南遷 Moving South

你若把日本的地圖展開來一看，東京灣的東南，能看得見一條葫蘆形的半島，浮在浩渺無邊的太平洋裡。If you unfold a map of Japan and look, to the southeast of Dongjing Bay you can see a gourd-shaped peninsula, floating in the vast, boundless Pacific Ocean.這便是有名的安房半島！This is the famous Anfang Peninsula!

安房半島，雖然沒有地中海內的長靴島的風光明媚，然而成層的海浪，蔚藍的天色，柔和的空氣，平軟的低巒，海岸的漁網，和村落的居民，也很具有南歐海岸的性質，能使旅客忘記他是身在異鄉。Although the Anfang Peninsula does not have the brilliant, sunlit scenery of the boot-shaped island in the Mediterranean, still its layered sea waves, azure sky, gentle air, softly rolling low hills, fishing nets along the coast, and the villagers who dwell there all possess much of the character of a southern European shore, enough to make a traveler forget that he is in a foreign land.若用英文來說，便是一個hospitable, inviting dream-land of the romantic age（中世浪漫時代的，鄉風純樸，山水秀麗的夢境）了。If put into English, it would be "a hospitable, inviting dream-land of the romantic age" (a dreamland of the medieval romantic era, of simple rustic customs and beautiful mountains and waters).

東南的斜面沿著了太平洋，從銚子到大原，成一半月彎，正可當作葫蘆的下面的狹處看。Its southeastern slope runs along the Pacific, forming from Chaozi to Dayuan a crescent curve, which may be taken as the narrow lower part of the gourd.銚子是葫蘆下層的最大的圓周上的一點，大原是葫蘆的第二層膨脹處的圓周上的一點。Chaozi is a point on the largest circumference of the gourd's lower section, and Dayuan a point on the circumference of the gourd's second, swelling section.葫蘆的頂點一直的向西曲了。The tip of the gourd bends straight westward,就成了一個大半島裡邊的小半島，地名西岬村。forming a small peninsula within the great peninsula, a place called Xijia Village.西岬村的頂點便是洲崎，朝西的橫界在太平洋和東京灣的中間，洲崎以東是太平洋，洲崎以北是東京灣。The tip of Xijia Village is Zhouqi, its western edge lying between the Pacific and Dongjing Bay — east of Zhouqi is the Pacific, north of Zhouqi is Dongjing Bay.洲崎遙遙與伊豆半島、相摸灣相對；Zhouqi faces, far across the water, the Yidou Peninsula and Xiangmo Bay;安房半島的住民每以它為界線，稱洲崎以東沿著太平洋的一帶為外房，洲崎以北沿著東京灣的一帶為內房。the inhabitants of the Anfang Peninsula generally take it as a dividing line, calling the stretch east of Zhouqi along the Pacific "Waifang," and the stretch north of Zhouqi along Dongjing Bay "Neifang."原來半島的住民通稱半島為房州，所以內房外房，便是內房州外房州的縮寫。As it happens, the inhabitants of the peninsula commonly call the whole peninsula "Fangzhou," so "Neifang" and "Waifang" are simply short for "Neifangzhou" and "Waifangzhou."房州半島的葫蘆形的底面，連著東京，所以現在火車，從東京兩國橋驛出發，內房能直達到館山，外房能達到勝浦。The base of the gourd-shaped Fangzhou Peninsula connects to Dongjing, so nowadays a train setting out from Liangguoqiao Station in Dongjing can go straight to Guanshan on the Neifang side, and to Shengpu on the Waifang side.

千九百二十年的春天，二月初旬的有一天的午後，東京上野精養軒的樓上朝公園的小客室裡，有兩個異鄉人在那裡吃茶果。One afternoon in early February, in the spring of 1920, in an upstairs private room facing the park at the Jingyangxuan restaurant in Shangye, Dongjing, two men from foreign lands sat having tea and cakes.一個是五十歲上下的西洋人，頭頂已有一塊禿了。One was a Westerner of about fifty, already balding at the crown.皮膚帶著淺黑的黑色，高高的鷹嘴鼻的左右，深深窪在肉裡的兩隻眼睛，放出一種鈍韌的光來。His skin was a light dusky color, and to either side of his high, hawk-like nose, his two eyes sat deep-sunk in his flesh, giving off a dull, tenacious light.瞳神的黃黑色，大約就是他的血統的證明，他那五尺五寸的肉體中間，或者也許有姊泊西（Gypsy）的血液混在裡頭，或者也許有東方人的血液混在裡頭的，但是生他的母親，可確是一位愛爾蘭的美婦人。The yellowish-black color of his irises was probably proof of his mixed lineage — perhaps there was Gypsy blood mingled in his five-foot-five-inch frame, or perhaps Oriental blood, but the mother who bore him was, without doubt, a beautiful Irish woman.他穿的是一套半舊的灰黑色的嗶嘰的洋服，帶著一條圓領，圓領底下就連接著一件黑的小緊身，大約是代waist-coat（腰褂）的。He wore a half-worn suit of grayish-black serge, with a round collar, beneath which was attached a small black close-fitting garment, evidently serving in place of a waistcoat.一個是二十四五歲的青年，身體也有五尺五寸多高，我們一見就能知道他是中國人，因為他那清瘦的面貌，和纖長的身體，是在日本人中間尋不出來的。The other was a young man of twenty-four or twenty-five, also some five feet five inches tall; one could tell at a glance that he was Chinese, for his thin, gaunt face and slender frame were not to be found among the Japanese.他穿著一套藤青色的嗶嘰的大學制服，頭髮約有一寸多深，因為蓬蓬直立在他那短短的臉面的上頭，所以反映出一層憂鬱的形容在他面上。He wore a suit of indigo-blue serge, a university uniform; his hair, over an inch long, stood bristling upright above his short face, casting a look of melancholy over his countenance.他和那西洋人對坐在一張小小的桌上，他的左手，和那西洋人的右手是靠著朝公園的玻璃窗。He sat facing the Westerner across a small table; his left hand and the Westerner's right hand both rested near the glass window that looked onto the park.他們講的是英國話，聲氣很幽，有一種梅蘭刻烈（melancholy）的餘韻，與窗外的午後的陽光，和頭上的萬里的春空，卻成了一個有趣的對照。They spoke in English, their voices low, carrying a certain melancholy echo, which made an interesting contrast with the afternoon sunlight outside the window and the boundless spring sky above their heads.若把他們的擇要翻譯出來，就是：If we translate the gist of what they said, it comes to this:

“你的臉色，近來更難看了，我勸你去轉換轉換空氣，到鄉下去靜養幾個禮拜。”西洋人。"Your color has looked worse lately — I advise you to go get a change of air, go to the countryside and rest quietly for a few weeks." — the Westerner.

“臉色不好麼？"Does my color look bad?轉地療養，也是很好的，但是一則因為我懶得行動，二則一個人到鄉下去也寂寞得很，所以雖然寒冷得非常，我也不想到東京以外的地方去。”青年。Going elsewhere to convalesce would certainly be good, but first, I'm too lazy to move about, and second, it would be lonely going to the countryside alone — so even though it is bitterly cold, I have no wish to go anywhere outside Dongjing." — the young man.

說到這裡，窗外吹過一陣夾沙夾石的風來，玻璃窗振動了一下，響了一下，風就過去了。At this point, a gust of wind carrying sand and grit blew past outside the window; the glass rattled once, gave a sound, and the wind passed on.

“房州你去過沒有？”西洋人。"Have you ever been to Fangzhou?" — the Westerner.

“我沒有去過。”青年。"I have not." — the young man.

“那一個地方才好呢！"Now there's a fine place!是突出在太平洋裡的一個半島，受了太平洋的暖流，外房的空氣是非常和暖的，同東京大約要差十度的溫度，這個時候，你若到太平洋岸去一看，怕還有些女人，赤裸裸的跳在海裡捉魚呢！It's a peninsula jutting out into the Pacific, warmed by the Pacific's warm current — the air in Waifang is exceedingly mild, some ten degrees warmer than in Dongjing. At this very time of year, if you went and looked along the Pacific shore, you might still find women stripped bare, leaping into the sea to catch fish!一帶山村水郭，風景又是很好的，你不是很喜歡我們英國的田園風景的麼？A whole stretch of mountain villages and waterside towns, the scenery is very fine too — don't you love the pastoral scenery of our England?你上房州去就對了。”You should go up to Fangzhou, that's the thing."

“你去過了麼？”"Have you been there?"

“我是常去的，我有一個女朋友住在房州，她也是英國人，她的男人死了，只一個人住在海邊上。"I go often. I have a lady friend who lives in Fangzhou — she's English too. Her husband died, and she lives alone by the sea.她的房子寬大得很，造在沙岸樹林的中間；Her house is very spacious, built amid a grove of trees on the sandy shore;她又是一個熱心的基督教徒，你若要去，我可以替你介紹的，她非常歡喜中國人，因為她和她的男人從前也在中國做過醫生的。”she is also a devout Christian — if you'd like to go, I can introduce you to her. She's exceedingly fond of Chinese people, because she and her husband used to practice medicine in China."

“那麼就請你介紹介紹，出去旅行一次，或者我的生活的行程，能改變得過來也未可知。”"In that case, please do introduce me — I'll go out on a trip once, and perhaps, who knows, the course of my life might be able to change."

另外還有許多閒話，也不必去提及。There was a good deal of other idle talk besides, which need not be mentioned here.

到了四點的時候，窗外的鐘聲響了。When four o'clock came, a clock outside the window struck.青年按了電鈴，叫侍者進來，拿了一張五元的紙幣給他。The young man pressed the electric bell, called the waiter in, and handed him a five-yuan note.青年站起來要走的時候看看那西洋人還兀的不動，青年便催說：“我們去吧！”When the young man rose to leave and saw that the Westerner still sat there unmoving, he urged him, saying, "Let's go!"

那西洋人便張圓了眼睛問他說：The Westerner opened his eyes wide and asked him:

“找頭呢？”"What about the change?"

“多的也沒有幾個錢，就給了他們茶房罷了。”"It wasn't much extra — I just gave it to the waiter as a tip."

“茶點總不至要五塊錢的。"Tea and cakes surely can't come to five dollars.你把找頭拿來捐在教會的傳道捐裡多好啊！”Wouldn't it be better if you took the change and put it in the church's mission collection!"

“罷了，罷了，多的也不過一塊多錢。”"Never mind, never mind, the extra was only a dollar or so."

那西洋人還不肯走，青年就一個人走出房門來，西洋人一邊還在那裡輕輕的絮說，一邊看見青年走了，也只能跟了走出房門，下樓，上大門口去。The Westerner still would not budge; the young man walked out of the room alone, while the Westerner, still murmuring softly to himself, seeing the young man had gone, could only follow him out the door, down the stairs, and up to the front entrance.在大門口取了外套，帽子，走出門外的時候，殘冬的日影，已經落在西天的地平線上，滿城的房屋，都沉在薄暮的光線裡了。When they took their overcoats and hats at the entrance and stepped outside, the pale shadow of the waning winter sun had already sunk to the western horizon, and all the houses of the city lay submerged in the light of dusk.

夜陰一刻一刻的張起她的翼膀來，那西洋人和青年在公園的大佛前面，緩步了一忽，遠近的人家都點上電燈了。Night, moment by moment, spread wide her wings; the Westerner and the young man walked slowly for a while before the great Buddha in the park, and, near and far, the houses of the people lit their electric lamps one after another.從上野公園的高臺上向四面望去，只見同紗囊裡的螢火蟲一樣，高下人家的燈火，都在晚煙裡放異彩。Looking out in all directions from the high terrace of Shangye Park, one saw only the lamps of the houses, high and low, like fireflies in a gauze bag, casting their strange brightness amid the evening haze.遠遠的風來，帶著市井的嘈雜的聲音。From afar the wind came, carrying with it the clamor of the marketplace.電車的車輪聲傳近到他們兩人耳邊的時候，他們才知道現在是回家去的時刻了。Only when the sound of the tram wheels drew near their ears did the two of them realize it was now time to go home.急急的走了一下，他們已經走到了公園前大街上的電車停車處，恰好向西的有一乘電車到來，他們兩人就用了死力，擠了上去，因為這是工廠休工的時候，勞動者大家都要乘了電車，回到他們的小小的住屋裡去，所以車上人擠得不堪。Walking hurriedly, they soon reached the tram stop on the avenue in front of the park; just then a tram bound west came along, and the two of them, with all their strength, squeezed aboard, for it was the hour when the factories let out work, and the laborers were all riding the tram back to their small dwellings, so that the car was packed unbearably full.

青年被擠在電車的後面，幾乎吐氣都吐不出來。The young man was squeezed toward the back of the tram, so tightly that he could scarcely draw breath.電車開車的時候，上野的報時的鐘聲又響了。As the tram started, the bell of Shangye striking the hour rang out again.聽了這如怨如訴的薄暮的鐘聲，他的心思又忽然消沉起來：Hearing this plaintive, mournful bell of the dusk, his thoughts suddenly sank into gloom:

“這些可憐的有血肉的機械，他們家裡或許也有妻子的。"These poor machines of flesh and blood — perhaps they too have wives and children at home.他們的衣不暖食不飽的小孩子有什麼罪惡，一生出地上，就不得不同他們的父母，受這世界上的磨折！Their children, who go cold and hungry, what crime have they committed, that from the moment they are born onto this earth they must, together with their parents, endure this world's torments!或者在豬圈似的貧民窟的門口，有同餓鬼似的小孩兒，在那裡等候他們的父親回來。Perhaps at the doorway of some pigsty-like slum, there are children as famished as hungry ghosts, waiting there for their fathers to come home.這些同餓犬似的小孩兒，長到八九歲的時候，就不得不去作小機械去。These children, famished like stray dogs, once they reach eight or nine years of age, must go and become little machines themselves.漸漸長大了，成了一個工人，他們又不得不同他們的父祖曾祖一樣，將自家的血液，去補充鐵木的機械的不足去。Growing up bit by bit, becoming workers, they too, like their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers before them, must give their own blood to make up for what the iron-and-wood machines lack.吃盡了千辛萬苦，從幼到長，從生到死，他們的生活沒有半點變更，唉，這人生究竟有什麼趣味，勞動者呀勞動者，你們何苦要生存在世上？Having tasted every hardship and bitterness, from childhood to age, from birth to death, their lives never change in the least — ah, what pleasure, after all, is there in this human life? Laborers, oh laborers, why must you insist on living on in this world?這多是有權勢的人的壞處，可惡的這有權勢的人，可惡的這有權勢的階級，總要使他們斬草除根的消滅盡了才好。”This is all the fault of those in power — hateful, these men of power, hateful, this class that holds power — they truly ought to be cut off root and branch, wiped out entirely, and only then would it be well."

他想到這裡，就自家嘲笑起自家來：Having thought this far, he began to mock himself:

“呵呵，你也被日本人的社會主義感染了。"Ha, so you too have been infected by Japanese socialism.你要救日本的勞動者，你何不先去救救你自家的同胞呢？If you want to save the laborers of Japan, why not first go save your own countrymen?在軍人和官僚的政治的底下，你的同胞所受的苦楚，難道比日本的勞動者更輕麼？Under the rule of the militarists and bureaucrats, is the suffering your countrymen endure really any lighter than that of Japan's laborers?日本的勞動者，雖然沒有財產，然而他們的生命總是安全的。Japan's laborers, though they have no property, at least their lives are secure.你的同胞，鄉下的農夫，若因納捐輸粟的事情，有一點違背，就不得不被軍人來虐殺了。Your countrymen, the farmers back home, if they fall even slightly behind in paying taxes and grain levies, cannot escape being savagely slaughtered by the military.從前做大盜，現在做軍官的人，進京出京的時候，若說鄉下人不知道，在他們的專車停著的地方走過，就不得不被長槍短刀來斫死了。Men who were bandits in the old days and are army officers now, when they come and go from the capital, if some country person, not knowing better, happens to cross the place where their special train is stopped, cannot escape being hacked to death with spears and swords.大盜的軍閥的什麼武裝自動車，在街上沖死了百姓，還說百姓不好，對了死人的家族，還要他們陪罪罰錢。When the armored cars of some bandit warlord run over and kill common people in the street, they still say it is the people's own fault, and even make the family of the dead pay compensation and be punished besides.你同胞的妻女，若有美的，就不得不被軍人來奸辱了。If a wife or daughter of your countrymen happens to be beautiful, she cannot escape being violated by the military.日本的勞動者到了日暮回家的時候，也許有他的妻女來安慰他的，那時候他的一天的苦楚，便能忘在腦後，但是你的同胞如何？When Japan's laborers go home at day's end, perhaps they have a wife and daughter waiting to comfort them, and then the day's bitterness can be forgotten — but what of your own countrymen?不問是不是你的結髮妻小，若那些軍長師長委員長縣長等類要她去作一房第八九的小妾，你能拒絕麼？Never mind whether she is your own lawfully wedded wife — if some army commander, division commander, committee chairman, county magistrate, or the like wants her as his eighth or ninth concubine, can you refuse?有訴訟事件的時候，你若送裁判官的錢，送了比你的對爭者少一點，或是在上級衙門裡沒有一個親戚朋友，雖然受了冤屈，你難道能分訴得明白麼？……”When there is a lawsuit, if the money you send the judge is even a little less than what your opponent sends, or if you have no relative or friend in the higher offices, then even though you suffer a grave injustice, can you ever hope to plead your case clearly? ..."

想到這裡的時候，青年的眼睛裡，就酸軟起來，他若不是被擠在這一群勞動者的中間，怕他的感情就要發起作用來，恰好車到了本鄉三丁目，他就推推讓讓的跟了幾個勞動者下了電車。By the time his thoughts had come this far, the young man's eyes had grown moist and weak; had he not been pressed in among this crowd of laborers, his feelings might well have gotten the better of him — just then the tram reached Benxiang Sandingmu, and, pushing and yielding his way, he got off along with a few of the laborers.立在電車外邊的日暮的大道上，尋來尋去的尋了一會，他才看見那西洋人的禿頭，背朝著了他，坐在電車中間的椅上。Standing outside the tram on the great road in the dusk, he searched about for a while before he spotted the Westerner's bald head, his back turned to him, sitting on a seat in the middle of the tram.他走到電車的中央的地方，墊起了腳，從外面向電車的玻璃窗推了幾下，那禿頭的西洋人才回轉頭來，看見他立在車外的涼風裡，那西洋人就從電車裡面放下車窗來說：He walked up to the middle of the tram, stood on tiptoe, and knocked several times on the glass window from outside; only then did the bald Westerner turn his head around, and seeing him standing there in the cool evening wind outside the car, the Westerner lowered the window from inside and said:

“你到了麼？"You've arrived?今天可是對你不起。I'm sorry about today.多謝多謝。Many thanks, many thanks.身體要保養些。Do take care of your health.我……”I... "

“再會再會，我已經到了。"Goodbye, goodbye, I've already arrived.介紹信請你不要忘記了。……”Please don't forget the letter of introduction. ..."

話沒有說完，電車已經開了。Before he had finished speaking, the tram had already started off.

二月二十三日的午後二點半鐘，房州半島的北條火車站上的第四次自東京來的火車到了。At half past two in the afternoon of February 23rd, the fourth train of the day from Dongjing arrived at Beitiao Station on the Fangzhou Peninsula.這小小的鄉下的火車站上，忽然熱鬧了一陣。This small country train station suddenly grew lively for a moment.客人也不多，七零八落的幾個乘客，在收票的地方出去之後，火車站上仍複冷清起來。There were not many passengers; after a scattered handful of them had passed out through the ticket gate, the station once more grew cold and quiet.火車站的前面停著的一乘合乘的馬車，接了幾個下車的客人，留了幾聲哀寂的喇叭聲在午後的澄明的空氣裡，促起了一陣灰土，就在泥成的鄉下的天然的大路上，朝著了太陽，向西的開出去了。A hired carriage waiting in front of the station took on a few of the passengers who had gotten off, left behind a few mournful, forlorn notes of its horn in the clear afternoon air, and, stirring up a cloud of dust, set off westward, facing the sun, along the natural dirt road of the countryside.

