那個白髮蒼蒼的老人
一步一步地走著
時而停下來捶著背

當他走過一個汽車維修店時
正好聽到一個維修工人
指著一個舊輪胎向汽車主人說：
「這輪胎用太久了
彈性幾乎沒有了
該報廢換新了。」

那老人繼續走著
自覺一步一步走在
黃昏的暮色和冷冷的冰雪裡

「不，我要振作起精神來！」
他自語著，再次捶了一下背
彷彿要把辛酸歲月捶掉
把廢輪胎的彈性捶回來

An Evening Scene　　Hsu ChiCheng

The gray-haired old man
Is walking from a step to another step
He stops now and then to pound his back

When he comes to a car maintenance shop
He hears a maintenance worker saying
While pointing to a used tyre:
“The tyre is too old
To have any elasticity
It shall be rejected for a new one.”

The old man walks on
Feeling to be walking from step to step
In the gloom of dusk and the cold ice & snow

“No, I will brace myself up!”
He murmurs, and pounds his back again
As if to pound off the bitter years
To recover elasticity of the old tyre

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