编者按：在本刊微信公众平台举办的“Budding Writers”的多篇来稿中，编辑部精挑细选出10篇上乘佳作，将从本年度第二期开始陆续刊登。奇文共欣赏，疑义相与析。希望能有更多读者拿起笔，以书写传递心声，用文字记录生活。

Affectd were you as you avertd your eyes1

When by chance they met with her secret gaze.

Talented swindlers2 should weep for your lies

As they walked the shame parade in a daze.3

You promised a rose that would never fade

As she revealed her soul so desperate.

Yet you withdrew it when it was in shade

Saying even mountains might separate.

Youll be a poor pill-grinding technician4

And without a doubt a man of no art.

Someday you may take your own invention

And probably end with a broken heart.

She could have wished so， you know， her sole guide，

Who led her to where true love could reside.5

1. affectd： 即affected，做作的（表不满）；avertd： 即averted，avert ones eyes，转移视线。

2. swindler： 骗子，诈骗者。

3. walk the shame parade： 游街示众；in a daze： 恍惚地，茫然地。

4. 此行典出John Ciardi，“Another School Year—What For？”，文中作者调侃大学并不是在培养“合格的磨药工”（“Qualified Pill-Grinding Technician”）。

5. 最后两行用“could have done”反转，为本诗诗眼。

‘Tis1 the seventh time that Ive journeyed far

Towards Mount Raison2 seemingly so near.

Long my obsession has been deemed bizarre

Rendring me acclimated to the sneer.3

Whilst my ebony hair has turned hoary4

Too it would， in the slough of ignorance.5

And I heed no slushy tale of fairy6

Neither would I settle for nonchalance7.

Each time the Blizzard on the way would ask—

“Whod audaciously comparison bear

By resorting to such an arduous task

With what holds the grimmest power so fair？”8

“For I fear not what might foreer stand still—

To death on all accounts Ill scale and chill.”9

1. ‘tis： 即it is。

2. raison：〈法〉理性。

3. rendring： 即rendering，原形为render，使成为，使变得；be acclimated to： 适应于；sneer： 嘲笑，讥讽。

4. whilst： 同while；ebony： 乌黑的；hoary：（因年老）灰白的。

5. 即“It would， too， in the slough of ignorance”，“it”指上文的“ebony hair”。slough： 绝望的境地。

6. heed： 留意；slushy： 庸俗的。

7. nonchalance： 若无其事，漠不关心。

8.“谁会胆大妄为到诉诸如此艰巨的任务，来与这最严酷却又如此美丽的力量相提并论呢？”此处三行正常语序为“Who would audaciously bear comparison with what holds the grimmest power so fair， by resorting to such an arduous task？”。audaciously：大膽地，无畏地；bear comparison with： 比得上；arduous： 艰巨的，费力的；grim： 令人不快的，使人忧虑的。

9. “因为我无惧那或许将站成永恒的——无论如何，至死我都将攀登着，战栗着。”最后两行正常语序为“Ill scale and chill to death on all accounts， for I fear not what might forever stand still”。scale： 攀越。

本文两首诗系作者模仿莎士比亚十四行诗格律而成。十四行诗是源于意大利民间的一种抒情短诗，文艺复兴初期盛行于整个欧洲，其结构严谨，分为上下两部分。上段为八行，下段为六行，每行十一个音节，韵脚排列：abba abba， cdc ded。莎士比亚十四行诗的结构更为严谨，他将十四个诗行分为两部分，第一部分为三个四行，第二部分为两行，每行十个音节，韵脚为：abab， cdcd， efef， gg。这样的格式后来被称为“莎士比亚式”或“伊丽莎白式”。

作者的话

我来自浙江，笔名夕臾，英文名Emily，现大四，某理工类大学英语专业在读。……