试听180秒E25《普鲁弗洛克的情歌》诗歌赏析3：谁与共孤光，把盏凄然北望

▍原文

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- by T.S Eliot 

普鲁弗洛克的情歌  TS艾略特

（接上节）

And I have known the eyes already, known them all— 

The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, 

And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, 

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, 

Then how should I begin 

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? 

And how should I presume? 

而我也早已领教过那一双双眼睛，全都领教过—— 

那些把你钉牢在条条框框里的眼睛 

当我被公式化了，我在钉子下扭动 

我被钉住，在墙上挣扎的时候 

又该怎么开始呢? 

我该如何吐出生活中像烟头一样的全部残余? 

我该怎么行动呢? 

And I have known the arms already, known them all— 

Arms that are braceleted and white and bare 

(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!) 

Is it perfume from a dress 

That makes me so digress?

Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. 

And should I then presume?

And how should I begin? 

而我也领教过那些手臂，全都领教过—— 

那些戴着手镯的手臂，赤裸白皙 

(可是在灯光下，⻓满浅棕色汗毛) 

是裙子上飘来的清香 

让我魂不守舍吗? 

那些搭在桌边的手臂，环绕着披肩的手臂 

我该行动了吗?

我又该怎么开始呢? 

Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets 

And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes 

Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? ... 

我是否要说，我曾在⻩昏时分，穿过狭窄街道 

看过身着衬衣的孤身男人们倚靠在窗边

烟斗中的烟袅袅升起 

I should have been a pair of ragged claws 

Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. 

我本应是一双粗粝的爪子 

急匆匆的掠过寂静的海底 

And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! 

Smoothed by long fingers, 

Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers, 

Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me. 

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,

Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? 

But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, 

Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, 

I am no prophet — and here’s no great matter; 

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,

And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 

And in short, I was afraid. 

还有午后，⻩昏，睡得那么安静! 

⻓⻓的手指轻抚着，

困了......倦了......或者装病 

张开身体躺在地板上，就在你我身旁 

饮过茶，吃过蛋糕和冰淇淋， 

难道我就能有力量把这微妙的时刻一语道破? 

尽管我哭过也斋戒过、哭过也祈祷过 

尽管我看到过我微秃的头，被在盘子里端进来过 

但我不是先知——这也没什么大不了的 

我看到了我的伟大瞬间忽隐忽现的闪烁， 

我看⻅永恒的仆人拿着我的外套，暗自窃笑， 

简而言之，我很害怕。 

▍生词好句

sprawl /sprɔːl/ v. 伸展四肢

wriggle /ˈrɪɡl/ v. 挣扎；蠕动

spit out 吐出

butt-ends 烟头

bracelet /ˈbreslɪt, ˈbreɪslət/ v. 戴手镯

scuttle /ˈskʌtl/ v. 急促地奔跑

malinger /məˈlɪŋɡər/ v. 装病

fast /fɑːst, fæst/ vi. 斋戒

▍知识拓展

1. 迷因（Meme）

“迷因”这个词最早是由英国进化生物学家理查德·道金斯在他1976年的大众科学畅销书《自私的基因》中使用的。这个词既可以指在用户间传播的内容，也可以指隐藏在内容背后的理念或者其转播的这种现象。

2. Shall I…? 英语传统诗歌中经常用于句首

例如：《莎士比亚十四行诗》第18首第一小节

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

或许我可用夏日把你来比方，

但你比夏日更可爱也更温良。

夏风狂作常摧落五月的娇蕊，

夏季的期限也未免还不太长。