黃昏下的馬

（中英雙語版）

 

作者：楊天江

 

我們開車穿過一條灰色的水泥路，黃線在路上時隱時現(xiàn)。深棕色的樹枝從右邊伸出，上面點綴著茂密的綠葉，在陽光下像希臘火一樣閃閃發(fā)光。

森林的翠綠色底色給人一種平靜、安詳?shù)母杏X，這種顏色會讓你想起一百萬種不同的東西——樹林中間一片平靜的草地，池塘里長滿了睡蓮和蓮花，顏色從白色到洋紅色不等。池塘周圍長滿了郁郁蔥蔥的綠柳樹，它們的葉子像天然的窗簾一樣環(huán)繞著池塘，柔軟的地面和泥土上到處點綴著一簇簇新鮮的綠色苔蘚。灰色、邊緣柔軟的巖石排列在池塘的部分區(qū)域，創(chuàng)造了某種自然幻想。

那是你可以描述那些翠綠色底色給你的感覺的一種方式——或者你也可以說它們讓你感覺自己淹沒在一片綠色的翡翠池中，或者在一片新鮮的綠草草坪中溺水。有無數(shù)種不同的方式可以描述它。

然后，我們開車經(jīng)過一個小農(nóng)場——一座看起來很普通的大農(nóng)舍，就在它前面有一道長方形的籬笆，圍著一片滿是泥土和干草的地面。一匹馬，威嚴而棕色，在周圍漫步，不時地用臉蹭著地面。

現(xiàn)在，開車經(jīng)過這匹馬并不是什么偉大或了不起的事情，但如果你停下來想一想，你就會發(fā)現(xiàn)，這匹馬可能有很多意義。

例如，如果你正在經(jīng)歷一段艱難的時期，這可能代表你在這段時間所感受到的孤獨。或者，如果你比較樂觀，那匹馬可能代表著更多的東西：你的獨立性、你的力量和韌性，或者，如果你愿意的話，你對孤獨的享受。

對于人類思維的想象力來說，你可以讓它自由飛翔，那匹馬可能是一個變形者、一匹偽裝的飛馬、希臘神話（波西·杰克遜）粉絲的進化現(xiàn)代半人馬，或者一只躲藏的獨角獸，等待合適的年輕人發(fā)現(xiàn)并釋放它進入夢境、書籍、繪畫或其他任何東西。

關于我自己的想法？一個以馬的形式徘徊的靈魂，等待某人、某事、任何東西來釋放它，等待去往其他地方，與家人過上更好的生活。它現(xiàn)在以馬的身份生活，要么等待馬的自然死亡將它釋放并再次獲得生命，要么等待某人釋放它并賦予它意義。

我的觀點是，無論某件事看起來多么微不足道，它都可能只是你生活中需要的一個機會之窗，你的額外墊腳石，或者你沒有意識到你需要的額外螺母或螺栓。

你只需要找到，例如，這匹馬，它可能是一位作家暢銷書的開端，來自他們的想象力，沒有什么能真正發(fā)揮 100% 的作用，你總是需要團隊合作。例如，單憑這匹馬不可能激發(fā)作者的暢銷書，作者的想象力也是其成功的助力。

 

附英文版：

 

La Horse

 

We drove through the single, grey, concrete road, the yellow line fading in and out on the road. Deep brown branches extended from the right, dotted and covered with lush green leaves, glowing in the sun like Greek fire.

The emerald green undertones of the forest gave it a calm, serene vibe, the color could remind you of a million different things- a calm meadow in the middle of the woods, with a pond covered with lilypads and lotus flowers ranging from white to magenta. Around the pond, there would be lush green willow trees, their leaves surrounding the pond like a natural curtain, as the soft ground and dirt was dotted here and there with clumps of fresh, green moss. Grey, soft-edged rocks lined parts of the pond, creating some form of nature fantasy.

That was one way you could describe the feeling those emerald green undertones gave you- or you could also say they made you feel like you were drowning in a pool of green emeralds, or a small bug inside a lawn of fresh, green grass. There’s a million different ways to describe it.

Then, we drove past a small farm- a large farmhouse, seemingly average, and right in front of it was a fence, rectangularly shaped, clustered around a ground full of dirt and dried grass. A single horse, majestic and brown in all its glory, roamed about the area, nuzzling its face in the ground at random intervals.

Now, driving past this horse wasn’t anything grand or remarkable, but if you just paused to think about it, you could see that this one horse could hold a lot of meaning.

For instance, if you were going through a tough time could represent the solitude you were feeling during that time. Or, if you were on the more optimistic side, that horse could represent for you a lot more things: your independency, your strength and resilience, or, if you prefer, your enjoyment of your solitude.

For the human mind’s imagination, you could let if fly free, that one horse could be a shapeshifter, a Pegasus in disguise, an evolved, modern centaur for the Greek Mythology (Percy Jackson) fans, or a unicorn in hiding, waiting for the right young mind to discover and release it into a dream, a book, a drawing or anything else.

My own thoughts? A spirit lingering on in the form of a horse, waiting for someone, something, anything to come and set it free, waiting to go on into wherever else and live a better life with its family. It now lives its days as a horse, waiting either for the horse’s natural death to set it free and have another shot at life, or for someone to free and give it meaning.

My point is, as small and insignificant as something is deemed as or seems, it could just be that window of opportunity you need to continue in life, your extra steppingstone or the extra nut or bolt you didn’t realize you needed.

You just need to find, for example, this horse, it could be the start of an author’s bestselling book, drawn from their very imagination, nothing really contributes 100 percent, you always need a team effort. For example, the horse alone couldn’t have inspired the author’s bestseller, the author’s imagination also was a helper in its success.

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作者簡介：楊天江，英文名Ayesha Yang，祖籍湖南漢壽縣，2011年10月13日出生于長沙，在新華社幼兒園度過了快樂的童年，小學畢業(yè)于瑪麗克萊爾學校（AMC），現(xiàn)就讀于多倫多大學附屬中學（UTS），愛好籃球、擊劍、滑冰、鋼琴和繪畫，為該校辯論隊隊員、籃球隊隊員。

 

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