Chinese Classical Literature

《旅馆之夜》 舒婷 唇印和眼泪合作的爱情告示 勇敢地爬进邮筒 邮筒冰冷 久已不用 封条像绷带在风中微微摆动 楼檐在黑猫的爪下柔软起伏 大卡车把睡眠轧得又薄又硬 短跑选手 整夜梦见击发的枪声 魔术师接不住他的鸡蛋 路灯尖叫着爆炸 蛋黄的涂料让夜更加嶙峋 穿睡袍的女人 惊天动地拉开房门 光脚在地毯上狂奔如鹿 墙上掠过巨大的飞蛾 扑向电话铃声的蓬蓬之火 听筒里一片 沉寂 只有雪 在远方的电线上歌唱不息 Uneasy Night in a Hotel Shu Ting The love announcement co-authored by lip prints and a tear Bravely climbs up the pillar into the postbox Which is ice cold And has been out of commission a long time The paper strip sealing it like a bandage wavers faintly in the wind The eaves curve softly under a black cat’s paws Large trucks ride over sleep till it’s flattened thin and hard Sprinters Dream all night long of the starting pistol’s shot The jugglers can’t hold onto their eggs Street lamps explode with a screech Paint the color of egg yolk makes night seem all the more scraggly A woman in a nightgown Opens the door like an earthquake Bare feet dash like crazy deer across the carpet A huge flying moth flutters across the wall Flames spurt out above the jangling telephone The receiver sounds c...

《昙智禅师院》 韦应物 高年不复出，门径众草生。 时夏方新雨，果药发馀荣。 疏澹下林景，流暮幽禽情。 身名两俱遣，独此野寺行。 At Cloud-Wisdom Monastery, in the Ch’an Master’s Courtyard Wei Ying-wu Exalted with age, you never leave here: the gate-path is overgrown with grass. But summer rains have come, bringing fruits and herbs into such bright beauty, so we stroll down into forest of shadow, sharing what recluse birds feel at dusk, freed even of our names. And this much alone, we wander the countryside back. （David Hinton 译）

谈生命 On Life 冰心 Bing Xin 我不敢说生命是什么，我只能说生命像什么。 I would not venture to say what Life is; I would only say what Life is like. 生命像向东流的一江春水，他从最高处发源，冰雪是他的前身。他聚集起许多细流，合成一股有力的洪涛，向下奔注，他曲折的穿过了悬崖峭壁，冲倒了层沙积土，挟卷着滚滚的沙石，快乐勇敢地流走，一路上他享受着他所遭遇的一切：有时候他遇到巉岩前阻，他愤激地奔腾了起来，怒吼着，回旋着，前波后浪地起伏催逼，直到冲倒了这危崖，他才心平气和地一泻千里。有时候他经过了细细的平沙，斜阳芳草里，看见了夹岸红艳的桃花，他快乐而又羞怯，静静地流着，低低地吟唱着，轻轻地度过这一段浪漫的行程。 Life begins like a nascent river flowing eastward, having emerged from ice and snow somewhere up high. Converging with many a rivulet to form a powerful torrent, he embarks on his downward dash, zigzagging by cliffs, flattening dunes and mounds, churning up sands and pebbles. He rushes along with joy, with confidence, with license. When blocked by rocks, he charges with rage, roaring, twirling and swirling, wave after wave, until finally clearing the imposing obstacles and continuing his journey on a light-hearted note. Sometimes he rolls quietly on leveled terrain through green grass in the setting sun, caressing fine sand, giving now and ...

