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You're such a good example

Of  What a Father Should be

We always get along so well

Even when we disagree

您是一个典范

一个合格父亲的典范

即便有时存在分歧

我们也能和谐相处

You're so patient

And understanding

And you don't ask for anything

You're never demanding

您是如此循循善诱

如此善解人意

您任劳任怨

对我从不苛责

You're so quick to give

And such a joy to be around

You're such a good person

You deserve a special crown

您一心奉献

总能带来欢声笑语

您是个太完美的人

再高的称赞也不为过

You have a good heart

And you're honest and true

You're the best dad

And I really love you

您有一颗善良的心

真诚率性是您的品格

您是世间最好的父亲

我真的爱您

look at this world 

this beautiful world

we build this world together

a world where dreams come true

a world where you can be free

but this world is a lie...

Words, Wide Night

by Carol Ann Duffy

Somewhere on the other side of this wide night 

and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. 

The room is turning slowly away from the moon. 

This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say 

it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing 

an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear. 

La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine 

the dark hills I would have to cross 

to reach you. For I am in love with you and this 

is what it is like or what it is like in words.

Start Where You Stand

就从你站立的地方开始

by Berton Braley

Start where you stand and never mind the past.

The past won't help you in beginning new,

If you have left it all behind at last.

Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through.

从你站立的地方开始，别再介意过去。

如果你终于要把过去抛诸脑后，

过去不会帮助你开始新的旅程。

为什么？过去的已经过去，经历过就已足够。

This is another chapter in the book.

This is another race that you have planned.

Don't give the vanished days a backward look.

Start where you stand.

这是书中的另一章，

是你计划的另一场比赛，

不要回头看逝去的日子，

就从你站立的地方开始。

The world won't care about your old defeats

If you can start anew and win success;

The future is your time, and time is fleet

And there is much of work and strain and stress;

如果你能重新开始并赢得成功,

这个世界不会在乎你过去的失败；

未来才是你的时间，时间过得很快

而你会还有很多工作、紧张和压力要去面对

Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,

Here is a brand-new trial right at hand,

The future is for him who does and dares,

Start where you stand.

忘记那些被埋藏的悲伤和绝望，

这是一个全新的试验，

未来属于那些敢于行动的人，

就从你站立的地方开始。

Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,

Today is the thing, tomorrow soon will be;

Get in the fight and face it unafraid,

And leave the past to ancient history,

过去的失败不能使你停止，昔日的胜利为你助力，

今天很关键，而明天很快又要来到；

加入战斗，勇敢地面对它，

把过去留给古老的历史。

What has been, has been; yesterday is dead

And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead,

Start where you stand.

发生过的事情已经发生，昨日已死

通过它你既没有祝福也没有被禁止;

勇敢点，兄弟，勇往直前，

就从你站立的地方开始。

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left.

从前有一个岛屿，岛上居住着各种各样的感情：快乐、悲伤、知识，以及包括爱在内的其他各种感情。有一天，感情们被告知、这个岛就要沉没了，所以感情们都备好了自己的船只，离开了那座岛屿。

Love wanted to stay until the last possible moment. When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, "Richness, can you take me with you?” Richness answered, “No, I can’t. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you.”

爱想要留下来直到最后一刻。当岛屿几乎快要沉没的时候，爱决定寻求帮助。富裕坐在豪华的船上从爱的旁边经过。爱说富裕，能把我带上吧？”富裕回答说，“不，我不能。我船上有许多金银财宝。这里没有你的地方。”

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, “Vanity, please help me.” “I can’t help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.

爱决定问虚荣，虚荣正乘坐一条漂亮的船经过。“虚荣，请帮助我。” “我不能帮助你，爱。你浑身湿透了，可能会弄坏我的船，”虚荣回答说。

Sadness was close by, so Love asked for help, “Sadness, let me go with you.” “Oh...Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself.”

悲伤就在身旁，所以爱请求帮助。“悲伤，让我跟你走吧。”“哦…… 爱，我这么悲伤，我需要单独待着。”

Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her. Suddenly, there was a voice, “Come, Love, I will take you.” It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder his name. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went his own way.

