Question

用英文怎样翻译这首诗？

Answer 1

首先阅读一下英文版

What can I hold you with?

I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of the jagged suburbs.
I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long at the lonely moon.
I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living men have honoured in marble: my father's father killed in the frontier of Buenos Aires, two bullets through his lungs, bearded and dead, wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a cow; my mother's grandfather -just twentyfour- heading a charge of three hundred men in Perú, now ghosts on vanished horses.
I offer you whatever insight my books may hold. whatever manliness or humour my life.
I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.
I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved somehow -the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.
I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunset, years before you were born.
I offer you explanationsof you
个人认为，纯英文更能表达出诗人的心情每个人读的都不一样，哈哈哈
但不管怎么说，这是博尔赫斯写的一首很美的情诗，有人认为他是在哀婉地倾述对恋人的眷恋，有人认为他在表达对故土的深情，有人认为他是在抒写是对国家的忠贞……无论他的情感指向是哪里，诗句间饱含的柔情都将人带到他深陷其中的情感深渊，将人淹没和吞食。

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