凌霄花（TRUMPET CREEPER)

致橡树

To the Oak Tree

作者：舒婷

By Shu Ting

我如果爱你——

If I love you --

绝不像攀援的凌霄花

I will never be a clinging trumpet creeper

借你的高枝炫耀自己

Using your high boughs to show off my height

我如果爱你——

If I love you --

绝不学痴情的鸟儿

I will never be a spoony bird

为绿荫重复单调的歌曲

Repeating a monotonous song for green shade

也不止像泉源

Or be a spring

常年送来清凉的慰藉

Bringing cool solace all year long

也不止像险峰

Or be a steep peak

增加你的高度，衬托你的威仪

Increasing your stature, reflecting your eminence

甚至日光

Even the sunlight

甚至春雨

Even the spring rain

不，这些都还不够

No, all these are not enough

我必须是你近旁的一株木棉

I must be a ceiba tree beside you

作为树的形象和你站在一起

Be the image of a tree standing together with you

根，紧握在地下

Our roots, entwined underground

叶，相触在云里

Our leaves, touching in the clouds

每一阵风过

With each gust of wind

我们都互相致意

We greet each other

但没有人

But nobody

听懂我们的言语

Can understand our words

你有你的铜枝铁干

You'll have your copper branches and iron trunk

像刀、像剑，也像戟

Like knives, like swords, like halberds, too

我有我的红硕花朵

I'll have my crimson flowers

像沉重的叹息

Like heavy sighs

又像英勇的火炬

And valiant torches

我们分担寒潮、风雷、霹雳

We'll share cold spells, storms and thunder

我们共享雾霭、流岚、虹霓

We'll share mists, hazes and rainbows

仿佛永远分离

Seemingly always apart

却又终身相依

But also forever interdependent

这才是伟大的爱情

Only this can be great love

坚贞就在这里

The loyalty is here

爱——

Love --

不仅爱你伟岸的身躯

I love not only your strapping stature

也爱你坚持的位置，足下的土地

But also your firm stand, the earth beneath you