英語翻譯
Sometimes just reading the name of a place…near home…Sorell Cove.Bishop’s Creek.Those places belonged to people before us.To the Cherokee.What did he call Cold Mountain?How could a name…not even a real name…break your heart?It’s her.She’s the place I’m heading.And I hardly know her.I hardly know her!And I just can’t seem to get back to her.
to have traveled so far,from east to west,.a thousand terrible miles.My feet treading all God’s surface – his ocean,his swamps,his slopes and ridges – to find myself,at last,a mark in the aching snow,from whence I beheld through a blue haze a world of mountains piled upon mountains
--Did you get my letters?
--I got three letters.I carried them.I carried them in the book you gave me.The Bartram.
--I probably sent 103.Did you write to me?
--Whenever I could.If you never got them,I can summarize.
--No,no,no.
--“I pray you are well.I pray I am in your thoughts.You are all that keeps me from sliding into some dark place.”
--How did I keep you?We barely knew each other.It was a few moments.
--A thousand moments.They’re like a bag…of tiny diamonds.Don’t matter if they’re real or things I made up.The shape of your neck..That’s real.The way you felt under my hands when I pulled you to me.
(Silence)
--You were plowing a field.
--You were carrying a tray.
--You wouldn’t come in.
--No,I wouldn’t go in.
--So that’s why I had to carry a tray.So I should come out to see you.
--That kiss.Which I kissed every day of my walking.
--Every day I was waiting.Longing.Longing to see your face.
--If you could see my inside…Now,whatever you wanna name it – my spirit?That’s what I fear.I think I’m ruined.They kept trying to put me in the ground.But I wasn’t ready.
--Inman…
--But if I had…if I had goodness,I lost it.If I had anything tender in me,I shot it dead.How could I write to you after what I done,what I seen?