为你读英语美文·第549期

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录制地点：北京

What Can I Hold You With

《我拿什么才能留下你》

作者：Jorge Luis Borges 

What can I hold you with?

我拿什么才能留下你？

I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of the jagged suburbs.

我交给你瘦落的街道、绝望的日落、荒野的月亮。

I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long at the lonely moon.

我给你一个曾向寂月久久凝望之人的苦涩。

I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living men have honoured in bronze:

我给你我的先祖、逝去的亲人、生者用青铜铭记的魂魄：

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 twenty four-- heading a charge of three hundred men in Peru, now ghosts on vanished horses.

我父亲的父亲死于布宜诺斯艾利斯的边境，两粒子弹穿过他的肺。大胡子死了，被他的士兵包裹在一张母牛皮里；我母亲的祖父——才二十四岁——在秘鲁率领三百人冲锋陷阵，现在成了骑着死马的幽灵。

I offer you whatever insight my books may hold, whatever manliness or humour my life.

我给你我书中的所有见解，我生活中全部的男性气概与幽默。

I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.

我给你一个从未忠诚过的人的忠诚。

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.

我给你设法存留的真心——此心不以言表，不与梦交，岁月流转不染，喜乐不移，逆境不摇。

I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunset, years before you were born.

我给你一束黄玫瑰的记忆，见照于夕阳，数岁先于你的生年。

I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself.

我给你对你自己的注解，叙述你自己的哲学，你真实而又惊奇的自己。

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

我交给你我的孤独，我的黑暗，我深心的饥渴；我试图用无常、用危险、用失败，来贿赂你。

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