扎拉圖斯特拉如是說 第7期:序言(7)

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: "Am I a dishonest player?"--for he is willing to succumb.

我愛，羞于擲骰點中注的人，則自問：我是不誠實底賭徒么?--因為他想失敗。

I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.

我愛，在行動以前散出金言的人，其所行，時且優(yōu)于所許，因為他自求墮落。

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

我愛，辯正來者且救贖往者的人，因為他欲于今者之前毀敗。

I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must succumb through thewrath of his God.

我愛，因愛他的上帝而責(zé)制上帝的人，因他必毀于他的上帝之憤怒。

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goes he willingly over the bridge.

我愛，便在創(chuàng)傷中靈魂也甚深沉的人，他可以因小損傷而毀滅，由是他喜走過那橋梁。

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things that are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

我愛，靈魂過于充實至於忘其自我的人，萬物備于其人，遂共成其墮落。

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causes his down-going.

我愛，自由精神自由心意的人，其頭腦不過為其心意之內(nèi)體，其心意促其墮落。

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowers over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

我愛，如大雨點降自停于人類之上的黑云的人們，他們預(yù)告雷電將來，亦如預(yù)告者而毀滅。

Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is the SUPERMAN.

看呵，我便是雷電的預(yù)告者，濃云中的一大雨滴，這閃電便叫超人。