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R120 I long to live long.

                  So I begin with the opposite of “short.”

                  But no matter to what length I have prolonged it,

                  I still feel it too brief a span in reality.

                  So I end up with a large part of “brevity,”

                  And curse it as a nine-letter word of absurdity,

                  Which tells actually the long and short of it.

〔譯註〕 我想活很長,

                  所以我的起頭是「短」的相反。

                  可是無論我把它拉長到什麼長度,

                  我仍然覺得事實上它還是太短的一個時期。

                  所以我的結尾是「短暫」的一大部分,

                  而咒罵它,說它是九個字母的荒謬字,

                  它實實在在說出了它的長和短

                  prolong (拉長、延長) span (短距離、短期間; span of life
       「人 生、生存期」
) in reality (事實上) end up with (以… 結尾)
       ,
absurdity (荒謬) “the long and short of it”
原為成語,意為:        
      「總之,歸結起來」,在此直指:「它的長和短。」

〔提問〕 If I am a vain (徒然的) wish (願望) of humanity (人類) what am I?

 〔謎底〕  l________

 

 

 

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