【班門弄斧、越俎代庖】Wislawa Szymborska 《Everything》試譯

《Everything》 (translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh)

Everything -

a bumptious, stuck-up word.

It should be written in quotes.

It pretends to miss nothing,

to gather, hold, contain, and have.

While all the while it's just

a shred of gale.

《一切》

一切 ─

一個多麼傲慢、目空一切的詞語。

它合該寫在引號中。

它裝作無所遺漏

採集、抓緊、容納與擁有。

而它卻從來只是

一絲細碎的狂風。