芒果街上的小屋-5

字號:

A house of my own
    Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after.  Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.
    不是小公寓.也不是陰面的大公寓.也不是哪個(gè)男人的房子.也不是爸爸的房子.是完完全全屬于我自己的.那里有我的前廊我的枕頭,我漂亮的紫色矮牽牛.我的書和我的故事.我的兩只等在床邊的鞋.不用和誰去作對.沒有別人扔下的垃圾要拾起.  只是一所寂靜如雪的房子,一個(gè)自己歸去的空間,潔凈如同詩筆未落的紙.
           
    有時(shí)候,在非常牽強(qiáng)的情況下flat是指一整套公寓,然后將這些公寓分成一間間或者一套套的,分租出去的那種.apartment是指一整套公寓。