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漢詩英譯 | 雷家村紀事

雷家村紀事曾紀虎

我從現在看到以前，1994年的時候

我拖著一個翻蓋的破樟木箱爬到山上

那時碩士李伏明是這裡的一個傳奇人物，現在還是

不過他老了（他自己就是這麼聲稱的），體重增加

一群人從雷家村穿梭下來，井口邊上的（是嗎？）樟樹

佔據了村子的一大半天色

老天從雷家村一隻灰母雞殘缺的翅膀上

察看知識與善意的未來，但是不久，我與另一同事

在夜色中穿過，在一陣犬吠外加獸類零星的鼻息中

他談到他與一個有夫之婦的辦公室戀情

我記住了當夜的、尖銳感的、屬於未來的，月光

我用一種拉美詩歌的誇張將它寫入詩句

我還是要回到這個在白天無比醜陋的村落

回到一排排死去的各類小餐館

回到財源大酒店某人的離奇死亡

我們就是某一個在小排檔喝低端白酒討好某一批人的酒客

就著這夜色，讓我們再一次討好這些無所畏懼的人，他就是

你身邊的某一人

那些第二天將死去的草叢，看到了兩條鐵軌的到來

農夫們趔趄步履，在雷家村的巷道上，碰到了散步晚歸的人

我們幾乎徹夜散步，幾乎，每天，讓大腦缺氧的散步何其珍貴

加深了南方與北方的概念，還有

橢圓形的鐵盤裡傾倒了陰沉的天空

但是，在山頂上，露天舞場的旁邊，頭頂上的圓月如群冰中的瑰寶

那是1994年的冬天，我年滿22歲，體重51.5公斤

我要忘記已發生的事，為什麼不呢？

我要相信可靠的知識，為什麼不呢？

我要忘記我被圍住了，我陷在絕望的排列中，為什麼不呢？

我要讓深愛的精神活動匯聚為可以打量的潛流，既然我可以

——為什麼不呢？

所以，我能想到，雷家村邊上有某根浮起的魚骨

有某一樁將變成氣體的苟且戀情

有某條白底黑斑的土狗，它邊上一道藍色

有某個不夠好的戀人、丈夫、父親；某個教書的人

某對死去夫婦的不夠好的年近五十的兒子

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漢詩英譯 | 雷家村紀事

LEIJIA VILLAGE CHRONICLES

by Zeng Jihu

Now I see how it happened, in 1994,

I lugged a ragged wooden suitcase up the hill;

at that time, Li Fuming was, and still is, a legend there with a master』s degree;

but he is old now (he keeps saying that himself), gaining some weight;

a group of villagers strolled down from Leijia Village, the Eucalyptus next to the well (was it?)

shielded a large swath of the sky.

God tells the village』s future based on its wisdom and goodwill in the broken wing of a gray hen, but soon after,

a colleague, while we walked, tattled to me of an office romance with a married woman,

accompanied by the barking of dogs and the snorting of beasts.

I remember that night, the moonlight, sharp and futuristic,

which I turned into verse with a Latin American flair.

I needed to return to our village, grotesque under the sun.

More than once I revisited one of those dead restaurants, rows and rows of them,

and recalled a bizarre death at Fortune Hotel,

the death of one among us,

who drank cheap liquor in a shoddy place

to appease a certain group of people;

one of those nights, we pushed ourselves to flatter a ruthless group of people;

he was one among us.

The grass had only one more day to live before the arrival of the railroad tracks;

in the alleyways farmers stumbling home came across people taking a walk at night;

we walked all night, almost every day, how we felt exalted from those walks that cause brain hypoxia,

that heightened the sense of what set apart the south and the north;

a gloomy sky poured into the basin

but on top of the mountain, by the open-air ball room,

the moon overhead was a treasure compared to other crystalline gems.

It was winter 1994, I was 22 and weighed 51.5 kg.

I want to forget what has happened, can I not?

I want to trust sound reasoning, can I not?

I want to forget that I was trapped, stuck in a woeful web, can I not?

I want to intervene with my beloved intellect; and since I can, why don』t I?

Therefore, I can envision, on the edge of Leijia Village,

there is a floating fish bone,

a petty affair that will puff into smoke,

a white dog with black spots with a blue stripe,

an inadequate lover, husband, father; a teacher,

an inadequate son, soon a quinquagenarian, of a deceased couple.

Translated by Duck Yard Lyricists

Duck Yard Lyricists is a group of devoted poetry lovers: Meifu Wang, Peter Micic, Michael Soper & Johan Ramaekers.

漢詩英譯 | 雷家村紀事

曾紀虎，1972年生，江西永豐人。江西省井岡山大學人文學院教師。著有個人詩集《風在安隱》(上海文藝出版社2014年出版)。現居吉安。

本詩由 PATHSHARERS BOOKS（美國同道出版社）

Duck Yard Lyricists

提供翻譯

漢詩英譯 | 雷家村紀事

一百年來，漢語新詩的發展與外國詩歌及其翻譯的影響密不可分，但雙方的互動也始終存在不對等的問題。隨著中國當代文學的崛起，當代漢語詩歌期待在更廣闊的語境中發聲，同世界文學達成愈加豐富的交流與對話。

為進一步繁榮新時代詩歌，推動漢語詩歌走向世界，激勵本土詩人們創作出具有世界影響力的優秀作品，中國詩歌網與美國華盛頓PATHSHARERS BOOKS（出版有季刊21st Century Chinese Poetry）合作開展漢詩英譯活動。《詩刊》每期刊登的詩作及中國詩歌網「每日好詩」中的佳作，將有機會被譯成英語，刊於21st Century Chinese Poetry，並在中國詩歌網做專題展示。

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