罪过 闻一多 老头儿和担子摔一交， 满地是白杏儿红樱桃。 老头儿爬起来直哆嗦， “我知道我今日的罪过！” “手破了，老头儿你瞧瞧。” “唉！都给压碎了，好樱桃！” “老头儿你别是病了罢？ 你怎么直楞着不说话？” “我知道我今日的罪过，” 一早起我儿子直催我。 我儿子躺在床上发狠， 他骂我怎么还不出城。” “我知道今日个不早了， 没有想到一下子睡着了。 这叫我怎么办，怎么办？ 回头一家人怎么吃饭？” 老头拾起来又掉了， 满地是白杏红樱桃。 Sins Wen Yiduo The old man fell down with his load, White apricots and red cherries scattered all over. The old man got up muttering incessantly, “I know my sins today!” “Your hands are bleeding, old man. Look!” “Oh, no! All crushed! Good cherries!” “Old man, are you well? Why are you staring at me without a word?” “I know my sins today! Early this morning my son kept hurrying me. My son, still in bed, got mad; He scolded me for not yet leaving the city.” “I knew it was getting late, I didn’t realize I overslept, Now when am I going to do, going to do? What will the whole family eat?” The old man picks them up and lets them go, White apricots and red cherries scattered all over. （Gloria Rogers 译）

日光 海子 梨花 在土墙上滑动 牛铎声声 大婶拉过两位小堂弟 站在我面前 像两截黑炭 日光其实很强 一种万物生长的鞭子和血！ Sunlight Hai Zi Pear blossoms Slither on top of the earthen walls Constant clinking of cattle-bells My aunt drags two little cousins over To stand before me Like two lumps of charcoal Sunlight is really quite strong A sort of whip and blood for all living things （Naikan Tao and Tony Prince 译）

《兰亭集序》林语堂 版英文译文 永和九年，岁在癸丑。暮春之初，会于会稽山阴之兰亭，修禊事也。群贤毕至，少长咸集。此地有崇山峻岭，茂林修竹，又有清流激湍，映带左右,引以为流觞曲水，列坐其次。虽无丝竹管弦之盛，一觞一咏，亦足以畅叙幽情。 It is the ninth year of Yonghe (A.C.353), also known as the year of Guichou in terms of the Chinese lunar calendar.On one of those late spring days, we gather at the Orchid Pavilion, which is located in Shanyin County, Kuaiji Prefecture, for dispelling bad luck and praying for good fortune.The attendees of the gathering are all virtuous intellectuals, varying from young to old. Endowed with great mountains and lofty peaks, Orchid Pavilion has flourishing branches and high bamboo bushes all around, together with a clear winding brook engirdled, which can thereby serve the guests by floating the wine glasses on top for their drinking. Seated by the bank of brook, people will still regale themselves right by poetizing their mixed feelings and emotions with wine and songs, never mind the absence of melody from string and wind instruments. 是日也，天朗气清，惠风和畅。 仰观宇宙之大，俯察品类之盛。所以游目骋怀，...

桃花源记——陶渊明 The Peach Colony (林语堂译) 晋太元中，武陵人捕鱼为业，缘溪行，忘路之远近。忽逢桃花林，夹岸数百步，中无杂树，芳草鲜美，落英缤纷；渔人甚异之。复前行，欲穷其林。林尽水源，便得一山。山有小口，仿佛若有光，便舍船，从口入。初极狭，才通人；复行数十步，豁然开朗。土地平旷，屋舍俨然。有良田美池，桑竹之属，阡陌交通，鸡犬相闻。其中往来种作，男女衣着，悉如外人；黄发垂髫，并怡然自乐。见渔人，乃大惊，问所从来；具答之。便要还家，设酒、杀鸡、作食。村中闻有此人，咸来问讯。自云：先世避秦时乱，率妻子邑人来此绝境，不复出焉；遂与外人间隔。问今是何世？乃不知有汉，无论魏、晋！此人一一为具言所闻，皆叹惋。余人各复延至其家，皆出酒食，停数日，辞去。此中人语云：“不足为外人道。” During the reign of Taiyuan of Chin, there was a fisherman of Wuling. One day he was walking along a bank. After having gone a certain distance, he suddenly came upon a peach grove which extended along the bank for about a hundred yards. He noticed with surprise that the grove had a magic effect, so singularly free from the usual mingling of brushwood, while the beautifully grassy ground was covered with its rose petals. He went further to explore, and when he came to the end of the grove, he saw a spring which came from a cave in the hill, Having noticed that there seemed to be a weak light in the cave, he tied up his boat and decided to go ...

