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Ode: Intimations of Immortality IX

作者Author / William Wordsworth 威廉．華滋華斯

ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

原文與注釋(Text and Annotation): IX

9. (Summary)
O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live,
That nature yet remembers
What was so fugitive!
The thought of our past years in me doth breed	135
Perpetual benediction: not indeed
For that which is most worthy to be blest?/font>
Delight and liberty, the simple creed
Of childhood, whether busy or at rest,
With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:?/font>	140
Not for these I raise
The song of thanks and praise;
But for those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;	145
Blank misgivings of a Creature
Moving about in worlds not realized,
High instincts before which our mortal Nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:
But for those first affections,	150
Those shadowy recollections,
Which, be they what they may,
Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,
Are yet a master-light of all our seeing;
Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make	155
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake,
To perish never:
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,
Nor Man nor Boy,	160
Nor all that is at enmity with joy,
Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Hence in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea	165
Which brought us hither,
Can in a moment travel thither,
And see the children sport upon the shore,
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.

Line / No.	Word or Phrase	Annotation
第九節大意：然則，我樂於認為兒時舊有的榮耀尚有餘存。一個成人尚未完全喪失往日的光彩，遺忘舊時的記憶。一種對現世幻象的感受力能引導，加強並撫慰我們。這種感受力歷久不滅。因此，我們時而可以再度了解我們前生的不朽存在。
9/131	embers	餘燼。[back]
134	fugitive	fleeting, not permanent短暫的，轉瞬即挺的。[back]
136	benediction	the invocation of a blessing得自天堂的福祉。[back]
138	creed	信念。[back]
140	new-fledged	（雛）剛會飛的。
140	Fluttering	鼓翼。[back]
141	raise	唱出。[back]
143	obstainate questionings	我們頭腦中對塵世中虛無不實的事務所發生之不斷的疑問。[back]
144	outward things	周圍的事物。外界。[back]
145	Falling from us, vanishings	一種夢幻空虛的感覺，從而覺得沒有一樣東西是真實的。[back]
146	Blank misgivings	說不出的疑惑。[back]
147	not realized	unreal.[back]
148	High instincts	高超的本能。[back]
149	surprised	unexpectedly caught冷不防被抓到。[back]
150	affections	感情。(feelings for "the things which I have seen," e.g. glory and dream.)[back]
151	shadowy	obscure矇朧的。[back]
153	the fountain light	光源。
153	a master light	天堂之光。即是以使人見及真理者。[back]
155	Uphold	support支持。
155	cherish	撫育，珍愛。[back]
156	Our noisy years	熙熙攘攘的歲月，即指此生。[back]
157	eternal Silence	永恒的靜默，即指eternal life.[back]
159	listlessness	冷淡，不關心。
159	endeavour	竭力。[back]
161	enmity	hostility敵對。[back]
162	abolish	毀滅。[back]
163	calm weather	天氣晴朗。[back]
164	Though inland far we be	雖然我們遠在內陸，指長大了。[back]
165	immortal sea	eternity永恒。[back]
166	Which	指immortal sea。
166	hither	指內陸。即成年期。[back]
167	thither	不朽海洋之濱，指兒童期。[back]
168	sport	嬉戲。[back]
169	mighty waters	"the immortal sea."
	Rolling	（浪等）滾滾而來。
	evermore	永遠。[back]