闲着无聊翻译了几句诗,并附上其他版本的翻译。每句写在最后的版本是我自己译的。I translated some Chinese verses into English and attached translations of other versions. The final versions of each verse are my own translation.
山有木兮木有枝,心悦君兮君不知。
1. There’re trees in mountains, oh! And trees will grow.
We’re happy to see our prince, oh! But he does not know.
2. O uphill grow trees,
On the trees boughs grow,
O my heart goes to you,
But you don’t know.
3. There are trees on the hill,
There are twigs on the tree,
I would cling to him,
He clings not to me.
4. O, on the hills the trees grow,
on the trees the boughs grow,
and my heart goes to you,
but you do not know
汉之广矣,不可泳思。
江之永矣,不可方思。
1. The breath of the Han
Cannot be dived across;
The length of the Jiang
Cannot be navigated with a raft.
2. For me the stream’s too wide
To reach the other side
As River Han’s too long
To cross its current strong.
3. Ah, the Han is so wide
I cannot swim it,
And the Yangtze is so long
I cannot pass it.
4. Ah, how wide the Han is,
I cannot swim across.
Ah, how strong the Yangtze is,
I cannot sail across.
青青子衿,悠悠我心。
纵我不往,子宁不嗣音?
1. O you, with the blue collar,
Prolonged is the anxiety of my heart.
Although I do not go [to you],
Why do you not continue your messages [to me]?
2. Blue blue your collar,
sad sad my heart:
though I do not go to you,
why don’t you send word?
3. Blue, blue, your collar is blue;
Longing, longing is my heart.
Even though I can’t go to you,
Your whereabout not to impart?
4. O thou, with the blue collar,
So panteth my heart after thee, my dear.
Even though I do not go,
Why don’t thou send a word?
有美一人,清扬婉兮。
邂逅相遇,适我愿兮。
1. There was a beautiful woman,
Lovely, with clear eyes and fine forehead!
We met together accidentally,
And so my desire was satisfied.
2. There’s a beautiful lass,
With clear eyes and fine forehead.
When I meet the clear-eyed,
My desire’s satisfied.
3. There is the beautiful lady;
her bright eyes and high forehead how lovely!
Meet by chance and so my desire was satisfied.
4. There is a beautiful lady;
How charming her liquid eyes are.
We meet together unexpectedly;
O she is the one after my heart.
袅袅兮秋风,洞庭波兮木叶下。
1. Sighing softly the autumn breeze;
leaves fall on the ripples of Dongting Lake.
2. The ceaseless autumn breeze grieves;
the Dongting waves with fallen leaves.
3. O why would thou, the autumn wind,
So steadily, stoutly rave and rave?
O’er the wavering waves of Dongting Lake,
Trees are helplessly shedding their leaves.
4. O sighing softly,
The autumn breeze;
On the ripples of Dongting Lake,
The fallen leaves.
沅有茝兮澧有兰,思公子兮未敢言。
1. Angelicas by the Yuan and orchids by the Li.
I long for my love but dare not speak my thoughts.
2. The River Yuan boasts angelica emerald green.
The River Li claims orchids fragrant and sleek.
For meeting her I have a desire keen,
Yet I can’t make bold to frankly speak.
3. White clover grows beside the creek;
I long for you but dare not speak.
4. O, angelicas grow by River Yuan and orchids by River Li,
I long for thee but dare not speak.
出不入兮往不反,平原忽兮路超远。
1. They came out not to return to where they belong;
The battlefield’s so vast, their homeward way so long.
2. It’s a mission with no turning back;
The path is long loaded with deathtraps.
3. They’ve been off for long, o not back they are;
The plain is vast, o the road rolls afar.
4. O once they came out, they do not return;
O the plain extends, and the way back in distant.
秋风起兮白云飞,草木黄落兮雁南归。
1. When autumn winds are sweeping clouds away,
Leaves fall and wild geese fly on southward way.
2. Autumn wind rises, white clouds fly.
Grass and trees wither, geese go south.
3. O the autumn wind rises and blows clouds away,
Grass and trees wither and geese go southward way.
有一美人兮,见之不忘。
一日不见兮,思之如狂。
1. There is a lady fair
I can’t forget, I swear.
