The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

  • -- Derek Walcott 沃尔科特

历史的叹息从废墟中升起,而不是从风景中升起。在安的列斯群岛,除了糖园和废弃堡垒的废墟外,几乎没有什么废墟值得叹息。

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The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

我们给自己规定的任务仅仅是表明我们为什么和为了什么而在生活的大部分时间里坚持这一立场,以及我们为什么和为了什么而暂时不得不放弃这一立场。

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

上帝抛弃了你。恐惧对你无益。你的心背叛了你。只有音乐才能指引你。

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

我会被邀请去参加派对,但取而代之的是这些废弃的房子。

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

只有藉著我们,神才活著。当我们抛弃他时,他就死了。