博尔赫斯的《我拿什么才能留住你》
What can I hold you with
I offer you lean streets. desperate sunsets .the moon of the jagged suburbs.
lean streets 荒凉的街道
desperate sunsets绝望的落日
jagged suburbs 拥挤的郊区
我给你贫穷的街道，绝望的日落，破败郊区的月亮
I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long at the lonely moon.
bitterness 悲痛
我给你一个久久地望着孤月的人的悲哀
I offer you my ancestors . my dead men . the ghost that living men have honoured in marble. my father's father killed in the frontier of Buenos Aires . two bullets through his lung .bearded and dead . wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a cow.
my mother's grandfather just twenty-four heading a charge of three hundred men in Peru .now ghosts on vanished horses. I offer you whatever insight my books may hold . whatever manliness or humour my life.
ancestors祖先
marble大理石
frontier边界
bullets子弹
bearded对抗的
wrapped包装
我给你我已死去的先辈，人们用大理石纪念他们的幽灵，在布宜诺斯艾利斯边境阵亡的我祖父，两颗子弹贯穿了他的胸膛，续着胡子的他死去了，士兵们用牛皮裹起他的尸体
我母亲的祖父，时年二十四岁，在秘鲁率领三百名士兵冲锋，如今都成了消失的马背上的幽灵
I offer you loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.
loyalty忠诚
我给你一个从未有过信仰人的忠诚
I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved somwhow the central heart that deals not in words. traffic not with dreams and is untouched by time . by joy .by adversities.
kernel核心
我给你我设法保全的我自己的核心，不营字造句，不和梦想交易，不被时间，欢乐和逆境触动的核心
I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunself authentic and surprising news of yourself.
authentic可信的
我给你早在你出生前多年的一个傍晚看到的一朵黄玫瑰的记忆
I offer you explanation of yourself theories about yourself .authentic and surprising news of yourself.
我给你对自己的解释，关于你自己的理论，你自己的真实而惊人的消息
I can give you my loneliness .my darkness. the hunger of my heart . I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty. with danger .with defeat.
bribe 贿赂
我给你我的寂寞，我的黑暗，我心的饥渴，我试图用困惑，危险，失败来打败你