顾太清·《江城子·落花》 英译 花开花落一年中， 惜残红， 怨东风。 恼煞纷纷， 如雪扑帘栊。 坐对飞花花事了， 春又去， 太匆匆。 惜花有恨与谁同？ 晓妆慵， 忒愁侬。 燕子来时， 红雨已濛濛。 尽有春愁衔不去， 无端底， 是游蜂。 Jiang cheng zi: Fallen Flowers Gu Taiqing Flowers bloom, flowers fall, all in the same year. I pity the faded reds And blame the east wind, They vex me so, these fallen petals aplenty; Like snow flurries pelting at the curtained window. o sit watching whirling blossoms flower-gazing time is past. Spring again is gone Far too hastily! With whom can I share my grief in pitying the flowers? Too lazy for my morning make-up, So overpowering is my sorrow. When the swallows return, A crimson shower falling east of my painted chamber. Lying everywhere, the spring grief cannot be pecked away; So utterly thoughtless Are the wandering honeybees. （Irving Y. Lo 译）

“Me? Don’t even ask.” She laughed, as she reeled off a line from a model revolutionary play. Then she stamped down the earth that I had shoveled in. “Eight years: I married twice and divorced twice. That was about it. Luckily there weren’t any children.” “‘八年啦，别提啦！’”她笑着，学了一句革命样板戏《智取威虎山》里的唱词。随后，两脚倒着把我埋下的土踩瓷实，眼睛看着地面说，“这八年，结了两次婚，离了两次婚，就这些。幸亏没生娃娃。” I kept on working, not at all surprised. I had seen too much, and heard too much. In the end, there was very little that I could not imagine. If she didn’t get along that way, how was she to live? Good fortune was a kind of miracle, misfortune was the norm. She, in turn, felt no surprise at my own experience. In that respect we both totally understood each other. Her lack of any commiseration was fine—through the years, I had come to dislike the simpering sympathy of other people. 我不停地干着活，一点也不惊奇。我看见、听见的出乎意料的事太多了，到后来，竟没有一件事能出乎我的意料。她不那样生活还能怎样生活？幸福是一种奇迹，不幸才是常规。她对我的坎坷也没有感到惊奇。这样，我们倒是真正地相互理解了。她不说那些安慰的话语也好，这些年，我...

冬天的距离 张错 等到一地银杏满地金黄， 才知道冷面的秋，决绝不可挽留。 风的语言擦身而过，寒暄， 留下透明空间。 我开始明白—— 那已经是冬天的距离。 有雾自迷蒙眼底升起 在遥远的灰暗，那么接近 而且凄然美丽， 充满矛盾的绝望与期盼 徘徊在秋的清冷与春的挑逗； 有一种潮湿，不是昨夜春情， 而是冬天灰色的大海。 那是一种澎湃的心酸拒绝， 就像在漫长的岁月里 去抵挡那些无法抵挡 漫然而来，飘然而去的季节。 你问我如何让冬天名分保持清白， 我回答以苍白容颜，星霜鬓发， 还有在奇里门札罗山巅，皑白冰雪 一只海明威的豹！ 那是另一种透明与坚持， 另一种冬天的距离， 沉默，并且遥不可及。 The Distance of Winter Zhang Cuo When the ground beneath a gingko is gold, I know cold-faced autumn absolutely cannot be held. The words of wind brush by, an exchange of heat and cold, Leaving behind a translucent space. I begin to know— Already it is the distance of winter. There is a fog rising from the haze behind my eyes In the distant gloom, so near And coldly pretty, Despair big with contradiction and expectation Lingering in the desolation of autumn and the provocation of spring; There’s a dampness, not last night’s feeling of spring, But the great gray sea of winter. That is a billowing poignant refusal, Just as if amid the endless years Trying to stop the unstoppable Seasons that breezily ...

