融贯中西,中国古代诗词的英文翻译

融贯中西，中国古代诗词的英文翻译

寻寻觅觅，冷冷清清，凄凄惨惨戚戚。[李清照《声声慢》]

许渊冲翻译：

I look for what I miss;

I know not what it is.

I feel so sad, so drear,

So lonely, without cheer.

林语堂翻译：

So dim, so dark,

So dense, so dull,

So damp, so dank, so dead.

平林漠漠烟如织，寒山一带伤心碧。[李白《菩萨蛮》]

A flat－top forest stretches far in embroidered mist,

A cluster of mountains cool is tinged with heartbreak blue.

问君能有几多愁？恰似一江春水向东流。[李煜《虞美人》]

How much sorrow, pray, can a person carry?

Like the spring torrent flowing eastward without tarry.

无边落木萧萧下，不尽长江滚滚来。[杜甫《登高》]

The boundless forest sheds its leaves shower by shower,

The endless river roll its waves hour after hour.

十年生死两茫茫，不思量，自难忘。千里孤坟，无处话凄凉。[苏轼《江

城子》]

著名汉学家Burton Watson翻译：

Ten years, dead and living dim and draw apart.

I don't try to remember,

But forgetting is hard.

Lonely grave a thousand miles off,

Cold thoughts, where can I talk them out?

又一译：

For ten years the living of the dead knows nought

Though to my mind not brought

Could the dead be forgot?

Her lonely grave is far, a thousand miles away.

To whom can I my grief convey?

料得年年肠断处，明月夜，短松冈。[苏轼《江城子》]

Burton Watson翻译：

Year after year will it break my heart?

The moonlit grave,

The stubby pines.

但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。[苏轼《水调歌头·明月几时有》]

We wish each other a long life so as to share the beauty of this

graceful moonlight, even though miles apart.

独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。[王维《九月九日忆山东兄弟》]

A lonely stranger in a strange land I am cast,

I miss my family all the more on every festive day.

大江东去，浪淘尽，千古风流人物。[苏轼《念奴娇·赤壁怀古》]

The endless river eastward flows; with its huge waves are gone all those gallant heroes of bygone years.

路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。[屈原《离骚》]

The way ahead is long; I see no ending, yet high and low I'll search with my will unbending.

两情若是长久时，又岂在朝朝暮暮。[秦观《鹊桥仙》]

If love between both sides can last for aye, why need they stay together night and day?

欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。[王之涣《登鹳雀楼》]

We widen our views three hundred miles by ascending one flight of stairs.

Exhausting my eyes to a thousand li further, I am ascending one more story of the tower.

在天愿做比翼鸟，在地愿为连理枝。[白居易《长恨歌》]

In heaven let us be two birds flying ever together, and on earth

two trees with branches interlocked forever.

叹人间，美中不足今方信。纵然是齐眉举案，到底意难平。[曹雪芹《红楼梦》]

I sigh, learning that no man's happiness in complete;

Even a pair thought well-matched

May find disappointment.

枉费了，意悬悬半世心，好一似，荡悠悠三更梦。忽喇喇似大厦倾，昏惨惨似灯将尽。呀！一场欢喜忽悲辛。叹人世，终难定！[曹雪芹《红楼梦》]

In vain her anxious thought for half a lifetime,

For like a disturbing dream at dead of night,

Like the thunderous collapse of a great mansion,

Or the flickering of a lamp that gutters out,

Mirth is suddenly changed to sorrow.

Ah, nothing is certain in the world of men.

丹青不知老将近，富贵于我如浮云。[杜甫《丹青引赠曹将军霸》] Absorbed in painting, you know not old age is coming; indeed, to me wealth and rank are like clouds scudding.

衣带渐宽终不悔，为伊消得人憔悴。[晏殊《蝶恋花》]

I find my gown too large, but I will not regret;

It's worth while growing languid for my dear coquette.