先看几桩事实：

First a few facts:

人是唯一会哭的动物

Man is the only creature that weeps

为何（猿不会？）我们不知

why (apes don’t?) we don’t know

正如有两种沉默

Just as there are two kinds of silence

存在着两种裸体

there are two kinds of naked

一张地图是一幅风景画

A map is a landscape

你可以把它折叠起来

that you can fold up

信有声音

Letters have a voice

但那些返回寄信人的信有灵魂

but those returned to sender have a soul

在英语里它们被叫作“死信”

In English they’re called dead letters

一旦返回，信

Once returned the letters are

就被压缩并被撕碎

compressed and shredded

这并不能解释雪的起源

This does not explain the origin of snow

或鬼火的出现

or the presence of will-o’-the-wisps

“是”和“它”是神秘的词

Is and It are mysterious words

就像你想不起你的出生

Just as you recall nothing of your birth

你将记不得你的死亡

you will remember nothing of your death

DNA的信息

The message of DNA is

在你的背部完成秘诀

wind up the key in your back

没有塞子的事物认识不了冲突

Things without a plug know no interference

没有塞子的事物

Things without a plug

除了那个想弄明白

except the person who wonders

什么正被人算入“几点了”的人

what is being counted in ‘what time is it’

好吧，风也哭泣

Okay, the wind weeps too