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罗刹海市
The Rakshasa Kingdom
刀郎 著
宋德利 试译
罗刹国向东两万六千里
From Rakshasa Kingdom, going 26,000 miles eastward,
过七冲越焦海三寸的黄泥地
（译者注：“过”的主语应该是他，即马骥。黄泥地，意指污秽之地，亦即大粪坑。）
Passing Qichong and crossing Jiao Sea, he reached the three-square-inch yellow mud land,
只为那有一条一丘河
Just because there is a Yiqiu River.
河水流过苟苟营
The river flows through Gougou Ying
苟苟营当家的叉杆儿唤作马户
（译者注：叉杆儿，淫媒，俗称拉皮条者。）
The procurer in charge in Gougou Ying is called Mahu.
十里花场有浑名
（译者注：花场，指风月场。风月场，指情场，但多指妓院。）
He has a nickname in brothels.
她两耳傍肩三孔鼻
She has two touching-shoulder ears and a three-hole nose.
未曾开言先转腚
Before speaking, she always turns her butt.
每一日蹲窝里把蛋来卧
Every day she squats down in the nest to hatch eggs.
老粉嘴多半辈儿以为自己是只鸡
（译者注：鸡的中性英译是chicken，但其实这里所指的应是母鸡，英文应是hen。但从歌中使用的人称代词看，刀郎在这个问题上似乎有点混乱，一会儿用他，一会儿用她。不知是否故意而为之。为了行文方便，鸡我用了中性词。但人称代词我用了她。）
For most of her life, this pink-beat old bird thinks she is a chicken.
那马户不知道他是一头驴
That Mahu doesn’t know he is actually a donkey.
那又鸟不知道他是一只鸡
（译者注：考虑到上下文的内涵和一致性，我把这个他，改译成她。）
While that Youniao doesn't know she's in fact a chicken.
勾栏从来扮高雅
（译者注：宋元时期演出杂剧、百戏的场所，多为栏杆搭起的大棚，故称。后泛指剧场；也指妓院。这里可以理解成娱乐节目。讽刺的是在娱乐节目里一些有影响力的人装得很高大上。）
Persons in brothels always pretend to be elegant.
自古公公好威名
Eunuchs have always loved good reputations ever since ancient times.
打西边来了一个小伙儿他叫马骥
A young man came from the west and his name is Ma Ji.
美丰姿 少倜傥 华夏的子弟
Young, romantic and suave with a dignified appearance, he is a Chinese descendant.
只为他人海泛舟搏风打浪
Just because of rafting over the sea of faces and fighting wind and waves,
龙游险滩流落恶地
He strayed into the land of sin like a dragon wandering in a dangerous shoal.
他见这罗刹国里常颠倒
He found things are always turned upsnulle down in this Rakshasa Kingdom.
马户爱听那又鸟的曲
Mahu donkey loves to listen to the songs of Nayou bird.
三更的草鸡打鸣当司晨
The hen in mnullnight actually crows to report the dawn.
半扇门楣上裱真情
The true feelings are put on a lintel of a half-door.
它红描翅那个黑画皮
There are red painted wings and black painted skin,
绿绣鸡冠金镶蹄
With a green embronullered cockscomb and gold inlanull hooves.
可是那从来煤蛋儿生来就黑
But coal balls are black in born.
不管你咋样洗呀那也是个脏东西
No matter how to wash and wash, they are still dirty things.
那马户不知道他是一头驴
That Mahu doesn't know he is a donkey.
那又鸟不知道他是一只鸡
That Youniao doesn't know she is a chicken.
岂有画堂登猪狗
How can a pig or a dog be allowed to rush into a painted hall?
哪来鞋拔作如意
How can a shoehorn be used like a jade-ware Ruyi?
爱字有心心有好歹
The structure of the character of love contains a character of heart but a heart can be good or bad.
百样爱也有千样的坏
A hundred kinds of love also have a thousand kinds of badness.
女子为好非全都好
The character of woman and that of son can form a character of good by being put together.
But that doesn’t mean everything is good.
还有黄蜂尾上针
And there is also the needle on the tail of a wasp.
西边的欧钢有老板
（译者注：西边的欧洲有个钢铁企业，它有个老板生了个儿子名叫做维特根斯坦。据说这个老板真有其人。他是个哲学家，说了些很有道理的名言。）
In the west, there is a steel company in Europe.
生儿维特根斯坦
Its boss has a son named Wittgenstein.
他言说马户驴又鸟鸡
He sanull something about Mahu donkey and Youniao chicken.
到底那马户是驴还是驴是又鸟鸡
Is Mahu a donkey or is a donkey a Youniao chicken?
那驴是鸡那个鸡是驴那鸡是驴那个驴是鸡
That donkey is a chicken and that chicken is a donkey. That chicken is a donkey and that donkey is a chicken.
那马户又鸟
That Ma Hu donkey and You Niao chicken
是我们人类根本的问题
Are the fundamental problem of our mankind.
（2023年7月29日 美国新泽西）
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