中文原文﹕
鳴箏金粟柱，
素手玉房前。
欲得周郎顧，
時時誤拂弦。
英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕
She plays the strings strung between shiny copper frets,
On the instrument her hands of delicate pale-skin strum and stroke.
Hoping to this learned handsome patron's attention draw,
Time and again she plucks a wrong note.
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