The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

  • -- Tomas Transtromer 托马斯·特朗斯特罗姆

语言与刽子手步调一致。因此我们必须学一门新语言。

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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

诗歌记录的情感和情绪超出了正常的语言,只能拼凑在一起,隐喻性地暗示。

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

译者的任务是用自己的语言创造出与原文相同的张力。那是很难的!