留在火車站上呆呆的站著的只剩了一位清瘦的青年，便是三禮拜前和一個西洋宣教師在東京上野精養軒吃茶果的那一位大學生。Left standing blankly on the platform was only one thin, gaunt young man — the very university student who, three weeks before, had sat having tea and cakes with a Western missionary at the Jingyangxuan in Shangye, Dongjing.他是伊尹的後裔，你們若把東京帝國大學的一覽翻出來一看，在文科大學的學生名錄裡，頭一個就能見他的名姓籍貫：He was a descendant of Yi Yin — if you were to open the register of Dongjing Imperial University and look, in the roll of students of the Faculty of Letters, the very first name you would find, together with his native place, would be his:

伊人，中華留學生，大正八年入學。Yiren, a student from China, enrolled in the eighth year of Taisho.

伊人自從十八歲到日本之後一直到去年夏天止，從沒有回國去過。Ever since Yiren had come to Japan at eighteen, he had never once, up to last summer, gone back to his own country.他的家庭裡只有他的祖母是愛他的。In his whole family, only his grandmother loved him.伊人的母親，因為他的父親死得太早，所以竟變成了一個半男半女的性格，他自小的時候她就不知愛他，所以他漸漸的變成了一個厭世憂鬱的人。As for Yiren's mother, because his father had died so early, she had turned into a person of a half-male, half-female temperament, and from his childhood she had never known how to love him — so that he had gradually turned into a man weary of the world and given to melancholy.到了日本之後，他的性格竟愈趨愈怪了，一年四季，絕不與人往來，只一個人默默的坐在寓室裡沉思默想。After he came to Japan, his temperament grew stranger and stranger still; all year round, in every season, he never associated with anyone, but sat alone in silence in his lodgings, sunk in brooding thought.他所讀的都是那些在人生的戰場上戰敗了的人的書，所以他所最敬愛的就是略名B.V.What he read were always the books of men who had been defeated on the battlefield of life, and so the ones he most revered and loved were the man known by the short name B.V. —的James Thomson，H.Heine, Leopardi, Ernest Dowson那些人。that is, James Thomson, along with H. Heine, Leopardi, and Ernest Dowson.他下了火車，向行李房去取來的一隻帆布包，裡邊藏著的，大約也就是這幾位先生的詩文集和傳記等類。Getting off the train, he went to the baggage room and fetched a canvas bag; what it held inside, no doubt, were the collected poems and prose, the biographies, and the like, of these very gentlemen.他因為去年夏天被一個日本婦女欺騙了一場，所以精神身體，都變得同落水雞一樣。Because he had, last summer, been deceived by a Japanese woman, both his spirit and his body had become like those of a drenched, drowned chicken.晚上夢醒的時候，身上每發冷汗，食欲不進，近來竟有一天不吃什麼東西的時候。When he woke from sleep at night, cold sweat would break out over his body each time; his appetite failed him, and of late there were even days when he ate nothing at all.因為怕同去年那一個婦人遇見，他連午膳夜膳後的散步也不去了。For fear of running into that same woman again, he had even given up his after-lunch and after-dinner walks.他身體一天一天的瘦弱下去，他的面貌也一天一天的變起顏色來了。Day by day his body grew thinner and weaker, and day by day the color of his face changed as well.到房州的路程是在平坦的田疇中間，辟了一條小小的鐵路，鐵路的兩旁，不是一邊海一邊山，便是一邊枯樹一邊荒地。The road to Fangzhou ran between level fields, where a small railway had been cut through; on either side of the line, if it was not sea on one side and mountain on the other, then it was withered trees on one side and wasteland on the other.在紅塵軟舞的東京，失望傷心到極點的神經過敏的青年，一吸了這一處的田園空氣，就能生出一種快感來。For a nerve-worn young man who, amid the soft red dust of Dongjing, had been disappointed and grieved to the very extreme, the moment he drew in this breath of country air, a certain pleasurable feeling arose in him.伊人到房州的最初的感覺，自然是覺得輕快得非常。Yiren's very first impression on arriving in Fangzhou was, naturally, one of feeling exceedingly light and easy.伊人下車之後看了四邊的松樹的叢林，有幾縷薄雲飛著的青天，寬廣的空地裡浮蕩著的陽光和車站前面的店裡清清冷冷坐在帳桌前的幾個純樸的商人，就覺得是自家已經到了十八世紀的鄉下的樣子。After Yiren got off the train, he looked at the pine groves all around, the blue sky with its few wisps of thin cloud drifting across, the sunlight floating over the broad open ground, and the few simple, unadorned merchants sitting quietly and coolly behind their counters in the shops in front of the station, and it seemed to him that he himself had arrived in some eighteenth-century countryside.亞力山大·斯密司著的《村落的文章》裡的Dreamthorp（By Alexander Smith）好像是被移到了這東海的小島上的東南角上來了。It was as though the Dreamthorp of Alexander Smith's Dreamthorp — from his book of village essays — had been transplanted here, to this southeastern corner of a small island in the Eastern Sea.

伊人取了行李，問了一聲說：Yiren took up his luggage and asked:

“這裡有一位西洋的婦人，你們知道不知道的？”"Is there a Western lady living around here — do you know her?"

行李房裡的人都說：The men in the baggage room all said:

“是C夫人麼？"You mean Mrs. C?這近邊誰都知道她的，你但對車夫講她名字就對了。”Everyone around here knows her — you need only tell the rickshaw puller her name, and that will do."

伊人抱了他的一個帆布包坐在人力車上，在枯樹的影裡，搖搖不定的走上C夫人的家裡去的時候，他心裡又生了一種疑惑：Holding his one canvas bag, Yiren sat in a rickshaw, and as it swayed unsteadily along in the shadow of the withered trees toward Mrs. C's house, a certain doubt rose again in his heart:

“C夫人不曉得究竟是怎麼的一個人，她不知道是不是同E某一樣，也是非常節省鄙吝的。”"I wonder just what sort of person Mrs. C really is — whether she might, like a certain Mrs. E, be terribly frugal and stingy as well."

可憐他自小就受了社會的虐待，到了今日，還不敢信這塵世裡有一個善人。Poor fellow — mistreated by society since his childhood, even now, he still dared not believe that there existed in this dusty world a single good person.所以他與人相遇的時候，總不忘記警戒，因為他被世人欺得太甚了。And so, whenever he met someone, he never forgot to be on his guard, for the world had deceived him far too much.在一條有田園野趣的村路上彎彎曲曲的跑了三十分鐘，樹林裡露出了一個木造的西洋館的屋頂來。After winding along a rustic country road for thirty minutes, the roof of a Western-style wooden house emerged from among the trees.車夫指著了那一角屋頂說：The driver pointed to that corner of the roof and said:

“這就是C夫人的住屋！”“That is Mrs. C’s house!”

車到了這洋房的近邊，伊人看見有一圈小小的灌木沿了那洋房的庭園，生在那裡，上面剪得雖然不齊，但是這一道灌木的圍牆，比鐵柵瓦牆究竟風雅，他小的時候在洋畫裡看見過的那阿鳳河上的斯曲拉突的莎士比的古宅，又重新想了出來，開了那由幾根木棒做的一道玲瓏的小門進去，便是住宅的周圍的庭園，園中有幾處常青草，也變了顏色，躺在午後的微弱的太陽光裡。When the carriage drew near the Western-style house, he saw a low ring of shrubs growing around its garden. Though their tops had been unevenly trimmed, this hedge was, after all, more elegant than iron railings or tiled walls, and it brought back to him the old home of Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, which he had seen in Western pictures as a child. He opened a delicate little gate made of several wooden rods and entered the garden surrounding the house, where patches of evergreen grass, their color altered, lay in the feeble afternoon sunlight.小門的右邊便是一眼古井，兩隻釣桶，一高一低的懸在井上的木架上。Just to the right of the little gate was an old well, with two well buckets hanging at different heights from the wooden frame above it.從門口一直向前沿了石砌的路進去，再進一道短小的竹籬，就是C夫人的住房，伊人因為不便直接的到C夫人的住房裡，所以就吩咐車夫拿了一封E某的介紹書往廚房門去投去。From the entrance, a stone-paved path led straight ahead; beyond another short bamboo fence stood Mrs. C’s residence. As he felt it improper to go directly into her quarters, he told the driver to take a letter of introduction from a certain E and deliver it at the kitchen door.廚房門須由石砌的正路叉往右去幾步，人若立在灌木圍住的門口，也可以看見這廚房門的。To reach the kitchen door, one had to branch off the main stone path and walk a few steps to the right; it was also visible from the gateway enclosed by the hedge.庭園中，井架上，紅色的木板的洋房壁上都灑滿了一層白色無力的午後的太陽光線，四邊空空寂寂，並無一個生物看見，只有幾隻半大的雌雄雞，呆呆的立在並旁，在那裡驚看伊人和他的車夫。The garden, the well frame, and the red wooden walls of the Western-style house were all washed in a layer of pale, feeble afternoon sunlight. All around was empty and still, with not a living creature in sight save several half-grown hens and cockerels, standing stupidly beside the well and staring in alarm at him and his driver.

車夫在廚房門口叫了許久，不見有人出來。The driver called for a long time at the kitchen door, but no one came out.伊人立在庭園外的木柵門口，聽車夫的呼喚聲反響在寂靜的空氣裡，覺得聲大得很。Standing at the wooden gate outside the garden, he heard the driver’s calls echo through the silent air and thought them exceedingly loud.約略等了五分鐘的樣子，伊人聽見背後忽然有腳步響回轉頭來一看，看見一個五十來歲的日本老婦人，蓬著了頭紅著了眼走上伊人這邊來。After waiting about five minutes, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him. Turning around, he saw a Japanese woman of about fifty approaching him, her hair disheveled and her eyes red.她見了伊人便行了一個禮，並且說：On seeing him, she bowed and said:

“你是東京來的伊先生麼？“Are you Mr. Yi from Tokyo?我們東家天天在這裡盼望你來呢！Our mistress has been waiting here every day for you to come!請你等一等，我就去請東家出來。”Please wait a moment; I shall go and ask her to come out.”

這樣的說了幾句，她就慢慢的挨過了伊人的身前，跑上廚房門口去了。Having said this, she slowly edged past him, then hurried to the kitchen door.在廚房門口站著的車夫把伊人帶來的介紹信交給了她。The driver standing there handed her the letter of introduction he had brought.她就跑進去了。She hurried inside.不多一忽，她就同一個五十五六的西洋婦人從竹籬那面出來，伊人搶上去與那西洋婦人握手之後，她就請伊人到她的住房內去，一邊卻吩咐那日本女人說：Before long, she emerged from beyond the bamboo fence with a Western woman of fifty-five or fifty-six. He hastened forward and shook hands with the Western woman, whereupon she invited him into her quarters, while instructing the Japanese woman:

“把伊先生的行李搬上樓上的外邊的室裡去！”“Take Mr. Yi’s luggage upstairs to the outside room!”

她一邊與伊人說話，一邊在那裡預備紅茶。She talked with him as she prepared black tea.談了三十分鐘，紅茶也吃完了，伊人就到樓上的一間小房裡去整理行李去。After they had talked for thirty minutes and finished their tea, he went to a small room upstairs to put his luggage in order.把行李整理了一半，那日本婦人上樓來對伊人說：When he was halfway through unpacking, the Japanese woman came upstairs and said to him:

“伊先生！“Mr. Yi!現在是祈禱的時候了！It is time for prayers now!請先生下來到祈禱室裡來吧。”Please come downstairs to the prayer room.”

伊人下來到祈禱室裡，見有兩個日本的男學生和三個女學生已經先在那裡了。C夫人替伊人介紹過之後對伊人說：He went down to the prayer room and found two Japanese male students and three female students already there. After Mrs. C had introduced him, she said:

“我們每天從午後三點到四點必聚在一處唱詩祈禱的。“Every day, from three to four in the afternoon, we gather together to sing hymns and pray.祈禱的時候就打那一個鐘作記號。（說著她就用手向簷下指了一指）今天因為我到外面去了不在家，所以遲了二個鐘頭，因此就沒有打鐘。”At prayer time we ring that bell as a signal.” (As she spoke, she pointed toward the eaves.) “Today I was away from home, so we are two hours late and did not ring it.”

伊人向四圍看了一眼，見第一個男學生頭髮長得很，同獅子一樣的披在額上，帶著一雙極近的鋼絲眼鏡，嘴唇上的一圈鬍鬚長得很黑，大約已經有二十六七歲的樣子。He glanced around. The first male student had very long hair, falling over his forehead like a lion’s mane, and wore a pair of very strong wire-rimmed spectacles. A ring of very black whiskers grew above his lips, and he appeared to be about twenty-six or twenty-seven.第二個男學生是一個二十歲前後的青年，也帶一雙平光的銀絲眼鏡，一張圓形的粗黑臉，嘴唇向上的。The second male student was a young man of around twenty. He too wore a pair of plain silver-rimmed spectacles and had a round, swarthy, coarse-featured face with upturned lips.兩個人都是穿的日本的青花便服，所以一見就曉得他們是學生。Both men wore blue-patterned Japanese everyday robes, so one could tell at a glance that they were students.女學生的方面伊人不便觀察，所以只對了一個坐在他對面的年紀十六七歲的人，看了幾眼，依他的一瞬間的觀察看來，這一個十六七歲的女學生要算是最好的了，因為三人都是平常的相貌，依理而論，卻夠不上水平線的。He did not feel free to scrutinize the female students, and so merely stole a few glances at the sixteen- or seventeen-year-old sitting opposite him. From that momentary inspection, he judged her the best-looking of the three, for all three had quite ordinary faces and, strictly speaking, fell short of the average.只有這一個女學生的長方面上有一雙笑靨，所以她笑的時候，卻有許多可愛的地方。Only this girl had a pair of dimples in her long face, which gave her considerable charm when she smiled.讀了一節《聖經》，唱了兩首詩，祈禱了一回，會就散了。They read a passage from the Bible, sang two hymns, and prayed; then the gathering dispersed.伊人問那兩個男學生說：He asked the two male students:

“你們住在近邊麼？”“Do you live nearby?”

那長髮的近視眼的人，恭恭敬敬的搶著回答說：The long-haired, near-sighted one hastened to answer with great deference:

“是的，我們就住在這後面的。”“Yes, we live just behind here.”

那年輕的學生對伊人笑著說：The younger student smiled at him and said:

“你的日本話講得好得很，起初我們以為你只能講英國話，不能講日本話的。”“You speak Japanese extremely well. At first we thought you could speak only English and not Japanese.”

C夫人接著說：Mrs. C added:

“伊先生的英國話卻比日本話講得好，但是他的日本話要比我的日本話好得多呢！”“Mr. Yi speaks English even better than Japanese, but his Japanese is far better than mine!”

伊人紅了臉說：Blushing, he said:

“C夫人！“Mrs. C!你未免過譽了。You flatter me too much.這幾位女朋友是住什麼地方的？”Where do these young ladies live?”

C夫人說：Mrs. C said:

“她們都住在前面的小屋裡，也是同你一樣來養病的。”“They all live in the little house out front. Like you, they have come here to recuperate.”

這樣的說著，C夫人又對那幾個女學生說：As she spoke, Mrs. C said to the female students:

“伊先生的學問是非常有根底的，禮拜天我們要請他說教給我們聽哩！”“Mr. Yi is a man of profound learning. On Sunday we shall ask him to preach to us!”

再會再會的聲音，從各人的口中說了出來。Cries of “Goodbye, goodbye” came from everyone’s lips.來會的人都散去了。All those who had attended the gathering departed.夜色已同死神一樣，不聲不響地來把屋中的空間佔領了。Night, silent as Death itself, had come and occupied the space within the house.伊人別了C夫人仍回到他樓上的房裡來，在灰暗的日暮的光裡，整理了一下，電燈來了。Taking leave of Mrs. C, he returned to his upstairs room. He tidied things a little in the dim light of dusk, and then the electric lights came on.

六點四十分的時候，那日本婦人來請伊人吃夜飯去，吃了夜飯，談了三十分鐘，伊人就上樓去睡了。At six forty, the Japanese woman came to call him to supper. After supper and thirty minutes of conversation, he went upstairs to sleep.

四、親和力IV. Affinity

第二天早晨，伊人被窗外的鳥雀聲喚醒，起來的時候，鮮紅的日光已射滿了沙岸上的樹林，他開了朝南的窗，看看四圍的空地叢林，都披了一層健全的陽光，橫躺在無窮的蒼空底下。The next morning, he was awakened by the chirping of birds outside his window. By the time he rose, the bright-red sunlight had flooded the woods along the sandy shore. He opened the south-facing window and saw the vacant ground and groves all around clothed in wholesome sunlight, lying beneath the boundless blue sky.他遠遠的看見北條車站上，有一乘機關車在那裡噴煙，機關車的後面，連接著幾輛客車貨車，他知道上東京去的第一次車快開了。In the distance he saw a locomotive at Hōjō Station puffing smoke, with several passenger and freight cars coupled behind it; he knew the first train for Tokyo was about to depart.太陽光被車煙在半空中遮住，他看見車煙帶著一層紅黑的灰色，車站的馬口鐵的屋頂上橫斜的映出了一層黑影來。The sunlight was blocked in midair by the train’s smoke, which appeared a reddish-black gray, while a dark shadow fell obliquely across the station’s tin roof.從車站起，兩條小小的軌道漸漸的闊大起來在他的眼下不遠的地方通過，他覺得磨光的鐵軌上，隱隱地反映著同藍色的天鵝絨一樣的天空。From the station, two narrow rails gradually spread apart and passed not far below him; on the polished tracks, he thought he could faintly see the sky reflected like blue velvet.他看看四邊，覺得廣大的天空，遠近的人家，樹林，空地，鐵道，村路都飽受了日光，含著了生氣，好像在那裡微笑的樣子，他就深深地吸了一口清新的空氣，覺得自家的臟腑裡也有些生氣回轉起來，含了微笑，他輕輕地對自家說：Looking all around, he felt that the vast sky, the houses near and far, the woods, open ground, railway, and village roads were all steeped in sunlight and brimming with life, as though smiling. He drew a deep breath of fresh air and felt some vitality returning to his own innards; with a smile, he softly said to himself:

“春到人間了，啊，Frühling ist gekommen!”“Spring has come to the human world—ah, Frühling ist gekommen!”

呆呆的站了好久，他才拿了牙刷牙粉肥皂手巾走下樓來到廚下去洗面去，那紅眼的日本婦人見了他，就大聲地說：After standing there in a daze for a long while, he took his toothbrush, tooth powder, soap, and towel downstairs to wash in the kitchen. When the red-eyed Japanese woman saw him, she called out loudly:

“你昨天晚上睡得好不好？“Did you sleep well last night?我們的東家出去傳道去了，九點半鐘的聖經班她是定能回來的。”Our mistress has gone out preaching, but she is sure to be back for the Bible class at half past nine.”

洗完了面，回到樓上坐了一忽，那日本婦人就送了一杯紅茶和兩塊麵包和白糖來。After washing, he returned upstairs and sat for a while; then the Japanese woman brought him a cup of black tea, two pieces of bread, and some sugar.伊人吃完之後，看看C夫人還沒有回來，就跑出去散步去。When he had finished, he saw that Mrs. C had still not returned, so he went out for a walk.從那一道木棒編成的小門裡出去，沿了昨天來的那條村路向東的走了幾步，他看見一家草舍的回廊上，有兩個青年在那裡享太陽，發議論，他看看好像是昨天見過的兩個學生，所以就走了進去，兩個青年見他進來，就恭恭敬敬的拿出墊子來，叫他坐了，那近視長髮的青年，因為太恭敬過度了，反要使人發起笑來。Leaving through the little gate woven of wooden rods, he walked a few steps eastward along the village road by which he had come the day before. On the veranda of a thatched cottage, he saw two young men basking in the sun and holding forth. They looked like the two students he had met the previous day, so he went in. When they saw him, the two young men deferentially brought out a cushion and asked him to sit. The near-sighted, long-haired youth was so excessively respectful that he almost made one laugh.伊人坐定之後，那長髮的近視眼就含了微笑，對他呆了一呆，嘴唇動了幾動，伊人知道他想說話了，所以就對他說：After he had seated himself, the long-haired, near-sighted man smiled, stared blankly at him for a moment, and moved his lips several times. Knowing that he wished to speak, he said to him:

“你說今天的天氣好不好！”“Wouldn’t you say the weather is fine today?”

"Es, es, beri gud. beri good. and how longu hab you been in Japan?"“Es, es, beri gud. beri good. and how longu hab you been in Japan?”

