這本《鄧肯自傳》My Life By Isadora Duncan，我在60年代中看過約30年代的翻譯本。
可能70年代，詹宏志等人重譯過，到1987年，三聯甚至出版補篇。
原文
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/duncani-mylife/duncani-mylife-00-h-dir/duncani-mylife-00-h.html
2016.9.23 我讀到林海音摘錄的一段 (1950，收入何凡+林海音 {窗}台北：純文學，1972，頁277-78
(How mysterious it is to feel the life of the body, all through this weird journey on earth. First the timid, shrinking, slight body of the young girl that I was and the change to the hardy Amazon. Then the vine-wreathed Bacchante drenched with wine, falling soft and resistless under the leap of the Satyr, and growing, expanding; the swelling and increase of soft, voluptuous flesh, the breasts grown so sensitive to the slightest love emotion as to communicate a rush of pleasure through the whole nervous system; love now grown to a full blown rose whose fleshly petals close with violence on their prey. I live in my body like a spirit in a cloud—a cloud of rose fire and voluptuous response.)
我將注意力放在林的引文的第2段：
What nonsense to sing always of Love and Spring alone. The colours of autumn are more glorious, more varied and the joys of autumn are a thousandfold more powerful, terrible, beautiful. How I pity those poor women whose pallid, narrow creed precludes them from the magnificent and generous gift of the Autumn of Love. 老是歌詠愛情和春天，那有什麼意思呢？秋天的色彩光榮得多了，變化多了，秋的快樂，要一千倍的有力些，可怕些，美麗些。我是怎樣憐憫那些可憐的女子，她們閉塞而褊隘的條紋裏，拒絕了壯大而充實的秋之愛。.....林海音沒注意到"閉塞而褊隘的條紋裏"的不通 (錯誤)，現在的電腦翻譯告訴我們creed 是"信念 (體系)"等，而非"條紋"：
Howard Chang "the joys of autumn are a thousandfold more powerful, terrible, beautiful."把terrible譯成 "可怕"好像有些問題，因問另兩個形容詞都是正面的。或可作 "盡致"（to the extreme)解。
Google 翻譯：
胡說什麼總是唱愛與春天的孤獨。秋天的顏色更輝煌，更多樣化和秋季的樂趣是一千倍更強大的，可怕的，美麗的。如何我同情那些可憐的婦女，其蒼白的，狹隘的信條，從愛的秋天的絢麗和慷慨饋贈阻止他們。
鄧肯自傳
叢書名世界文學叢刊
Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927. 啓明書局. 編譯所
台北市 : 啓明 民46[1957]
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