【迈在我心】MJ文集——《梦舞诗话》中英文对照

《梦舞诗话》是Michael Jackson于1992年发行的文集。Michael将它献给自己的母亲，其中的充满灵性的诗作和散文均是 Michael发自内心的感悟。Michael的文笔非常优美，每当你读完一段，你都会有新的体会和想法。读它们所得到的感动，就如我们在Michael音乐里得到的感动一样。这本书里还有许多彩色和黑白照片，影星伊丽莎白·泰勒（Elizabeth Taylor）为它写了精彩的引言。据很多人后来表示，当他们把其中的诗歌念给其他人听后，都得到了人们的齐声喝彩，并吸引了更多的人成为Michael Jackson迷。



让梦起舞（自序）
“意识凭借创作表达，我们住的这个世界是场创作者的舞蹈。舞者在注目中来来去去，而舞蹈留下。 ”
“在许多次起舞的情况下，我感觉触到某种神圣之物，在那些时刻，我的灵魂飞翔，与万物合一。我变成星，也变成月，变成爱者与被爱者，胜利者与被征服者，主人与奴隶，变成歌手与歌曲，知者与知识。”
“我继续跳着，永恒的创造之舞，创作者与创作融成完整的喜悦。”
“我持续跳着、跳着……跳着，跳到只剩下……舞蹈。”
——迈克尔·杰克逊
“迈克尔·杰克逊，实际上受到全球各种年纪人的喜爱，是股不可置信的能源散发出的不可思议的力量。在音乐艺术中，他是高品质制作的开拓者，高水准娱乐的先驱。什么叫天才？什么叫活生生的传奇故事？什么叫巨星中的巨星？迈克尔·杰克逊——就是。当你一旦以为你了解了他，他又给你更多……”
我认为他是地球上最完美的人之一，而且依我判断，他是真正的流行乐、摇滚乐、灵魂乐之王。
　　——伊丽莎白·泰勒



行星地球　PLANET EARTH
行星地球，我的家，我的住处 Planet Earth,my home place
宇宙海洋中反复无常的异象 A capricious anomaly in the sea of space
地球行星，你是否只是 Planet Earth,are you just
漂浮经过的一团尘土 Floating by,a cloud of dust
一个即将爆烈的球体 A minor golbe about to bust
一片注定生锈的金属 A piece of metal bound to rust
无心虚空中的一点物质 A speck of matter in a mindless void
一艘寂寞的太空船，一颗大的行星 A lonely spaceship,a large asteroid
冰冷得像是块无色的石头 Cold as a rock without a hue
用点胶联结在一块儿 Held together with a bit of glue
有些事告诉我这说法并不真确 Something tells me this isn't true
你是我的甜心，柔软而忧愁 You are my sweetheart,soft and blue
是否介意，让我拥有部分的你 Do you care,have you a part
在我心最深的感情里 In the deepest emotions of my own heart
如风爱抚的温柔 Tender with breezes,caressing and whole
和音乐般的生机萦绕我心 Alive with music,haunting my soul.
在血脉里我感受到 In my veins I've felt the mystery
时间长廊的奥秘，历史的经典 Of corridors of time,books of history
生命之歌长长跃动在我血液 Life songs of ages throbbing in my blood
舞着潮汐与洪水的节奏 Have danced the rhyhm of the tide and flood
你朦胧的云，刺激的暴风 Your misty clouds,your electric storm
是我体内狂放的风雨 Were turbulent tempests in my own form
我舔尝过咸意，苦涩和甜味 I've licked the salt,the bitter,the sweet
关于每次相遇，激情和温度 Of every encounter,of passion,of heat
你放纵的色彩，你的香气和味道 Your riotous color,your fragrance,your taste
比一切最高速的事物还令我震憾 Have thrilled my senses beyond all haste
刹那间，在你的美中，我己明了 In your beauty I've known the how
何谓永恒的福址 Of timeless bliss,this moment of now
行星地球，你是否只是 Planet Earth,are you just
漂浮经过的一团尘土 Floating by,a cloud of dust
一个即将爆裂的球体 A minor globe about to bust
一片注定生锈的金属 A piece of metal bound to rust
无心虚空中的一点物质 A speck of matter in a mindless void
一艘寂寞的太空船，一个大的行星 A lonely spaceship,a large asteroid
冰冷得像是块无色的石头 Cold as a rock without a hue
用点胶联结在一块儿 Held together with a bit of glue
有些事告诉我这说法并不真确 Something tells me this isn't true
你是我的甜心，柔软而忧愁 You are my sweetheart,gentle and blue
是否介意，让我拥有部分的你 Do you care,have you a part
在我心最深的感情里 In the deepest emotions of my own heart
如风爱抚的温柔 Tender with breezes,caressing and whole
和音乐般的生机萦绕我心 Alive with music,haunting my soul
地球行星，温文而忧愁 Planet Earth,gentle and blue
用我的全心，爱你 With all my heart,I love you

