给你的情诗
我突然想
在你胸前
标记年轮
用我左手
拇指指肚
因为它是
个
斗.
Tr. by Petite (Ning Hsin-er)
It's a sudden idea;
I wanna mark year rings
on your pure chest ——
with the thumbprint
of my left hand,
coz there're whorls,
like a wine vessel,
like a Dipper,
right there.
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附“铁冰”原译:
A Love Poem to You
(一)
(二)
查了查词典和百科,词义如下:
dǒu ㄉㄡˇ
1. 中国市制容量单位(十升为一斗,十斗为一石):~酒只鸡(经常用作招待客人的简单酒食,家常便饭)。
2. 量粮食的器具:~筲之人(形容人器量狭小,见识短浅)。
3. 形容小东西的大:~胆。
4. 形容大东西的小:~室。
5. 像斗的东西:~车。~笠。~篷。熨~。
6. 星名,二十八宿之一,亦泛指星:南~。气冲~牛(怒气冲天)。
7. 特指“北斗星”:~折蛇行。
8. 古同“陡”,高耸的样子。
9. 〔斗拱〕(枓栱)拱是建筑上弧形承重结构,斗是垫拱的方木块,合称斗拱。
10. 古同“陡”,突然。
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斗:ancient wine vessel; Big Dipper;Southern Dipper;akind of grain container; sth shaped like a cup or dipper; whorls of a fingerprint, etc (From 汉英词典)
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- Whorl (botany), used to describe the attachment of sepals, petals, leaves, or branches at a single point
- Whorl (biology), used to describe the structures of organs and used in the aid of identification
- Whorl (fingerprint), a type of fingerprint pattern
- Whorl (mollusc), a single,
complete 360° turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell
- Body whorl, in a mollusc shell the most recently formed whorl of a spiral shell, terminating in the aperture
- Hair whorl, a whorl in the hair of an animal
- Hair whorl (horse), hair whorls in horses
- Spindle whorl, a weight attached
to a spindle