快乐也从爱身旁经过，但她是那么高兴，甚至没有听见爱在叫她。突然间，有一个声音传来：“来吧，爱，我来带你，”那是一位长者。爱感到非常幸运，十分欣喜，甚至忘了问长者的名字。当他们到达陆地时，长者便走了。

Love realized how much he owed the elder and asked Knowledge, another elder, “Who helped me?” “It was Time,” Knowledge answered. “ Time?” asked Love. “ But why did Time help me?”Knowledge smiled with wisdom and answered, “Because, only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is.”

爱感觉到自己欠长者这么多，于是问知识另外一个长者：“谁帮助了我？”“是时间，”知识回答说。“时间？”爱问，“但是时间为什么要帮助我呢?”知识带着智慧微笑着回答因为，只有时间能够理解爱是多么伟大。”

Unending love

爱无止境

作者：泰戈尔

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times。

我好像曾经无数次，以无数种形式爱过你

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

年年岁岁,生生死死，直到永恒

My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,

我用痴迷的心做成了一串又一串美妙音韵的项链。

That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,

那是送你的礼物，任你所喜欢的样子环绕在你的香颈。

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

年年岁岁,生生死死，直到永恒

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age-old pain,

当我听著那熟悉的爱情故事，那是岁月的伤口

It's ancient tale of being apart or together.

那是关于分离或相遇的古老传说。

As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,

当我再次凝望著过去时，在最后定能发现你，

Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:

沐着极星灿光你穿越黑夜走来

You become an image of what is remembered forever.

你已永远变成记忆深处的形像

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.

你和我由着来自亘古的时间长河漂流至此

At the heart of time, love of one for another.

听听时间在诉说著各样爱的故事。

We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same

我们曾经与万千恋人们擦肩而过，分享着一样的

Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell

–相遇时羞涩的甜蜜，再见时不舍的泪花……

Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

但是爱情总会再次复活，永恒复活。

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you

今天又堆积在你脚下，那已不能再给你任何感觉了，

The love of all man’s days both past and forever:

所有人的爱情都已成为过去与永恒

Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.

宇宙的欢乐，悲伤，与生命，

The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours–

所有爱情的回忆将会结合为一体-

And the songs of every poet past and forever.

After long Silence

长寂之后                             

BY/William Yeats

威廉.叶芝 

Speech after long silence: it is right,

沉默许久之后重新开口；不错，

All other lovers being estranged or dead,

其他情人全都离开或死去，

Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,

不友好的灯光用灯罩遮住，

The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,

不友好的黑夜用窗帘挡住，

That we descant and yet again descant

不错，我们谈了又谈，谈论不止，

Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song :

谈艺术和歌这个最高主题：

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom: young

身体衰老意味着智慧；年轻时

We loved each other and were ignorant.

我们曾相爱而却浑然不知。

备注：本篇英文的文字来自网络，风木白，对罗艺恒的英文改编，以及野子中文歌词最后两句的翻译。

野子

by/苏运莹

The wind blows right through me.

My drifting heart

Dancing round the fallen, free in this breeze

Flying.

怎么大风越狠

我心越荡

幻如一丝尘土

随风自由的在狂舞

When I think that I’m losing grip

And it all just feels in vain,

I’ll take this wind in sail and carve my way.

我要深埋心头上秉持

却又重小的勇气

一直往大风吹的方向走过去

Blow me away, break my pride, strike my name.

Blow me away, destroy all that I’ve made.

Knock me down to the ground, I’ll hold on embrace,

I won’t be afraid.

Blow me away still my soul won’t change

吹啊吹啊 我的骄傲放纵

吹啊吹不毁我纯净花园

任风吹 任它乱

毁不灭是我 尽头的展望

吹啊吹啊 我赤脚不害怕

吹啊吹啊 无所谓 扰乱我

I’ll keep facing forward you locked in my gaze,

But my hope can’t be taken away.

Watch me break free now

The storm will fade

你看我在勇敢地微笑

你看我在勇敢地去挥手啊

你看我挣脱一切

大风总会退去