MJ朗诵《行星地球》

没有我而生成的翅膀 WINGS without ME
八月，我望向长天，
It was August ,and I was looking up at the sky.
用单手遮蔽双眼，
With one hand shielding my eyes.
我假装有只猎鹰正在炙热的涡漩气流上盘桓，
I made out a falcon soaring on the currents of hot swirling air.
I飞得愈来愈**igher and higher it spiralled.
最后一声石破天惊的叫声，
until with one unearthly shriek,
它消失了。
It disappeared.
一刹那我觉得自己被抛弃，
All at once I felt left behind.
“为什么你可以不用我而生出双翼？”
"Why did you grow wings without me ?"
我哀伤道，灵魂却开口：“猎鹰的路并非唯一的路，你的思想能和任何一只鸟一样自由。”
I mourned.Then my spirit said,"the falcon's way is not the only way.Your thoughts are as free as any bird."
所以我闭上双眼，让灵魂起飞，像猎鹰一样飞得那么高，以致可以俯瞰整个世界。
So I shut my eyes and my spirit took off.spiralling as high as the falcon and then beyond,.so that I was looking down over the whole earth.
但，问题出来了，为何我感到那么寒冷又孤单？
But something was wrong .Why did I feel so cold and alone?
“你没有我而生出翅膀，”我的心说，
"You grew wings without me ."my heart said.
"“自由而无爱，有什么用？”
"What good is freedom without love?"
所以我静静来到病童的床边，为他唱一首催眠歌；
So I went quietly to the bed of a sick child and sang him a lullaby.
他带着笑意睡去，然后我的心起飞,
He fell asleep smiling,and my heart took off,
在我的精神飞绕过地球时和它会合。
joining my spirit as it circled over the earth .
这下子我又自由又有爱，但仍然哪里有问题。
I was free and loving,but still something was wrong.
“你没有我而生出翅膀，”我的肉体说，
"You grew wings without me,"my body said.
“你的飞行不过是想象。”
"Your flights are only imagination."
于是我去那些以前忽略的书中找寻，阅读每个时代里真正飞过的圣徒的事迹.
So I looked into books that I had ignored before and read about saints in every age who actually flew.
在印度，在波斯，在中国和西班牙（甚至洛杉矶！），
In India,Persia,China,and Spain(even in Los Angeles!),
灵魂的力量都曾达到不只是心肠、
the power of spirit has reached,not just into the heart,
甚至每个肉体的细胞。
but into every cell of the body
“就像被一只巨鹰挟带着飞升，”
"As if carried aloft by a great eagle,"
圣·德瑞莎说，“我的狂喜高举我入天。
Saint Teresa said,"my ecstasy lifted me into the air."
我开始去相信这惊人的功业。
I began to believe in this amazing feat,
而且第一次，我不再觉得被抛在别人后边，
and for the first time,I didn't feel left behind.
我同时是猎鹰是小孩是圣徒，
I was the falcon and the child and the saint.
在我眼中，他们的生命都显得崇高，
In my eyes their lives became sacred.
而真理如此深印我心：
and the truth came home:
当所有生命被看作神圣，无一物生成翅膀而没有我。
When all life is seen as divine,everyone grows wings.



