我经过童年时的母校

I passed by the school where I studied as a boy

心里说：我在这儿学到了一些东西

and said in my heart: here I learned certain things

也有一些没有学到。我一生中白白爱着

and didn't learn others. All my life I have loved in vain

那些没有学到的东西。我学识饱满，

the things I didn't learn. I am filled with knowledge,

我清楚知识树上开花的全部细节，

I know all about the flowering of the tree of knowledge,

它叶子的形状，它根系的功能，它的害虫和寄生者。

the shape of its leaves, the function of its root system, its pests and parasites.

我是一位善与恶植物学的专家，

I'm an expert on the botany of good and evil,

我仍在钻研它，我将钻研它直到死。

I'm still studying it, I'll go on studying till the day I die.

我站在学校建筑旁向里望去，这是我们曾经

I stood near the school building and looked in. This is the room

就座与学习的房间。教室的窗户总是

where we sat and learned. The windows of a classroom always open

向未来打开，但在无知的年纪我们只是把

to the future, but in our innocence we thought it was only landscape

从窗口见到的当做风景。

we were seeing from the window.

校园狭小，铺着巨大的石块。

The schoolyard was narrow, paved with large stones.

我记得我们俩那短暂的眩晕

I remember the brief tumult of the two of us

在摇摇欲坠的楼梯旁边，那眩晕

near the rickety steps, the tumult

是一次多么美好初恋的开端。

that was the beginning of a first great love.

如今它脱离我们而活着，仿佛在一座博物馆，

Now it outlives us, as if in a museum,

如同耶路撒冷其他的一切。

like everything else in Jerusalem.