它是以前什么时候拍的

It was taken some time ago

起初它似乎是

At first it seems to be

一个弄脏的

a smeared

印刷品：模糊的线条和灰色斑点

print: blurred lines and grey flecks

在纸上混在一起；

blended with the paper;

然后，在你扫描它时，

then, as you scan

你能看见左侧

it, you can see something in the left-hand corner

有一个像树枝的东西：树的一部分

a thing that is like a branch: part of a tree

（冷杉或云杉）隐隐出现

(balsam or spruce) emerging

而且，伸向右边，中途出现

and, to the right, halfway up

一个应该是缓坡的

what ought to be a gentle

东西，一个小房架子。

slope, a small frame house.

在背景中有一个湖泊，

In the background there is a lake,

湖那边，是一些低矮的山丘。

and beyond that, some low hills.

（照片是在我溺水后的

(The photograph was taken

那天拍的。

the day after I drowned.

我在湖里，在画面的

I am in the lake, in the center

中央，就在水面之下。

of the picture, just under the surface.

很难确切地说出

It is difficult to say where

是什么地方，或者是

precisely, or to say

我有多大：

how large or how small I am:

光打在水面

the effect of water

扭曲了效果。

on light is a distortion.

可假如你看得足够久

but if you look long enough

最后

eventually

你将看见我。）

you will see me.)