（“是，是，好得很，好得很，你住在日本多久了？”）(“Yes, yes, very good, very good. How long have you lived in Japan?”)

那一位近視眼，突然說出了幾句日本式的英國話來。The near-sighted man suddenly came out with several sentences of Japanese-accented English.伊人看看他那忽尖忽圓的嘴唇的變化，聽聽他那舌根底下好像含一塊石子的發音，就想笑出來，但是因為是初次見面，又不便放聲高笑，所以只得笑了一笑，回答他說：Watching his lips change from pointed to round and listening to his pronunciation, as though he had a pebble lodged beneath the root of his tongue, he wanted to burst out laughing. But as they had only just met, he could not laugh aloud, so he merely smiled and replied:

"About eight years, quite a long term, isn't it?"“About eight years, quite a long term, isn’t it?”

（“差不多八年了，已經長得很呢，是不是？”）(“Nearly eight years; that is quite a long time, isn’t it?”)

還有那一位二十歲前後的青年看了那近視眼說英文的樣子，就笑了起來，一邊卻直直爽爽的對他說：The other young man, who was around twenty, laughed at the sight of the near-sighted man speaking English, then said to him with blunt good humor:

“不說了吧，你那不通的英文，還不如不說的好，哈哈……。”“Oh, give it up! Your broken English is worse than saying nothing at all. Ha, ha...”

那近視眼聽了伊人的回話，又說：After hearing his reply, the near-sighted man said again:

"Do you undastand my Ingulish?"“Do you undastand my Ingulish?”

（“你懂得我講的英文麼？”）(“Do you understand the English I speak?”)

"Yes, of course I do, but……"“Yes, of course I do, but...”

（“那當然是懂的，但是……”）(“Of course I understand, but...”)

伊人還沒有說完，他又搶著說：Before he could finish, the other man hastened to say:

"Alright, alright, leto us speaku Ingulish heeaaftar.“Alright, alright, leto us speaku Ingulish heeaaftar.”

（“很好很好，以後我們就講英文吧。”）(“Very good, very good. Let us speak English from now on.”)

那年輕的青年說：The younger man said:

“伊先生，你別再和他歪纏了，我們向海邊上去走走吧。”“Mr. Yi, do not let him pester you any longer. Let us take a walk down by the sea.”

伊人就贊成了，那年輕的青年便從回廊上跳了下來，同小丑一樣的故意把衣服整了一整，把身體向左右前後搖了一搖對了那近視眼恭恭敬敬的行了一禮，說：He agreed. The younger man leapt down from the veranda and, clownishly, made a show of straightening his clothes, swayed his body left and right and back and forth, then bowed most deferentially to the near-sighted man and said:

"Gudo-bye! Mista K. gudo-bye!"“Gudo-bye! Mista K. gudo-bye!”

伊人忍不住的笑了起來，那近視眼的K也說：He could not help laughing. K, the near-sighted man, also said:

"Gudo-bye, Mista B. gudo-bye Mista Yi."“Gudo-bye, Mista B. gudo-bye Mista Yi.”

走過了那草舍的院子，踏了松樹的長影，出去二三步就是沙灘了。They crossed the yard of the thatched cottage, stepped through the long shadows of the pine trees, and after another few paces reached the sandy beach.清靜的海岸上並無人影，灑滿了和煦的陽光。There was not a soul on the tranquil shore, which was flooded with genial sunlight.海水反射著太陽光線，好像在那裡微笑的樣子。The seawater reflected the sun’s rays as though it were smiling.沙上有幾行行人的足跡印在那裡。Several lines of footprints were impressed in the sand.遠遠的向東望去，有幾處村落，有幾間漁舍浮在空中，一層透明清潔的空氣，包在那些樹林屋脊的上面。Looking far to the east, they saw several villages, with a few fishermen’s huts seemingly suspended in midair; a layer of transparent, pristine air enveloped the woods and rooftops.西邊灣裡有一處小市，浮在海上，市內的人家，錯錯落落的排列在那裡，人家的背後，有一帶小山，小山的背後，便是無窮的碧落。In the bay to the west, a small town seemed to float upon the sea. Its houses stood scattered here and there; behind them ran a low range of hills, and beyond the hills stretched the boundless azure sky.市外的灣口有幾艘帆船停泊著，那幾艘船的帆檣，卻能形容出一種港市的感覺出來。Several sailing ships lay at anchor at the mouth of the bay outside the town; their sails and masts evoked the atmosphere of a port.年輕的B說：The young B said:

“那就是館山，你看灣外不是有兩個小島同青螺一樣的浮在那裡麼？“That is Tateyama. Do you see the two little islands floating beyond the bay like blue-green snails?一個是鷹島，一個是沖島。One is Takashima, and the other is Okinoshima.”

伊人向B所說的方向一看，在薄薄的海氣裡，果然有兩個小島浮在那裡。He looked in the direction B indicated, and sure enough, there were two little islands floating in the thin sea haze.伊人看那小島的時候，忽然注意到小島的背景的天空裡去，他從地平線上一點一點的抬頭起來，看看天空，覺得藍蒼色的天體，好像要溶化了的樣子，他就不知不覺的說：As he gazed at the islands, his attention was suddenly drawn to the sky behind them. Raising his eyes little by little from the horizon, he looked at the sky and felt that the blue-gray firmament seemed about to dissolve. Without realizing it, he exclaimed:

“唉，這碧海青天！”“Ah, this azure sea and blue sky!”

B也仰起頭來看天，一邊對伊人說：B also raised his head to look at the sky and said to him:

“伊先生！“Mr. Yi!看了這青淡的天空，你們還以為有一位上帝，在這天空裡坐著的麼？When you look at this pale-blue sky, do you people still believe that a God sits up there?若說上帝在那裡坐著，怕在這樣晴朗的時候，要跌下地來呢！”If God were sitting there, I fear that in weather as clear as this he would fall down to earth!”

伊人回答說：He replied:

“怎麼不跌下來，你不曾看過弗蘭斯著的Thais（泰衣斯）麼？“Why should he not fall? Have you never read France’s Thaïs?那絕食斷欲的聖者，就是為了泰衣斯的肉體的緣故，從天上跌下來的呀。That saint who fasted and renounced desire fell from heaven on account of Thaïs’s flesh.

“不錯不錯，那一位近視眼的神經病先生，也是很妙的。“Quite right, quite right. That near-sighted, neurotic gentleman is rather remarkable too.他說他要去進神學校去，每天到了半夜三更就放大了嗓子，叫起上帝來。He says he intends to enter a theological school, and every night in the dead of night he raises his voice and cries out to God.

“‘主呀，唉，主呀，神呀，耶穌呀！’‘Lord! Ah, Lord! God! Jesus!’

“像這樣的亂叫起來，到了第二天，去問他昨夜怎麼了？“After he has shouted wildly like that, if we ask him the next day what happened during the night,他卻一聲也不響，把手搖幾搖，嘴歪幾歪。he does not utter a sound, but merely waves his hands several times and twists his mouth this way and that.再過一天去問他，他就說：If we ask him again a day later, he says:

“‘昨天我是一天不言語的，因為這也是一種修行。‘Yesterday I did not speak all day, for that too is a form of spiritual discipline.’一禮拜之內我有兩天是斷言的，不講話的，無論如何，在這兩天之內，總不開嘴的。’Within a week there are two days when I take a vow of silence—no matter what happens, during those two days I never open my mouth.

“有的時候他赤足赤身的跑上雨天裡去立在那裡，我叫他，他默默地不應，到了晚上他卻喀喀的咳嗽起來，你看這樣寒冷的天氣，赤了身到雨天裡去，哪有不傷風的道理？Sometimes he runs out barefoot and stripped bare to stand in the rain; I call him, and he answers not a word, but by evening he starts coughing away. Just think, in such cold weather, going out naked into the rain—how could he not catch a chill?到了第二天，我問他究竟為什麼要上雨天裡去，他說這也是一種修行。The next day, I asked him just why he had to go out into the rain, and he said this too was a form of spiritual discipline.有一天晚上因為他叫‘主呀！One night, because he was crying out, "Lord!神呀’叫了太厲害了，我在夢裡頭被他叫醒，在被裡聽聽，我也害怕起來，以為有強盜來了，所以我就起來，披了衣服，上他那一間房裡去看他，從房門的縫裡一瞧，我就不得不笑起來，你猜怎麼著，他老先生把衣服脫了精光，把頭頂倒在地下，兩隻腳靠了牆壁蹺在上面，閉了眼睛，作了一副苦悶難受的臉色，盡在那裡瞎叫。God!" so violently, I was woken from my dream by his shouting; lying there under the covers listening, I grew frightened too, thinking a burglar had come, so I got up, threw on some clothes, and went to his room to look in on him. Peering through the crack of the door, I couldn't help but laugh—guess what I saw: the old fellow had stripped himself stark naked, planted his head upside-down on the floor, propped his two legs up against the wall, closed his eyes, put on a face of tormented suffering, and was just crying out there like a madman.

“‘主呀，神呀，天呀，上帝呀！’'Lord! God! Heaven! Almighty God!'

“第二天我去問，他卻一句話也不答，我知道這又是他的斷絕言語的日子，所以就不去問他了。”The next day I went to ask him, but he didn't answer a single word; I knew it was again one of his days of silence, so I stopped asking him.

B形容近視眼K的時候，同戲院的小丑一樣，做腳做手的做得非常出神，伊人聽一句笑一陣，笑得不了。When B imitated the nearsighted K, he was just like a clown at the theater, gesturing with his hands and feet so vividly that Yiren laughed at every sentence, unable to stop.到後來伊人問B說：Eventually Yiren asked B:

“K何苦要這樣呢！”"Why on earth does K have to be like that!"

“他說他因為要預備進神學校去，但是依我看來，他還是去進瘋狂病院的好。”"He says it's because he's preparing to enter seminary, but if you ask me, he'd do better to enter an asylum."

伊人又笑了起來。Yiren burst out laughing again.他們兩人的健全的笑聲，反響在寂靜的海岸的空氣裡，更覺得這一天的天氣的清新可愛了。The two of them's hearty laughter echoed in the quiet air of the shore, making the day's weather feel all the fresher and lovelier.他們兩個人的影子，和兩雙皮鞋的足跡在海邊的軟沙上印來印去的走了一回，忽聽見晴空裡傳了一陣清朗的鐘聲過來，他們知道聖經班的時候到了，所以就走上C夫人的家裡去。Their two shadows, along with the footprints of their two pairs of leather shoes, criss-crossed the soft sand of the beach for a while, when suddenly they heard a clear peal of bells come drifting from the fair sky; knowing it was time for Bible class, they set off for Mrs. C's house.

到C夫人家裡的時候，那近視眼的K，和三個女學生已經圍住了C夫人坐在那裡了。K見了伊人和B來的時候，就跳起來放大了嗓子用了英文叫著說；When they reached Mrs. C's house, the nearsighted K and three girl students were already seated there gathered around Mrs. C. When K saw Yiren and B arrive, he jumped up and called out loudly in English:

"Hulleo, where hab you been?""Hulleo, where hab you been?"

（“喂！("Hey!你們上哪兒去了？”）Where have you two been?")

三個女學生和C夫人都笑了起來。The three girl students and Mrs. C all burst out laughing.昨天伊人注意觀察過的那個女學生的一排白白的牙齒，和她那面上的一雙笑靨，愈加使她可愛了。The row of white teeth and the pair of dimples on the face of the girl student Yiren had studied so closely the day before made her all the more lovely.伊人一邊笑著，一邊在那裡偷看她。Yiren laughed along while stealing glances at her.各人坐了來，伊人又占了昨天的那位置，和那女學生對面地坐著。Everyone took their seats, and Yiren again took yesterday's spot, sitting across from that girl student.唱了一首讚美詩，各人就輪讀起《聖經》來。After singing a hymn, everyone took turns reading aloud from the Bible.輪到那女學生讀的時候，伊人便注意看她那小嘴，她臉上自然而然的起了一層紅潮。When it came to that girl student's turn to read, Yiren fixed his attention on her small mouth, and a flush rose naturally over her face.她讀完之後，伊人還呆呆的在那裡看她嘴上的曲線，她抬起頭來的時候，她的視線同伊人的視線沖混了。After she finished reading, Yiren was still gazing blankly at the curve of her lips; when she raised her head, her gaze met and mingled with his.她立時漲紅了臉，把頭低了下去。She flushed crimson at once and lowered her head.伊人也覺得難堪，就把視線集注到他手裡的《聖經》上去。Yiren too felt embarrassed, and fixed his gaze on the Bible in his hands.這些微妙的感情流露的地方，在座的人恐怕一個人也沒有知道。Of these subtle stirrings of feeling, probably not a single person present was aware.聖經班完了，各人都要散回家去，近視眼的K，又用了英文對伊人說：When Bible class was over and everyone was about to scatter and go home, the nearsighted K again said to Yiren in English:

"Mista Yi, Ieto us take a walk.""Mista Yi, Ieto us take a walk."

（“伊先生，我們去散步吧。”）("Mr. Yi, let's go for a walk.")

伊人還沒有回答之先，他又對那坐在伊人對面的女學生說：Before Yiren had a chance to answer, he turned to the girl student sitting across from Yiren and said:

"Miss O. You will join us, would'nt you?""Miss O. You will join us, would'nt you?"

（“O蜜司，你也同我們去吧。”）("Miss O, come along with us too.")

那女學生原來姓O，她聽了這話，就立時紅了臉，穿了鞋，跑回去了。The girl student's surname turned out to be O; on hearing this, she blushed at once, put on her shoes, and ran off home.

C夫人對伊人說：Mrs. C said to Yiren:

“今天天氣好得很，你向海邊上去散散步也是很好的。”"The weather's very fine today; it would do you good to take a walk along the shore."

K聽了這話，就叫起來說：On hearing this, K cried out:

"Es, es, alright, alright!""Es, es, alright, alright!"

（“不錯不錯，是的是的。”）("Quite right, quite right, yes, yes.")

伊人不好推卸，只得同K和B三人同向海邊上去。Yiren could not well refuse, and so had no choice but to go down to the shore together with K and B, the three of them.走了一會，伊人便說走乏了要回家來。K拉住了他說：After walking a while, Yiren said he was tired and wanted to head home. K grabbed hold of him and said:

"Leto us pray!" （“讓我們來禱告吧。”）"Leto us pray!" ("Let us pray.")

說著K就跪了下去，伊人被他驚了一跳，不得已也只能把雙膝曲了。B卻一動也不動地站在那裡看。K又叫了許多主呀神呀上帝呀。So saying, K knelt down; Yiren was startled by this, and had no choice but to bend his own knees as well. B, however, stood there watching without moving an inch. K again cried out a great many "Lord!"s and "God!"s and "Almighty God!"s.叫了一忽，站起來說：After crying out for a while, he stood up and said:

"Gud-bye Gud-bye!""Gud-bye Gud-bye!"

（“再會再會。”）("Goodbye, goodbye.")

一邊說，一邊就回轉身來大踏步的走開了。So saying, he turned around and strode off.伊人摸不出頭緒來，一邊用手打著膝上的沙泥，一邊對B說：Yiren, unable to make sense of it, brushed the sand and dirt from his knees with his hand while saying to B:

“是怎麼一回事，他難道發怒了麼？”"What's this all about—could he have gotten angry?"

B說：B said:

“什麼發怒，這便是他的神經病呀！”"Angry, nothing—this is just his nervous affliction!"

說著，B又學了K的樣子，跪下地去，上帝呀，主呀，神呀的叫了起來。So saying, B again imitated K's manner, kneeling down on the ground and crying out "Almighty God! Lord! God!"伊人又禁不住的笑了。Yiren again couldn't help laughing.遠遠地忽有唱讚美詩的聲音傳到他們的耳邊上來。B說：From far off, suddenly the sound of a hymn being sung reached their ears. B said:

“你瞧什麼發怒不發怒，這就是他唱的讚美詩呀。”"See, forget about angry or not—that's him singing his hymn."

伊人問B是不是基督教徒。B說：Yiren asked B whether he was a Christian. B said:

“我並不是基督教徒，因為定要我去聽聖經，所以我才去。"I'm not a Christian at all; it's only because I was required to go and hear the Bible that I go.其實我也相信一種宗教，因為我的為人太輕薄了，所以想得一種信仰，可以自重自重。”Actually I do believe in a kind of religion—because my conduct is too frivolous, I've wanted to find some faith that might help me hold myself in check a little."

伊人和他說了些宗教上的話，又各把自己的學籍說了。Yiren exchanged a few words with him on religious matters, and then each told the other which school he was enrolled in.原來B是東京高等商業學校的學生，去年年底染了流行性感冒，到房州來是為病後的保養來的。It turned out B was a student at the Tokyo Higher Commercial School; at the end of last year he had come down with influenza, and had come to Bōshū to recuperate afterward.說到後來，伊人問他說：As the talk went on, Yiren asked him:

“B君，我住在C夫人家裡，覺得不自由得很，你那裡的主人，還肯把空著的那一間房借給我麼？”"B, old man, I find staying at Mrs. C's terribly confining. Would your landlord be willing to let me have that empty room of his?"

“肯的肯的，我回去就同主人去說去，你今天午後就搬過來吧。"Certainly, certainly—I'll speak to the landlord as soon as I get back. Why don't you move over this afternoon.那一位C夫人是有名的吝嗇家，你若在她那裡住久了，怕要招怪呢！”That Mrs. C is famous for being a miser; if you stay with her too long, I'm afraid you'll come to resent it!"

又在海邊上走了一回，他們看看自家的影子漸漸兒的短起來了，快到十二點的時候，伊人就別了B，回到C夫人的家裡來。They walked along the shore a while longer, and watching their own shadows gradually shorten, saw that it was nearly twelve o'clock; Yiren then took leave of B and returned to Mrs. C's house.

吃午膳的時候，伊人對C夫人把要搬往後面和K、B同住去的話說了。C夫人也並不挽留，吃完了午膳，伊人就搬往後面的別室裡去了。At lunch, Yiren told Mrs. C that he intended to move to the back and live together with K and B. Mrs. C made no attempt to keep him, and once lunch was over, Yiren moved to the separate room at the back.

把行李書籍整頓了一整頓，看看時候已經不早了，伊人便一個人到海邊上去散步去。After putting his luggage and books in order, Yiren saw that it was already getting late, and went out alone to take a walk along the shore.一片汪洋的碧海，竟平坦得同鏡面一樣。The vast expanse of the blue sea was as flat and smooth as the surface of a mirror.日光打斜了，光線射在松樹的梢上，作成了幾處陰影。The sunlight slanted low, its rays falling on the tips of the pine trees and casting several patches of shadow.午後的海岸，風景又同午前的不同。The afternoon shore presented a scene quite different from that of the morning.伊人靜悄悄的看了一回，覺得四邊的風景怎麼也形容不出來。Yiren gazed quietly at it for a while, feeling that the scenery all around was somehow beyond description.他想把午前的風景比作患肺病的純潔的處女，午後的風景比作成熟期以後的嫁過人的豐肥的婦人。He thought to compare the morning scene to a pure young virgin afflicted with consumption, and the afternoon scene to a plump married woman past the age of ripeness.然而仔細一想，又覺得比得太俗了。But on second thought, he felt the comparison was too vulgar.他站著看一忽，又俯了頭走一忽，一條初春的海岸上，只有他一個人和他的清瘦的影子在那裡動著。He stood watching for a while, then walked on with bowed head for a while; along the early-spring shore, only he himself and his thin, gaunt shadow were moving there.他向西的朝著了太陽走了一回，看看自家已經走得遠了，就想回轉身來走回家去，低頭一看，忽看見他的腳底下的沙上有一條新印的女人的腳印印在那裡。He walked westward facing the sun for a while, and seeing that he had already gone quite far, thought of turning back to walk home; glancing down, he suddenly noticed on the sand beneath his feet a freshly printed set of a woman's footprints.他前前後後的打量了一回，知道這腳印的主人必在這近邊的樹林裡。He looked them over back and forth for a while, and gathered that the owner of these footprints must be somewhere nearby in the woods.並沒有什麼目的，他就跟了那一條腳步印朝南的走向岸上的松樹林裡去。With no particular purpose in mind, he simply followed that line of footprints southward toward the pine woods on the shore.走不上三十步路，他看見樹影裡的枯草上有一條氈毯，幾本書和婦人雜誌攤在那裡。Before he had gone thirty paces, he saw, on the withered grass amid the tree shadows, a felt blanket spread out with a few books and a women's magazine lying on it.因為枯草長得很，所以他在海水的邊上竟看不出來，他知道這定是屬於那腳印的主人的，但是這腳印的主人不知上哪裡去了。Because the withered grass grew so tall, he had not been able to see it from the water's edge; he knew this must belong to the owner of the footprints, but where that person had gone he had no idea.呆呆的站了一忽，正想走轉來的時候，他忽見樹林裡來了一個婦人，他的好奇心又把他的腳縛住了。He stood there blankly for a moment, and just as he was thinking of turning back, he suddenly saw a woman coming through the woods; his curiosity bound his feet to the spot once more.等那婦人走近來的時候，他不覺紅起臉來，胸前的跳躍怎麼也按不下去，所以他只能勉強把視線放低了，眼看了地面，他就回了那婦人一個禮，因為那時候，她已經走到他的面前來了，她原來就是那姓O的女學生。By the time the woman drew near, he found his face flushing red without his willing it, and the pounding in his chest simply would not be suppressed; he could only force his gaze down and look at the ground, and returned the woman's bow, for by then she had already come right up before him—she turned out to be that girl student surnamed O.他好像是自家的卑陋的心情已經被她看破了的樣子，紅了臉對她賠罪說：He looked as though he felt his own base, unworthy feelings had already been seen through by her, and flushing, apologized to her:

“對不起得很，我一個人闖到你的休息的地方來。”"I'm terribly sorry, barging in all alone on the spot where you were resting."