当 婴 儿 微 笑 WHEN babies SMILE
当梦想者作梦并亲吻他们的爱侣 When dreamers dream and kiss their lover
彩虹编织和渲染它的颜色 And rainbows weave and splash their color
那都是多么辉煌鲜活的时刻 Those are moments so gloriously alive
我们决意冒险 We take the plunge,take the dive
向无可探测的深渊 Into the abyss
只有这种时刻我们愿稍作羁留 We are suspended awhile
就是当婴儿微笑的一刻 Those are moments when babies smile.
就在这一刻，命运开启了门 Those are moments when fate is unsealed
无事不可能而我们都已痊愈 Nothing is impossible and we are healed
我们能飞，能飞翔 We can soar,we can fly
走在火上，航过云端 Walk on fire,navigate the sky
乘着明灭的星光 In the light of a glittering star
距离消失，一切都可及 There's no distance,nothing is far
那是天真的欺骗的时刻 Those are moments of innocent guile
在光芒中 In the glow
我们愿稍作停留 We are suspended awhile
就是当婴儿微笑的一刻 Those are moments when babies smile.
就在那心肠温柔的一刻 Those are moments when the heart is tender
海景闪现于华丽壮观中 When seascapes gleam in magnificent splendor
天庭的笑声反响回地球 When the laughter of Heaven reverberates the Earth
而我们都获得重生 And we are renewed in a new birth
在无限的永恒中 In a timeless Eternity
在天使的博爱下 In the angels'fraternity
我们玩耍旋转 We romp and roll
我们灵魂的游戏场 The playground of our soul
在黎明或黄昏里 In the twilight
能让我们稍作逗留的 We are suspended awhile
就是当婴儿微笑时 Those are moments when babies smile.
那些我们与神合而为一的时刻 Those are moments we're one with God
一切都好，无事奇怪 All is well,nothing is odd
在安静的沉思中 In silent reflection
我们感觉到自身的完美 We feel our perfection
我们是泉源，也是杯鼎 We are the source,we are the crucible
无物能伤害，因我们不可征服 Nothing can hurt us,for we are invincible
没有罪，也没罪人 There is no sin,there is no sinner
我们只会胜利，只会感受到 We can only win,we have felt the glimmer
祝福的幽光 In the bliss
能让我们飘荡一会儿的 We're floating awhile
就是当婴儿微笑的那些时刻 Those are moments when babies smile.
王国翻覆，阶级消失 Kingdoms topple,lose their class
文明倾塌，世代流逝 Civilizations crumble,ages pass
暴雨蹂躏着海面 Turbulent tempests ravage the seas
狂猛的杀戮不理会我们的祈求 Violent killings,despite our pleas
但当孩子们游戏时灵光出现 But dewdrops sparkle when children play
暴君哭泣，没有东西可再杀虐 Tyrants cry,there's nothing to slay
小仙子的舞蹈和小妖怪唱歌 Fairies dance and goblins sing
每人都被加冠，人人是王 All are crowned,all are king
在神的花园里 In the Garden
我们会嬉闹一会儿We frolic awhile
就当婴儿微笑的那一刻Those are moments when babies smile.



但 心 说 “不”！ But the heart said NO
他们看见穷人住在纸板屋里，所以把房子敲了要作工程。
They saw the poor living in cardboard shacks,so they knocked the shacks down and built projects.
成堆的水泥和玻璃置在沥青面的停车场上像塔。
Huge blocks of cement and glass towered over asphalt parking lots.
那怎么看起来也不像家，即使是个破纸板的家。
Somehow it wasn't much like home,even home in a shack.
“你期望什么？”他们不耐烦地问，
"What do you expect?" they asked impatiently.
“你穷得没办法像我们那样活；你得心怀感谢，一直到哪天你能自求多福些，对吧？”
"you're too poor to live like us.Until you can do better for yourselves, you should be grateful, shouldn't you?"
我的理智说对，感情说不。
The head said yes, but the heart said no.
城里需要更多电力，他们就找到一条山涧要作水坝。
They needed more electricity in the city, so they found a mountain stream to dam .
当水流上涨，死兔和死鹿漂浮其上，
As the waters rose,dead rabbits and deer floated by;
而不会飞的幼鸟也淹没在巢中，母鸟无助哀鸣。
baby birds too young to fly drowned in the nest while mother birds cried helplessly.
“这景象不太好看，”他们说，
"It's not a pretty sight," they said,
“但以百万计的居民现在可以整夏开着他们的空调，那岂不是比一条山涧更重要，对吧？”
"but now a million people can run their air conditioners all summer. That's more important than one mountain stream, isn't it?"
我的理智说对，感情说不。
The head said yes, but the heart said no.
他们看遥远的土地上有着压迫和恐怖统治，所以出兵一战。
They saw oppression and terrorism in a far-off land,so they made war against it.
炸弹把那国家化为瓦砾，它的子民惶惶不安，
Bombs reduced the country to rubble. Its population cowered in fear,.
每一天，都有更多的乡下老百姓被草草用木棺埋掉。
and every day more villagers were buried in rough wooden coffins.
“你必须准备来点牺牲，”他们说，
"You have to be prepared to make sacrifices," they said.
“如果有些无辜的旁观者受到伤害，难道那不是一个人为和平该付出的代价？”
"If some innocent bystanders get hurt, isn't that just the price one must pay for peace?"
理智说了对，感情还说不。
The head said yes, but the heart said no.
时光磨人，而他们都老了。
The years rolled by and they got old.
坐在舒适的家中，细数一生的积聚；
Sitting in their comfortable houses,they took stock.
“我们过得挺好，”他们道，“而且都没出错。”
"we've had a good life," they said, "and we did the right thing."
孩子们眼神向下，细声问道为什么贫穷、污染和战争种种问题仍没解决？
Their children looked down and asked why poverty,pollution, and war were still unsolved.
“你们马上就会发现答案，”他们称，
"You'll find out soon enough," they replied.
“人类是软弱又自私的，所以尽管有了我们拼命奉献，这些问题仍然永远不会终结。”
."Human beings are weak and selfish.Despite our best efforts, these problems will never really end."
孩子同意这说法，但当他们看进自己的心，那心在低语着：“不！”
The head said yes ,but the children looked into their hearts and whispered, "No!"



