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Tonight I can write the saddest lines

今夜我可以写出最哀伤的诗篇

Write, for example, “the night is shattered and blue stars shiver in the distance."

写，譬如说，“夜缀满繁星，那些星，灿蓝，在远处颤抖。”

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings

晚风在天空中回旋歌唱。

Tonight I can write the saddest lines

今夜我可以写出最哀伤的诗篇。

And I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too

我爱她，而有时候她也爱我。

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms

在许多仿佛此刻的夜里我拥她入怀。

I kissed her again and again under the endless sky

在永恒的天空下一遍一遍的吻她。

She loved me and sometimes I loved her too

她爱我，而有时候我也爱她。

How could one not have loved her great still eyes

你怎能不爱她专注的大眼睛？

Tonight I can write the saddest lines

今夜我可以写出最哀伤的诗篇。

To think that I do not have her, to feel that I have lost her

想到不能拥有她。感到已经失去她。

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her

听到那辽阔的夜，因她不在更加辽阔。

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture

诗遂低落心灵，如露珠低落草原。

What does it matter that my love could not keep her?

我的爱不能叫她留下又何妨？

The night is shattered and she is not with me

夜缀满繁星而她离我远去。

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance

都过去了。在远处有人歌唱。在远处。

My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her

我的心不甘就此失去她。

My sights searches for her as though to go to her

我的眼光搜寻着仿佛要走向她。

My heart looks for her, and she is not with me

我的心在找她，而她离我远去。

The same night, whitening the same trees

相同的夜漂白着相同的树。

We, of that time, are no longer the same

昔日的我们已不复存在。

I no longer love her, that is certain, but how I loved her

如今我确已不再爱她，但我曾经多爱她啊。

My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing

我的声音试着借风探触她的听觉。

Another is she will be another is. Like my kiss before

别人的。她就将是别人的了。一如我过去的吻。

Her voice, her bright body, her infinite eyes

她的声音，她明亮的身体。她深邃的眼睛。

I no longer love her, that is certain, but maybe I love her

如今我确已不再爱她。但也许我仍爱着她。

Love is so short, forgetting is so long

爱是这么短, 遗忘是这么长。

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms

因为在许多仿佛此刻的夜里我拥她入怀，

My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her

我的心不甘就此失去她。

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer

即令这是她带给我的最后的痛苦，

And these the last verses that I write for her

而这些是我为她写的最后的诗篇。

Hello darkness, my old friend

你好黑暗，我的老朋友

I've come to talk with you again

我又来和你海阔天空神侃

Because a vision softly creeping

因为有个影子悄悄潜入

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

趁我熟睡埋下了它的种子

And the vision that was planted in my brain

这影子根植于我的大脑里

Still remains

至今还留在

Within the sound of silence

静默之声的地盘中

In restless dreams I walked alone

在不安的梦境中我独自游荡

Narrow streets of cobblestone

鹅卵石的街道狭窄幽长

Neath the halo of a street lamp

在一盏街灯的光晕下

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

我竖起衣领抵挡寒冷潮湿

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

就在我的眼睛被一盏霓虹灯的闪光刺穿的同时

That split the night

光芒划破了夜空

And touched the sound of silence

打破了这份静默

And in the naked light I saw

在孱弱的烛光中我看到

Ten thousand people, maybe more

成千上万的人们，或许更多

People talking without speaking

人们缄口却倾述心声

People hearing without listening

人们罔闻却声声贯耳

People writing songs that voices never share

人们写歌却从没嗓音分享

And no one dare disturb the sound of silence

静默之声没人敢打扰

"Fools" said I, "You do not know

“傻瓜”，我说，“你见识不长

Silence like a cancer grows”

静默像癌细胞一样生长”

Hear my words that I might teach you

有益的教诲你当听取

Take my arms that I might reach you

有助的臂膀你该挽起

But my words like silent raindrops fell

但话语如雨滴悄然落下

And echoed in the wells of silence

在静默的源泉中渐渐模糊

And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made.

人们向自己塑造的霓虹神灵膜拜祈祷

And the sign flashed out its warning

告示牌上闪烁出神灵的警告

And the words that it was forming

若隐若现显示成行

And the sign said:

告示牌上写道：

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

先贤们的箴言涂鸦在地铁的大墙

And tenement halls

以及公寓走廊上

And whispered in the sound of silence."

也在静默之声中被低声传送”

If one day you feel like crying...

假如有一天你想哭...

Call me.

打电话给我...

I don''t promise that I will make you laugh,

我不能保证能使你笑,

But I can cry with you.

但是我能陪着你一起哭.

If one day you want to run away--

假如有一天你想逃跑--

Don''t be afraid to call me.

别怕打电话给我.

I don''t promise to ask you to stop...

我不能叫你停留在这...

But I can run with you.

但我能陪你一起跑.

If one day you don''t want to listen to anyone...

假如有一天你不想再听到任何人说的话...

Call me.打电话给我.

I promise to be there for you.

我保证会在你身边.

And I promise to be very quiet.

并且保持沉默.

But if one day you call...

但是如果有一天你打电话给我...

And there is no answer...

而我却没有接听...

Come fast to see me.

请快来见我.

Perhaps I need you.

我可能需要你.

I love three things in this world.Sun, moon and you.Sun for morning, moon for night , and you forever.

浮世三千，吾爱有三。日，月与卿。日为朝，月为暮，卿为朝朝暮暮。

——节选自《暮光之城》