无心剑中译伊丽莎白·毕肖普《一门技艺》

1、无心剑中译伊丽莎白·毕肖普《一门记忆》

One Art

一门技艺

Elizabeth Bishop

伊丽莎白·毕肖普

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

丢失这门技艺其实不难掌握；
很多东西似乎充满了被丢失的
意向，而丢失它们并非灾难。

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

每天丢失一点东西。接受
丢失钥匙的狼狈与浪费的时间。
丢失这门技艺其实不难掌握。

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant to
travel. None of these will bring disaster.

然后练习丢得更远，丢得更快：
地点、名字，还有你想游历之地，
丢掉这一切，都不会带来灾难。

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last,