所以象群前进…… So the elephants march
关于大象有个令人疑惑的事实，为了生存，他们绝不能倒下。
A curlous fact about elephants is this:In order to survive,they mustn't fall down.
其他种类的动物都能跌倒而后爬起，但一头大象永远直立，即便睡觉的时候。
Every other animal can stumble and get back up again.But an elephant always stands up,even to sleep.
如果象群中有一头滑跤而倒下，那它完了，它倒向一侧，被自己的重量给压扁。
If one of the herd slips and falls, it is helpless.It lies on its side, a prisoner of its own weight.
虽然其他象群会忧心地凑过来，尽力想帮它站起身，但其实没多大用处。
Although the other elephants will press close around it in distress and try to lift it up again, there isn't usually much they can do.
一阵缓慢的鼻息后，倒下的那只死了。其他的象围立守夜，然后再次启程。
With slow heaving breaths, the fallen elephant dies.The others stand vigil. then slowly move on.
这是我从自然类书籍上学到的，但是，我怀疑他们是不是说对了？
This is what I learned from nature books, but I wonder if they are right.
有没有别种原因让象不能倒下？或许，是它们决定如此；永不倒下是它们的任务。
Isn't there another reason why elephants can't fall down? Perhaps they have decided not to.Not to fall down is their mission.
成为某种最有智慧和耐心的动物，他们合立下这个盟誓——在世世代代以前，
As the wisest and most patient of animals, they made a pact-I imagine it was eons ago,
正当冰河时期结束，它们成群结队地横越地表，
when the ice ages were ending. Moving in great herds across the face of the earth,
第一次瞥见了矮小的人类正手持硬矛在丛草间潜行。
the elephants first spied tiny men prowling the tall grasses with their flint spears.
“这生物有着何等的害怕与愤怒，”象们想着，
"What fear and anger this creature has," the elephants thought.
“但他将继承着星球，我们足够聪明到看清这点。让我等为他立下一些榜样吧。”
"But he is going to inherit the earth. We are wise enough to see that. Let us set an example for him."
所以象们把灰色的大脑袋凑在一起沉思着，什么样的榜样可以展示给人类呢？
Then the elephants put their grizzled heads together and pondered. What kind of example could they show to man?
它们可以让人知道他们的力量，可比他大得多，这是无庸置疑的；
They could show him that their power was much greater than his, for that was certainly true.
它们也能在他面前愤怒，那足够惊天动地，拔起整座树林；
They could display their anger before him, which was terrible enough to uproot whole forests.
或者它们能令人类完全慑服，藉着践踏他的田园来摧毁他的家。
Or they could lord it over man through fear, trampling his fields and crushing his huts.
在极度沮丧中，狂野的大象会做出任何这些事；
In moments of great frustration, wild elephants will do all of these things,
但大伙作为一个整体，把它们的脑子聚起来想了又想，它们决定了人类可以从一个比较温和的讯息中，学到最多。
but as a group, putting their heads together,they decided that man would learn best from a kinder message.
“让我们教会他我们对生命的虔诚，”大象说。