“不……"No—不要……”No need—"

他看她也好像是沒有什麼懊惱的樣子，便大著膽問她說：Seeing that she too did not seem the least bit vexed, he plucked up courage and asked her:

“你府上也是東京麼？”"Is your home in Tokyo too?"

“學校是在東京的上野……"My school is in Ueno, in Tokyo—但是……but—家鄉是足利。”my hometown is Ashikaga."

“你同C夫人是一向認識的麼？”"Have you known Mrs. C for a long time?"

“不是的……"No—是到這裡來之後認識的。……”I only got to know her after coming here—"

“同K君呢？”"And Mr. K?"

“那一個人……"That person—那一個人是糊塗蟲！”that person is a muddlehead!"

“今天早晨他邀你出來散步，是他對我的好意，實在唐突得很，你不要見怪了，我就在這裡替他賠一個罪吧。”"His inviting you out to walk with us this morning was meant as a kindness to me, but it really was very presumptuous of him. Please don't take offense—let me apologize to you here on his behalf."

伊人對她行了一個禮，她倒反覺難以為情起來，就對伊人說：Yiren bowed to her, which only made her feel more embarrassed, and she said to him:

“說什麼話，我……"What are you saying, I—我……I—又不在這裡怨他。”I don't blame him for it, after all."

“我也走得乏了，你可以讓我在你的氈毯上坐一坐麼？！”"I'm rather tired from walking too—would you let me sit for a while on your blanket?"

“請，請坐！”"Please, please sit!"

伊人坐下之後，她盡在那裡站著，伊人也就站了起來說：After Yiren sat down, she just kept standing there; so Yiren stood up again and said:

“我可失禮了，你站在那裡，我倒反而坐起來。”"How rude of me—you standing there while I go and sit down."

“不是這樣的，不是這樣的，我因為坐得太久，所以不願意再坐呢。”"It's not that, it's not that—I've been sitting so long already that I'd rather not sit again."

“這樣我們再去走一忽吧。”"In that case, let's go for another walk."

“怕被人家看見了。”"I'm afraid of being seen by people."

“海邊上清靜得很，一個人也沒有。”"The shore is very quiet—there's not a single soul about."

她好像是無可無不可的樣子。She seemed neither to mind nor not to mind.伊人就在前頭走了。So Yiren walked on ahead.她也慢慢的跟了來。She too followed slowly along.太陽已經快斜到三十度的角度了，他和她沿了海邊向西的走去，背後拖著了兩個纖長的影子。The sun had already sunk to nearly a thirty-degree angle; he and she walked westward along the shore, trailing two slender shadows behind them.東天的碧落裡，已經有幾片紅雲，在那裡報將晚的時刻，一片白白的月亮也出來了。In the blue vault of the eastern sky, a few red clouds had already appeared, announcing the approach of evening, and a pale white moon had come out as well.默默地走了三五分鐘，伊人回轉頭來問她說：After walking in silence for three or five minutes, Yiren turned his head and asked her:

“你也是這病麼？”"Do you have this illness too?"

一邊說著一邊就把自家的左手向左右肩的鎖骨穴指了一下，她笑了一笑便低下頭去，他覺得她的笑裡有無限的悲涼的情意含在那裡。As he spoke he pointed with his left hand at the hollow of the collarbone on each of his shoulders in turn; she gave a faint smile and lowered her head, and he sensed in her smile an infinite sorrow held within it.默默的又走了幾步，他覺得被沉默壓迫不過了，又對她說：After walking a few more steps in silence, feeling unable to bear the weight of the silence any longer, he said to her again:

“我並沒有甚麼症候，但是晚上每有虛汗出來，身體一天一天地清瘦下去，一禮拜前，我上大學病院去求診的時候，醫生教我休學一年，回家去靜養，但是我想以後只有一年三個月了，怎麼也不願意再遲一年，所以今年暑假前我還想回東京去考試呢！”"I don't really have any particular symptoms, but at night I always break into cold sweats, and my body grows thinner and more haggard day by day. A week ago, when I went to the university hospital for a consultation, the doctor told me to take a year off from school and go home to rest quietly. But I think there's only a year and three months left now, and I simply don't want to delay another year—so before summer vacation this year I still mean to go back to Tokyo to sit for the exams!"

“若能注意一點，大約總沒有什麼妨礙的。”"If you're a bit careful, it probably won't do any harm."

“我也是這麼的想，畢業之後，還想上南歐去養病去呢！”"That's what I think too — after graduation, I'd like to go to southern Europe to recuperate!"

“羅馬的古墟原是好的，但是由我們病人看來，還是愛衣奧寧海岸的小島好呀！”"The ancient ruins of Rome are good indeed, but from the viewpoint of we invalids, the little islands along the Ionian coast are better!"

“你學的是不是聲樂？”"Is it vocal music you're studying?"

“不是的，我學的是鋼琴，但是聲樂也學的。”"No, I'm studying piano, but I study voice as well."

“那麼請你唱一個小曲兒吧。”"Then please sing a little song for me."

“今天嗓子不好。”"My voice isn't good today."

“我唐突了，請你恕我。”"I've been rude — please forgive me."

“你又要多心了，我因為嗓子不好，所以不能唱高音。”"There you go being oversensitive again — it's just that my voice isn't good, so I can't sing the high notes."

“並不是會場上，音的高低，又何必去問它呢！”"It isn't a concert hall, after all — why bother about whether the notes are high or low!"

“但是這樣被人強求的時候，反而唱不出來的。”"But when I'm pressed like this, I find I can't sing at all."

“不錯不錯，我們都是愛自然的人，不唱也罷了。”"Quite right, quite right — we're both lovers of what's natural, so let's just leave off singing."

“走了太遠了，我們回去吧。”"We've walked too far — let's go back."

“你走乏了麼？”"Are you tired from walking?"

“乏倒沒有，但是草堆裡還有幾本書在那裡，怕被人看見了不好。”"Not tired, really, but there are still some books lying in the grass, and it wouldn't do for someone to see them."

“但是我可不曾看你的書。”"But I certainly haven't looked at your books."

“你怎麼會這樣多心的，我又何嘗說你看過來！”"How can you be so oversensitive? When did I ever say you'd looked at them!"

“唉，這疑心病就是我半生的哀史的證明呀！”"Ah, this suspicious nature of mine is proof of the sorrowful history of half my life!"

“什麼哀史？”"What sorrowful history?"

伊人就把他自小被人虐待，到了今日還不曾感得一些熱情過的事情說了。Yiren then told her how he had been mistreated by others ever since childhood, and how, even up to this day, he had never once felt a trace of warmth.兩人背後的清影，一步一步的拖長起來，天空的四周，漸漸兒的帶起紫色來了。The clear shadows behind the two of them stretched longer with every step, and all around the sky was gradually taking on a tinge of purple.殘冬的餘勢，在這薄暮的時候，還能感覺得出來，從海上吹來的微風，透了兩人的冬服，刺入他和她的高熱的心裡去。The lingering force of late winter could still be felt at this hour of dusk; the faint breeze blowing in from the sea penetrated their winter clothes and pierced into the feverish hearts of the two of them.伊人向海上一看，見西北角的天空裡一座倒擎的心樣的雪山，帶著了濃藍的顏色，在和軟的晚霞裡作會心的微笑，伊人不覺高聲的叫著說：Yiren glanced out toward the sea and saw, in the northwest corner of the sky, a snow-capped mountain shaped like an upturned heart, tinged with deep blue, smiling knowingly amid the soft evening glow; unable to help himself, Yiren cried out loudly:

“你看那富士！”"Look at that — Fuji!"

這樣的叫了一聲，他不知不覺的伸出了五個指頭去尋她那只同玉絲似的手去，他的雙眼卻同在夢裡似的，還懸在富士山的頂上。Having cried out like this, without realizing it he stretched out his five fingers searching for her hand, which was like a strand of jade silk; yet his eyes, as though still in a dream, remained fixed upon the summit of Mount Fuji.

幾個柔軟的指頭和他那冰冷的手指遇著的時候，他不覺驚了一下，伸轉了手，回頭來一看，恰好她也正在那裡轉過她的視線來。When a few soft fingers met his own icy-cold ones, he gave an involuntary start, withdrew his hand, and turned to look — just at that moment she too was turning her gaze toward him.兩人看了一眼，默默地就各把頭低去了。The two of them exchanged a glance, then silently, each in turn, lowered their heads.站了一忽，伊人就改換了聲音，光明正大的對她說：After standing there a moment, Yiren changed his tone and said to her, openly and forthrightly:

“你怕走倦了吧，天也快晚了，我們回轉去吧。”"You must be tired from walking, and it's getting late — let's turn back."

“就回轉去吧，可惜我們背後不能看太陽落山的光景。”"Let's turn back then — it's a pity we can't see the sunset behind us."

伊人向西天一看，太陽已經快落山去了，回轉了身，兩人並著的走了幾步，她說：Yiren looked toward the western sky and saw the sun was about to set; they turned around, and after the two of them had walked a few steps side by side, she said:

“影子的長！”"How long our shadows are!"

“這就是太陽落山的光景呀！”"This is just what it looks like when the sun sets!"

海風又吹過一陣來，岸邊起了微波，同飛散了的金箔似的，浪影閃映出幾條光線來。A gust of sea wind blew past again; small ripples rose along the shore, like scattered flecks of gold leaf, and the shimmer of the waves flashed out a few lines of light.

“你覺得涼麼，我把我的外套借給你好麼？”"Do you feel cold? Shall I lend you my coat?"

“不涼……"I'm not cold……女人披了男人的外套，像什麼樣子呀！”……it's just, what would it look like, a woman wearing a man's coat!"

又默默的走了幾步，他看看遠岸已經有一層晚霞起來了。After walking a few more steps in silence, he noticed that a layer of evening glow had already risen over the far shore.他和K、B住的地方的岸上樹林外，有幾點黑影，圍了一堆紅紅的野火坐在那裡。Beyond the woods on the shore where he, K, and B lived, a few dark figures sat gathered around a red patch of open fire.

“那一邊的小孩兒又在那裡生火了。”"The children over there are lighting a fire again."

“這正是一幅畫呀！"This is just like a painting!我現在好像唱得出歌來的樣子：I feel as though I could sing a song right now:

Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn.Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn.

Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn.Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn.

Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht.Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht.

Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht?Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht?

底下的是重複句，怕唱不好了！The lines that follow are repeated — I'm afraid I won't sing them well!

Kennst du es wohl?Kennst du es wohl?

Dahin! DahinDahin! Dahin

Möcht' ich mit dir, O mein Geliebte, ziehn."Möcht' ich mit dir, O mein Geliebte, ziehn."

她的悲涼微顫的喉音，在薄暮的海邊的空氣裡悠悠揚揚的浮蕩著，他只覺得一層紫色的薄膜把他的五官都包住了。Her sorrowful, faintly trembling voice drifted lingeringly through the dusky air by the seashore, and he felt as though a thin film of purple had wrapped itself around all his senses.

Kennst du das Haus, auf Säulen ruht sein Dach,Kennst du das Haus, auf Säulen ruht sein Dach,

Es glänzt der Saal, es schimmert das Gemach,Es glänzt der Saal, es schimmert das Gemach,

Und Marmorbilder stehn und sehn mich an:Und Marmorbilder stehn und sehn mich an:

Was hat man dir, du armes Kind, getan?Was hat man dir, du armes Kind, getan?

四邊的空氣一刻一刻的濃厚起來。The air all around grew thicker moment by moment.海面上的涼風又掠過了他那火熱的雙頰，吹到她的頭髮上去。A cool breeze off the sea swept again across his burning cheeks and blew on into her hair.他聽了那一句歌，忽然想起了去年夏天欺騙他的那一個輕薄的婦人的事情來。Hearing that line of the song, he suddenly recalled the frivolous woman who had deceived him the previous summer.

“你這可憐的孩子呀，他們欺負了你麼，唉！”"You poor child, did they mistreat you? Ah!"

他自家好像是變了迷娘（Mignon），無依無靠的一個人站在異鄉的日暮的海邊上的樣子。He felt as though he himself had turned into Mignon, standing utterly alone and without support on a foreign seashore at dusk.用了悲涼的聲調在那裡幽幽唱曲的好像是從細浪裡湧出來的寧婦（Nymph）魅妹（Mermaid）。The one singing so mournfully in that low, sorrowful tone seemed to be a Nymph or a Mermaid risen out of the rippling waves.他忽然覺得sentimental起來，兩顆同珍珠似的眼淚滾下他的頰際來了。He suddenly felt overcome with sentiment, and two tears like pearls rolled down his cheeks.

Kennst du es wohl?Kennst du es wohl?

Dahin! DahinDahin! Dahin

Möcht ich mit dir, o mein Beschützer, ziehn.Möcht ich mit dir, o mein Beschützer, ziehn.

Kennst du den Berg und seinen Wolkensteg?Kennst du den Berg und seinen Wolkensteg?

Das Maultier sucht im Nebel senen Weg;Das Maultier sucht im Nebel senen Weg;

In Höhlen wohnt der Drachen alte Brut;In Höhlen wohnt der Drachen alte Brut;

Es stürzt der Fels und über ihn die Flut;Es stürzt der Fels und über ihn die Flut;

Kennst du ihn wohl?Kennst du ihn wohl?

Dahin! DahinDahin! Dahin

Geht unser Weg! o Vater, lass uns ziehn!Geht unser Weg! o Vater, lass uns ziehn!

她唱到了這一句，重複的唱了兩遍。When she reached this line, she sang it over twice.她那尾聲悠揚同遊絲似的哀寂的清音，與太陽的殘照，都在薄暮的空氣裡消散了。The lingering, thread-like sorrowful clarity of her final notes, together with the last glow of the setting sun, both dissolved into the dusky air.西天的落日正掛在遠遠的地平線上，反射出一天紅軟的浮雲，長空高冷，帶起銀藍的顏色來，平波如鏡的海面，也加了一層橙黃的色彩，與四圍的紫氣溶作了一團。The setting sun in the western sky hung just above the far horizon, casting across the whole sky soft red clouds; the vast heavens, high and cold, took on a silvery-blue hue, and the mirror-smooth sea added a layer of orange-yellow color, all melting together with the surrounding purple mist into one.她對他看了一眼，默默的走了幾步，就對他說：She glanced at him, walked a few steps in silence, and then said to him:

“你確是一個sentimentalist！”"You really are a sentimentalist!"

他的感情脆弱的地方，怕被她看破，就故意的笑著說：Afraid she had seen through the fragile spot in his feelings, he laughed on purpose and said:

“說什麼話，這一個時期我早已經過去了。”"What are you talking about — I got over that phase of mine long ago."

但是他頰上的兩顆淚珠，還未曾幹落，圓圓的淚珠裡，也反映著一條縮小的日暮的海岸。But the two tears on his cheeks had not yet dried, and within their round drops was reflected a miniature image of the dusk-lit shore.走到她放氈毯書籍的地方，暮色已經從松樹枝上走下來，空中懸著的半規上弦的月亮，漸漸兒的放起光來了。By the time they reached the spot where she had left her blanket and books, dusk had already descended from the pine branches, and the half-disc of the first-quarter moon hanging in the sky was gradually beginning to shine.

“再會再會！”"Goodbye, goodbye!"

“再會……"Goodbye……再…………good……會！”……bye!"

伊人回到他住的地方，看見B一個人呆呆的坐在廊下看那從松樹林裡透過來的黝暗的海岸。When Yiren got back to where he lived, he saw B sitting alone in a daze under the veranda, gazing at the dark shoreline visible through the pine woods.聽了伊人的腳步聲，就回轉頭來叫他說：Hearing Yiren's footsteps, he turned his head and called out to him:

“伊君！"Yiren, old man!你上什麼地方去了？Where did you go off to?我們今天唱詩的時候只有四個人。When we sang hymns today there were only four of us.你也不去，兩個好看的女學生也不來，只有我和K君和一位最難看的女學生。C夫人在那裡問你呢！”You didn't come, and neither of the two pretty schoolgirls came — there was just me, K, and the plainest-looking schoolgirl. Mrs. C was asking after you!"

“對不起得很，我因為上館山去散步去了，所以趕不及回來。"I'm terribly sorry — I went up Guan Mountain for a walk, and so I couldn't get back in time.你已經吃過晚飯了麼？”Have you had dinner already?"

“吃過了。"I have.浴湯也好了，主人在那裡等你洗澡。”The bath water is ready too — our host is waiting for you to bathe."

洗了澡。He took his bath.吃了晚飯，伊人就在電燈底下記了一篇長篇的日記。After eating dinner, Yiren sat down under the electric light and wrote a long entry in his diary.把迷娘（Mignon）的歌也記了進去，她說的話也記了進去，日暮的海岸的風景，悲涼的情調，他的眼淚，她的纖手，富士山的微笑，海浪的波紋，沙上的足跡，這一天午後他所看見聽見感得的地方都記了進去。He wrote in the song of Mignon, and the words she had said; the scenery of the dusk-lit shore, the sorrowful mood, his own tears, her slender hand, the smile of Mount Fuji, the ripples of the sea waves, the footprints on the sand — everything he had seen, heard, and felt that afternoon he set down in it.寫了兩個多鐘頭，他愈寫愈加覺得有趣，寫好之後，讀了又讀，改了又改，又費去了一個鐘頭，這海岸的村落的人家，都已沉沉的酣睡盡了。He wrote for more than two hours, finding it more and more absorbing the longer he went on; once finished, he read it over again and again, revising it again and again, spending yet another hour at it, by which time all the households of this coastal village had long since fallen into deep sleep.寒冷靜寂的屋內的空氣壓在他的頭上肩上身上，他回頭看看屋裡，只有壁上的他那擴大的影子在那裡動著，除了屋頂上一聲兩聲的鼠鬥聲之外，更無別的音響振動著空氣。The cold, silent air of the room pressed down upon his head, his shoulders, his whole body; he looked back around the room and saw only his own enlarged shadow moving on the wall, and apart from a squeak or two of rats fighting overhead, no other sound stirred the air.火缽裡的火也消了，坐在屋裡，覺得難受，他便輕輕的開了門，拖了草履，走下院子裡去，初八九的上弦的半月，已經斜在西天，快落山了。The fire in the brazier had gone out too, and sitting there in the room he felt uneasy, so he quietly opened the door, shuffled on his straw sandals, and went down into the courtyard; the first-quarter half-moon of the eighth or ninth night was already slanting low in the western sky, about to set.踏了松樹的影子，披了一身灰白的月光，他又穿過了松林，走到海邊上去。Treading on the shadows of the pines, draped in pale gray moonlight, he passed once more through the pine woods and made his way down to the seashore.寂靜的海邊上的風景，比白天更加了一味淒慘潔淨的情調。The silent scenery of the shore held, more than in daytime, a certain forlorn and pristine mood.在將落未落的月光裡，踏來踏去的走了一回，他走上白天他和她走過的地方去。Walking back and forth for a while in the moonlight that was about to set but had not yet done so, he made his way to the spot where he and she had walked that afternoon.差不多走到了的時候，他就站住了腳，曲了身去看白天他兩人的沙灘上的足跡去。When he had nearly reached it, he stopped and bent down to look for the footprints the two of them had left on the sand that afternoon.同尋夢的人一樣，他尋了半天總尋不出兩人的足印來。Like someone searching for a dream, he searched for a long while but could not find the two sets of footprints at all.站起來又向西的走了一忽，伏倒去一尋，他自家的橡皮草履的足跡尋出來了。Standing up, he walked westward a little further, then bent down again to search, and found the print of his own rubber-soled sandals.他的足跡的後邊一步一步跟上去的她的足跡也尋了出來。Following step by step behind his own footprints, he also found the trace of her footprints.他的胸前覺得跳躍的樣子，《聖經》裡的兩節話忽然被他想出來了。His heart seemed to leap in his chest, and two verses from the Bible suddenly came to his mind.

