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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We have been abandoned by our own country. And he said, 'Yeah, mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.' And she drowned Friday night.

我们被自己的国家抛弃了。他说,‘是的,妈妈,有人来接你了。星期二有人来接你。星期三有人来接你。星期四有人来接你。星期五有人来接你。星期五晚上她淹死了。

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

似乎永远不抛弃自己比常常为之痴狂更疯狂;受了伤,作了俘虏,作了奴仆,强如常带着兵器行走。

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

我从不放弃任何形式或自由。我想大部分可以称为自由诗的东西都在我的第一本书里。我挺早的。

Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.

被遗弃并不能造就小天使。