【班門弄斧、越俎代庖】系列一百五十一 Marin Sorescu《The Snail》試譯

《The Snail》
(Translated by Gabriela Dragnea, Stuart Friebert, and Adriana Varga)⋯⋯
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The snail’s covered up
Its eyes with wax, sunk
Its head on its chest,
And is staring into itself.
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Above it
The house,
Its perfect work,
Which it loathes —
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Round about its house
The world,
The rest of the world,
Ordered according to certain laws
That disgust it —
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And in the middle
Of this universal disgust
There it is —
The snail,
Loathing itself.
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《蝸牛》
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蝸牛用蠟
封了自己的眼，拉下了
頭到胸口上，
凝視著自己。
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在它上面
那所房子，
它所厭惡的
完美作品 -
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圍繞著它的房子
世界，
世界餘下的部分，
根據某些討厭它的
法則安排 -
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而在這普遍厭惡
之中
它就在那裡 -
那厭惡自己的，
蝸牛。
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