Episodit
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Truth in her dress finds facts too tight.
In fiction she moves with ease.
真理穿了衣裳，觉得事实太拘束了。
在想象中，她却转动得很舒畅。
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Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
时间是变化的财富。时钟模仿它，却只有变化而无财富。
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I am ashamed of my emptiness, said the Word to the Work.
I know how poor I am when I see you, said the Work to the Word.
文字对工作说道：“我惭愧我的空虚。”
工作对文字说道：“当我看见你的时，我便知道我是怎样地贫乏了。”
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you raise your waves vainly to follow your lover, O sea, you lonely bride of the storm.
海呀，你这暴风雨的孤寂的新妇呀，你虽掀起波浪追随你的情人，但是无用呀。
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Storm of midnight, like a giant child awakened in the untimely dark, has begun to play and shout.
子夜的风雨，如一个巨大的孩子，在不合时宜的黑夜里醒来，开始游喜和喧闹。
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This rainy evening the wind is restless.
I look at the swaying branches and ponder over the greatness of all things.
阴雨的黄昏，风无休止地吹着。
我看着摇曳的树枝，想念万物的伟大。
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
埋在地下的树根使树枝产生果实，却不要什么报酬。
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The leaf becomes flower when it loves.
The flower becomes fruit when it worships.
绿叶恋爱时便成了花。
花崇拜时便成了果实。
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Leisure in its activity is work.
The stillness of the sea stirs in waves.
闲暇在动作时便是工作。
静止的海水荡动时便成波涛。
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I hear some rustle of things behind my sadness of heart,
---I cannot see them.
我听见有些东西在我心的忧闷后面萧萧作响，－－我不能看见它们。
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If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
如果你把所有的错误都关在门外时，真理也要被关在门外面了。
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Asks the Possible to the Impossible,
Where is your dwelling-place?
In the dreams of the impotent, comes the answer.
“可能”问“不可能”道：
“你住在什么地方呢？”
它回答道：“在那无能为力者的梦境里。”
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
如果你不等待着要说出完全的真理，那末把真话说出来是很容易的。
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Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.
The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
蜜蜂从花中啜蜜，离开时营营地道谢。
浮华的蝴蝶却相信花是应该向它道谢的。
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
不是槌的打击，乃是水的载歌载舞，使鹅卵石臻于完美。
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The great is a born child; when he dies he gives his great childhood
to the world.
伟人是一个天生的孩子，当他死时，他把他的伟大的孩提时代给了世界。
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“In the moon you send your love letters to me, ” said the night to the sun.
I leave my answers in tears upon the grass.
夜对太阳说道：“在月亮中，你送了你的情书给我。”
“我已在绿草上留下了我的流着泪点的回答了。”
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The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a life in the air.
鸟以为把鱼举在空中是一种慈善的举动。
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Dear friend, I feel the silence of your great thoughts of many a deepening eventide on this beach when I listen to these waves.
亲爱的朋友呀，当我静听着海涛时，我好几次在暮色深沉的黄昏里，在这个海岸上，感到你的伟大思想的沉默了。
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I carry in my world that flourishes the worlds that have failed.
我把在那些已逝去的世界上的繁荣带到我的世界上来。
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