they were just old freighters from Sweden and Panama.

原来是来自瑞典和巴拿马的货船
The ferry fires glowed in the night.

渡口灯火在夜色中闪闪烁烁
The same Negroes plied the shovel and sang.

来时看见的黑人边哼歌边挥动着铁锹干活
Old Big Slim Hazard had once worked on the Algiers ferry as a deck hand.

瘦高个哈泽德曾经在阿尔及尔渡口船上干过
This made me think of Mississippi Gene too

我不禁又想起了密西西比的基恩
and as the river poured down from mid America by starlight I knew,

望着星光下这条美国中部奔腾而下的河流
I knew like mad, that everything I had ever known

像疯了似的过去我曾经历过的事
and would ever know was One.

和那些将来或许会发生的事浮现在我脑中
Strange to say, too, that night we crossed the ferry with Bull Lee

也真凑巧我们同布尔·李渡过渡口的那晚
a girl committed suicide off the deck

一个姑娘跳船自杀
either just before or just after us.

不知道是在我们上渡船前或下渡船后
We saw it in the paper the next day.

第二天我们从报纸上知道这件事