生命的開始 The Beginning

羅賓德拉納德·泰戈爾/Rabindranath Tagore

“Where have I come from, where did you pick me up?”the baby asked its mother.

She answered half crying, half laughing, and clasping the baby to her breast—

“You were hidden in my heart as its desire, my darling.

“You were in the dolls of my childhood's games; and when with clay I made the image of my god every morning, I made and unmade you then.You were enshrined with our household deity, in his worship I worshipped you. In all my hopes and my loves, in my life, in the life of my mother you have lived. In the lap of the deathless spirit who rules our home you have been nursed for ages.

“When in girlhood my heart was opening its petals, you hovered as a fragrance about it. Your tender softness bloomed in my youthful limbs, like a glow in the sky before the sunrise. Heaven's first darling, twin-born with the morning light, you have floated down the stream of the world's life and at last you have stranded on my heart.

“As I gaze on your face, mystery overwhelms me; you who belong to all have become mine. For fear of losing you I hold you tight to my breast. What magic has snared the world's treasure in these slender arms of mine?”

“我是從哪里來的，你在哪里把我撿起來的？”孩子問他的媽媽。

媽媽把孩子緊緊地摟在胸前，似哭似笑地答道——

“你曾被我當成心愿藏在我的心里，我的寶貝。

“你曾藏在我孩童時玩的泥娃娃身上；每天早晨我用黏土塑造我的神像時，我反復地將你塑造又捏碎。你曾和我們家的守護神一同受供奉，我崇拜家神時也就崇拜了你。你一直活在我所有的希望和愛里，在我的生命里，在我母親的生命里。在支配著我們家庭的不朽神靈的膝上，你已經被撫育了好幾代了。

“當我在少女時代時，我的心如花瓣兒般盛開，你就像一股花香纏繞不去。你嬌嫩的溫柔，在我青春的肢體上綻放，像日出之前劃過天空的一道曙光。天堂里的第一寵兒與晨曦一并降臨，你沿著世界生命的溪流順流而下，終于停泊在我的心頭。

“當我凝視你的臉時，神秘之感震撼著我，原屬于世界的你，竟成了我的。害怕失去你，我把你緊緊地擁在懷里。是什么魔力把這世界的寶貝引到我這纖弱的臂彎中來的呢？”

詞匯筆記

desire [di?zai?] n. 愿望；欲望；情欲

例 Every desire that you might have can be fulfilled here.

在這里，你的每一個愿望都能得到滿足。

petal [?petl] n. 花瓣

例 I recommend rose-petal salad.

我向你們推薦玫瑰花瓣色拉。

fragrance [?freiɡr?ns] n. 香味；芬芳

例 Lavender has a delicate fragrance.

熏衣草有淡淡的香味。

overwhelm [??uv??hwelm] v. 壓倒；震撼；受打擊

例 It would rouse my spiritual consciousness and overwhelm me.

它會激起我的靈性意識，震撼我。

小試身手

你曾被我當成心愿藏在我的心里，我的寶貝。

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害怕失去你，我把你緊緊地擁在懷里。

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你一直活在我所有的希望和愛里，在我的生命里，在我母親的生命里。

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短語家族

“Where have I come from, where did you pick me up?”

come from：生于；來自于

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As I gaze on your face, mystery overwhelms me……

gaze on：看到；望見；瞧著

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