扎拉图斯特拉如是说 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.

我爱，羞于掷骰点中注的人，则自问：我是不诚实底赌徒么?--因为他想失败。

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.

我爱，在行动以前散出金言的人，其所行，时且优于所许，因为他自求堕落。

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

我爱，辩正来者且救赎往者的人，因为他欲于今者之前毁败。

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

我爱，因爱他的上帝而责制上帝的人，因他必毁于他的上帝之愤怒。

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.

我爱，便在创伤中灵魂也甚深沉的人，他可以因小损伤而毁灭，由是他喜走过那桥梁。

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.

我爱，灵魂过于充实至於忘其自我的人，万物备于其人，遂共成其堕落。

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.

我爱，自由精神自由心意的人，其头脑不过为其心意之内体，其心意促其堕落。

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.

我爱，如大雨点降自停于人类之上的黑云的人们，他们预告雷电将来，亦如预告者而毁灭。

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

看呵，我便是雷电的预告者，浓云中的一大雨滴，这闪电便叫超人。