里昂夜讀英語美文[491]:一體

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One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings

《一體》--伊麗莎白·詹寧斯

Lying apart now, each in a separate bed

靜靜躺著，在兩張分開的床上

He with a book keeping the light on late

他，留著一盞小燈翻書夜讀

She like a girl dreaming of childhood

她，像個孩子一樣夢回童年

All men elsewhere - it is as if they wait some new event:

所有世上的人——似乎都期待著嶄新生活

The book he holds unread

他捧著的書，還未輕啟品讀

Her eyes fixed on the shadows overhead

她盯著上方的陰影，還未合上雙眼

Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion

假裝從先前的激情中清醒，準備匆匆入睡

How cool they lie

多么平靜的謊言

They hardly ever touch

他們根本甚少碰觸對方

Or if they do, it is like a confession

或許他們有接觸，這像一場供認

Of having little feeling -- or too much

彼此沒有太多感覺——或是情感滿溢

Chastity faces them a destination

貞潔仍留，像是整段生命

For which their whole lives were a preparation

都在為抵達目的地做準備

Strangely apart, yet strangely close together

莫名分離，又莫名靠近

Silence between them like a thread to hold

沉默，像他們間牽著的細線

And not wind in

互不被卷入

And time itself's a feather, touching them gently

時間像片羽毛，輕輕在他們生命中拂過

Do they know they're old

他們是否意識到自己已然老去

These two who are my father and my mother

他們，是我的父親和母親

Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

在我初降臨時激動難抑，現(xiàn)今的感情正逐漸冷卻了嗎？

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