When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer中文翻譯(絕命毒師中出現華特惠特曼的詩)

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer —— by Walt Whitman

一堂天文課

When I heard the learn'd astronomer, 

當我聽那位博學的天文學家的講座時，

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, 

當那些證明、資料一欄一欄地排列在我眼前時，

When I was shown the charts, the diagrams, to add, divide,

and measure them,

當那些表格、圖解展現在我眼前要我去加、去減、去測量時，

When I sitting heard the learned astronomer where he lectured

with much applause in the lecture room,

當我坐在報告廳聽著那位天文學家演講、聽著一陣陣掌聲響起時，

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, 

很快地我竟莫名其妙地厭倦起來，

Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,  

於是我站了起來悄悄地溜了出去，

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

在神秘而潮濕的夜風中，一遍又一遍，

Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. 

靜靜地仰望星空。