Chinese Poem Verses About Weapons, Advice, and Israel? This is an excerpt from the end of a poem I'm working to translate:
以前之前
如风如迷的人与神
温润良言
亦如戈鋋铿锵然
让以色列都复了国
要我度过这长夜
又有何难
And this is my current translation draft.
&quot;Long, long ago/
Like the wind, or like bewildered men and gods/
given kind, gentle words of advice/
or like the clashing and clanging of weapons/
helped restore Israel to nationhood./
How hard could it be
For me to toil away these long nights?/&quot;
I'm not the most confident in this translation, mainly because there doesn't seem to be a strong connection between the thoughts I've tried to express in each verse. Is my interpretation of &quot;如风如迷的人与神&quot; correct?
The &quot;迷&quot; looks more like an interchangeable character of &quot;谜&quot; here according to the context. So I personally see the sentence better translates into &quot;Human and gods, like winds, like enigmas&quot;.