自深深处中英对照多种翻译版

【一】

Dear Bosie,

After long and fruitless waiting I have determined to write to you myself, as much for your sake as

for mine, as I would not like to think that I had passed through two long years of imprisonment

without ever having received a single line from you, or any news or message even, except such as

gave me pain.

Our ill-fated and most lamentable friendship has ended in ruin and public infamy for me, yet the

memory

of

our

ancient

affection

is

often

with

me,

and

the

thought

that

loathing, bitterness

and

contempt should for ever take that place in my heart once held by love is very sad to me: and you

yourself will, I think, feel in your heart that to write to me as I lie in the loneliness of prison-life is

better

than

to

publish

my

letters

without

my

permission

or

to

dedicate

poems

to

me

unasked,

though

the

world

will

know

nothing

of

whatever

words

of

grief

or

passion,

of

remorse

or

indifference you may choose to send as your answer or your appeal.

【孙宜学译本】

亲爱的波茜：

在经过漫长徒劳的等待 之后，我决定亲自给你写信，这既是为了你的缘故，

也是为了我，我

不愿想到在我被监禁的这漫长的两年里，除了使我痛苦的消息外，却得不到你的只言片语。

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我们不幸的最可悲的友谊，

已经在公众对我的谩骂声中 毁于一旦了。

但我仍然常常回忆起过

去的友情。

当想到憎恶、

仇恨、

轻蔑会永远占据我那一度充满爱的 心灵时，

我就不禁感到无

限悲哀。

我想 你自己也不难想到，

当我孤独地生活在监狱中时，

你给我写信远 比未经我的允

许就公开我的信或献给我我所不需要的诗好得多。

虽然，

无论你选择什么：

悲哀或激情、悔

恨或冷漠作为你的回答或要求，世人对你说过的任何话都会一无所知。

【

Point

】

1

、

fruitless

不结果实的，引申为“无益的，徒劳的”

【举例】

a fruitless attempt

徒劳的尝

试

2

、

be determined to do sth.

下定决心去做某事

【举例】

I'm determined to quit smoking.

我下

定决心要戒烟。

3

、

for the sake of

由于，为了，为了??的利益

4

、

permission

许可，

授权

【举例】

with/without sb.'s permission

经过

/

未经某 人许可，

give/deny

sb. permission to do sth.

允许

/

不许某 人做某事

【二】

I have no doubt that in this letter in which I have to write of your life and of mine, of the past and

of the future, of sweet things changed to bitterness and of bitter things that may be turned into joy,

there will be much that will wound your vanity to the quick. If it prove so, read the letter over and

over

again

till

it

kills

your

vanity.

If

you

find

in

it

something

of

which

you

feel

that

you

are

unjustly accused, remember that one should be thankful that there is any fault of which one can be

unjustly accused. If there be in it one single passage that brings tears to your eyes, weep as we

weep in prison where the day no less than the night is set apart for tears. It is the only thing that

can save you.

【孙宜学译本】

我毫不怀疑，在我写 给你的这封信里，会涉及你我的生活，涉及过去与将来，涉及变成了酸

涩的甘甜和可能会 变成快乐的酸涩，

但也有许多东西会伤到你的虚荣心的痛处。

如 果真是这

样的话，

那你就一遍遍地读这封信，

< br>直到它消除了你的虚荣心。

如果你发现这封信中对你的