作者:魏城
注:幾年前,我寫了一首中文歪詩(見下),當時我也曾想自己把它翻譯成英文,但譯了幾次都不理想,就放棄了。如今,人工智能聊天機器人發展神速,幾乎什么都能做,我突發奇想:為什么不讓AI聊天機器人為我翻譯一下呢?
《白日夢》
作者:魏城
我一天多次出境入境
在夢想與現實的國境線上
S形地游蕩
我一不留神
就睡入了白日夢王國
在思想的沙漠流浪
我一不小心
又醒回了現實共和國
在情感的西伯利亞流亡
我沒有辦理入境簽證
也沒有購買往返機票
但夢想和現實之間不設關卡
夢游之中就可徒步走過
兩國界河那早已干涸的河床
我飄蕩在白日
爬行在黑夜
我哭醒在現實
笑浪在夢鄉
我用一分鐘
跑過一個世紀
我用一生
吼出一個愿望
我先找了名震天下的AI聊天機器人ChatGPT,讓它翻譯,我的中文詩雖然是新詩,但還是押韻的,我沒有要求ChatGPT翻譯成英文時押韻。不到一分鐘,它給了我下面這首英文譯詩:
Daydream
By Wei Cheng
I cross the border a dozen times a day,
wandering in lazy S-shapes
along the frontline of dreams and reality.
One careless moment?—
I doze off into the Kingdom of Daydreams,
drifting like dust in the desert of thought.
One wrong step —
I jolt awake in the Republic of Reality,
exiled to the Siberia of emotions.
No visa, no round-trip ticket,
but there’s no checkpoint between the two.
Sleepwalking, I stroll barefoot
across the dried-up riverbed
that once marked their border.
I float in daylight,
crawl through the night.
I wake up crying in reality,
laugh like a lunatic in dreams.
In one minute,
I sprint across a century.
In one lifetime,
I scream a single wish.
我又找了Google的AI聊天機器人Gemini,讓它把我的中文歪詩翻譯成英文。這回我給它出了一個難題:請它翻譯成英文時押韻。這是它的答卷:
Daydream
By Wei Cheng
I cross borders many times a day,
On the S-shaped line where dreams and reality lay,
Wandering astray.
Unwittingly, I drift into the daydream's realm,
Roaming the desert of thoughts, overwhelm,
At the mind's helm.
Unconsciously, I awaken to reality's state,
Exiled in Siberia of emotions, sealed by fate,
Where feelings abate.
No entry visa I've obtained,
Nor round-trip tickets, unconstrained,
But no barriers between, unrestrained.
Through the dry riverbed, I stroll,
Where dream and reality take their toll,
And spirits console.
I float in daylight's haze,
I crawl through night's maze,
I wake in tears, in reality's daze,
I laugh in dreams, in blissful ways.
In a minute, I traverse a century's span,
In a lifetime, I roar a wish, a fervent plan,
As life's moments ran.
真沒想到,Gemini的英文譯詩不僅押韻,而且是句句押韻!
當然,評價一首譯詩的好壞,不能僅僅看是否押韻。你們覺得誰翻譯得更好?
如果你們對這兩首譯詩都不滿意,或者你們索性認為AI根本不能承擔翻譯詩歌的重任,那么,你們可以把你們的“人力”翻譯貼在下面的留言中。先謝了!
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作者簡介:
魏城,曾經在中西著名媒體從業30多年,做過報紙記者、編輯、翻譯、電臺主持人、網站記者、編輯、雜志執行總編輯等工作,出版過三本書,工作過的機構包括《中國青年報》、《星島日報》加拿大版、英國廣播公司、美國《財富》雜志中文版、英國《金融時報》等。2007年,在英國《金融時報》中文網發表的中國中產階級調查系列報道獲得了亞洲出版人協會(SOPA) 解釋報道類首獎。如今退而不休,作為自由撰稿人,為中國《財經》雜志撰寫“魏城看英倫”專欄。
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