But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matthew 5.28－29Matthew 5.28－29

伊人雖已經與婦人接觸過幾次，然而在這時候，他覺得他的身體又回到童貞未破的時候去了的一樣，他對O的心，覺得真是純潔高尚，並無半點邪念的樣子，想到了這兩節聖經，他的心裡又起起衝突來了。Although Yiren had already had contact with women several times, at this moment he felt as if his body had reverted to a time before his innocence was lost; his feelings toward O struck him as truly pure and noble, without the slightest trace of impure thought — yet when he thought of these two verses of scripture, conflict rose up in his heart once again.他站起來閉了眼睛，默默的想了一回。He stood up, closed his eyes, and pondered silently for a while.他想叫上帝來幫助他，但是他的哲學的理智性怎麼也不許他祈禱，閉了眼睛，立了四五分鐘，搖了一搖頭，歎了一口氣，他仍複走了回來。He wanted to call on God to help him, but the philosophical rationality in him simply would not allow him to pray; with his eyes closed he stood there four or five minutes, then shook his head, heaved a sigh, and turned to walk back all the same.他一邊走一邊把頭轉向南面的樹林，在深深的探視。As he walked, he turned his head toward the woods to the south, peering deeply into them.那邊並無燈火看得出來，只有一層濛濛的月光，罩在樹林的上面，一塊樹林的黑影，教人想到神秘的事蹟上去。No lamplight could be seen over there — only a hazy layer of moonlight covering the woods, and the dark mass of the trees made one think of mysterious happenings.他看了一回，自家對自家說：He looked for a while, and said to himself:

“她定住在這樹林的裡邊，不知她睡沒有睡，她也許在那裡看月光的。"She must be living somewhere inside those woods; I wonder whether she is asleep or not — perhaps she is out there looking at the moonlight too.唉，可憐我的一生，可憐我的長失敗的生涯！”Ah, pity my whole life, pity this long career of failure of mine!"

月亮又低了一段，光線更灰白起來，海面上好像有一隻船在那裡橫駛的樣子，他看了一眼，灰白的光裡，只見一隻怪獸似的一個黑影在海上微動，他忽覺得害怕起來。The moon sank lower still, and its light grew grayer and paler; out on the sea there seemed to be a ship sailing across. He glanced at it, and in the ashen light saw only a black shadow like some monster stirring faintly upon the water; suddenly he grew afraid.一陣的涼風又橫海的掠上他的顏面，他打了一個冷痙，就俯了首三腳兩步的走回家來了。Another gust of cool wind swept across the sea and over his face. He shivered, then lowered his head and hurried home in a few quick strides.睡了之後，他覺得有女人的聲音在門外叫他的樣子，仔細聽了一聽，這確是唱《迷娘的歌》的聲音。After falling asleep, he fancied he heard a woman calling him outside the door; listening closely, he found it was indeed a voice singing “Mignon’s Song.”他就跑出來跟了她上海邊上去。He ran outside and followed her down to the shore.月亮正要落山的樣子，西天盡變了紅黑的顏色。The moon seemed about to set, and the whole western sky had turned a reddish black.他向四邊一看，覺得海水樹林沙灘也都變了紅黑色了。Looking all around, he felt that the sea, the woods, and the beach had all turned reddish black as well.他對她一看，見她臉色被四邊的紅黑色反映起來，竟蒼白得同死人一樣。He looked at her and saw the surrounding reddish-black glow reflected upon her face, which was as deathly pale as a corpse.他想和她說話，但是總想不出什麼話來。He wanted to speak to her, but could think of nothing to say.她也只含了兩眼清淚，在那裡默默的看他。She too merely gazed at him in silence, her eyes brimming with clear tears.兩人在沉默的中間，動也不動的看了一忽，她就回轉身向樹林裡走去。The two stood motionless, gazing at each other for a while amid the silence; then she turned and walked toward the woods.他馬上追了過去，但是到樹林的口頭的時候，他忽然遇著了去年夏天欺騙他的那淫婦，含著了微笑，從樹林裡走了出來。He immediately ran after her, but just as he reached the entrance to the woods, he suddenly encountered the wanton woman who had deceived him the previous summer, emerging from among the trees with a smile.啊的叫了一聲，他就想跑回到家裡來，但是他的兩腳，怎麼也不能跑，苦悶了一回，他的夢才醒了。With a cry of “Ah!” he tried to run home, but no matter how he struggled, his legs would not move; after suffering in anguish for a while, he finally awoke from his dream.身上又發了一身冷汗，那一晚他再也不能睡了。His whole body was again drenched in cold sweat, and he could not sleep any more that night.去年夏天的事情，他又回想了出來。The events of the previous summer returned to his mind.去年夏天他的身體還強健得很，在高等學校卒了業，正打算進大學去，他的前途還有許多希望在那裡。The previous summer he had still been in robust health; having graduated from the higher school and being about to enter university, he still had many hopes for his future.我們更換一個高一級的學校或改遷一個好一點的地方的時候感得的那一種希望心和好奇心，也在他的胸中醞釀。The hope and curiosity we feel when moving up to a more advanced school or relocating to a better place were fermenting in his breast as well.那時候他的經濟狀態，也比現在寬裕，家裡匯來的五百元錢，還有一大半存在銀行裡。His financial circumstances were also easier then than they were now; of the five hundred yuan sent from home, well over half was still in the bank.他從他的高等學校的N市，遷到了東京，在芝區的赤倉旅館裡住了一個禮拜，有一天早晨在報上看見了一處招租的廣告。He left N City, where his higher school was, and moved to Tokyo. After staying for a week at the Akakura Inn in Shiba Ward, he saw an advertisement for lodgings in the newspaper one morning.因為廣告上出租的地方近在第一高等學校的前面，所以去大學也不甚遠。Since the advertised rooms stood just across from the First Higher School, they were not very far from the university either.他坐了電車，到那個地方去一看，是一家中流人家，姓N的主人是一個五六十歲的強壯的老人，身體偉巨得很，相貌雖然獰惡，然而應對卻非常恭敬。He took a streetcar to inspect the place. It was the home of a middle-class family, and the landlord, surnamed N, was a sturdy man of fifty or sixty, huge in build; though fierce in appearance, he was exceedingly courteous in his manner.出租的是樓上的兩間房子，伊人上樓去一看，覺得房間也還清潔，正坐下去，同那老主人在那裡講話的時候，扶梯上走上了一個二十三四的優雅的婦人來。The rooms for rent were two upstairs chambers. He went up to inspect them and found them fairly clean. Just as he sat down to talk with the elderly landlord, an elegant woman of twenty-three or twenty-four came up the stairs.手裡拿了一盆茶果，走到伊人的面前就恭恭敬敬跪下去對伊人行了一個禮。Carrying a tray of tea and fruit, she approached him, knelt respectfully before him, and bowed.伊人對她看了一眼，她就含了微笑，對伊人丟了一個眼色。He glanced at her, and she smiled and cast him a sidelong look.伊人倒反覺得害起羞來，她還是平平常常的好像得了勝利似的下樓去了。He, on the contrary, grew embarrassed, while she went downstairs as calmly as ever, looking almost triumphant.伊人說定了房間，就走下樓來，出門的時候，她又跪在門口，含了微笑在那裡送他，他雖然不能仔仔細細的觀察，然而就他一眼所及的地方看來，剛才的那個婦人，確是一個美人。After agreeing to take the rooms, he went downstairs. As he left, she knelt again by the door and smilingly saw him off. Though he had been unable to examine her closely, from what he had glimpsed he was certain that the woman was a beauty.小小的身材，長圓的臉兒，一頭叢多的黑色的頭髮，墜在她的嬌白的額上。She was small in stature, with a long oval face and a luxuriant mass of black hair falling over her delicately pale forehead.一雙眼睛活得很，也大得很。Her eyes were very lively, and very large.伊人一路回到他的旅館裡去，在電車上就作了許多空想。All the way back to his inn, he indulged in fantasies on the streetcar.

月亮又低了一段，光线更灰白起来，海面上好像有一只船在那里横驶的样子，他看了一眼，灰白的光里，只见一只怪兽似的一个黑影在海上微动，他忽觉得害怕起来。一阵的凉风又横海的掠上他的颜面，他打了一个冷痉，就俯了首三脚两步的走回家来了。睡了之后，他觉得有女人的声音在门外叫他的样子，仔细听了一听，这确是唱《迷娘的歌》的声音。他就跑出来跟了她上海边上去。月亮正要落山的样子，西天尽变了红黑的颜色。他向四边一看，觉得海水树林沙滩也都变了红黑色了。他对她一看，见她脸色被四边的红黑色反映起来，竟苍白得同死人一样。他想和她说话，但是总想不出什么话来。她也只含了两眼清泪，在那里默默的看他。两人在沉默的中间，动也不动的看了一忽，她就回转身向树林里走去。他马上追了过去，但是到树林的口头的时候，他忽然遇著了去年夏天欺骗他的那淫妇，含著了微笑，从树林里走了出来。啊的叫了一声，他就想跑回到家里来，但是他的两脚，怎么也不能跑，苦闷了一回，他的梦才醒了。身上又发了一身冷汗，那一晚他再也不能睡了。去年夏天的事情，他又回想了出来。去年夏天他的身体还强健得很，在高等学校卒了业，正打算进大学去，他的前途还有许多希望在那里。我们更换一个高一级的学校或改迁一个好一点的地方的时候感得的那一种希望心和好奇心，也在他的胸中酝酿。那时候他的经济状态，也比现在宽裕，家里汇来的五百元钱，还有一大半存在银行里。他从他的高等学校的N市，迁到了东京，在芝区的赤仓旅馆里住了一个礼拜，有一天早晨在报上看见了一处招租的广告。因为广告上出租的地方近在第一高等学校的前面，所以去大学也不甚远。他坐了电车，到那个地方去一看，是一家中流人家，姓N的主人是一个五六十岁的强壮的老人，身体伟巨得很，相貌虽然狞恶，然而应对却非常恭敬。出租的是楼上的两间房子，伊人上楼去一看，觉得房间也还清洁，正坐下去，同那老主人在那里讲话的时候，扶梯上走上了一个二十三四的优雅的妇人来。手里拿了一盆茶果，走到伊人的面前就恭恭敬敬跪下去对伊人行了一个礼。伊人对她看了一眼，她就含了微笑，对伊人丢了一个眼色。伊人倒反觉得害起羞来，她还是平平常常的好像得了胜利似的下楼去了。伊人说定了房间，就走下楼来，出门的时候，她又跪在门口，含了微笑在那里送他，他虽然不能仔仔细细的观察，然而就他一眼所及的地方看来，刚才的那个妇人，确是一个美人。小小的身材，长圆的脸儿，一头丛多的黑色的头发，坠在她的娇白的额上。一双眼睛活得很，也大得很。伊人一路回到他的旅馆里去，在电车上就作了许多空想。

“名譽我也有了，從九月起我便是帝國大學的學生了。“I have fame now; from September onward, I shall be a student at the Imperial University.金錢我也可以支援一年，現在還有二百八十餘元的積貯在那裡。I have enough money to support myself for a year, and I still have more than two hundred and eighty yuan in savings.第三個條件就是女人了。 Ah, money, love and fame！”The third condition is a woman. Ah, money, love and fame!”

他想到這裡，不覺露了一臉微笑，電車裡坐在他對面的一個中年的婦人，好像在那裡看他的樣子，他就在洋服包裡拿出了一冊當時新出版的日本的小說《一婦人》（Aru Onnan）來看了。At this thought, a smile unconsciously spread across his face. A middle-aged woman seated opposite him in the streetcar seemed to be watching him, so he took from the pocket of his Western suit a copy of the newly published Japanese novel Aru Onna and began to read.

第二天早晨，他一早就從赤倉旅館搬到本鄉的N的家裡去。Early the next morning, he moved from the Akakura Inn to N’s house in Hongō.因為時候還早得很，昨天看見的那婦人還沒有梳頭，粗衣亂髮的她的容姿，比梳裝後的樣子還更可愛，他一見了她就紅了臉，一句話也講不出來。Since it was still very early, the woman he had seen the day before had not yet done her hair. In coarse clothes and with her hair disheveled, she looked even lovelier than when fully made up; the instant he saw her, he blushed and could not utter a word.她只含著了微笑，幫他在那裡整理從旅館裡搬來的物件。She merely smiled as she helped him arrange the belongings brought over from the inn.一隻書箱重得很，伊人一個人搬不動，她就跑過來幫伊人搬上樓去。One book chest was so heavy that he could not move it alone, so she hurried over and helped him carry it upstairs.搬上扶梯的時候，伊人退了一步，恰好沖在她的懷裡，她便輕輕地把伊人抱住了說：As they carried it up the stairs, he stepped backward and collided squarely with her breast; she gently caught him in her arms and said:

“危險呀！“Careful!要沒有我在這裡，怕你要滾下去了。”If I hadn’t been here, you might have tumbled down.”

伊人覺得一層女人的電力，微微的傳到他的身體上去。He felt a current of feminine electricity pass faintly into his body.他的自製力已經沒有了，好像在冬天寒冷的時候，突然進了熱霧騰騰的浴室裡去的樣子，伊人只昏昏的說：His self-control was already gone; it was as though, chilled in winter, he had suddenly entered a bathroom billowing with hot steam, and he could only murmur dazedly:

“危險危險！“Careful, careful!多謝多謝！Thank you, thank you!對不起對不起！……”I’m sorry, I’m sorry!…”

伊人急忙走開了之後，她還在那裡笑著，看了伊人的惱羞的樣子，她就問他說：After he hurried away, she remained there laughing. Seeing his mortified embarrassment, she asked:

“你怕羞麼！“Are you shy?你怕羞我就下樓去！”If you’re shy, I’ll go downstairs!”

伊人正想回話的時候，她卻轉了身走下樓去了。Just as he was about to answer, she turned and went downstairs.

夏天的暑熱，一天一天的增加起來，伊人的神經衰弱也一天一天的重起來了。The summer heat increased day by day, and his nervous debility likewise grew worse with each passing day.伊人在N家裡住了兩個禮拜，N家裡的情形，也都被他知道了。N老人便是那婦人的義父，那婦人名叫M，是N老人的朋友的親生女。M有一個男人，是入贅的，現在鄉下的中學校裡做先生，所以不住在家裡的。After he had lived at N’s house for two weeks, he learned all about the household. Old N was the woman’s adoptive father, and the woman, whose name was M, was the natural daughter of one of his friends. M had a husband who had married into her family; he was teaching at a middle school in the countryside and therefore did not live at home.

那婦人天天梳洗的時候，總把上身的衣服脫得精光，把她的乳頭胸口露出來。Every day while washing and dressing, the woman stripped her upper body completely bare, exposing her breasts and chest.伊人起來洗面的時候每天總不得不受她的露體的誘惑，因此他的腦病更不得不一天重似一天起來。Whenever he rose to wash his face, he could not help being subjected to the temptation of her naked body; consequently, his disorder of the nerves could not help worsening day by day.

有一天午後，伊人正在那裡貪午睡，M一個人不聲不響的走上扶梯鑽到他的帳子裡來。One afternoon, while he was indulging in a nap, M crept silently up the stairs by herself and slipped inside his mosquito net.她一進帳子伊人就醒了。The moment she entered the net, he awoke.伊人對她笑了一笑，她也對伊人笑著並且輕輕的說：He smiled at her; she smiled back and whispered:

“底下一個人都不在那裡。”“There isn’t anyone downstairs.”

伊人從蓋在身上的毛毯裡伸出了一隻手來，她就靠住了伊人的手把身體橫下來轉進毛毯裡去。He extended one hand from beneath the blanket covering him; leaning against his arm, she lowered herself sideways and slipped under the blanket.

第二日她和她的父親要伊人帶上鐮倉去洗海水澡。The next day, she and her father wanted him to go with them to Kamakura to bathe in the sea.伊人因為不喜歡海水浴，所以就說：Because he disliked sea bathing, he said:

“海水浴俗得很，我們還不如上箱根溫泉去吧。”“Sea bathing is terribly vulgar; we would do better to go to the hot springs at Hakone.”

過了兩天，伊人和M及M的父親，從東京出發到箱根去了。Two days later, he, M, and M’s father set out from Tokyo for Hakone.在宮下的奈良屋旅館住下的第二天，M定要伊人和她上蘆湖去，N老人因為家裡丟不下，就在那一天的中飯後回東京去了。On the day after they settled in at the Naraya Inn in Miyanoshita, M insisted that he accompany her to Lake Ashi. Since Old N could not leave the household unattended, he returned to Tokyo after lunch that day.

吃了中飯，送N老人上了車，伊人就同她上蘆湖去。After lunch, once they had seen Old N onto his conveyance, he and she set out for Lake Ashi.倒行的上山路緩緩的走不上一個鐘頭，她就不能走了。They had not been slowly climbing the steep mountain road for even an hour before she could walk no farther.好容易到了蘆湖，伊人和她又投到紀國屋旅館去住下。When at last they reached Lake Ashi, he and she took rooms at the Kinokuniya Inn.換了衣服，洗了汗水，吃了兩杯冰麒麟，覺得元氣恢復起來，閉了紙窗，她又同伊人睡下了。After changing their clothes, washing off their sweat, and drinking two glasses of cold Kirin beer, they felt their strength return; then they closed the paper screens and lay down together again.

過了一點多鐘，太陽沉西的時候，伊人又和她去洗澡去。After a little more than an hour, as the sun sank westward, he and she went to bathe.吃了夜飯，坐了二三十分鐘，樓下還很鬧熱的時候，M就把電燈熄了。After supper, when they had sat for twenty or thirty minutes and it was still very noisy downstairs, M turned out the electric light.

第二天天氣熱得很，伊人和她又在蘆湖住了一天，第三天的午後，他們才回到東京來。The next day was exceedingly hot, so he and she remained another day at Lake Ashi; it was not until the afternoon of the third day that they returned to Tokyo.

伊人和M，回到本鄉的家裡的門口的時候，N老人就迎出來說：When he and M reached the entrance of the house in Hongō, Old N came out to meet them and said:

“M兒！W君從病院裡出來了！”“M, my child! Mr. W has come out of the hospital!”

“啊！“Ah!這……Then…病好了麼，完全好了麼！”Has he recovered? Has he recovered completely?”

M的面上露出了一種非常歡喜的樣子來，伊人以為W是她的親戚，所以也不驚異，走上家裡去之後，他看見在她的房裡坐著一個三十來歲的男子。An expression of extraordinary joy appeared on M’s face. He assumed that W was a relative of hers and was therefore not surprised; but after entering the house, he saw a man of about thirty sitting in her room.這男子的身體雄偉得很，臉上帶著一臉酒肉氣，見伊人進來，就和伊人敘起禮來。N老人就對伊人說：The man was powerfully built, with a fleshy, dissipated look upon his face. When he saw him enter, he rose and exchanged courtesies with him. Old N said:

“這一位就是W君，在我們家裡住了兩年了。“This is Mr. W; he has lived with us for two years.今年已經在文科大學卒業。He graduated from the College of Letters this year.你的名氏他也知道的，因為他學的是漢文，所以在雜誌上他已經讀過你的詩的。He knows your name as well; since he studies Chinese literature, he has already read your poems in magazines.

