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O mad, superbly drunk;

If you kick open your doors and play the fool in public;

If you empty your bag in a night, and snap your fingers at prudence;

If you walk in curious paths and play with useless things;

Reck not rhyme or reason;

If unfurling your sails before the storm you snap the rudder in two.

Then I will follow you, comrade, and be drunken and go to the dogs.

哦，瘋狂的、頭號的醉漢；

如果你踢開門戶在大眾面前裝瘋；

如果你一夜間清空包袋，對慎重輕蔑地彈著指頭；

如果你走在奇怪的道路上，和無用的東西游戲；

不理會韻律和邏輯；

如果你在風暴前揚起船帆，把船舵折成兩半。

那么我就跟隨你，伙伴，喝得爛醉走向墮落。

I have wasted my days and nights in the company of steady wise neighbors.

Much knowing has turned my hair grey, and much watching has made my sight dim.

For years I have gathered and heaped up scraps and fragments of things:

Crush them and dance upon them, and scatter them all to the winds.

For I know this the height of wisdom to be drunken and go to the dogs.

我在穩重明智的鄰居間虛度了日日夜夜。

過多的知識讓我的頭發白了，過多的觀察使我視力模糊了。

多年來我積攢了許多零碎的東西：

把這些東西砸碎，在上面跳舞，把它們散落到風中去吧。

因為我知道喝得爛醉而走向墮落是最大的智慧。

Let all crooked scruples vanish, let me hopelessly lose my way.

Let a gust of wild giddiness come and sweep me away from my anchors.

The world is peopled with worthies, and workers, useful and clever.

There are men who are easily first, and men who come decently after.

Let them be happy and prosper, and let me be foolishly futile.

For I know this the end of all works to be drunken and go to the dogs.

讓一切歪曲的顧慮滅亡吧，讓我無望地迷失路途吧。

讓一陣旋風吹來，把我連同船錨一起卷走吧。

世界上住著賢德的人，勞動的人，有用又精明的人。

有的人從容地走在前頭，有的人莊重地走在后面。

讓他們愉悅繁榮吧，讓我笨拙無用吧。

因為我知道喝得爛醉而走向墮落，是一切工作的結局。

I swear to surrender this moment all claims to the ranks of the decent.

I let go my pride of learning and judgment of right and of wrong.

I'll shatter memory's vessel, scattering the last the drop of tears.

With the foam of the berry-red wine I will bathe and brighten my laughter.

The badge of the civil and staid I'll tear into shreds for the nonce.

I'll take the holy vow to be worthless, to be drunken and go to the dogs.

此刻我誓將一切要求，讓給正人君子。

我拋棄學識的自豪和是非對錯的判斷力。

我打碎記憶的瓶壺，揮灑最后的淚水。

用紅果酒的泡沫來洗澡，照亮我的笑聲。

我暫且撕裂溫恭和穩重的標志。

我發誓將做一個沒有價值的人，喝得爛醉而走向墮落滅亡。