城市（希腊 卡瓦菲斯）

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你说：“我要去另一个国家，另一片海岸，
找另一个比这里好的城市。
无论我做什么，结果总是事与愿违。
而我的心灵被埋没，好像一件死去的东西。
我枯竭的思想还能在这个地方维持多久？
无论我往哪里转，无论我往哪里瞧，
我看到的都是我生命的黑色废墟，在这里，
我虚度了很多年时光，很多年完全被我毁掉了。”

你不会找到一个新的国家，不会找到另一片海岸。
这个城市会永远跟踪你。
你会走向同样的街道，衰老
在同样的住宅区，白发苍苍在这些同样的屋子里。
你会永远结束在这个城市。不要对别的事物抱什么希望：
那里没有载你的船，那里也没有你的路。
既然你已经在这里，在这个小小的角落浪费了你的生命
你也就已经在世界上的任何一个地方毁掉了它。

（黄灿然 译）


The City

You said: "I'll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart -like something dead- lies buried.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I've spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally."
You won't find a new country, won't find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You'll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighbourhoods, turn grey in these same houses.
You'll always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there's no ship for you, there's no road.
Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.

Constantine P. Cavafy

Bernhardt

黄又从英译

muben123

好久不见楼主啊