如果落向牛頓腦袋的

If no apple fell

不是蘋果

on Newton’s head,

如果蘋果降落的姿態不準確

or it hadn’t dropped just so,

如果蘋果是一種雪花

but drifted

的灑落，那麼

like a snowflake,

輕柔的音符

like soft notes

同時襲向牛頓的耳朵

flooding Newton’s ears,

牛頓就開始哆嗦了

maybe he’d have only shivered

唱沒有韻的歌

and sung a rhymeless tune.

又如果蘋果墜落

If the apple had descended

以沉雄的撼動

like a whirlwind

挾沙石俱來

flinging sand and stones,

那麼牛頓甦醒

Newton might awaken

是另一天的日落了

at the sunset of another day

腦袋隱隱發痛

with an aching pate.

如果蘋果樹上

If the tree

沒有蘋果

had grown no apple,

牛頓夜夜仍向

Newton might have kept staring upward

滿天星斗處仰望

night after starry night,

這，只能怪牛頓自己

with nothing to blame

but himself.