《Possibilities》

种种可能

By Szymborska

作者：辛波斯卡

I prefer movies.

我偏爱电影。 

I prefer cats.

我偏爱猫。 

I prefer the oaks along the Warta.

我偏爱华尔塔河沿岸的橡树。 

I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.

我偏爱狄更斯胜过陀思妥耶夫斯基。 

I prefer myself liking people

我偏爱我对人群的喜欢 

to myself loving mankind.

胜过我对人类的爱。 

I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand,

我偏爱在手边摆放针线，

just in case.

以备不时之需。 

I prefer the color green.

我偏爱绿色。 

I prefer not to maintain

我偏爱不抱持把一切， 

that reason is to blame for everything.

都归咎于理性的想法。 

I prefer exceptions.

我偏爱例外。 

I prefer to leave early.

我偏爱及早离去。 

I prefer talking to doctors about something else.

我偏爱和医生聊些别的话题。 

I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations.

我偏爱线条细致的老式插画。 

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

我偏爱写诗的荒谬，

to the absurdity of not writing poems.

胜过不写诗的荒谬。

I prefer, where love's concerned, nonspecific anniversaries

我偏爱，就爱情而言， 

that can be celebrated every day.

可以天天庆祝的不特定纪念日。 

I prefer moralists

我偏爱不向我做任何，

who promise me nothing.

承诺的道德家。 

I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.

我偏爱狡猾的仁慈胜过过度可信的那种。 

I prefer the earth in civvies.

我偏爱穿便服的地球。 

I prefer conquered to conquering countries.

我偏爱被征服的国家胜过征服者。 

I prefer having some reservations.

我偏爱有些保留。 

I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.

我偏爱淡色的眼睛，因为我是黑眼珠。 

I prefer desk drawers.

我偏爱书桌的抽屉。 

I prefer many things that I haven't mentioned here

我偏爱许多此处未提及的事物 

to many things I've also left unsaid.

胜过许多我也没有说到的事物。 

I prefer to knock on wood.

我偏爱敲击木头。 

I prefer not to ask how much longer and when.

我偏爱不去问还要多久或什么时候。 

I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility

我偏爱牢记此一可能—— 

that existence has its own reason for being.

存在的理由不假外求。