作品原文

卞之琳 《圆宝盒》

我幻想在哪儿（天河里？）
捞到了一只圆宝盒，
装的是几颗珍珠：
一颗晶莹的水银
掩有全世界的色相，
一颗金黄的灯火
笼罩有一场华宴，
一颗新鲜的雨点
含有你昨夜的叹气……
别上什么钟表店
听你的青春被蚕食，
别上什么古董铺
买你家祖父的旧摆设。
你看我的圆宝盒
跟了我的船顺流
而行了，虽然舱里人
永远在蓝天的怀里，
虽然你们的握手
是桥！是桥！可是桥
也搭在我的圆宝盒里；
而我的圆宝盒在你们
或他们也许就是
好挂在耳边的一颗
珍珠——宝石？——星？

英文译文
Round Jewel Box
Bian Zhilin

Where do I fancy I fathom
A round jewel-box? From the Milky Way?
It contains a few pearls
A drop of transparent watery mercury
Holds the colors and forms of the whole world
A drop of golden lamp
Keeps in it a hall of luxurious feast
A drop of fresh rain
Swells with your last night’s sign
Don’t go to a clock & watch store
To listen to your youth being eaten away by silkworms
Don’t go to an antique shop
To buy your grandfather’s old bric-a-bracs
See, my round jewel-box
Now follows my boat to float onward
Down, although passengers in the cabin are
Always in the blue sky’s embrace
Although your handshakes
Are a bridge—Yes, a bridge, but a bridge
Also built within my jewel-box
And my jewel-box to you
To them, is perhaps
For hanging on the ears, a drop of
A pearl—a precious stone—a star?