M一面對W說話，一面就把衣服脫下來，拿了一塊手巾把身上的汗揩了，揩完之後，把手巾提給伊人說：While speaking to W, M stripped off her clothes, took a towel, and wiped the sweat from her body; when she had finished, she held the towel out to him and said:

“你也揩一揩吧！”“You wipe yourself too!”

伊人覺得不好看，就勉強的把面上的汗揩了。He thought it unseemly, but reluctantly wiped the sweat from his face.伊人與W雖是初次見面，但是總覺得不能與他合伴。Although this was the first time he and W had met, he felt that he could never get along with him.不曉是什麼理由，伊人總覺得W是他的仇敵。He did not know why, but he persistently felt that W was his enemy.說了幾句閒話，伊人上樓去拿了手巾肥皂，就出去洗澡去了。After exchanging a few idle remarks, he went upstairs to fetch a towel and soap, then went out to bathe.洗了澡回來，伊人在門口聽見M在那裡說笑，好像是喜歡得了不得的樣子。When he returned from his bath, he heard M laughing and talking inside as he stood at the door; she sounded beside herself with delight.伊人進去之後，M就對他說：After he entered, M said to him:

“今天晚上W先生請我們吃雞，因為他病好了，今天是他出病院的紀念日。”“Mr. W is treating us to chicken tonight. He has recovered from his illness, and today marks his release from the hospital.”

M又說W因為害腎臟病，到病院去住了兩個月，今天才出病院的。M added that W had suffered from kidney disease and spent two months in the hospital, and had only been discharged that day.伊人含糊的答應了幾句，就上樓去了。He mumbled a few words of acknowledgment and went upstairs.這一天的晚上，伊人又害了不眠症，開了眼睛，竟一睡也睡不著。That night his insomnia returned; he lay with his eyes open, unable to sleep at all.到十二點鐘的時候，他聽見樓底下的M的房門輕輕兒的開了，一步一步的M的腳步聲走上她的間壁的W的房裡去，嘰哩咕嚕的講了幾句之後，M特有的那一種嗚嗚的喘聲出來了。At midnight, he heard the door of M’s room downstairs open softly, then M’s footsteps mounting one by one to W’s room next to hers; after a few murmured words, there came M’s peculiar low, moaning gasps.伊人正好像被潑了一身冷水，他的心臟的鼓動也停止了，他的腦裡的血液也凝住了。It was as though cold water had been dashed all over him; the beating of his heart stopped, and the blood in his brain congealed.他的耳朵同犬耳似的直豎了起來，樓下的一舉一動他都好像看得出來的樣子。W的肥胖的肉體，M的半開半閉的眼睛，散在枕上的她的頭髮，她的嘴唇和舌尖，她的那一種粉和汗的混和的香氣，下體的顫動……His ears pricked up like a dog’s, and he seemed able to see every movement downstairs: W’s fat body, M’s half-open, half-closed eyes, her hair scattered over the pillow, her lips and the tip of her tongue, that scent of hers in which powder mingled with sweat, the trembling of her lower body…他想到這裡，已經不能耐了。At this point in his imagining, he could bear it no longer.愈想睡愈睡不著。The more he tried to sleep, the more impossible sleep became.樓下息息索索的聲響，更不止的從樓板上傳到他的耳膜上來。The furtive rustling downstairs came ceaselessly through the floorboards to his eardrums.他又不敢作聲，身體又不敢動一動。He dared not make a sound, nor did he dare move his body in the least.他胸中的苦悶和後悔的心思，一時同暴風似的起來，兩條冰冷的眼淚從眼角上流到耳朵根前，從耳朵根前滴到枕上去了。The anguish and remorse in his breast rose all at once like a tempest; two icy tears ran from the corners of his eyes to the roots of his ears, then fell from there onto the pillow.

天將亮的時候M才幽腳幽手的回到她自己的房裡去，伊人聽了一忽，覺得樓底下的聲音息了。Only as dawn was about to break did M steal quietly back to her own room; he listened for a while and felt that all sound downstairs had ceased.翻來覆去的翻了幾個身，才睡著了。After tossing and turning several times, he finally fell asleep.睡不上一點多鐘，他又醒了。Before much more than an hour had passed, he awoke again.下樓去洗面去的時候，M和W都還睡在那裡，只有N老人從院子對面的一間小屋裡（原來老人是睡在這間小屋裡的）走了下來，擦擦眼睛對伊人說：When he went downstairs to wash his face, M and W were still asleep. Only Old N came down from a small room across the courtyard—he slept in that room, as it turned out—rubbed his eyes, and said to him:

“你早啊！”“You’re up early!”

伊人答應了一聲，匆匆洗完了臉，就套上了皮鞋，跑出外面去。He answered, hastily finished washing his face, slipped on his leather shoes, and ran outside.他的腦裡正亂得同蜂巢一樣，不曉得怎麼才好。His mind was in as much turmoil as a beehive, and he had no idea what to do.他亂的走了一陣，卻走到了春日町的電車交換的十字路口了。After wandering aimlessly for a while, he found himself at the streetcar junction at the Kasugachō crossroads.不問清白，他跳上了一乘電車就乘在那裡，糊糊塗塗的換了幾次車，電車到了目黑的終點了。Without caring where it went, he jumped onto a streetcar and rode along; after changing cars several times in a daze, he arrived at the terminus in Meguro.太陽已經高得很，在田塍路上穿來穿去的走了十幾分鐘，他覺得頭上曬得痛起來，用手向頭上一摸，才知道出來的時候，他不曾把帽子帶來。The sun was already high. After wandering back and forth along paths between the fields for more than ten minutes, he felt his head begin to ache from the sun; only when he touched it with his hand did he realize that he had left without his hat.向身上腳下一看，他自家也覺得好笑起來。Looking down at his clothes and feet, even he found himself ridiculous.身上只穿了一件白綢的寢衣，赤了腳穿了一雙白皮的靴子。He wore nothing but a white silk nightshirt and, on his bare feet, a pair of white leather boots.他覺得羞極了，要想回去，又不能回去，走來走去的走了一回，他就在一塊樹蔭的草地上坐下了。He felt mortally ashamed. He wanted to go back, yet could not; after pacing about for a while, he sat down on a patch of grass beneath the shade of a tree.把身邊的錢包取出來一看，包裡還有三張五元的鈔票和二三元零錢在那裡，幸喜銀行的帳簿也夾在錢包裡面，翻開來一看，只有百二十元錢存在了。He took out his wallet and looked inside. It still held three five-yuan notes and two or three yuan in change; fortunately, his bankbook was tucked inside as well, and when he opened it, he found that only one hundred and twenty yuan remained.他靜靜的坐了一忽，想了一下，忽把一月前頭住過的赤倉旅館想了出來。He sat quietly for a while and thought; then he suddenly remembered the Akakura Inn, where he had stayed a month before.他就站起來走，穿過了幾條村路，尋到一間人力車夫的家裡，坐了一乘人力車，便一直的奔上赤倉旅館去。He rose and set off, crossed several village roads, and found a rickshaw puller’s house. Climbing into a rickshaw, he had himself taken straight to the Akakura Inn.在車上的幌簾裡，他想想一月前頭，看了房子回來在電車上想的空想，不知不覺的就滴了兩顆大眼淚下來。Behind the rickshaw’s curtains, he recalled the fantasies he had entertained on the streetcar a month before, after returning from viewing the rooms, and two great tears unconsciously fell from his eyes.

“名譽，金錢，婦女，我如今有一點什麼？“Fame, money, women—what part of any of them do I have now?什麼也沒有，什麼也沒有。Nothing, nothing at all.我……I…我只有我這一個將死的身體。”All I have is this body of mine, which is soon to die.”

到了赤倉旅館，旅館裡的聽差的看了他的樣子，都對他笑了起來：When he arrived at the Akakura Inn, the servants at the inn took one look at him and burst out laughing:

“伊先生！"Mr. Yiren!你被強盜搶劫了麼？”Were you robbed by bandits?"

伊人一句話也回答不出來，就走上帳桌去寫了一張字條，對聽差的說：Yiren could not answer a single word; he went up to the counter, wrote out a note, and said to the servant:

“你拿了這一張字條，上本鄉××町×××號地的N家去把我的東西搬了來。”"Take this note and go to N's house at No. ××× on ×× Street in Hongo, and bring my things back."

伊人默默的上一間空房間裡去坐了一忽，種種傷心的事情，都同春潮似的湧上心來，他愈想愈恨，差不多想自家尋死了，兩條眼淚連連續續的滴下他的腮來。Yiren went silently into an empty room and sat there a while; all manner of sorrowful things surged up in his heart like a spring tide, and the more he thought the more bitter he grew, until he very nearly wished to end his own life — two lines of tears fell one after another down his cheeks.

過了兩個鐘頭之後，聽差的人回來說。After about two hours had passed, the servant came back and said:

“伊先生你也未免太好事了。"Mr. Yiren, you really do love to stir up trouble.那一個女人說你欺負了她，如今就要想遠遁了。That woman says you bullied her, and now you want to run far away.她怎麼也不肯把你的東西交給我搬來。No matter what, she refused to let me bring your things back.她說還有要緊的事情和你親說，要你自家去一次。She said there was something important she needed to tell you in person, and that you must go yourself.一個三十來歲的同牛也似的男人說你太無禮了。A man of about thirty, built like an ox, said you were far too rude.因為他出言不遜，所以我同他鬧了一場。Because he spoke insolently, I got into a quarrel with him.那一隻牛大概是她的男人吧？”That ox of a man is probably her husband, I suppose?"

“她另外還說什麼？”"What else did she say?"

“她說的話多得很呢！"She said a great deal!她說你太卑怯了！She said you were far too cowardly!並不像一個男子漢，那是她看了你的字條的時候說的。”Not at all like a real man — that's what she said after she read your note."

“是這樣的麼，對不起得很，要你空跑一次。”"Is that so? I'm very sorry to have made you run there for nothing."

一邊這樣的說，一邊伊人就拿了兩張鈔票，塞在那聽差的手裡。As he said this, Yiren took out two banknotes and pressed them into the servant's hand.聽差的要出去的時候。Just as the servant was about to go out,伊人又叫他回來，要他去拿了幾張信紙信封和筆硯來。Yiren called him back again and asked him to fetch some letter paper, envelopes, a brush, and an inkstone.筆硯信紙拿來了之後，伊人就寫了一封長長的信給M。Once the brush, inkstone, and paper had been brought, Yiren wrote a long letter to M.

第三天的午前十時，橫濱出發的春日丸輪船的二等艙板上，伊人呆呆的立在那裡。At ten in the morning of the third day, on the second-class deck of the steamship Kasuga Maru departing from Yokohama, Yiren stood there in a daze.他站在鐵欄旁邊，一瞬也不轉的在那裡看漸漸兒小下去的陸地。He stood by the iron railing, gazing without blinking at the land as it grew smaller and smaller.輪船出了東京灣，他還呆呆的立在那裡，然而陸地早已看不明白了，因為船離開橫濱灣的時候，他的眼睛就模糊起來，他的眼瞼毛上的同真珠似的水球，還有幾顆沒有幹著，所以他不能下艙去與別的客人接談。The ship left Tokyo Bay and still he stood there in a daze, though the land could no longer be clearly seen, for his eyes had already blurred with tears the moment the ship left Yokohama Bay; a few pearl-like drops still clung undried to his eyelashes, and so he could not go below to converse with the other passengers.

對面正屋裡的掛鐘敲了二下，伊人的枕上又滴了幾滴眼淚下來，那一天午後的事情，箱根旅館裡的事情，從箱根回來那一天晚上的事情，他都記得清清楚楚，同昨天的事情一樣。The clock on the wall in the main house opposite struck two, and a few more tears dripped down onto Yiren's pillow; the events of that afternoon, the events at the Hakone inn, the events of the night he returned from Hakone — he remembered them all with perfect clarity, as though they had happened only yesterday.立在橫濱港口春日丸船上的時候的懊惱，又在他的胸裡活了轉來，那時候嘗過的苦味他又不得不再嘗一次。The anguish he had felt standing on the deck of the Kasuga Maru in Yokohama harbor came alive again in his breast, and he could not help but taste once more the bitterness he had tasted then.把頭搖了一搖，翻了一轉身，他就輕輕的說：He shook his head, turned over, and said softly:

“○呀○，你是我的天使，你還該來救救我。”"O, oh O, you are my angel — you ought still to come and save me."

伊人又把白天她在海邊上唱的迷娘的歌想了出來：Yiren then recalled the song of Mignon that she had sung on the seashore that day:

“他這可憐的孩子呀，他們欺負了你了麼？"Poor child that he is, have they mistreated you?唉！”Ah!"

“Was hat man dir, du armes Kind, getan？”"Was hat man dir, du armes Kind, getan?"

伊人流了一陣眼淚，心地漸漸兒的平和起來，對面正屋裡的掛鐘敲三點的時候，他已經嘶嘶的睡著了。Yiren wept for a while, and gradually his heart grew calm; by the time the clock in the main house opposite struck three, he was already breathing softly in sleep.

伊人醒來的時候已經是九點多了。When Yiren woke it was already past nine.窗外好像在那裡下雨，簷漏的滴聲傳到被裡睡著的伊人的耳朵裡來。Outside the window it seemed to be raining; the sound of drops leaking from the eaves reached the ears of Yiren as he lay beneath the quilt.開了眼又睡了一刻鐘的樣子，他起來了。He opened his eyes, dozed for what seemed another quarter of an hour, and then got up.開門一看，一層濛濛的微雨，把房屋樹林海岸遮得同水墨畫一樣。He opened the door and looked out: a fine, misty drizzle veiled the houses, the woods, and the shore, making them look just like an ink-wash painting.伊人洗完了臉，拿出一本喬其墨亞的小說來，靠了火缽讀了幾頁，早膳來了。Yiren washed his face, took out a novel by George Moore, and leaning against the hibachi read a few pages before breakfast arrived.吃過早膳，停了三四十分鐘，K和B來說閒話，伊人問他們今天有沒有聖經班，他們說沒有，聖經班只有禮拜二禮拜五的兩天有的。After breakfast, some thirty or forty minutes later, K and B came to chat, and Yiren asked them whether there was Bible class today; they said there was none, that Bible class was held only on Tuesdays and Fridays.伊人一心想和O見面，所以很願意早一刻上C夫人的家裡去，聽了他們的話，他也覺得有些失望的地方，B和K說到中飯的時候，各回自家的房裡去了。Yiren's whole heart was set on seeing O, and so he was eager to go to Mrs. C's house as early as possible; hearing what they said, he could not help feeling a little disappointed. When B and K mentioned it was time for lunch, they each went back to their own rooms.

吃了中飯，伊人看了一篇喬其墨亞（George Moore）的《往事記》（Memoirs of my Dead Life），那鐘聲又當當的響了起來。After lunch, Yiren read a piece from George Moore's Memoirs of My Dead Life, when the bell began to toll again, clang, clang.伊人就跑也似的走到C夫人的家裡去。K和B也來了，兩個女學生也來了，只有O不來，伊人胸中蹺蹺落落地總平靜不下去。Yiren went almost running to Mrs. C's house. K and B came too, and the two schoolgirls came as well; only O did not come, and Yiren's heart, restless and unsettled, simply would not grow calm.一分鐘過去了，五分鐘過去了，O終究沒有來。One minute passed, five minutes passed, and O still did not come.讚美詩也唱了，祈禱也完了，大家都快散去了，伊人想問她們一聲，然而終究不能開口，兩個女學生臨去的時候，K倒問她們說：The hymns were sung and the prayers were finished, and everyone was about to disperse. Yiren wanted to ask the girls about it, but in the end could not bring himself to speak. Just as the two schoolgirls were leaving, K asked them instead:

“○君怎麼今天又不來？”"Why didn't Miss O come again today?"

一個年輕一點的女學生回答說：One of the younger schoolgirls answered:

“她今天身上又有熱了。”"She has a fever again today."

伊人本來在那裡作種種的空想的，一聽了這話，就好像是被宣告了死刑的樣子，他的身上的血管一時都覺得脹破了。Yiren, who had all along been lost in idle fancies, felt on hearing this as though a death sentence had been pronounced upon him; for a moment it seemed as if the very veins in his body would burst.他穿了鞋子，急急的跟了那兩個女學生出來。He put on his shoes and hurried out after the two schoolgirls.等到無人看見的時候，他就追上去問那兩個女學生說：Once no one else was in sight, he caught up with them and asked the two schoolgirls:

“對不起得很，○君是住在什麼地方的，你們可以領我去看看她麼？”"I'm terribly sorry, but where does Miss O live? Would you be able to take me to see her?"

兩個女學生盡在前頭走路，不留心他是跟在她們後邊的，被他這樣的一問，就好像驚了似的回轉身來看他。The two schoolgirls had been walking on ahead without noticing that he was following behind them, and at this question they turned around as though startled to look at him.

“嗎！"Oh!你怎麼雨傘都沒有帶來，我們也是上○君那裡去的，就請同去吧！”Why, you haven't even brought an umbrella! We're on our way to Miss O's too — please come along with us!"

兩個女學生就拿了一把傘借給了他，她們兩個就合用了一把向前的走去。The two schoolgirls then lent him one of their umbrellas, and the two of them shared the other as they walked on ahead.在如煙似霧的微雨裡走了一二十分鐘，他們三人就走到了一間新造的平屋門口，門上掛著一塊○的名牌，一扇小小的門，卻與那一間小小的屋相稱。Walking some ten or twenty minutes through the misty, smoke-like drizzle, the three of them arrived at the gate of a newly built single-story house; a small nameplate reading "O" hung on the gate, and the small little door suited well the small little house.三人開門進去之後，就有一個老婆子迎出來說：After the three of them opened the gate and went in, an old woman came out to greet them, saying:

“請進來！"Please, come in!這樣的下雨，你們還來看她，真真是對不起得很了。”To come and visit her in such rain as this — I really am very sorry to trouble you."

伊人跟了她們進去，先在客室裡坐下，那老婆子捧出茶來的時候，指著伊人對兩個女學生問說：Yiren followed them in and first sat down in the parlor. When the old woman brought out tea, she pointed at Yiren and asked the two schoolgirls:

“這一位是……”"And who might this gentleman be...?"

這樣的說了，她就對伊人行起禮來。So saying, she bowed to Yiren.兩個女學生也一邊說一邊在那裡賠禮。The two schoolgirls, speaking as they did so, also bowed apologetically.

“這一位是東京來的。"This gentleman has come from Tokyo.夫人的朋友，也是基督教徒。……”He's a friend of Mrs. C's, and a Christian too..."

伊人也說：Yiren also said:

“我姓伊，初次見面，以後還請照顧照顧……”"My name is Yi. This is our first meeting — I hope you'll be so kind as to look after me in the future..."

初見的禮完了，那老婆子就領伊人和兩個女學生到○的臥室裡去。○的臥室就在客室的間壁，伊人進去一看，見○紅著了臉，睡在紅花的縐布被裡，枕邊上有一本書攤在那裡。When the introductions were over, the old woman led Yiren and the two schoolgirls into O's bedroom, which was right next to the parlor. As Yiren entered and looked, he saw O lying, her face flushed, beneath a crepe quilt patterned with red flowers, a book lying open beside her pillow.腳後擺著一個火缽，火缽邊上有一個坐的蒲團，這大約是那老婆子坐的地方。At the foot of the bed stood a hibachi, and beside the hibachi lay a cushion to sit on — this, it seemed, was where the old woman usually sat.火缽上的鐵瓶裡，有一瓶沸的開水，在那裡發水蒸汽，所以室內溫暖得很。In the iron kettle on the hibachi, boiling water sent up its steam, so that the room was very warm.伊一進入這臥房，就聞得一陣香水和粉的香氣，這大約是處女的閨房特有的氣息。The moment Yiren entered this bedroom, he caught a whiff of perfume and powder — a scent peculiar, it seemed, to a maiden's chamber.老婆子領他們進去之後，把火缽移上前來，又從客室裡拿了三個坐的蒲團來，請他們坐了。After leading them in, the old woman drew the hibachi forward, and fetching three more cushions from the parlor, invited them to sit.伊人進這病室之後，就感覺到一種悲哀的預感，好像有人在他的耳朵根前告訴說：Once Yiren had entered this sickroom, he felt a sorrowful foreboding, as though someone were whispering close to his ear:

“可憐這一位年輕的女孩，已經沒有希望了。"Poor thing, this young girl — there is no hope left for her.你何苦又要來看她，使她多一層煩憂。”Why must you come and see her, only to burden her with one more worry?"

