You waste the attention of your eyes,

你浪费你眼睛的注意，

the glittering labour of your hands,

你双手闪汗的劳动，

and knead the dough enough for dozens of loaves

揉足够做一打面包的面

of which you'll taste not a morsel;

    你自己却尝不到一小片；

you are free to slave for others—

你有替别人做奴隶的自由—

you are free to make the rich richer.

你有使富人更富的自由。

The moment you're born

你出世的那一刻

they plant around you

    他们在你四周架设了

mills that grind lies

磨谎言的磨机

lies to last you a lifetime.

磨够你用一辈子的谎言。

You keep thinking in your great freedom

你一直在你的大自由里思想

a finger on your temple

    一根手指在你的太阳穴上

free to have a free conscience.

　自由地保有自由的良知。

Your head bent as if half-cut from the nape,

你的头低垂有如颈背被砍了一刀，

your arms long, hanging,

你的手臂长长，吊着

your saunter about in your great freedom:

你在你的大自由里漫步：

you're free

    你有的是自由

with the freedom of being unemployed.

　失业的自由。

You love your country

你爱你的国家

as the nearest, most precious thing to you.

把它当成最亲近最可贵的东西。

But one day, for example,

但有一天，比方说，

they may endorse it over to America,

    他们可能把它签给美国，

and you, too, with your great freedom—

而你，以你的大自由—

you have the freedom to become an air-base.

你也有变成一个空军基地的自由。

You may proclaim that one must live

你也许会宣称人

not as a tool, a number or a link

不是工具、数字或链环

but as a human being—

而要活得像一个人—

then at once they handcuff your wrists.

他们马上会把你的手腕铐上。

You are free to be arrested, imprisoned

你有被捕、下狱

and even hanged.

甚至被吊的自由。

There's neither an iron, wooden

你的生命里

nor a tulle curtain

    既没有铁的、木的

in your life;

        　也没有绢的屏障；

there's no need to choose freedom:

没有选择自由的必要：

you are free.

你有的是自由。

But this kind of freedom

但这种自由

is a sad affair under the stars.

　是星球底下的一椿惨事。