蹒跚在未来之路的夜行者——拾贝录及其他

The Road Not Taken

——Robert Frost
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

未来之路
——罗伯特·弗罗斯特

两条路分岔在黄树林里，
遗憾我只是单身过客
无法两道都走，我伫立
极目探望其中之一
拐弯消失在矮丛里；

然后挑了另一条，一样好，
可能资格更高，
因为它绿草茸茸，缺少磨耗；
尽管在那方面，步履往来
把它们踩得其实差不了多少，

那天清晨它们一起静卧
在树叶下，无人踩黑。
哦，我把头条路留给下回！
但是深知道路连贯不绝，
我怀疑自己还能返回。

多年后，在某地
我将边说边叹息：
两条路分岔在林中，而我——
我选择了那条，人迹稍稀
于是造成了一切差异。
（黄运特 译）