小编导读：《送人游吴》是唐代诗人杜荀鹤的作品。此诗八句四十字，通过想象描绘了苏州的风物景致，叙事状物可谓是恰如其分。其中“古宫闲地少，水港小桥多”两句成为描写苏州城建筑特色的千古名句。 送人遊吴 杜荀鹤 君到姑苏见，人家尽枕河。 古宫闲地少，水巷小桥多。 夜市卖菱藕，春船载绮罗。 遥知未眠月，乡思在渔歌。 See a Friend Off to Wu Tu Hsun-ho I see you to Ku-su. Homes there, sleeping by the stream. Ancient palace, few abandoned spots. And by the harbor, many little bridges. In the night market, lotus, fruit and roots. On the spring barges, satins and gauze. Know, far off, the moon still watches. Think of me there, in the fisherman’s song. （J. P. Seaton 译）

乡间坐凳，多以现成树丫叉为脚者。一脚偶坏，主人命仆往山中觅取。仆持斧出，竟日空回。主人责之，答曰：“丫叉尽有，都是向上生，更无向下的。” Most stools in the countryside used ready-made branches as legs. One stool leg happened to be broken. The master asked his servant to search for one in the woods. The servant went out with an axe. He didn’t come back until quite late at night. His master asked what took him so long. He replied: “Though there are plenty of branches, they all grow upwards. I didn’t find a single one that goes downwards.” （陈沅恺 译）

小编导读：《秋晓行南谷经荒村》是唐朝诗人柳宗元的作品，创作于公元811年（元和六年）秋的一首山水诗。此诗再现了诗人经荒村去南谷一路上所见的景物，写得清朗疏淡，景情交融。 柳宗元《秋晓行南谷经荒村》 杪秋霜露重，晨起行幽谷。 黄叶覆溪桥，荒村唯古木。 寒花疏寂历，幽泉微断续。 机心久已忘，何事惊麋鹿？ Morning Walk in Autumn to South Valley Passing an Abandoned Village Liu Tsung-yuan Autumn’s end: frost and dew become heavy. Get up early. Walk in secluded ravine. Yellow leaves cover stream and bridge. Deserted village:only ancient trees. Cold flowers, sparse: quiet, alone. Secluded spring, a little:heard, unheard. Scheme of mind now lost a long time, What is it that startles a young deer? (Wai-lim Yip 译)

小编导读：《秋日见蝶》是明朝诗人朱静庵的作品。 朱静庵 《秋日见蝶》 江空木落雁声悲，霜染丹枫百草萎。 蝴蝶不知身是梦，又随秋色上寒枝。 Seeing a Butterfly on an Autumn Day Zhu Jing’an Vast river, falling leaves, eagles’ sorrowful cries, Frost dyes crimson maples, all plants wither. Not knowing itself a dream, a butterfly Flits toward a cold twig in this autumn scene. (Michelle Yeh 译)

小编导读：《八至》是唐朝李冶的作品。李冶即是李季兰，唐朝著名的女道士。由远近东西至深浅清溪，再至高明日月，又至亲疏夫妻，人生就这样被刺穿，兀自散无奈颓靡之态，自然的绚丽风景亦成情感的凄凉景象。二十四个字，却是一程生命由盛及衰的花开花落，道破了人生的真相，酷烈，决绝，永远。 李冶 《八至》 至近至远东西，至深至浅清溪。 至高至明日月，至亲至疏夫妻。 Eight Most Li Ye nearest furthest, east west deep, a shallow, a clear creek highest brightest sun and moon so close so far—man wife