一見了她那被體熱蒸紅的清瘦的臉兒，和她那柔和悲寂的微笑，伊人更覺得難受，他紅了眼，好久不能說話，只聽她們三人輕輕地在那裡說：The moment he saw her thin, delicate face flushed red by fever, and her soft, sorrowful smile, Yiren felt all the more anguished; his eyes reddened and for a long while he could not speak, only listening as the three of them talked softly together:

“嗎！"Oh!這樣的下雨，你們還來看我，真對不起得很呀。”（○的話）To come and see me in such rain — I really am very sorry to trouble you." (O speaking)

“哪裡的話，我們橫豎在家也沒有事的。”（第一個女學生）"Not at all — we had nothing to do at home anyway." (the first schoolgirl)

“C夫人來過了麼？”（第二個女學生）"Has Mrs. C been to see you?" (the second schoolgirl)

“C夫人還沒有來過，這一點小病又何必去驚動她，你們可以不必和她說的。”"Mrs. C hasn't come yet — there's no need to trouble her over such a small illness; you needn't have told her at all."

“但是我們已經告訴她了。”"But we already told her."

“伊先生聽了我們的話，才知道你是不好。”"It was only after hearing us that Mr. Yiren learned you weren't well."

“嗎！"Oh!真對你們不起，這樣的來看我，但是我怕明天就能起來的。”I really am sorry to have you come and see me like this, but I think I shall probably be up again by tomorrow."

伊人覺得○的視線，同他自家的一樣，也在那裡閃避。Yiren felt that O's gaze, just like his own, kept evading his.所以伊人只是俯了首，在那裡聽她們說閒話，後來那年紀最小的女學生對伊人說：So Yiren merely bowed his head and sat listening to their idle talk, until at last the youngest of the schoolgirls said to him:

“伊先生！"Mr. Yiren!你回去的時候，可以去對c夫人說一聲，說○君的病並不厲害。”When you go back, would you tell Mrs. C that Miss O's illness isn't serious?"

伊人誠誠懇懇的舉起視線來對○看了一眼，就馬上把頭低下去說：Yiren earnestly raised his eyes to look once at O, then at once lowered his head again and said:

“雖然是小病，但是也要保養……”"Even if it's a minor illness, you still must take care of yourself..."

說到這裡，他覺得說不下去了。Having said this much, he found he could not go on.

三人坐了一忽，說了許多閒話，就站起來走。The three of them sat a while longer, chatted a good deal more, and then rose to leave.

“請你保重些！"Please take good care of yourself!

“保養保養！"Rest well and look after yourself!

“小心些………！"Do be careful.........!

“多謝多謝，對你們不起！"Thank you, thank you — I'm so sorry to have troubled you!

伊人臨走的時候，又深深的對○看了一眼，○的一雙眼睛，也在他的面上遲疑了一回。As he was about to leave, Yiren gazed deeply once more at O, and O's eyes, too, lingered a moment upon his face.他們三人就回來了。The three of them then made their way back.

禮拜日天晴了，天氣和暖了許多。On Sunday the sky cleared, and the weather turned a good deal warmer.吃了早飯，伊人就與K和B，從太陽光裡躺著的村路上走到北條市內的禮拜堂去做禮拜。After breakfast, Yiren went with K and B along the village road, lying bathed in sunlight, to attend service at the church in Hōjō town.

雨後的鄉村，滿目都是清新的風景。The countryside after the rain was, wherever one looked, filled with fresh and clean scenery.一條沙泥和矽石結成的村路，被雨洗得乾乾淨淨在那裡反射太陽的光線。A village road made of sand, mud, and quartz stones had been washed clean by the rain and lay there reflecting the sunlight.道旁的枯樹，以青蒼的天體作為背景，挺著枝幹，好像有一種新生的氣力貯蓄在那裡的樣子，大約發芽的時期也不遠了。The withered trees beside the road, set against the pale blue-green sky as a backdrop, held their branches upright as though some fresh vital force were being stored up within them — it seemed the time for budding could not be far off.空地上的枯樹投射下來的影子，同蒼老的南畫的粉本一樣。The shadows cast by the bare trees onto the open ground looked just like the sketches of some ancient Southern-school ink painting.伊人同K和B，說了幾句話，看看近視眼的K，好像有不喜歡的樣子形容在面上，所以他就也不再說下去了。Yiren exchanged a few words with K and B, but noticing that near-sighted K seemed to have a look of displeasure showing on his face, he did not continue speaking.

到了禮拜堂裡，一位三十來歲的，身材短小，臉上有一簇絡腮短鬍子的牧師迎了出來。On arriving at the church, a pastor of about thirty, short in stature and with a tuft of short whiskers along his jaw, came out to greet them.這牧師和伊人是初次見面，談了幾句話之後，伊人就覺得他也是一個沉靜無言的好人。This was the first time the pastor and Yiren had met, and after exchanging a few words, Yiren felt that he too was a quiet, reticent, good man.牧師也是近視眼，也帶著一雙鋼絲邊的眼鏡，說話的時候，語音是非常沉鬱的。The pastor, too, was near-sighted and wore a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles; when he spoke, his voice was very deep and melancholy.唱詩說教完了之後，是自由說教的時刻了。After the hymn-singing and the sermon were over, it was time for open testimony.近視眼的K，就跳上壇上去說：Near-sighted K sprang up onto the platform and said:

“我們東洋人不行不行。"We Orientals are no good, no good at all.我們東洋人的信仰全是假的，有幾個人大約因為想學幾句外國話，或想與女教友交際交際才去信教的。Our faith as Orientals is entirely false — there are some who take up religion, it seems, simply because they want to learn a few phrases of a foreign language, or want to mingle a bit with the women of the congregation.所以我們東洋人是不行的，我們若要信教，要同原始基督教徒一樣的去信才好。That is why we Orientals are no good; if we are to believe, we ought to believe just as the early Christians did.也不必講外國話，也不必同女教友交際的。”There's no need to speak foreign languages, and no need to mingle with the women of the congregation."

伊人覺得立時紅起臉來，K的這幾句話，分明是在那裡攻擊他的。Yiren felt his face flush at once — these words of K's were plainly aimed as an attack on him.第一何以不說“日本人”要說“東洋人”？For one thing, why say "Orientals" instead of "Japanese"?在座的人除了伊人之外還有誰不是日本人呢？Of all those present, who besides Yiren was not Japanese?講外國話，與女教友交際，這是伊人的近事。K的演說完了之後，大家起來祈禱，祈禱畢禮拜就完了。Speaking foreign languages and socializing with female church members—these were Yiren's recent pastimes. After K finished his speech, everyone rose to pray, and once the prayer ended, the service was over.伊人心裡只是不解，何以K要反對他到這一個地步。Yiren simply could not understand why K should oppose him to such an extent.來做禮拜的人，除了C夫人和那兩個女學生之外，都是些北條市內的住民，所以K的演說也許大家是不能理會的，伊人想到了這裡，心裡就得了幾分安易。Those who had come to worship, apart from Mrs. C and the two schoolgirls, were all residents of Hōjō town, so K's speech was probably beyond most of them to grasp; thinking of this, Yiren felt somewhat relieved.眾人還沒有散去之先，伊人就拉了B的手，匆匆的走出教會來了。Before the crowd had dispersed, Yiren took B by the hand and hurried out of the church.走盡了北條的熱鬧的街路，在車站前面要向東折的時候，伊人對B說：Having walked the length of Hōjō's bustling street, just as they were about to turn east in front of the station, Yiren said to B:

“B君，我要問你幾句話，我們一直的去，穿過了車站，走上海岸去吧。”"B, I want to ask you something. Let's just keep going straight, pass through the station, and walk down to the shore."

過了車站走到海邊的時候，伊人問說：Once they had passed the station and reached the seashore, Yiren asked:

“B君，剛才K君講的話，你可知道是指誰說的？”"B, do you know who K was referring to just now in his speech?"

“那是指你說的。”"That was aimed at you."

“K何以要這樣的攻擊我呢？”"Why should K attack me like that?"

“你要曉得K的心裡是在那裡想○的。"You should know that K has his heart set on ○.你前天同她上館山去，昨天上她家去看她的事情，都被他知道了。The day before yesterday you went with her to Tateyama, and yesterday you went to her house to see her—he's found out about all of it.他還在C夫人的面前說你呢！”He's even been talking about you in front of Mrs. C!"

伊人聽了這話，默默的不語，但是他面上的一種難過的樣子，卻是在那裡說明他的心理的狀態。Hearing this, Yiren fell silent, but the pained look on his face was enough to reveal the state of his feelings.他走了一段，又問B說：After walking on a little way, he asked B again:

“你對這事情的意見如何，你說我不應該同○君交際的麼？”"What's your opinion on this matter—are you saying I shouldn't be associating with Miss ○?"

“這話我也難說，但是依我的良心而說，我是對K君表同情的。”"That's hard for me to say, but speaking from conscience, my sympathies are with K."

伊人和B又默默的走了一段，伊人自家對自家說：Yiren and B walked on in silence a while longer, and Yiren said to himself:

“唉！"Ah!我又來作盧亭（Roudine）了。”Here I go playing Rudin again."

日光射在海岸上，沙中的矽石同金剛石似的放了幾點白光。Sunlight fell upon the shore, and the grains of silica in the sand glinted here and there like diamonds.一層藍色透明的海水的細浪，就打在他們的腳下，伊人俯了首走了一段，仰起來看看蒼空，覺得一種悲涼孤冷的情懷，充滿了他的胸裡，他讀過的盧騷著的《孤獨者之散步》裡邊的情味，同潮也似的湧到他的腦裡來，他對B說：A layer of fine, translucent blue waves broke at their feet; Yiren walked on for a while with his head bowed, then raised it to look at the pale sky, and felt a desolate, lonely, chill feeling fill his breast—the mood of Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitary Walker, which he had once read, came surging into his mind like a tide, and he said to B:

“快十二點鐘了，我們快一點回去吧。”"It's almost twelve. Let's hurry back."

禮拜天的晚上，北條市內的教會裡，又有祈禱會，祈禱畢後，牧師請伊人上壇去說話。On Sunday evening, there was another prayer meeting at the church in Hōjō, and after the prayers, the pastor invited Yiren up to the pulpit to speak.伊人揀了一句山上垂誡裡邊的話作他的演題：Yiren chose a line from the Sermon on the Mount as the subject of his address:

“Blessed are the poor in spirit; for their's is the Kingdom of Heaven。” Matthew 5.3"Blessed are the poor in spirit; for their's is the Kingdom of Heaven." Matthew 5:3

“心貧者福矣，天國為其國也。”"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

“說到這一個‘心’字，英文譯作spirit，德文譯作Geist，法文是esprit，大約總是作‘精神’講的。"As for this word 'heart,' in English it is translated 'spirit,' in German 'Geist,' in French 'esprit'—in every case it is meant, roughly, in the sense of 'spirit' or 'mind.'精神上受苦的人是有福的，因為耶穌所受的苦，也是精神上的苦。Those who suffer in spirit are blessed, for the suffering Jesus himself bore was likewise a suffering of the spirit.說到這‘貧’字，我想是有二種意思，第一就是我們平常所說的貧苦的‘貧’，就是由物質上的苦而及於精神上的意思。As for this word 'poor,' I think it carries two meanings. The first is the ordinary sense of 'poor' as in material poverty—that is, suffering that begins in material want and extends to the spirit.第二就是孤苦的意思，這完全是精神上的苦處。The second is the sense of solitary suffering, which is purely a suffering of the spirit.依我看來，耶穌的說話裡，這兩種意思都是包含在內的。As I see it, both these meanings are contained within Jesus's words.托爾斯泰說，山上的說教，就是耶穌教的中心要點，耶穌教義，是不外乎山上的垂誡，後世的各神學家的爭論，都是牽強附會。Tolstoy said that the Sermon on the Mount is the very core of Christ's teaching, that the doctrine of Jesus amounts to nothing more than the precepts given on the mountain, and that all the disputes of later theologians are strained and far-fetched.離開正道的邪說，那些枝枝葉葉，都是掩藏耶穌的真意的議論，並不是顯彰耶穌的道理的燭炬。Heresies that stray from the true path, all those branches and leaves, are but arguments that obscure Jesus's true meaning, not torches that illuminate his teaching.我看托爾斯泰信仰論裡的這幾句話是很有價值的。I think these words from Tolstoy's treatise on faith are of great value.耶穌教義，其實已經是被耶穌在山上說盡了。The doctrine of Jesus was, in truth, already spoken in full by Jesus on the mountain.若說耶穌教義盡於山上的說教，那麼我敢說山上的說教盡於這‘心貧者福矣’的一句話。And if the doctrine of Jesus is exhausted in the Sermon on the Mount, then I would venture that the Sermon on the Mount is itself exhausted in this one phrase: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit.'因為‘心貧福矣’是山上說教的大綱，耶穌默默的走上山去，心裡在那裡想的，就是一句可以總括他的意思的話。For 'blessed are the poor in spirit' is the outline of the whole sermon on the mountain; as Jesus climbed the mountain in silence, what was in his mind was precisely the one phrase that could sum up his whole meaning.他看看群眾都跟了他來，在山上坐下之後，開口就把他所想說的話的綱領說了：Seeing that the multitude had followed him, once he had sat down on the mountain, he opened his mouth and spoke first the outline of what he meant to say:

“心貧者福矣，天國為其國也。”"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

“底下的一篇說教，就是這一個綱領的說明演繹，《馬太福音》，想是諸君都研究過的，所以底下我也不要說下去，我現在想把我對於這一句綱領的話，究竟有什麼感想，這一句話的證明，究竟在什麼地方能尋得出的話，說給諸君聽聽，可以供諸君作一個參考。"The sermon that follows is simply the explanation and elaboration of this one outline. I imagine you have all studied the Gospel of Matthew, so I need not go on with the rest of it. What I wish to do now is tell you what thoughts I myself have about this key phrase, and where, exactly, its proof may be found—for whatever it may be worth to you as a reference.我們的精神上的苦處，有一部分是從物質上的不滿足而來的。Part of our suffering in spirit comes from material dissatisfaction.比如遊俄（Hugo）的《哀史》（Les Miserables）裡的主人公詳乏兒詳（Jean Valjean）的偷盜，是由於物質上的貧苦而來的行動，後來他受的苦悶，就成了精神上的苦惱了。Take, for instance, the theft committed by Jean Valjean, the hero of Hugo's Les Misérables—an act that arose from material poverty; the anguish he suffered afterward then became a torment of the spirit.更有一部分經濟學者，從唯物論上立腳，想把一切厭世的思想的原因，都歸到物質上的不滿足的身上去。There are, moreover, some economists who, standing on materialist ground, wish to trace the cause of all pessimistic thought back to material dissatisfaction.他們說要是蕭本浩（Schopenhauer）若有一個理想的情人，他的哲學《意志與表像的世界》（Die Weltals wille und Vorstellung）就沒有了。They say that if Schopenhauer had had an ideal lover, his philosophy, The World as Will and Representation, would never have come to be.這未免是極端之論，但是也有半面真理在那裡。This is perhaps too extreme a view, and yet it holds a grain of truth.所以物質上的不滿足，可以釀成精神上的愁苦的。Thus material dissatisfaction can indeed give rise to sorrow of the spirit.耶穌的話，‘心貧者福矣’，就是教我們應該耐貧苦，不要去貪物質上的滿足。Jesus's words, 'blessed are the poor in spirit,' teach us that we ought to endure poverty and hardship, and not covet material satisfaction.基督教的一個大長處，就是教人尊重清貧，不要去貪受世上的富貴。《聖經》上有一處說，有錢的人非要把錢丟了，不能進天國，因為天國的門是非常窄的。One great virtue of Christianity is that it teaches people to honor honest poverty and not to covet worldly wealth and rank. There is a passage in the Bible saying that a rich man must cast away his riches before he can enter the kingdom of heaven, for the gate of heaven is exceedingly narrow.亞西其的聖人弗蘭西斯（St·Francis of Assisi），就是一個尊貧輕富的榜樣，他丟棄了父祖的家財，甘與清貧去作伴，依他自家說來，是與窮苦結婚，這一件事有何等毅力！St. Francis, the saint of Assisi, is an example of one who honored poverty and scorned wealth: he cast aside his father's and forefathers' fortune and willingly took poverty as his companion—by his own account, he 'married' poverty. What tremendous will that took!在法庭上脫下衣服來還他父親的時候，誰能不被他感動！Who could fail to be moved by him, standing in the courtroom stripping off his own clothes to return them to his father!這是由物質上的貧苦而釀成精神上的貧苦的說話。This shows how material poverty can be turned into a poverty of the spirit.耶穌教我們輕富尊貧，就是想救我們精神上的這一層苦楚。Jesus teaches us to scorn wealth and honor poverty precisely in order to save us from this layer of spiritual suffering.由此看來，耶穌教畢竟是貧苦人的宗教，所以耶穌教與目下的暴富者，無良心的有權力者不能兩立的。Seen in this light, Christianity is, after all, a religion of the poor and suffering, and so it cannot stand together with today's suddenly-rich men, or with the conscienceless men of power.我們現在更要講到純粹的精神上的貧苦上去。Let us now go on to speak of poverty that is purely of the spirit.純粹的精神上的貧苦的人，就是下文所說的有悲哀的人，心腸慈善的人，對正義如饑似渴的人，以及愛平和，施恩惠，為正義的緣故受逼迫的人，這些人在我們東洋就是所謂有德的人。Those who are poor purely in spirit are, as the text goes on to say, those who mourn, the merciful, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, and those who love peace, show mercy, and are persecuted for righteousness' sake—people who, in our East, would be called men of virtue.古人說德不孤，必有鄰，現在卻是反對的了。The ancients said that virtue is never solitary, that it will always have neighbors; but now it is quite the opposite.為和平的緣故，勸人息戰的人，反而要去坐監牢去。Those who urge peace and counsel an end to war are, instead, thrown into prison.為正義的緣故，替勞動者抱不平的人，反而要去作囚人服苦役去。Those who, for righteousness' sake, speak up for the injustices done to laborers are, instead, made convicts at hard labor.對於國家的無理的法律制度反抗的人，要被火來燒殺。Those who resist the state's unreasonable laws and institutions are burned to death.我們讀歐洲史讀到清教徒的被虐殺，路得的被當時德國君主迫害的時候，誰能不發起怒來。When we read European history and come to the massacre of the Puritans, or Luther's persecution at the hands of the German princes of his day, who can help but be roused to anger?這些甘受社會的虐待，願意為民眾作犧牲的人，都是精神上覺得貧苦的人呀，所以耶穌說：‘心貧者福矣，天國為其國也。’最後還有一種精神上貧苦的人，就是有純潔的心的人。These people, who willingly suffer society's cruelty and are ready to sacrifice themselves for the multitude, are all people who feel poverty in the spirit—and so Jesus said: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.' Last, there is yet another kind of person poor in spirit: those of a pure heart.這一種人抱了純潔的精神，想來愛人愛物，但是因為社會的因習，國民的慣俗，國際的偏見的緣故，就不能完全作成耶穌的愛，在這一種人的精神上，不得不感受一種無窮的貧苦。Such people, holding fast to a pure spirit, wish to love their fellow men and all things; but because of society's inherited customs, the habits of nations, and the prejudices between peoples, they cannot fully realize the love that Jesus taught, and in the spirit of such people there must arise a boundless poverty.另外還有一種人，與純潔的心的主人相類的，就是肉體上有了疾病，雖然知道神的意思是如何，耶穌的愛是如何，然而總不能去做的一種人。There is yet another kind of person, akin to those of a pure heart: those whose bodies are afflicted with illness, who know full well what God's will is and what the love of Jesus is, and yet can never manage to carry it out.這一種人在精神上是最苦，在世界上亦是最多。This kind of person suffers most in spirit, and is also the most numerous in the world.凡對現在唯物的浮薄的世界不能滿足，而對將來的歡喜的世界的希望不能達到的一種世紀末fin de siecle的病弱的理想家，都可算是這一類的精神上貧苦的人。All those frail, fin-de-siècle idealists who cannot be satisfied with today's shallow, materialistic world, and yet cannot attain their hope of a joyful world to come, may be counted among this class of people poor in spirit.他們在這墮落的現世雖然不能得一點同情與安慰，然而將來的極樂國定是屬於他們的。”Though in this fallen present world they can find not the least sympathy or comfort, the paradise of the world to come will surely belong to them."

