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yohosunwenbo
yohosunwenbo
You left the word face-up on the table,
你把那个词，正面朝上搁在桌上
a coin I know the shape of, not the sound.
一枚我认得形状、却读不出声的硬币
I wore the dictionary thin —
我把词典翻薄了
the closest page still keeps you at arm''s length.
最接近的那一页，仍把你隔在一臂之外
Some meanings grow too near the root of your tongue;
有些意思，长得太贴近你的舌根
mine keeps no room to hold them.
我的语言，腾不出地方安放
For all the words we spent,
我们说了那么多话
the one I meant has no translation.
最想说的那个，没有译法
You understand, or you guess —
你懂，或者你猜——
the rest, we agree to leave unsaid.
剩下那点，我们默契地不说
I learned the way you breathe between your lines,
我学会了你句子之间换气的方式
all but the silence you won''t render.
只除了你不肯翻译的那段沉默
It isn''t that you can''t —
不是你不能——
it''s gone the second it is spoken.
是它一出口，就没了
Between two mother tongues
两种母语之间
there''s a strip of land that neither of us reaches;
有一小块地，谁都到不了
we hold the border, one on each side, hands in the fog.
我们各守一边界碑，把手伸进雾里
The last word — I keep it. Untranslated.
最后那个词——我留着，不译了
yohosunwenbo
You left the word face-up on the table,
你把那个词，正面朝上搁在桌上
a coin I know the shape of, not the sound.
一枚我认得形状、却读不出声的硬币
I wore the dictionary thin —
我把词典翻薄了
the closest page still keeps you at arm''s length.
最接近的那一页，仍把你隔在一臂之外
Some meanings grow too near the root of your tongue;
有些意思，长得太贴近你的舌根
mine keeps no room to hold them.
我的语言，腾不出地方安放
For all the words we spent,
我们说了那么多话
the one I meant has no translation.
最想说的那个，没有译法
You understand, or you guess —
你懂，或者你猜——
the rest, we agree to leave unsaid.
剩下那点，我们默契地不说
I learned the way you breathe between your lines,
我学会了你句子之间换气的方式
all but the silence you won''t render.
只除了你不肯翻译的那段沉默
It isn''t that you can''t —
不是你不能——
it''s gone the second it is spoken.
是它一出口，就没了
Between two mother tongues
两种母语之间
there''s a strip of land that neither of us reaches;
有一小块地，谁都到不了
we hold the border, one on each side, hands in the fog.
我们各守一边界碑，把手伸进雾里
The last word — I keep it. Untranslated.
最后那个词——我留着，不译了