小编导读：《客中即事》是明朝诗人朱静庵的作品。 朱静庵 《客中即事》 华屋沉沉乳燕飞，绿杨深处啭黄鹂。 疏帘不卷薰风静，坐看庭花日影移。 Impromptu on a Trip Zhu Jing’an The splendid mansion is quiet, young swallows fly. In the deep shade of green poplars, orioles sing. The breeze is gone, the light curtain still, I sit and watch flower shadows shift in the garden. （Michelle Yeh 译）

小编导读：《西厢记·碧云天·正宫端正好》是元朝著名杂剧作家王实甫的作品。它的曲词华艳优美，富于诗的意境。是我国古典戏剧的现实主义杰作，对后来以爱情为题材的小说、戏剧创作影响很大。 王实甫 《西厢记·碧云天·正宫端正好》 碧云天，黄叶地， 西风紧，北雁南飞。 晓来谁染霜林醉？ 点点是离人泪。 Blue Sky with White Clouds Wang Shifu The blue sky fleeting with white clouds, The earth covered with yellow fallen leaves. A west wind blows, and wild geese fly southwards. In early morning, woods are dotted white with frost, Tears of lovers’ sad departure. （王宏印 译）

小编导读：《虞姬》是明朝诗人朱静庵的作品。全诗描写出了作者对虞姬的崇拜之情，对虞姬的以死明志，不降汉朝进行了讴歌。 朱静庵 《虞姬》 力尽重瞳霸气消，楚歌声里恨迢迢。 贞魂化作原头草，不逐东风入汉郊。 The Consort Yu 1 Zhu Jing’an Strength exhausted, Xiang Yu lost the hegemonic light in his double-pupiled eyes. Surrounded by the singing of Southern songs, he felt endless regret. A faithful soul, she turned into grass on the battleground, Refusing to follow the east wind into Han territory. 1. Yu was the favorite consort of Xiang Yu (232-202 B.C.E.), hegemon of Chu and the arch rival of Liu Bang in the struggle for control of the empire that preceded Liu’s founding of the Han dynasty. When Xiang (who was said to have double pupils) was cornered in Gaixia, Liu had his soldiers sing Southern songs at night, leading Xiang to believe that his home territory, Chu, had joined Liu’s forces. Consort Yu committed suicide before Xiang’s defeat in the final battle the next day. （Michelle Yeh 译）

小编导读：《菩萨蛮》是清朝著名诗人纳兰性德的作品。此篇从闺阁中女子角度描写，写一丽人在乍暖还寒的春天里孤寂无聊的情态。上片前二句亦人亦景，含双关之意。后二句写红楼独处，借唱《石州》益而抒离情之苦。下片回写夜来之孤独寂寞，以双燕烘衬，更突出了孤苦凄清之离情别恨。 纳兰性德 《菩萨蛮》 窗前桃蕊娇如倦， 东风泪洗胭脂面。 人在小红楼， 离情唱《石洲》。 夜来双燕宿， 灯背屏腰绿。 香尽雨阑珊， 薄衾寒不寒？ Buddhist Dancers Nalanshinde Delicate are the peach blossoms before the window, Tears streaming down the rouge face in the easterly wind. The person in the small red floor, Chanting in the most bitter touch of parting sorrow. The couple swallows lodging for the night, Their silhouette becomes dimmed on the mid-screen. The incense burns out in the rain drawing to a close, And in the thin quilt, are you all right? （吴松林 译）

小编导读：《画竹》是明朝诗人徐渭的作品。本诗描写出了山中之竹，作者徐渭寄情于景，将他生命中的种种遭际与感喟尽数投注在画竹与咏竹中了。 徐渭 《画竹》 东吴药绢白濛濛，况值胶矾盏内空。 烂颖扫来孤凤影，江湘细雨淡烟中。 Painting Bamboo Hsu Wei Cheap silk from Eastern Wu dull and damp, and too the pot is bare of sizing but when my brush sweeps through the shadow of a solitary phoenix here’s silken rain on the Hsiang Chiang River and pale mists. （James Cryer 译）