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本诗之难不仅在于作品的理解,还包括诗歌拷贝上传及网络传播过程中出现的版本纰误。
为寻找正版,遍搜网络,不见原作,最后只能按照个人理解进行勘误。自认所改应该没
有问题,如有失误本人自负。
附诗歌粘贴版:
The Exposed Next
By Robert Frost
You were forever finding some new play.
So when I saw you down on hands and knees
I the meadow, busy with the new-cut hay,
Trying, I thought, to set it up on end,
I went to show you how to make it stay,
If that was your idea, against the breeze,
And, if you asked me, even help pretend
To make it root again and grow afresh.
But 'twas no make-believe with you today,
Nor was the grass itself your real concern,
Though I found your hand full of wilted fern,
Steel-bright June-grass, and blackening heads of clovers.
'Twas a nest full of young birds on the ground
The cutter-bar had just gone champing over
(Miraculously without tasking flesh)
And left defenseless to the heat and light.
You wanted to restore them to their right
Of something interposed between their sight
And too much world at once--could means be found.
The way the nest-full every time we stirred
Stood up to us as to a mother-bird
Whose coming home has been too long deferred,
Made me ask would the mother-bird return
And care for them in such a change of scene
And might out meddling make her more afraid.
That was a thing we could not wait to learn.
We saw the risk we took in doing good,
But dared not spare to do the best we could
Though harm should come of it; so built the screen
You had begun, and gave them back their shade.
All this to prove we cared. Why is there then
No more to tell? We turned to other things.
I haven't any memory-—have you?—
Of ever coming to the place again
To see if the birds lived the first night through,
And so at last to learn to use their wings.
蓝字 1 Next 改为 Nest(巢穴)。意见主贴标题:曝光的鸟巢。
蓝字 2 I 改为 In。In the meadow 意为“在草地里”。
蓝字 3 'twas 改为 it was。But it was no make-believe with you today 意为:但是今天它都无法为你
装模作样(假装重新扎根生长)。
蓝字 4 'Twas 改为 It was。It was a nest full of young birds on the ground 意为:(你真正关心的
是)地上栖满幼雏的鸟巢。
蓝字 5 out 改为 our。And might our meddling make her more afraid 意为:我们的干预可能使她更
加害怕。
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