奇异的吸引子

以矩测兮，以准衡兮，
亦步亦趋，杳然无迹。
或如蛾罗，或若蝠啼，
逡巡踟蹰，回光流丽。
来而复往，茕茕孑立，
仰观俯察，悟物穷理。
曼舞轻扬，凭古追昔。
梦乎幻乎！进欤退欤？
太古之差，锱铢毫厘，
天地之殊，无以逃避。
魂牵魄掣，如闻母泣，
爱手摩挲，如愈顽疾，
采撷真理，万籁俱寂，
空帷辗转，夜幕徐徐。
心何惮惮，形犹岿然，
易地改天，辞梦别魇。
宇何莽莽，宙何漫漫，
行而有终，周而复返。
微哉奇哉，神驰往焉。
 
 

英文原文：

Strange Attractors----Robin S. Chapman  

How to find them, those regions 
Of space where the equation traces 
Over and over a kind of path， 
Like the moth that batters its way  
Back toward the light 
Or, hearing the high cry of the bat, 
Folds its wings in a rolling dive?  
And ourselves, fluttering toward and away 
In a pattern that, given enough 
Dimensions and point-of-view, 
Anyone living there could plainly see-- 
Dance and story, advance, retreat, 
A human chaos that some slight  
Early difference altered irretrievably?  

For one, the sound of her mother 
Crying. For this other, 
The hands that soothed 
When he was sick.  
For a third, 
The silence that collects 
Around certain facts.  
And this one, 
Sent to bed, longing for a nightlight 
Though we think this time to escape, 
Holding a head up, nothing wrong, 
Finding a way to beat the system, 
Talking about anything else-- 
Travel, the weather, time 
At the flight simulator--for some 
The journey circles back  
To those strange, unpredictable attractors 
Secrets we can neither speak nor leave.