"Let us show him our reverence for life," they said.
而从那天起，象们就变成了一种安静、耐心、和平的动物。
And from that day on, elephants have been silent, patient, peaceful creatures.
它们让人骑上它，并且役使得像个奴隶；
They let men ride them and harness them like slaves.
它们容许孩子们在马戏团里看它们耍把戏，看得哈哈大笑；甚至永远离开了它们曾经统御称王的非洲大草原。
They permit children to laugh at their tricks in the circus, exiled from the great African plains where they once lived as lords.
但大象传递出的最深沉的讯息是：它们永不倒下。
But the elephants' most important message is in their movement.
因它们深知，活着就是要移动着，
For they know that to live is to move.
一天过一天，一岁接一岁，族群要前进，一群有份量的生命永不停顿卧倒，一份不休止的和平力量。
Dawn after dawn. age after age, the herds march on, one great mass of life that never falls down,an unstoppable force of peace.
可怜的老天真！它们从不知终究有天将遭无数人类以一颗子弹解决。
Innocent animals, they do not suspect that after all this time,
它们将因我们无耻的贪婪而毁伤，倒在尘土上。
they will fall from a bullet by the thousands.They sill lie in the dust, mutilated by our shameless greed.
最大的公象将先遭殃，因为它们的长牙可以做小饰物；
The great males fall first, so that their tusks can be made into trinkets.
接下来是母象，因为某些人因而可以有了战利品，
Then the females fall, so that men may have trophies.
而小象将嗅出母亲的血味而狂奔哭嚎。这些小象逃离了子弹也活不长，
The babies run screaming from the smell of their own mothers' blood,but it does them no good to run from the guns,
静静地，在没有父母照顾的情况下，它们一定也会死，化成太阳下闪闪发亮的白骨。
Silently, with no one to nurse them, they will die, too, and all their bones bleach in the sun.
置身于如许多的死亡中，象群也只得屈服。
In the midst of so much death, the elephants could just give up.
所有它们能做的就只是投身向地——这已足够了，
All they have to do is drop to the ground. That is enough.
无须任何子弹——大自然已经该给了它们躺下的尊严，并找到安歇。
They don't need a bullet: Nature has given them the dignity to lie down and find their rest.
但它们仍记得远祖的那份盟誓和对我们的约定，那些神圣的约定。
But they remember their ancient pact and their pledge to us, which is sacred.
所以大象继续前进，每一步都在尘土上写着字：“观看、学习、爱”，“观看、学习、爱”
So the elephant march on,and every tread beats out words in the dust:"Watch, learn, love. Watch, learn, love."
——你能听到吗？有天当我们羞耻时，一万只曾是大草原之王的象魂会说：
Can you hear them? One day in shame, the ghosts of ten thousand lords of the plains will say,
“我们并不恨你，你们究竟看出来没有？我们是自愿倒下，以便你们——这些可爱的人类——再也不会摔倒。”
"We do not hate you, Don't you see at last? We were willing to fall,so that you,dear small ones,will never fall again."



不全是转的，中文是网上转的，英文是我对照着中文一个个字母打的，打完后还要一个个的校对，比较费精力。（尽管如此，我也不敢保证没差错）
离全书完成还差的远哪！
另外，我中英文排在一起的是诗，上下排列的是散文。

接下来应该是《古人的记号》（《 MARK OF THE ancients》），但百度不让发，继续下一篇先。

神奇magic
我对神奇的想法，和舞台招数及幻象没什么关系。
My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions.
这个世界饱藏着神奇。
The whole world abounds in magic.
当一条鲸像座新冒出的山一样冲出水面，你为某种猝不及防的惊喜叹息，多神！
When a whale plunges out of the sea like a newborn mountain, you gasp in unexpected delight, What magic!
一个刚刚学步的娃儿第一次在泥塘里发现小蝌蚪，也会有那种颤栗，惊奇感充塞他的心胸，因为在一瞥间他与生命当下欢悦相会。
But a toddler who sees his first tadpole flashing in a mud puddle feels the same thrill.Wonder fills his heart, because he has glimpsed for an instant the playfulness of life.
当我看到白云轻拂过积雪的山头，我真想叫：“安可！”
When I see the clouds whisked away from a snow-capped peak, I feel like shouting,"Bravo!"
自然，这最佳魔术师，又传送了另一次震撼。
Nature, the best of all magicians, has delivered another thrill.
她展现真实的幻象，用奇观令我们的渺小无能目瞪口呆。
She has exposed the real illusion, our inability to be amazed by her wonders.
每次日升，造物者就重复一遍训示：“看啊！”她的法力是那么无边地阔气，而我们唯一要回报她的，不过就是去欣赏。
Every time the sun rises, Nature is repeating one command:"Behold!" Her magic is infinitely lavish, and in return all we have to do is appreciate it.
当自然女神从回旋的气流和太空中造出星体，她一定也很高兴；
What delight Nature must feel when she makes stars out of swirling gas and empty space.
像天鹅绒披肩上缀着亮片，她挥舞星辰。
She flings them like spangles from a velvet cape,
有亿万种理由供我们在纯喜中觉醒。
a billion reasons for us to awaken in pure joy.
当我们打开心房，欣赏一切她所赐予，她已得到回报。
When we open our hearts and appreciate all she has given us, Nature finds her reward.
鼓掌声从宇宙这头传到那头，而她施施然鞠躬。
The sound of applause rolls across the universe, and she bows.