我用什么才能留住你(慢版) -by MrPan

关注微信公众号：pansvoice 获得更多有趣节目哦。本原创节目版权归潘之声所有。欢迎点播、收听和下载。未经潘之声授权许可，本节目任何音频严禁用于其他平台或商业用途！

原文：博尔赫斯

朗读：MrPan （潘之声英语世界）

翻译：MrPan （潘之声英语世界）

---------------------------

What Can I Hold You With

我用什么留住你

翻译：MrPan （潘之声英语世界）

What can I hold you with?

I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of the jagged suburbs. 

I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long at the lonely moon. 

I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living men have honoured in bronze: 

my father's father killed in the frontier of Buenos Aires,

two bullets through his lungs, 

bearded and dead, wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a cow;

my mother's grandfather - just twentyfour - heading a charge of three hundred men in Peru,

now ghosts on vanished horses

我以什么留住你？

我给你狭窄的小街，无望的夕阳，破败郊区的月光

我给你一人独自久久凝望孤月的的苦涩

我给你我的先祖，逝去的人，人们以铜像纪念那些灵魂

我父亲的父亲，战死于布宜诺斯艾利斯的前线

两粒子弹射穿他的肺部，

死时须髯如戟，牛革裹尸

我母亲的祖父 - 当时只有24岁 - 在秘鲁带领三百将士冲锋陷阵

而今都已成与战马一同消逝的灵魂。

I offer you whatever insight my books may hold, 

whatever manliness or humour my life.

I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.  

I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved,somehow --

the central heart that deals not in words,traffics not with dreams,

and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities. 

I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunset, years before you were born.

I offer you explanations of yourself, theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself. 

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. 

我给你我书中所洞悉的一切

无论是男子汉的气概还是生活中的幽默

我给你一个曾从不在意忠诚之人的忠诚

我给你我保存完好的内心 

不虚与文字，不流于梦想 

不受限于时间，不浮华于靡乐、不低落于厄运。

我给你那早于你出生数年前，在夕阳中看到昏黄玫瑰的记忆 

我给你我对你的诠释，我对你的想法，一切有关你的真实而令人惊讶的消息

我给你我的寂寞、我的幽暗、我心中的渴望；

我正尝试用疑虑，危险和失落来诱惑你