It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell
是罪人的尘埃之舌鼓动起钟声
It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell claps me to churches
When, with his torch and hourglass, like a sulphur priest,
His beast heel cleft in a sandal,
Time marks a black aisle kindle from the brand of ashes,
Grief with dishevelled hands tear out the altar ghost
And a firewind kill the candle.
是罪人的尘埃之舌鼓动起钟声轻拍我走向教堂，
此刻带着火把和沙漏，像一位满身硫黄味的牧师，
他走兽般的脚跟在凉鞋里爆裂，
时光流痕，烙下的余烬点燃黑色的走廊，
悲伤伸出凌乱的双手撕碎这祭坛上的幽灵，
而一阵风卷起火焰扑灭烛光。
Over the choir minute I hear the hour chant:
Time's coral saint and the salt grief drown a foul sepulchre
And a whirlpool drives the prayerwheel;
Moonfall and sailing emperor, pale as their tideprint,
Hear by death's accident the clocked and dashed-down spire
Strike the sea hour through bellmetal.
在合唱圣诗的时刻，我听到时间的诵唱：
时光珊瑚般的圣徒和咸涩的悲伤淹没污秽的坟墓，
一股旋涡推动着祈祷轮；
月落和航海的帝王，苍白如潮水的流痕，
死亡的灾难旁，我听到俯冲而下的报时钟声
透过塔顶的大钟敲响大海的时光。
There is loud and dark directly under the dumb flame,
Storm, snow, and fountain in the weather of fireworks,
Cathedral calm in the pulled house;
Grief with drenched book and candle christens the cherub time
From the emerald, still bell; and from the pacing weather-cock
The voice of bird on coral prays.
无声的火焰下方，一阵喧嚣一片黑暗，
烟火般的天气夹杂着风暴、飞雪和喷泉般的暴雨，
拔地而起的房屋教堂般宁静；
悲伤翻阅湿淋淋的圣书，烛光洗礼天使的时光，
伴随一阵翠绿而宁静的钟声；而在风向标的缓缓转动中
鸟儿在珊瑚丛发出声声祈祷。
Forever it is a white child in the dark-skinned summer
Out of the font of bone and plants at that stone tocsin
Scales the blue wall of spirits;
From blank and leaking winter sails the child in colour,
Shakes, in crabbed burial shawl, by sorcerer's insect woken,
Ding dong from the mute turrets.
在黑皮肤的夏天，孩子永远是那么洁白无瑕，
在石头的警报声中，从动植物的圣水池
攀缘灵魂蓝色的房墙；
身着彩衣的孩子驶出渗漏又空茫的冬天，
在巫师唤醒的蠕虫旁，斜披乖张的头巾，
将沉默的塔楼摇得叮咚作响。
I mean by time the cast and curfew rascal of our marriage,
At nightbreak born in the fat side, from an animal bed
In a holy room in a wave;
And all love's sinners in sweet cloth kneel to a hyleg image,
Nutmeg, civet, and sea-parsley serve the plagued groom and bride
Who have brought forth the urchin grief.
我说在晚钟萦绕的黄昏，在波涛汹涌的圣屋里
婚姻的小淘气从肥肥的身躯降生
在一张兽性的大床；
此刻，爱情所有的罪人身着盛装去跪拜原初的圣像，
豆蔻、麝猫和海欧芹供奉染上瘟疫的新郎新娘，
顽童的悲伤就此降生。
作者简介
狄兰·托马斯（Dylan Thomas，1914年10月27日—1953年11月9日），威尔士诗人、作家。最著名的作品包括十九行诗《不要温和地走进那个良夜》。
