image was he framed: 他象你似的深沉、有力、阴郁,Like you immense, profound, undaunted 他也倔强得和你一样。
Like you nocturnal untamed. 世界空虚了……哦,海洋, Bereft the world。 where by your power,现在你还能把我带到哪里? Oh Sea would you now carry me? 到处,人们的命运都是一样: Life offers everywhere one dower: 哪里有幸福,必有教育 On any glint of bliss there glower 或暴君看守得非常严密。
Enlightenment or tyranny. 再见吧,大海!你壮观的美色 Farewell then, Sea! Henceforth in wonder 将永远不会被我遗忘; Your regal grace will I rever; 我将久久地,久久地听着 Long will your muffled twilit thunder 你在黄昏时分的轰响。 Reverberate within my ear. 心里充满了你,我将要把 To woods and silent wildernesses 你的山岩,你的海湾, Will I translate your potent spells, 你的光和影,你的浪花的喋喋,Your cliffs, your coves, your shining tresses, 带到森林,带到寂静的荒原。
Your shadows and your murmurous swells.。
How great is our God (我神真伟大)
You raise me up (你扶持我)
Before the morning
Worthy is the lamb (神羔羊配得)
Because he lives I can face tomorrow (因他活着)
Because of you (因为有你)
God will make a way(他为我开路)
Here I am to worship
I can only imagine
Amazing Grace-My chains are gone
How many kings
I wandered lonely as a cloud(我像一朵孤云)
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
That stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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我像一朵孤云
梁实秋译
在群山万壑之上飘飞,
忽然看到一大群,
好大一堆;
在湖边,在树下荫处,
於微风中翩翩起舞。
像银河中繁星一般
不断的闪耀发光,
它们沿著水湾的边缘
伸展成为无穷尽的一行:
我一眼望到花儿千万朵,
欢蹦乱跳的把头摇著。
它们旁边的湖水也在舞动;
可是花比闪亮的水更活泼:
有如此欢愉的环境,
一个诗人怎能不快乐。
我凝视--凝视--并未省悟
这景象给我带来何等的财富:
因为时常我卧在榻上
茫茫然陷入沉思状态,
它们会在我内心闪亮,
这是寂寞中无上的愉快;
那时节我的心充满快乐,
和水仙一同起舞婆娑。
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似乎不够三分钟,不过这是我看过最唯美的诗了。你如果喜欢,还可以搜索华滋华斯(william wordsworth)的其它诗,他是英国田园派代表人,写的诗都很唯美
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