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           弗兰兹.赖特 

如果每看五六个字我就要翻字典，

那有什么关系。我查找。

反正我没有好去处。 

我父亲不在，我母亲

像要即将爆发，

不是开成花朵，每当我说话。

我最爱读伊利亚特。是的。

我不能准确发音，

但我什么时候要发音， 

给谁？

难道是我的继父？

首先，他几乎不会说英语； 

其次他完全可能

嘲笑或打我

即使我没有触怒他。 

孤独，苦闷和恐惧

我的动机

火上浇油 

我跪在地上为他们感谢上帝。
 

杜甫，赞美诗，惠特曼，里尔克。

生活已经教会了我。

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Learning To Read — by Franz Wright 

If I had tolook up every fifth or sixth word,

so what. I looked them up.

I had nowhere important to be. 

My fatherwas unavailable, and my mother

looked like she was about to break,

and not into blossom, every time I spoke. 

My favoritewas the Iliad. True,

I had trouble pronouncing the names,

but when was I going to pronounce them, and 

to whom? 
My stepfather maybe?

Number one, he could barely speak English;

 

two, he had sufficient intent

to smirk or knock me down

without any prompting from me. 

Loneliness, boredom and terror

my motivation

fiercely fuelled. 

I get down on my knees and thank God for them. 

Du Fu, the Psalms, Whitman, Rilke.

Life has taught me.

 

所有跟帖： 

• Hi LinMu,nice to see you! I like your translation(^.^) -京燕花园- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/01/2014 postreply 15:49:16

• 问好京燕班长，请多批。 my mother looked like she was about to break, and no -LinMu- ♂ (36 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 02:18:58

• 林木过谦了,你译得很棒,自己博客里写的诗也好.常来啊！试试这个 -京燕花园- ♀ (289 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 09:39:15

• 谢谢京燕，感觉这样更贴切。break into blossom -LinMu- ♂ (76 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 14:54:11

• Not into blossom要不就用“而非心花怒放”吧,比我前面选的"笑逐颜开"贴切~~~ -京燕花园- ♀ (157 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 16:26:47

• 谢谢京燕指点，笑纳了（^.^） -LinMu- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2014 postreply 15:06:14

• 第一次读到Franz Wright的诗作,谢谢LinMu的翻译。 -紫君- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/01/2014 postreply 18:52:09

• 他老爸James Wright更有名。父子俩都获得Pulitzer Prize。 -LinMu- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 02:22:14

• Oh, like father, like son. -紫君- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 10:38:24

• Thanks! An interesting person. -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 08:24:02

• 看到有人写到杜甫感到很自豪～～ -LinMu- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 14:56:05

• What a vivid description of poet's rough childhood. Good transla -~叶子~- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/02/2014 postreply 20:12:07

• 谢谢鼓励，问好叶子。 -LinMu- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/03/2014 postreply 15:07:18

• He is wonderful! He even knows Du Fu：）Thanks for sharing good po -南山松- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/04/2014 postreply 08:34:07