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To the Oak Tree

致橡樹

文：舒婷

朗讀：奇喵課堂 小桉

If I love you --

I will never be a clinging trumpet creeper

Using your high boughs to show off my height

我如果愛你--

絕不像攀援的凌霄花

借你的高枝炫耀自己

If I love you --

I will never be a spoony bird

Repeating a monotonous song for green shade

我如果愛你--

絕不學癡情的鳥兒

為綠蔭重復單調的歌曲

Or be a spring

Bringing cool solace all year long

也不止像泉源

常年送來清涼的慰藉

Or be a steep peak

Increasing your stature, reflecting your eminence

也不止像險峰

增加你的高度，襯托你的威儀

Even the sunlight

Even the spring rain

No, all these are not enough

甚至日光

甚至春雨

不，這些都還不夠

I must be a ceiba tree beside you

Be the image of a tree standing together with you

我必須是你近旁的一株木棉

作為樹的形象和你站在一起

Our roots, entwined underground

Our leaves, touching in the clouds

根，緊握在地下

葉，相觸在云里

With each gust of wind

We greet each other

But nobody

Can understand our words

每一陣風過

我們都互相致意

但沒有人

聽懂我們的言語

You’ll have your copper branches and iron trunk

Like knives, like swords, like halberds, too

你有你的銅枝鐵干

像刀、像劍，也像戟

I’ll have my crimson flowers

Like heavy sighs

And valiant torches

我有我的紅碩花朵

像沉重的嘆息

又像英勇的火炬

We’ll share cold spells, storms and thunder

We’ll share mists, hazes and rainbows

我們分擔寒潮、風雷、霹靂

我們共享霧靄、流嵐、虹霓

Seemingly always apart

But also forever interdependent

仿佛永遠分離

卻又終身相依

Only this can be great love

The loyalty is here

這才是偉大的愛情

堅貞就在這里

Love --

I love not only your strapping stature

But also your firm stand, the earth beneath you

愛--

不僅愛你偉岸的身軀

也愛你堅持的位置，足下的土地