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初读查普曼译荷马有感济慈 我曾游历过许多黄金般的王国，看见过众多美好的城邦和国度,还曾周游过许多西方的岛屿那是诗人的地域来俯首阿波罗。我常听说有一片广阔无垠的土地，眉锁深邃的荷马在那里统治。但我从未呼吸过那里清新的空气直到传来查普曼的声音宏亮有力：我就如同有了观星者的感应一个新的星体划入了我的视线，或又变成了考帝兹那双眼如鹰注视着太平洋——以及他的成员惊讶地彼此相视，进入狂想的意境，沉默不语——倚靠在达利安山巅。 Snake蛇A snake came to my water-troughOn a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,To drink there.一条蛇来到我的水槽饮水，在一个大热天，我热得穿一身睡衣裤。In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob-treeI came down the steps with my pitcherAnd must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before me.在巨大的深色角豆树散发奇味的浓荫里，我提着水壶走下台阶，我得等待，得站住、等待，因为他就在我前面的水槽边。He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloomAnd trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over the edge of the stone troughAnd rested his throat upon the stone bottom,And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,He sipped with his straight mouth,Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body,Silently.他从阴暗处的土墙裂缝里探下身子，拖着黄褐色的松弛软腹爬下，越过石头水槽的边沿，把喉咙搁在石头槽底上，水从龙头上小滴小滴清晰落下，他用笔直的嘴呷饮，让水通过笔直的牙床，流入松弛的长长身躯，舒适地饮着，默不做声。Someone was before me at my water-trough,And I, like a second-comer, waiting.有人在我之前已来到我的水槽，而我，像个后来者，等待着。He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,And stooped and drank a little more,Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earthOn the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.他停止喝水，抬起头，像牲口一样，他毫无表情地看着我，像喝水的牲口，嘴里闪出双叉舌头，沉思了片刻，然后俯身，又喝了点水；他从燃烧的大地深处孕育而生，一身土棕色、土金色，西西里七月的这个日子，埃特纳火山还在冒烟。The voice of my education said to meHe must be killed,For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are venomous.我所接受的教育向我发出声音说他得处死，因为在西西里，黑蛇，黑色的蛇是清白的，而金色的蛇是有毒的。And voices in me said, If you were a manYou would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.我身体里那些声音发话：如果你是男人，你就该马上操起棍子，打断他，打死他。But must I confess h