巨流集 2025 The Boundless Great Torrent 2025 第 01 篇 Section 01
序 乙巳祝祭：漫漫巨流河 Preface: Invocation for the Year of Yisi: The Boundless Great River
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By the riverbank, the sound of rain keeps sleep at bay, while a light breeze gently turns the pages of The Great Flowing River.
“And I awoke and found me here On the cold hill’s side.”
抗战胜利时齐邦媛二十一岁，恰我此时年岁。
When the War of Resistance was won, Chi Pang-yuan was twenty-one years old—the exact age I am now.
“五年，对我是很长的时间，二十六岁也尚遥远，而我过了今天不知明天是什么样子？”
“Five years is a very long time for me, and twenty-six is still far away; having lived through today, how can I know what tomorrow will bring?”
当时的她会想到二十六岁时的她会从此阔别白水黑土，继续异乡人的旅途吗？
Could she, at that moment, have imagined that at twenty-six she would bid farewell forever to the land of white rivers and black soil, continuing her journey as a person far from home?
大概不会，胜利日的她昏天黑地恸哭，带着无限遐想。
Likely not; on Victory Day, she wept uncontrollably, carried away by infinite reverie.
济慈于二十六岁呕血而亡。
Keats coughed up blood and died at twenty-six.