“底下的一篇说教，就是这一个纲领的说明演绎，《马太福音》，想是诸君都研究过的，所以底下我也不要说下去，我现在想把我对于这一句纲领的话，究竟有什么感想，这一句话的证明，究竟在什么地方能寻得出的话，说给诸君听听，可以供诸君作一个参考。我们的精神上的苦处，有一部分是从物质上的不满足而来的。比如游俄（Hugo）的《哀史》（Les Miserables）里的主人公详乏儿详（Jean Valjean）的偷盗，是由于物质上的贫苦而来的行动，后来他受的苦闷，就成了精神上的苦恼了。更有一部分经济学者，从唯物论上立脚，想把一切厌世的思想的原因，都归到物质上的不满足的身上去。他们说要是萧本浩（Schopenhauer）若有一个理想的情人，他的哲学《意志与表像的世界》（Die Weltals wille und Vorstellung）就没有了。这未免是极端之论，但是也有半面真理在那里。所以物质上的不满足，可以酿成精神上的愁苦的。耶稣的话，‘心贫者福矣’，就是教我们应该耐贫苦，不要去贪物质上的满足。基督教的一个大长处，就是教人尊重清贫，不要去贪受世上的富贵。《圣经》上有一处说，有钱的人非要把钱丢了，不能进天国，因为天国的门是非常窄的。亚西其的圣人弗兰西斯（St·Francis of Assisi），就是一个尊贫轻富的榜样，他丢弃了父祖的家财，甘与清贫去作伴，依他自家说来，是与穷苦结婚，这一件事有何等毅力！在法庭上脱下衣服来还他父亲的时候，谁能不被他感动！这是由物质上的贫苦而酿成精神上的贫苦的说话。耶稣教我们轻富尊贫，就是想救我们精神上的这一层苦楚。由此看来，耶稣教毕竟是贫苦人的宗教，所以耶稣教与目下的暴富者，无良心的有权力者不能两立的。我们现在更要讲到纯粹的精神上的贫苦上去。纯粹的精神上的贫苦的人，就是下文所说的有悲哀的人，心肠慈善的人，对正义如饥似渴的人，以及爱平和，施恩惠，为正义的缘故受逼迫的人，这些人在我们东洋就是所谓有德的人。古人说德不孤，必有邻，现在却是反对的了。为和平的缘故，劝人息战的人，反而要去坐监牢去。为正义的缘故，替劳动者抱不平的人，反而要去作囚人服苦役去。对于国家的无理的法律制度反抗的人，要被火来烧杀。我们读欧洲史读到清教徒的被虐杀，路得的被当时德国君主迫害的时候，谁能不发起怒来。这些甘受社会的虐待，愿意为民众作牺牲的人，都是精神上觉得贫苦的人呀，所以耶稣说：‘心贫者福矣，天国为其国也。’最后还有一种精神上贫苦的人，就是有纯洁的心的人。这一种人抱了纯洁的精神，想来爱人爱物，但是因为社会的因习，国民的惯俗，国际的偏见的缘故，就不能完全作成耶稣的爱，在这一种人的精神上，不得不感受一种无穷的贫苦。另外还有一种人，与纯洁的心的主人相类的，就是肉体上有了疾病，虽然知道神的意思是如何，耶稣的爱是如何，然而总不能去做的一种人。这一种人在精神上是最苦，在世界上亦是最多。凡对现在唯物的浮薄的世界不能满足，而对将来的欢喜的世界的希望不能达到的一种世纪末fin de siecle的病弱的理想家，都可算是这一类的精神上贫苦的人。他们在这堕落的现世虽然不能得一点同情与安慰，然而将来的极乐国定是属于他们的。”

伊人在北條市的那個小教會的壇上，在同淡水似的煤氣燈光的底下說這些話的時候，他那一雙水汪汪的眼光盡在一處凝視，我們若跟了他的視線看去，就能看出一張蒼白的長圓的臉兒來。As Yiren spoke these words from the pulpit of that small church in Hōjō, beneath the gaslight pale as fresh water, his moist, glistening eyes stayed fixed on a single spot; and if we were to follow the line of his gaze, we would make out a pale, oval face.這就是○呀！It was ○!

○昨天睡了一天，今天又睡了大半日，到午後三點鐘的時候，才從被裡起來，看看熱度不高，她的母親也由她去了。○起床洗了手臉，正想出去散步的時候，她的朋友那兩個女學生來了。○ had spent all of yesterday in bed, and today too she had slept through most of the day, only rising from under the covers at three in the afternoon; seeing that her fever was not high, her mother let her be. ○ got up, washed her hands and face, and just as she was thinking of going out for a walk, her two schoolgirl friends arrived.

“請進來，我正想出去看你們呢！”（○的話）"Come in, come in—I was just thinking of going out to see you!" (○'s words)

“你病好了麼？”（第一個女學生）"Are you better now?" (the first schoolgirl)

“起來也不要緊的麼？”（第二個女學生）"Is it really all right for you to be up?" (the second schoolgirl)

“這樣惱人的好天氣，誰願意睡著不起來呀！”"On such maddeningly fine weather as this, who would want to stay in bed!"

“晚上能出去麼？”"Can you go out this evening?"

“聽說伊先生今晚在教會裡說教。”"I hear Mr. Yi is preaching at the church tonight."

“你們從哪裡得來的消息？”"Where did you two hear that?"

“是C夫人說的。”"Mrs. C told us."

“剛才唱讚美詩的時候說的。”"She mentioned it just now while we were singing hymns."

“我應該早一點起來，也到C夫人家去唱讚美詩的。"I should have gotten up earlier and gone to Mrs. C's to sing hymns too.

在○的家裡有了這會話之後，過了三個鐘頭，三個女學生就在北條市的小教會裡聽伊人的演講了。After this conversation at ○'s house, three hours later, the three schoolgirls were listening to Yiren's address at the little church in Hōjō.

伊人平平穩穩的說完了之後，聽了幾聲鼓掌的聲音，就從講壇上走了下來。Once Yiren had calmly finished speaking, he heard a few claps of applause and stepped down from the pulpit.聽的人都站了起來，有幾個人來同伊人握手攀談，伊人心裡雖然非常的想跑上○身邊去問她的病狀，然而看見有幾個青年來和他說話，不得已只能在火爐旁邊坐下了。The listeners all rose to their feet, and several came up to shake Yiren's hand and chat with him; though in his heart Yiren longed intensely to run over to ○'s side and ask about her illness, seeing several young men come to speak with him, he had no choice but to sit down by the stove instead.說了十五分鐘閒話，聽講的人都去了，女學生也去了，○也去了，只有K與B，和牧師還在那裡。After some fifteen minutes of small talk, the audience left one by one; the schoolgirls left, ○ left too, and only K, B, and the pastor remained.看看伊人和幾個青年說完了話之後，B就光著了兩隻眼睛，問伊人說：Once Yiren had finished talking with the young men, B, eyes wide, turned to ask him:

“你說的輕富尊貧，是與現在的經濟社會不合的，若說個個人都不講究致富的方法，國家不就要貧弱了麼？"What you say about scorning wealth and honoring poverty doesn't fit with our present economic society. If everyone stopped bothering with ways of getting rich, wouldn't the nation grow poor and weak?我們還要念什麼書，商人還要做什麼買賣？What use would there be in studying, or in merchants carrying on their trade?你所講的與你們搗亂的中國，或者相合也未可知，與日本帝國的國體全全是反對的。What you preach may perhaps suit that chaotic China of yours—who knows—but it is utterly opposed to the very nature of the Japanese Empire.什麼社會主義呀，無政府主義呀，那些東西是我所最恨的。Socialism, anarchism, and all such things are what I hate most.你講的簡直是煽動無政府主義、社會主義的話，我是大反對的。”What you're preaching is nothing but incitement to anarchism and socialism, and I am firmly against it."

K也擎了兩手叫著說：K, too, raised both hands and cried out:

"Es, es, alright, alrighte, mista B.yare yare!""Es, es, alright, alrighte, mista B. yare yare!"

（“不錯不錯，贊成贊成，B君講下去講下去！”）("Quite right, quite right! I agree, I agree! Go on, B, go on!")

和伊人談話的幾個青年裡邊的一個年輕的人忽站了起來對B說：One of the young men who had been talking with Yiren suddenly stood up and said to B:

“你這位先生大約總是一位資本家家裡的食客。"You, sir, must surely be some capitalist's hanger-on.我們工人勞動者的受苦，全是因為了你們資本家的緣故呀！The suffering of us workers and laborers is entirely because of you capitalists!資本家就是因為有了幾個臭錢，便那樣的作威作福的兇惡起來，要是大家沒有錢，倒不是好麼？”It's precisely because you capitalists have a bit of stinking money that you carry on so tyrannically and viciously—wouldn't it be better if nobody had any money at all?"

“你這黃口的小孩，曉得什麼東西！”"What would a green little fledgling like you know about anything!"

“放你的屁！"Go to hell!你在有錢的大老官那裡拍拍馬屁，倒要罵起人來！……”You go flattering rich bigwigs, and now you turn around and curse at me!..."

B和那個青年差不多要打起來了，伊人獨自一個就悄悄的走到外面來。B and the young man were nearly coming to blows, and Yiren quietly slipped outside alone.北條街上的商家，都已經睡了，一條靜寂的長街上，灑滿了寒冷的月光，從北面吹來的涼風，夾了沙石，打到伊人的面上來。The shops along the Hōjō street had all gone to sleep; the long, silent street was bathed in cold moonlight, and a chill wind blowing from the north, mixed with grains of sand, struck against Yiren's face.伊人打了幾個冷痙，默默的走回家去，走到北條火車站前，折向東去的時候，對面忽來了幾個微醉的勞動者，幽幽的唱著了鄉下的小曲過去了。Yiren gave a few shivers and walked home in silence; just as he reached the front of Hōjō station and turned east, a few slightly drunk laborers came from the opposite direction, humming a rustic country tune softly as they passed.勞動者和伊人的距離漸漸兒的遠起來，他們的歌聲也漸漸兒的幽了下去，在這春寒陡峭的月下，在這深夜靜寂的海岸漁村的市上，那尾聲微顫的勞動者的歌音，真是哀惋可憐。The distance between the laborers and Yiren gradually widened, and their singing gradually faded into a murmur; under this sharp chill of a spring moon, in this silent late-night town of a coastal fishing village, the trembling trailing notes of the laborers' song were truly mournful and pitiful.伊人一邊默默的走去，俯首看著他在樹影裡出沒的影子，一邊聽著那勞動者的淒切悲涼的俗曲的歌聲，忽然覺得鼻子裡酸了起來，○對他講的一句話，他又想出來了：As Yiren walked on in silence, watching his own shadow appear and vanish among the tree shadows, listening all the while to the laborers' plaintive, desolate folk tune, he suddenly felt a sting in his nose—and a certain line that ○ had once said to him came back into his mind:

“你確是一個生的悶脫列斯脫！”"You really are a born sentimentalist!"

伊人到家的時候，已經是十一點鐘的光景，房裡火缽內的炭火早已消去了。By the time Yiren reached home, it was already around eleven o'clock, and the charcoal in the brazier in his room had long since gone out.午後五點鐘的時候從海上吹來的一陣北風，把內房州一帶的空氣吹得冰冷，他寫好了日記，正在改讀的時候，忽然打了兩個噴嚏。At five that afternoon a north wind blowing in from the sea had chilled the air all through the Uchibō region to icy cold; he had just finished writing his diary and was rereading it when he suddenly sneezed twice.衣服也不換，他就和衣的睡了。Without even changing his clothes, he lay down to sleep just as he was.

第二天醒來的時候，伊人覺得頭痛得非常，鼻孔裡吹出來的兩條火熱的鼻息，難受得很。When he woke the next day, Yiren found his head aching terribly, and the two streams of burning breath issuing from his nostrils made him thoroughly miserable.房主人的女兒拿火來的時候，他問她要了一壺開水，他的喉音也變了。When his landlord's daughter brought in the fire, he asked her for a pot of hot water; even his voice had changed.

“伊先生，你感冒了風寒了。"Mr. Yi, you've caught a chill.身上熱不熱？”Are you feverish?"

伊人把檢溫計放到腋下去一測，體熱高到了三十八度六分。Yiren put the thermometer under his arm to check, and his temperature had risen to 38.6 degrees.他講話也不願意講，只是沉沉的睡在那裡。He had no wish even to speak, and simply lay there in a heavy sleep.房主人來看了他兩次。His landlord came to look in on him twice.午後三點半鐘的時候，C夫人也來看他的病了，他對她道了一聲謝，就不再說話了。At half past three in the afternoon, Mrs. C also came to see how he was; he thanked her once, and said nothing more after that.晚上C夫人拿藥來給他的時候，他聽C夫人說：That evening, when Mrs. C brought him medicine, he heard her say:

“○也傷了風，體熱高得很，大家正在那裡替她憂愁。”"○ has caught a cold too, and her fever is very high—everyone is worried sick about her."

禮拜二的早晨，就是伊人傷風後的第二天，他覺得更加難受，看看體熱已增加三十九度二分了。C夫人替他去叫了醫生來一看，醫生果然說：On Tuesday morning, the second day after Yiren had caught his cold, he felt even worse; his temperature, he found, had climbed to 39.2 degrees. Mrs. C went and called a doctor to examine him, and the doctor, sure enough, said:

“怕他要變成肺炎，還不如使他入病院的好。”“If we’re afraid it may turn into pneumonia, we had better send him to the hospital.”

午後四點鐘的時候在夕陽的殘照裡，有一乘寢台車，從北條的八幡海岸走上北市條的北條病院去。At four o’clock that afternoon, in the lingering glow of sunset, a stretcher was carried from the Hachiman coast at Hōjō up to Hōjō Hospital in Kitashijō.

這一天的晚上，北條病院的樓上朝南的二號室裡，幽暗的電燈光的底下，坐著了一個五十歲前後的禿頭的西洋人和C夫人在那裡幽幽的談議，病室裡的空氣緊迫得很。That evening, in the south-facing Room No. 2 upstairs at Hōjō Hospital, beneath the dim electric light, a balding Westerner of about fifty and Madam C sat talking in hushed voices; the air in the sickroom was intensely oppressive.鐵床上白色的被褥裡，有一個清瘦的青年睡在那裡。On the iron bed, amid the white bedding, lay a thin young man.若把他那瘦骨棱棱的臉上的兩點被體熱蒸燒出來的紅影和口頭的同微蟲似的氣息拿去了，我們定不能辨別他究竟是一個蠟人呢或是真正的肉體。Were it not for the two fever-flushed patches on his gaunt, bony face and the threadlike breath at his lips, we could scarcely have told whether he was a wax figure or a living body of flesh.這青年便是伊人。This young man was Yiren.

一九二一年七月二十七日July 27, 1921

歌德的《迷娘的歌》Goethe’s “Mignon’s Song”

（Mignon）(Mignon)

那檸檬正開的南鄉，你可知道？Do you know the southern land where the lemon trees bloom?

金黃的柳丁，在綠葉的蔭中光耀，Golden oranges gleam beneath the shade of green leaves;

柔軟的微風，吹落自蒼空昊昊，A gentle breeze drifts down from the vast blue sky;

長春松靜，月桂枝高，The myrtle stands still, and the laurel rises high—

那多情的南國，你可知道？Do you know that tender southern land?

我的親愛的情人，你也去，我亦願去南方，與你終老！My beloved, if you go, I too would journey south and grow old with you!

你可知道，那柱上的屋樑，那南方的樓閣？Do you know the house with pillars, the mansion in the south?

金光燦爛的華堂，光彩耀人的幽屋，The splendid hall glitters with gold, the inner chambers shine resplendent;

大理白石的人兒，立在那邊瞧我，Figures of white marble stand there gazing at me:

“可憐的女孩兒呀！“Poor child!你可是受了他人的欺辱？”Have others treated you cruelly?”

你可知道，那南方的樓閣？Do you know that mansion in the south?

我的恩人，你去也，我亦願去南方，與你同宿！My protector, if you go, I too would journey south and dwell with you!

你可知道，那雲裡的高山，山中的曲徑？Do you know the cloud-wreathed mountain and its winding paths?

山間的驢子在雲霧的中間前進，Among the mountains, the mule makes its way through cloud and mist;

深淵裡，有蛟龍的族類，在那裡潛隱，In the deep ravine, the brood of dragons lurks unseen;

險峻的危岩，岩上的飛泉千仞，The crags loom sheer and perilous, and from them torrents plunge a thousand fathoms;

你可知道那雲裡的高山，山中的曲徑？Do you know the cloud-wreathed mountain and its winding paths?

我的爸爸，我願一路的與你馳騁！My father, I would ride beside you all the way!

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What it’s about

伊人, a Chinese student in Tokyo, is introduced through other people's amused stories about him. He is earnest, sickly and theatrical: Christian faith, vegetarianism, German poetry and schemes of moral self-discipline all become parts of an ideal life he cannot quite live. At a tea room he meets the older European missionary C and C's family, then travels south to the warm Bōsō Peninsula, where sea, hills and fishing villages seem like the hospitable Romantic south promised in Goethe's song of Mignon. The household includes a young woman identified only as ○. 伊人 is immediately drawn to her voice and her singing, but the attraction is filtered through religious scruple, literary fantasy and his conviction that he is constitutionally incapable of ordinary happiness. Long conversations and walks make him feel admitted to a family and close to a woman, yet he continually observes himself having the feeling instead of simply inhabiting it.

The southern refuge does not cure him. ○ falls ill, and his visits to her warm bedroom mingle genuine concern with an intense awareness of her body and perfume; he imagines a tragic fate before anything has happened. He broods over differences of race, faith and station, misreads gestures, withdraws, and becomes jealous when other men are present. The Mignon song that promises travel toward a beloved south returns as an irony: this real journey south has produced no decisive confession or mutual promise. After a cold evening, 伊人 develops a high fever of his own. C夫人 brings medicine, the doctor fears pneumonia and orders him to hospital, and the last scene leaves him almost waxen in a white bed while C and his wife speak quietly under a dim light. The text then appends Yu's Chinese version of Goethe's song in full. Rather than resolve the romance, the story suspends 伊人 between bodily sickness and an idealized south, making his failure to act the substance of the plot and turning the lyric translation into the destination he can imagine but cannot reach.

When it was written 背景

Dated 27 July 1921, 南遷 was first collected that October with 沉淪 and 銀灰色的死 in Yu Dafu's debut volume 《沉淪》. Yu's own preface called it the decline of an inactive idealist, and its student setting, physical weakness, Christianity, European reading and frustrated attraction belong to the same autobiographically charged territory as the title story without simply continuing its plot. For a learner it is longer and more socially crowded than 沉淪: initials, honorifics, bits of German and English, and extended descriptions of the Bōsō landscape require patience. The compensations are clear scenes—tea, travel, singing, sickroom—and much of the middle is direct conversation. Read the recurring Goethe lyric as a map rather than a puzzle: each return to the imagined southern country measures the distance between 伊人's cultivated ideal and his inability to form a sustaining relationship in the actual south.

Words in this chapter 生词

伊yī伊yī — (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") · second person singular pronoun ("you") · (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") · (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning · (preceding a noun) that · (bound form) Iraq (abbr. for 伊拉克 (Yī lā kè)) · (bound form) Iran (abbr. for 伊朗 (Yī lǎng))
裡lǐHSK 1裡lǐ — lining · interior · inside · internal · also written 裏 (lǐ) (HSK 1)
穌sū穌sū — archaic variant of 蘇 (sū) · to revive
她tāHSK 1她tā — she (HSK 1)
島dǎoHSK 6島dǎo — island · classifier: 個 (gè), 座 (zuò) (HSK 6)
耶yē耶yē — (phonetic ye)
吧bāHSK 1吧bā — bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc) · to puff (on a pipe etc) · (onom.) bang · abbr. for 貼吧 (tiē bā) (HSK 1)
祈qí祈qí — to implore · to pray · to request
京jīng京jīng — capital city of a country · big · algebraic term for a large number (old) · artificial mound (old)
麼má麼má — exclamatory final particle
禱dǎo禱dǎo — prayer · pray · supplication
崎qí崎qí — mountainous