翻译A sad child 这篇文章

翻译A sad child 这篇文章

A Sad Child

---Margaret Atwood

You're sad because you're sad.

你很悲伤因为你很悲伤
It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.

它是精神 它是年龄 它是化学
Go see a shrink or take a pill,

去看一次收缩或服一粒药
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll

或拥抱悲伤像抱一只无眼的玩偶
you need to sleep.

你需要睡觉

Well, all children are sad

嗨！所有的孩子都悲伤
but some get over it.

但有些孩子能将它克服
Count your blessings. Better than that,

数一数你的祝福，好过那样
buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet.

买一顶帽子 买一件棉衣或宠物
Take up dancing to forget.

跳一场舞忘掉它

Forget what?

忘掉什么？
Your sadness, your shadow,

你的悲伤 你的阴影

whatever it was that was done to you

无论袭击你的是什么

the day of the lawn party

草坪聚会的日子
when you came inside flushed with the sun,

你进来带着太阳的红光
your mouth sulky with sugar,

你的嘴带着砂糖的气息
in your new dress with the ribbon

你的新衣上有丝带
and the ice-cream smear,

和冰淇淋的斑点
and said to yourself in the bathroom,

在浴室里对自己说
I am not the favorite child.

我不是一个幸运的孩子

My darling, when it comes

我亲爱的当它来了
right down to it

正好放下它
and the light fails and the fog rolls in

灯已熄 雾涌了进来
and you're trapped in your overturned body

你陷在你翻倒的身体里
under a blanket or burning car,

在一床毯子下或燃烧的车子

and the red flame is seeping out of you

红色的火焰舔着你

and igniting the tarmac beside you head

点燃你头边的停机坪
or else the floor, or else the pillow,

或者其他的地板其他的枕头
none of us is;

我们全不是
or else we all are.

或者其他的我们全是

yes

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