法律像爱情 Law Like Love

Law Like Love W. H. Auden Law, say the gardeners, is the sun, Law is the one All gardeners obey To-morrow, yesterday, to-day. Law is the wisdom of the old, The impotent grandfathers feebly scold; The grandchildren put out a treble tongue, Law is the senses of the young. Law, says the priest with a priestly look, Expounding to an unpriestly people, Law is the words in my priestly book, Law is my pulpit and my steeple. Law, says the judge as he looks down his nose, Speaking clearly and most severely, Law is as I've told you before, Law is as you know I suppose, Law is but let me explain it once more, Law is The Law. Yet law-abiding scholars write: Law is neither wrong nor right, Law is only crimes Punished by places and by times, Law is the clothes men wear Anytime, anywhere, Law is Good morning and Good night. Others say, Law is our Fate; Others say, Law is our State; Others say, others say Law is no more, Law has gone away. And always the loud angry crowd, Very angry and very loud, Law is We, And always the soft idiot softly Me. If we, dear, know we know no more Than they about the Law, If I no more than you Know what we should and should not do Except that all agree Gladly or miserably That the Law is And that all know this If therefore thinking it absurd To identify Law with some other word, Unlike so many men I cannot say Law is again, No more than they can we suppress The universal wish to guess Or slip out of our own position Into an unconcerned condition. Although I can at least confine Your vanity and mine To stating timidly A timid similarity, We shall boast anyvay: Like love I say. Like love we don't know where or why, Like love we can't compel or fly, Like love we often weep, Like love we seldom keep. 法律像爱情 发表时间：2010-11-6 17:09:00 阅读次数:136 所属分类：与书有关 2009-03-07 23:54 试着把“法律像爱情“翻译如下，见笑: 奥登的原文和穆旦的译文在网上都不难找到 法律，园丁说，就是太阳 法律是所有园丁 昨天，今天和明天 遵循的规律 法律是老年人的智慧 虚弱的祖父有气无力地指责道 孙子高声宣告 法律是年轻人的感觉 法律，牧师虔诚地 向俗人阐释道 法律是我的传道书里的言语 法律是我的讲坛我的尖塔 法律，法官轻蔑地扫视了一眼 清楚而又严肃不过地说 法律是我从前告诉过你的事 法律是你对我的预知 法律，让我再跟你解释一遍吧 法律就是法律 然而，守法的学者写道 法律不是对或者错 法律仅仅是 因时因地课加的刑罚 法律是人们任何时间任何地点 穿的衣裳 法律是早安和晚安 还有人说，法律是我们的命运 还有人说，法律是我们的国家 还有人说，还有人说 法律已经消逝不见 而愤怒嘈杂的人群 一直很愤怒，很嘈杂 法律就是我们 而笨笨的白痴总是说 法律就是我 如果我们，呵，知道我们对法律的了解 并不比他们多 如果我并不比你更明白 何者是应为不应为 除非所有人都 快乐或悲戚地同意 那就是法律 而所有人都懂得这一点 若据此认为 把法律和其他的词语等同 是荒唐的 不同于许多人 我不能再说法律是什么 我们不能压制 他们想要猜测的普遍心愿 或者脱离我们自己的立场 滑入漠不关心的状态 尽管我至少能限定 你我的自负 我们仍能 羞怯地 以羞怯的相似确定： 让我说 法律就像爱情 就像爱情，我们不知地点不知缘由 就像爱情，我们不能强迫，抑或逃离 就像爱情，让我们常常为了它哭泣 就像爱情，我们难以守得永恒的结局