Those long uneven lines

那些长长的参差的队列

Standing as patiently

耐心地候立着，

As if they were stretched outside

好像延伸到

The Oval or Villa Park

椭圆板球场或别墅公园外面，

The crowns of hats the sun

帽子上的花边，太阳

On moustached archaic faces

在长着八字胡的古板的脸上

Grinning as if it were all

咧嘴而笑，一切仿佛是

An August bank Holiday lark;

八月公共节假日的一场玩乐；

And the shut shops the bleached

还有歇业的店铺，遮阳篷上

Established names on the sunblinds

褪色的公认的名字，

The farthings and sovereigns

法寻与沙弗林硬币，

Adn dark-clothed children at play

穿深色衣服的孩子们在玩耍，

Called after kings and queens

戏称国王和王后之名，

The tin advertisements

马口铁罐头广告

For cocoa and twist and the pubs

为可可粉和烟草而设，酒吧

Wide open all day;

整日敞开着；

And the countryside ont caring:

乡下也无忧无虑：

The place-names all hazed over

地名牌全都雾蒙蒙，笼罩在

With flowering grasses and fields

开花的草地上，隐蔽着

Shadowing Domesday lines

分界线的田野

Under wheat's restless silence;

沉浸在麦子永无止尽的缄默；

The differently-dressed servants

装扮各异的仆人

With tiny rooms in huge houses

大庄园里拥有一间小房子，

The dust behind limousines;

轿式老爷车后面有灰尘；

Never such innocence

再不会有这样的纯真，

Never before or since

从前或以后都不会再有，

As changed itself to past

它一言不发改变了自己

Without a word--the men

变成过去——男人们

Leaving the gardens tidy

抛下整饬的花园，

The thousands of marriages

成千上万的婚姻

Lasting a littlewhile longer:

多持续一会儿：

Never such innocence again.

再不会有这样的纯真。