and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.

因此，尽管制造这些工具的人的骨头早已荡然无存，但远古时代的石头工具却保存了下来。

until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede,

直到自我的围墙一点一点地倒塌下来，

and existence an empty laugh braying across the mysteries;

如果存在不只是对神秘事物的一种空虚的笑声，

And the sensitive observer of sculpture must also learn to feel shape simply as shape,

因此，敏锐的雕塑观赏者也必须学会把形体作为形体来感觉，

that if we escape wars, accidents and diseases we shall eventually 'die of old age',

既使我们能避开战争、意外的事故和各种疾病，我们最终也会"老死；

From both maturity to death, a wave is subject to the same laws as any other'living'thing.

从成熟到消亡，波浪和其他任何活动中"的东西一样，都受制于共同的法则。