I sit in one of the dives
我坐在一間
On Fifty-second Street
五十二街上的下等酒吧裏
Uncertain and afraid
感到不安和害怕
As the clever hopes expire
隨著動聽的希望破滅
Of a low dishonest decade:
(曆經)低劣虛偽的十年(的希望)破滅:
Waves of anger and fear
憤怒與恐懼的浪潮
Circulate over the bright
在光亮的
And darkened lands of the earth,
還有變黑的大地上循環,
Obsessing our private lives;
擾亂著我們的私生活;
The unmentionable odor of death
苦不堪言的死亡的氣息
Offends the September night.
忤意了九月的夜晚。