I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all

我，也不喜欢它：有些事比如此虚度时光

this fiddle.

更重要。

Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one

然而，以轻蔑的态度去读它，你

discovers in

终究会发现， 

it after all, a place for the genuine.

真实在其中拥有一席之地。

Hands that can grasp, eyes

能紧握的手，能睁大的

that can dilate, hair that can rise

眼睛，必要时

if it must, these things are important not because a

能竖立的头发，这些事之所以重要，不是因为

high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because

它们能被夸张地描述，而是

they are

因为

useful. When they become so derivative as to become

它们有用。当它们变得歧义丛生， 

unintelligible,

难以理解，

the same thing may be said for all of us, that we

即便人们对我们说起，我们也绝不会 

do not admire what

欣赏

we cannot understand: the bat

我们无法理解的：倒挂着

holding on upside down or in quest of something to

或正在寻找食物的

eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf

蝙蝠，前进的大象，拉滚轴的野马，树下

under

一只

a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that

不知疲倦的狼，铁石心肠的评论家轻轻抽动皮肤，像一匹马

feels a

感觉到

flea, the base-

跳蚤，棒球迷

ball fan, the statistician--

统计学家——

nor is it valid

歧视商业文书和

to discriminate against 'business documents and

学校课本

school-books'; all these phenomena are important. One must

同样错误；所有这些现象都很重要。不过， 

make a distinction

你必须

however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the

加以区分：被末流诗人所推崇的，

result is not poetry,

其实并不是诗。

nor till the poets among us can be

除非，我们的诗人能

'literalists of

成为“想象的

the imagination'--above

写实主义者”——克服了

insolence and triviality and can present

傲慢和琐屑，能接受

for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them', shall

审视，“想象的花园里有真实的蟾蜍”，我们

we have

才创造出了

it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,

诗。同时，如果你要求 

the raw material of poetry in

诗歌的素材

all its rawness and

既新鲜，

that which is on the other hand

又

genuine, you are interested in poetry.

真实，你就对诗产生了兴趣。