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ONE

暂时，我还不能回到去年

for now, I can’t go back to last year

不能回到和某人以及另一个某人

I can’t go back to that evening of drinks

喝酒的晚上，我想，六月

with somebody and somebody else, I miss it, June’s 

妖娆的时节，汗水打湿的少年

witching hour, youth wet with sweat

从东直门到西单，一些简单的地名

from Dongzhimen to Xidan, a few simple place-names 

甚至不能构成一种象征，还没有

that won’t even amount to a symbol, anguish 

触碰到的痛楚，和没有来得及的腐朽生活

yet to be broached, decadence there is no longer time for

忽然被一些雨水淋到了

suddenly I am soaked in rain

皮肤最表层的点状晕染片

inkblots on the skin’s surface 

散开，融化了，泛滥了的抒情

dispersing, molten, an effusion of lyric

从南到北，我遭遇到一生中最多的陌生人

from the South to the North, I met more strangers than ever before 

陌生化的手指抚摩了最陌生的人

strange fingers ran over the strangest person

被晨光照亮的夜晚，黑暗终于变得

night lit by morning, the dark at last became

清晰，终于还没有这样接近过黑暗

clear, at last, the closest I’ve been to the dark

TWO

二

some year, exactly which

某一年，具体的年份

I can’t say

不便说明

those involved, the events and their protagonists 

具体的人物，任何事件以及主人翁

it is not for me, a now

都不便由我，此刻

ruthless woman, to describe

一个残忍的女人，来说明

the ruthless seasons

残忍的季节

have flooded my years in the world

充斥着我的岁月

within the mud of a second

在浑浊的一个瞬间

someone with only a second to spare 

一个只剩下瞬间的人

can only be a woman

只能是女人

he, or is it they,

他，或者是他们

cry, or is it only a garden in the middle of a roundabout

落泪，或者仅仅是一个街心花园

the woman telling stories in the lamppost light is 

路灯光下诉说的女人

approximately, genuinely, not at all

大概，真的，并不是

me, using made-up words and phrases 

我，用更虚构的句子以及词语

to express, to toast, to say

表达，举杯，说

let’s drink, and so she drinks

喝酒，她于是喝下了酒

I pass her a cigarette

我递一支烟

and so she smokes, when my merciless tears

于是吸烟，我残酷的泪水

slide down like a man’s

像男人那样滑落的时候

maybe he’ll tap me on the back 

他，或许会拍打我的背脊

(sexy, subtle, smooth)

（性感的，微妙的，光滑的）

bitterly spitting out secrets

辛酸的，倾吐一些秘密

some simple

一些简单的

youthful sentiments

少年的伤感

and those things inside ambiguity

而那些在模棱两可中

that collide can

碰撞的，可以

be named love

命名为爱情

dramatized transformations that fall

戏剧化的转变，忽然间

掉下来，猝不及防

all of a sudden, caught off guard 

展开，展开……直到

unfolding, unfolding... until

一点一点翻开，数落

they open up, bit by bit, raining down 

看见无数的爱情在天空飞舞

countless loves seen dancing in the sky 

不得不歌唱，不得不随之

you can’t not sing, not go with it

即使，也不能再说什么

and if there is nothing left to say

再继续沉默，或者就是这样

remain silent, maybe this is the way,

这样，飞舞着，如同命令

like this, dancing, as though commanded

或者，一个命名

or named