Not seen a single day,
She makes my mind go stray.
2. A sight on beauty causes insomnia,
A day in separation makes mania.
3. O there is a fair lady,
who stamped in my mind indelibly.
If I don’t see her one single day,
I miss her crazily.
心非木石岂无感?吞声踯躅不敢言。
My heart is not wood or stone, how can I have no feelings?
Yet I bite my tongue and hang back, not daring to say anything.
今人不见古时月,今月曾经照古人。
1. People today can’t see the moon of yore;
The moon today did light people before.
2. Men in our time do not see the ancient moon,
But this moon did shine on men of yore.
3. Morden men have never seen the moon bygone;
But for the ancients, the moon has once shone upon.
4. People today do not see the moon of yore;
The moon today did light the people of yore.
阶下青苔与红树,雨中寥落月中愁。
1. Down the steps:
Green moss, red trees.
Inside the rain: sinking emptiness.
Inside the moon: anguish.
2. Down the steps are green moss and red trees,
They were sparse in the rain and sorrow in the moon.
忆君心似西江水,日夜东流无歇时。
1. How do I miss you?
My thoughts run like the water in the West River,
flowing eastward, never-ending, day and night.
2. Thinking of you, my heart is like the torrent of the river,
flowing eastward day and night never to rest in slumber.
3. Missing thee, my mind runs like the water in West River,
flowing eastward day and night, forever.
天不老,情难绝。
心似双丝网,中有千千结。
夜过也,东窗未白凝残月。
(或作:东窗未白孤灯灭)
1. Time does stay; love does trail.
The heart‘s like a net, a thousand knots tied.
The night’s over; not yet dawning, the lamp’s died.
2. Unless the heavens mortal becomes, my love will never be laid to rest,
My heart is a cobweb doubled over, tied and knotted with a million frets.
The night is nearly over, the lamp has burnt out, the day hasn’t broken yet.
3. Heaven never grows old, nor will human love be ended,
My gloomy heart is just like the net, intertwined with thousands of dead knots.
Dawn has not yet risen at the Eastern window though the night closes.
And a waning moon still hangs in the sky isolated.
4. Heaven is immortal, and love is inexhaustible.
My heart is like the twined net, tied with thousands of knots.
The night was gone, and the east window is not light yet, with the waning moon still.
(or: with the lonely lamp dies)
桃李春风一杯酒,江湖夜雨十年灯。
Enjoying peaches and plums, in spring breezes, we drank a cup of wine together.
Parted by rivers and lakes, on rainy nights, I faced the lamp alone for ten years.
月儿弯弯照九州,
几家欢乐几家愁。
几家夫妇同罗帐,
几个飘零在外头?
A curvy moon is shining over Cathay.
How many families are joyous and how many are dismayed?
How many couples are living together?
Yet how many are drifting far away?
车遥遥,马憧憧。
君游东山东复东,安得奋飞逐西风。
愿我如星君如月,夜夜流光相皎洁。
月暂晦,星常明。
留明待月复,三五共盈盈。
The carriage travels far away,
the shadow of horses sways.
Thou travel east to the east of the east mountain.
How can thou gallop to chase the west wind?
May I be the star and thou be the moon.
Every night, together, we shining bright.
Though the moon might dim for some time,
the star will always be bright.
Wait until thou waxing again,
glittering brilliantly, thou and I.
鹏北海,凤朝阳,又携书剑路茫茫。
As the roc rousing from the northern ocean, as the phoenix flying towards the rising sun, you are carrying books and the sword facing the boundless road.
城上斜阳画角哀,沈园非复旧池台。
伤心桥下春波绿,曾是惊鸿照影来。
In the setting sun, the horns on the city wall are grieving.
O Shen garden no longer has the pavilions of the yore.
Under my heartbroken bridge, the waters are still green.
Once, thy stunning shadow has been here before.
别人笑我太疯癫,我笑他人看不穿。
Others are teasing me too insane; I am laughing that they don’t understand.
无限山河泪,谁言天地宽?
Innumerable tears flow for the land lost.
Who dares to say the world is vast?
似此星辰非昨夜,为谁风露立中宵?
These stars are not the same as last night.
Yet for whom have I stood in winds till midnight?
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