精品雙語詩句《石頭》

作者｜于慈江
英譯 | 楚顏

書案上那個鎮(zhèn)紙或頑石
醒目地躺在那里
不知是不是西西弗斯掌底
那一塊著名的石頭
沉重 頑皮

不知天下的石頭哪一塊
真能通靈 點頭如儀
悟空是石
寶玉是石
珍珠是石
水晶是石
神龜是石
金砂是石
壁畫是石
象牙是石
舍利是石
恐龍的神奇骨骼是石
一天又一天神秘的隕石雨
一塊又一塊古老的鉛色文字

從母親般勤勞的女媧的巧手開始
從爬滿象形字的拱形的天穹開始
沿著銹色斑斕的新舊石器時期
沿著歷朝歷代一塊塊古雅的玉璽
沿著重重洞開的拱門與牌坊
沿著煤層油巖鵝卵石和海沙
向我門前苔色新鮮的石階
神經(jīng)般蔓延、深入

萬里長城
千年古碑
諸葛孔明的八陣圖
開采不盡的各色礦脈
這溫和沉默的靜物
這人類最初的友人
與神色憂郁的狗一樣
古老、宿命

一切緣石而來
一切結(jié)石而生
一切化石而去

而傷痕累累的地球
世間一塊最大的石頭
在一部不朽的《石頭記》里
一頁接著一頁
越磨越小
越磨越圓

Stone
By John C. Yu (China)
Translated by Chu Yan (China)

The desktop paperweight, hard and stony,
Was lying there saliently.
Could it have been the stone sphere,
Heavy and tricky,
That Sisyphus rolled uphill endlessly?

Could any of the stones ever existed
Have been psychic, and nod with ceremony?

Stone could be Wukong;
Stone could be Baoyu;
Stone could be pearl;
Stone could be crystal;
Stone could be a channeler turtle;
Stone could be a grain of gold;
Stone could be a mural;
Stone could be ivories;
Stone could be Buddha relics;
Stone could be a dinosaur skeleton, a massive wonder.
Day after day, there was a mystical meteor shower.
Piece after piece, movable types were carved from lead.

From Nvwa’s motherly hands, which repaired the cracks overhead,
From the arch of heaven, where pictographs spread,
Along the Palaeolithic and Neolithic Ages gorgeously rusty,
Along the elegant imperial jade seals of every dynasty,
Along the memorial towers, one gate opening into another arch,
Along every trace of cobblestone, sea sand, coal seam and oil rock,
Towards the stone doorsteps mantled with moss brightly green,
Stone grew, like how nerves extend and deepen.

Into the Great Wall,
Ancient stelae,
Eight Military Diagrams by Zhuge Kongming,
And various inexhaustible mineral veins.
Stone – the still life, wordless but temperate;
The friend of humans, melancholy and primary –
Is fate and antiquity.
All things from stone are born;
All things for stone are grown;
All things into stone are gone.

The scratched and bruised globe
Is the biggest stone in the world.
Page by page, The Story of the Stone is eternally rerun,
And smaller and rounder the globe is worn and torn.

于慈江案：

關(guān)于石頭這一意象，說法歷來很多，譬如，石敢當(dāng)，水滴石穿，頑石點頭，石破天驚，他山之石，漱流枕石，心如木石，金石之交，匪石匪席，女媧采石補(bǔ)天……
至于把石頭寫入詩中的，更是不計其數(shù)：唐朝劉禹錫和明朝徐渭的《望夫石》借眼前一塊酷肖人形的石頭或明或暗、或虛或?qū)嵉貙懰紜D渴盼離人之苦，自然是實打?qū)嵲趯懯?；而明朝于謙的《石灰吟》雖看似在吟詠石灰，其實贊美的仍是“粉身碎骨渾不怕， 要留清白在人間”的石頭。
我自己這首《石頭》，說白了就是試圖圍繞著石頭這一意象，做一個全面的圓雕。就是從石頭這一意象的全部質(zhì)地著眼，對石頭進(jìn)行深入開掘，去挖掘和生發(fā)它所賦予的、所可能開發(fā)出來的、盡可能多的詩性的內(nèi)涵與外延屬性……

作者簡介：

于慈江，北大中文系文學(xué)學(xué)士、碩士，美國雷鳥（Thunderbird）國際管理學(xué)院MBA，中國社科院財貿(mào)經(jīng)濟(jì)研究所經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)博士，北師大文學(xué)院文學(xué)博士。系詩人、譯者、詩評人、文學(xué)評論家?，F(xiàn)任中國海洋大學(xué)名師工程講座教授。

英譯者簡介:

楚顏，詩人、詩歌譯者，畢業(yè)于墨爾本大學(xué)。擅長創(chuàng)作中文古體詩詞、英文交韻詩，熱愛翻譯中文現(xiàn)代詩。其譯風(fēng)獨具一格：信其情懷，達(dá)其語意，雅其辭章。

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