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Berni's formulation of this paradoxical encomium profoundly
貝爾尼的這種悖論式贊詞的詩意構造
influenced burlesque poetry
深刻地影響到了滑稽詩的發展
His encomium to his urinal certainly
他對最卑微的事物
the most lowly of objects is a quintessential demonstration
比如說自己尿壺的贊美，正代表了滑稽詩
of this burlesque poetic mode
這種文體的精華
if many of his fellow poets extolled the fig
其他許多同類詩人將無花果
emblem of female pleasures
女性歡愉的象征
as the most perfect fruit
贊美成最完美的水果
in a sort of erotic paragone, or Judgment of Paris
一次情色大比拼，或者說帕里斯的裁決中
the sixteenth century poet Francesco Melzi
16世紀的詩人弗朗切斯科·梅爾齊宣布
announced that the fig was to be prized above rival peaches and apples
無花果比其競爭對手梨和蘋果，都更具有價值
Berni instead championed as the most sublime creation
而貝爾尼的作品則被擁戴為最崇高的創作
the peach
桃子
a standing for the male buttocks
是男性臀部的象征
and he wryly noted the favorite fruit of
他具有幽默感地說，這是最愛的水果
all fruit blessed above all others
哦，超凡脫俗的水果啊
good before in the middle and after the meal
餐前好，飯后也好
good before and perfect behind
前面也好，后面也好
this has to be that type of peach
必須只能是，那種，桃子
in a letter to absent friends
在給遠方朋友的一封信里
the same Berni invokes an eroticized Eden
貝爾尼談起了一座情色化的伊甸園
in which the entire garden and everything growing in it
整個伊甸園，和花園中的各種植物
alludes to carnal and expressly homoerotic pleasures
均暗指性欲和非常明顯的同性歡愛
may god grant you his blessing
愿主贈與你們祝福
in giving you for your garden a big thing
賜予你的花園一件大物事
with a pitchfork as long as the bean between your legs
和一根和你們腿間的菜豆一樣長的長柄草耙
and may your beans and pods and peaches
愿你的菜豆，豆莢，桃子
and carrots all year around
和胡蘿卜一年到頭都能按照
in the way I desire for my small garden
我對我的小花園所愿的方式成長
he was actually accused of sodomy
實際上他也被控以雞奸罪名
unless we wrongly conclude
我們不應認為
that such erotic double entendres would have been apprehended
這種色情雙關語只能為博學文人所理解
only by learned literati
這種看法是錯的
it must be remembered
要知道
that instruction to the population at large
這方面的知識，是以流行音樂的形式
existed in the form of popular music
向大眾傳授的
