【 骗子最真心 】
I am fortunate not to have fallen for such scams, and had stopped entertaining chat requests from strangers here. Seriously, this world is getting smarter and a lot scarier.

“知人知面不知心” ？ Nah…this phrase totally re-defined in the virtual world!

Source : Singapore Straits Times, 11 Apr 2024

如果我是一只蜻蜓，我会用一千双眼睛看着你；如果我是蜈蚣，我会用一千双手臂抱住你；如果我是上帝，我会派天使来保护你。可惜我不是，但我会用一个爱你！If I were a dragonfly, I would look at you with a thousand pairs of eyes; If I were a centipede, I would hug you with a thousand pairs of arms; If I were God, I would send an angel to protect you. Unfortunately, I am not, but I will love you with one!

#全球诗选#

by：为你译诗

这是我译过尺度最大的诗

A LESSON IN METAPHOR
隐喻课

Another name for a penis is a microphone.
No one told me this. The radio had to pull me aside.

阴 茎的别名是麦克风。
无人相告。收音机不得不把我拖到一边。

It’s a metaphor, of course. Anything a woman loves
can be made sexual. In this instance, singing

当然，这是个隐喻。女人所爱的一切
能被性感造就。基于此理，歌唱

refers to giving pleasure. The voice is not involved.
Even in the safety of a simile, our voices are not our own.

便给人带来欢愉。声音并不参与其中。
即使在中规中矩的明喻里，我们的声音非我们所有。

A famous poet, a man, said for a metaphor
to be successful, the object has to bear

一个名诗人，是个男人，说过一个关于
成功的隐喻，造物必须要跟

some resemblance to the new image.
For example, I am wearing a sweater the color

造景具有相似之处。
例如，我正穿一件毛衣，它有着

of wind chimes. A shade of reddish-brown
named by the designer. This metaphor fails.

风铃的色彩。红褐色的阴影
由设计师命名。这个隐喻是失败的。

My body, if cut down to be shaped
into a thing that makes music for someone else,

我的身体，如果被切割成一件
东西，经由他人之手而谱成乐曲，

would not make a sound when it falls.
It does not make a sound as it leaves the room.

当它垂落时寂静无声。
离开房间亦不声不响。

作/River Adams
译/禺青