双语有声阅读：多佛海滩

搜索关注在线英语听力室公众号：tingroom，领取免费英语资料大礼包。

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

 

《多佛海滩》 马修·阿诺德

 

The sea is calm tonight.

 

今晚，海上风平浪静。

 

The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;

 

潮水正满，皎洁的月光洒在海峡上；

 

On the French coast the light gleams and is gone;

 

法兰西海岸，灯火闪烁；

 

The cliffs of England stand; Glimmering¹ and vast, out in the tranquil² bay.

 

英格兰崖壁陡峭，高高耸立静谧的海湾， 一望无际，微光闪闪。

 

Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

 

走到窗前，夜色如此甘甜！

 

Only, from the long line of spray where the sea meets the moon-blanched land.

 

月色中苍白的大地与海相接，孤寂的长岸浪花飞溅。

 

Listen! you hear the grating roar of pebbles³ which the waves draw back, and fling, at their return, up the high strand⁵, begin, and cease, and then again begin, with tremulous cadence⁶ slow, and bring the eternal note of sadness in.

 

听啊，听那聒噪吼叫， 巨浪把卵石翻卷，一次次拉回海底，一次次又抛向高滩。 反复循环，相继不断，那节奏舒缓，那旋律震颤，这永恒的曲调饱含悲切哀怨。

 

Sophocles long ago,heard it on the Aegean, and it brought into his mind the turbid⁷ ebb⁴ and flow Of human misery⁸;

 

古代的诗人索弗克斯， 在爱琴海上也曾聆听过这涛声的咏叹。由这混杂的潮汐， 想到人世的苦难。

 

We find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

 

如今，在这遥远的北海倾听， 我们的心感到同样震撼。

 

The Sea of Faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

 

信仰之海啊， 曾几何时，大潮涨满， 遍布整个世界， 飞舞彩带，闪耀光环。

 

But now I only hear its melancholy⁹, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles¹⁰ of the world.

 

可是现在，还能听到什么？ 只剩下悲伤悠长的呼喊， 潮声退落成晚风的呜咽， 直到世界沙石裸露，广漠的边际一片昏暗。

 

Ah, love, let us be true to one another!

 

让我们彼此真诚相爱！

 

For the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

 

看这眼前的世界， 处处如梦似幻， 似乎美好、新奇、灿烂， 可是既无欢乐、光明、爱恋， 又无诚信、和平、慈善；

 

And we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

 

我们身处漆黑的莽原， 争斗、逃亡、惶恐、纷乱， 黑夜里愚蠢的军队厮杀纠缠。

 

 

分享到：