泰戈尔《新月集》翻译欣赏

 　　The HomeI paced alone on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser¹.

　　The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent.

　　Suddenly a boy's shrill² voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush³ of the evening.

　　His village home lay there at the end of the waste land, beyond the sugar-cane field, hidden among the shadows of the banana and the slender areca palm, the coconut⁴ and the dark green jack-fruit trees.

　　I stopped for a moment in my lonely way under the starlight, and saw spread before me the darkened earth surrounding with her arms counbtless homes furnished with cradles and beds, mother's hearts and evening lamps, and young lives glad with a gladness that knows nothing of its value for the world.

　　家庭我独自在横跨过田地的路上走着，夕阳像一个守财奴似的，正藏起他的最后的金子。

　　白昼更加深沉地没入黑暗之中，那已经收割了的孤寂的田地，默默地躺在那里。

　　天空里突然升起了一个男孩子的尖锐的歌声，他穿过那看不见的黑暗，留下他的歌声的辙痕跨过黄昏的静谧。

　　他的乡村的家坐落在荒凉的边上，在甘蔗田的后面，躲藏在香蕉树，瘦长的槟榔树，椰子树和深绿的贾克果树的阴影里。

　　我在星光下独自走着的路上停留了一会儿，我看见黑沉沉的大地展开在我的面前，用她的手臂拥抱着无数的家庭，在那些家庭里有着摇篮和床铺，母亲们的心和夜晚的灯，还有年轻轻的生命，他们满心欢乐，却浑然不知这样的欢乐对于世界的价值。

1 miser   

n.守财奴，吝啬鬼 (adj.miserly)

参考例句：

• The miser doesn't like to part with his money.守财奴舍不得花他的钱。
• The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福。

2 shrill   

adj.尖声的；刺耳的；v尖叫

参考例句：

• Whistles began to shrill outside the barn.哨声开始在谷仓外面尖叫。
• The shrill ringing of a bell broke up the card game on the cutter.刺耳的铃声打散了小汽艇的牌局。

3 hush   

int.嘘，别出声；n.沉默，静寂；v.使安静

参考例句：

• A hush fell over the onlookers.旁观者们突然静了下来。
• Do hush up the scandal!不要把这丑事声张出去！

4 coconut   

n.椰子

参考例句：

• The husk of this coconut is particularly strong.椰子的外壳很明显非常坚固。
• The falling coconut gave him a terrific bang on the head.那只掉下的椰子砰地击中他的脑袋。