你死之後,
After you died,
田,犁到一半的時候,
when the field was half plowed,
牛死了,
the ox collapsed
犁田人在地裡大喊一聲,
and the plowman shouted.
村裡人循聲趕來,
Soon villagers appeared,
把血放乾淨了,
bled the corpse,
再開始分。
then started cutting.
四十分鐘後,
In forty minutes
一頭牛無影無蹤了。
a whole ox gone.
但它犁了一半的地,
The field remained
還在那裡,
half plowed
在一彎新月下邊。
beneath a horned new moon.
你死之後,
After you died,
一只喜鵲飛進我們家屋簷。
a magpie flew under our eaves.
十一年了,我還沒有脫胎換骨,
Eleven years and I’m still wandering,
我還沒有把松樹種活,
neither reborn
等於還是流離失所,
nor have I planted a living pine.
你回來又有何用?
What use if you returned?
一片樹葉如同你溫熱的淚打在院子裡,
A leaf spins down to the yard.
我是愧對你的死了。
I’m ashamed to face your death.
你死之後,
After you died,
一根壓彎的枯草站起身來,
a blade of yellow grass stood
用什麼也不期待的眼神,
hopeless before the lamps of a thousand houses.
看見萬家燈火亮了。
Amidst other grass, alone,
成群結隊時它孤身一人,
or alone on the riverbank.
在河堤上時,
還是孤身一人。
After you died,
all this
你死之後,
smoky as rain on an old bridge
這些,
south of the Yangtze.
宛如我在江南的一座老橋上
看見的煙雨。