[转帖][丹麦]舒马赫《费希特》《诗人最后的书》/英语学习

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<div class="sectionhead" align="center"><p>Poems Dedicated To Two German Scholars<br/><br/>纪念两位德国学者的短诗</p><p><br/>Fichte or Fool of Fortune<br/></p></div><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span class="sectiontext">He had to look after the geese,<br/>He had to go to church:<br/>He repeated in front of the geese<br/>The whole sermon he had heard;<br/>A learned man passed by, listening to the talent,<br/>and paid the young man a good education.<br/>The educated man wrote a book,<br/>that was edited by Kant</span><span class="sup">1</span><span class="sectiontext">,<br/>So everybody thought the philosopher had written it;<br/>The truth was told, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte</span><span class="sup">2</span><span class="sectiontext"> became famous.<br/>Today we can discuss Fichte's socialism and Karl Marx,<br/>Thanks to the geese, or thanks to the parson,<br/>Or thanks to the learned man, or thanks to Immanuel Kant? <p></p></span><p></p><p><span class="sectiontext"><strong>费希特</strong></span>（或 “幸运的傻瓜”）</p>他必须照料那些鹅，<br/>他必须去教堂祷告，<br/>他常对那些鹅<br/>重复他所听到的祷文。<br/>一位学者经过那里，听到这位天才的声音，<br/>于是花钱让这年轻人受了良好的教育。<br/>有了知识的他写成了一本书，<br/>是康德编辑的，<br/>以致人们都认为书是这位大哲学家写的。<br/>真相大白之后，费希特便名声大噪。<br/>今天,我们可以讨论费希特的社会主义和卡尔·马克思,<br/>这应该归功于那些鹅，归功于那位牧师，<br/>归功于那位学者，还是归功于康德？ <p></p><p></p></blockquote><br/>1. 康德（Immanuel Kant, 1724 － 1804），德国著名哲学家。<br/>2. 费希特（Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1762 － 1814）， 德国著名哲学家。<br/><p></p><p></p><blockquote><p class="sectiontext"><strong>The Poet's Last Book </strong></p><span class="sectiontext">The Nobel Prize winner</span><span class="sup">1</span><span class="sectiontext"> had survived WWⅡ<br/>in his lonely house in the remote mountains.<br/>Another poet</span><span class="sup">2</span><span class="sectiontext"> having survived the War in Moscow<br/>visited the old man with some Soviet officers:<br/>Sitting in his armchair, his white hair like a crown,<br/>having on his knees a thick book-"CHINA".<br/>(A few months later, he was dead:<br/>Nobody knows whether he ever read the whole book.) <p></p></span><p></p><p class="sectiontext"><strong>诗人最后的书</strong></p>一位诺贝尔奖获得者在二战中幸存<br/>住在遥远的山区里，他那孤独的小屋中。<br/>另一位诗人在莫斯科也幸免于这场战争<br/>他与一些苏联官员拜访了这位老人：<br/>老人坐在他的扶手椅上，白发像一顶皇冠，<br/>膝盖上放着一本厚厚的书——《中国》。<br/>（几个月后，老人去世，没人知道他是否读完了那本书。） <p></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br/><br/>1. 指豪普特曼（Gerhart Hauptmann, 1862－1946），德国剧作家和诗人，1912年获诺贝尔文学奖。<br/>2. 指贝歇尔（Johannes R. Becher, 1891－1958），德国诗人，曾任德意志民主共和国文化部长。</p></blockquote><p>这是德裔丹麦籍语言学家兼诗人舒马赫（1939- ）博士用英语写的两首诗，由孙莲女士（毕业于北京师范大学下属京师科技学院涉外英语系）翻译，北京师范大学中文系伍铁平教授校改。关于舒马赫，中国社会科学院刊物《国外社会科学》2002年第3期有专文介绍。周流溪教授著《语言研究与人文研究》（香港华人出版社，2001年）中也有专文《维尔弗里德·舒马赫》介绍他。</p>

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