【双语】刘再复·《榕树，生命进行曲（上）》

中英对照散文《榕树，生命进行曲》...

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我时常思念着故乡的灵魂，榕树。

My thoughts frequently return to the banyan trees which are the soul of my home.

记得有人问我：你追求过怎样美丽的灵魂？我说，榕树。

“What soul of beauty have you pursued?” I was once asked.

“The banyan,” I replied.

情感的潺潺，思想的潺潺，再一次流过故乡崎岖的山野，再一次流过往昔峥嵘的岁月，回过头来思量，那昨天使我爱恋过的灵魂，今天依然使我向往着的灵魂，也只有它——榕树，我的永恒的爱恋。

The flow of my feelings and thoughts retraces the rugged mountains of my home, the eventful bygone days. When I contemplate more carefully, I feel that the banyan is the one and only soul I have yearned for and still do today.

The banyan tree has my everlasting love.

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我爱恋的榕树，不知道使多少陌生人为它兴叹过，倾倒过。

The banyan tree that I love has swept countless strangers off their feet into eulogy and marvel.

真是太壮阔了。只要你接近它，就会感到它的全身，都充满着一种最动人的东西，这就是，生命。

Such is its magnificence that you need only come near it to feel the utter magic that saturates the entire tree. This is life.

善于思辩的哲学家说，美就是充满生命的人和物。我相信，因为榕树，我才相信。

Shrewd philosophers have claimed that beauty is a person or thing full of life. I believe them; I believe them because of the banyan tree.

几乎是整个童年时代与少年时代，我都在观赏这种洋溢着生命的大树。

All my childhood and adolescence I watched the huge banyan trees so instilled with life.

我喜欢这种绿色世界在无风中的平静、雍容、丰盛、满足，像沉默的大山一样岿然而立。

I like the green trees for their stillness when there is no wind, their dignity, fullness, contentment and the way they stand loftily like silent mountains.

我更喜欢它在风中的时刻。榕树的每一片绿叶，都像风帆那样善于捕捉最弱的微风。因此，当轻风吹拂的时候，它的叶子就会颤动起来，刹那间，树上好像千百万绿色的蝴蝶，在一开一翕地扇着翅膀，共同编织着生命的织锦。

I like them even better when there is a wind, when every leaf catches the slightest breeze just like a flapping sail on a boat. When there is a gentle wind, the foliage turns suddenly to hundreds and thousands of green, fluttering butterflies weaving with combined efforts a brocade of life.



更使我陶醉的是雄风吹动的时刻。此时的榕树，瞬息间从沉默的大山变成汹涌的大海，波浪在树梢上澎湃着，时时发出拍打蓝天的沙沙的响声。

I am even more enraptured when a strong wind rises. Then the banyan tree is transformed in the twinkling of an eye from a silent mountain into a surging sea, its top rolling like waves, rustling against the vast blue sky.

有一位很重感情的北方朋友告诉我，他第一次见到南国土地上的高大榕树时，几乎吓呆了。榕树那企图笼罩大地的浓荫，那企图吞没白云的树冠，那企图饮尽地下全部水分的根群，那陡立而弯曲多节的树枝所构筑的殿廊、山脉、峡谷和道路，一起在放射着生命的光波与音波。这种柔和而强大的波浪，把他的心灵摇撼得很久很久。在撼动中，他感到自己的生命被另一种强大的生命所照明，所溶解，所征服。他觉得自己完全被这种强大的生命所俘虏，并且被剥夺了身上的渺小、卑琐、颓唐与消沉。在树下，澄清的空气中，他觉得自己的灵魂升腾起来了，仿佛也变成一只扇动着翅膀的绿蝶，也在这个充满生命的葱茏世界中快乐地翔舞。

A sentimental friend from the north told me how he was stunned at the sight of a tall banyan when he first came to the south. He was stirred for a long, long time by the gentle yet powerful waves of the banyan, whose dense foliage attempts to envelop the great earth, whose top attempts to swallow up the clouds and whose roots attempt to drink up all the water underground. Its thick branches, slanting and twisted, seemed to form corridors, mountain ranges, ravines and roads, emitting light waves and sound waves of life which reverberated in the soul of this friend of mine for a long, long time. He felt that his life was illuminated, melted and conquered by a stronger life that held him in thrall and eliminated the insignificance, meanness, despondency and dejection within him. Standing under the tree in the fresh air, he felt that his soul was lifted and that he seemed to be transformed into a fluttering butterfly that danced happily in a green world permeated with life.

（Yu Fanqin 译）

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