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How often, oh, how often, I had wished that the ebbing tide
多少次，啊！有多少次，我盼望退潮
would bear me away on its bosom, o'er the ocean wild and wide.
能載我去遠方，在敞開大海胸懷上，伴著洶涌的波濤。
For my heart was hot and restless, and my life was full of care,
我心里紛亂難平靜，生活飽經憂患，
and the burden laid upon me seemed greater than I could bear.
壓在我身上的重荷簡直難以承擔。
But now it has fallen from me, it is buried in the sea;
此時重荷已經卸下，埋入海底；
And only the sorrow of others throws its shadow over me.
只有他人的憂傷向我投來陰影。
Yet, whenever I cross the river on its bridge with wooden piers,
每當我在這橋上穿過木板搭建的碼頭，跨過這道小河，
like the odor of brine from the ocean comes the thought of other years.
往昔便涌上心頭，就像海水泛出的咸味。
And I think how many thousands of care-encumbered men,
我暗思有多少飽經世事的人們，
each bearing his burden of sorrow, have crossed the bridge since then.
每人身上都荷著不幸的重負，躑躅著從橋上走過。
I see the long procession still passing to and fro, the young heart hot and restless, and the old, subdued and slow!
我看見長長的隊伍仍然來來回回，年輕人，心里紛亂難平靜，年長的人，順從而蹣跚！
And forever and forever, as long as the river flows, as long as the heart has passions, as long as life has woes;
永遠復永遠，只要河水還在流淌，只要內心尚有激情，只要生活中憂愁還在；
The moon and its broken reflection and its shadows shall appear as the symbol of love in heaven, and its wavering image here.
明月和斷斷續續的憂思，還有倒影都會顯現，愛的象征在天上，搖曳的影子卻留在了這里。
