Author: Thomas

中文原文﹕

故園東望路漫漫，
雙袖龍鐘淚不乾。
馬上相逢無紙筆，
憑君傳語報平安。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

My hometown is to the east, a long way away,
My sleeves aren't enough to wipe away all the tears in my clumsy senile state.
We meet on horseback and have nothing to write on or with,
I'll rely on you to call upon my home and the news of my safety convey.

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中文原文﹕

朝辭白帝彩雲間，
千里江陵一日還。
兩岸猿聲啼不住，
輕舟已過萬重山。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Among clouds in the colour of dawn, from Baidi I take my leave,
Though hundreds of miles away, Jiangling is within a day's reach.
From both sides of the gorge come incessant howling of gibbons and monkeys,
My skiff white water cleaves leaving behind thousands of mountain peaks.

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中文原文﹕

故人西辭黃鶴樓，
煙花三月下揚州。
孤帆遠影碧空盡，
惟見長江天際流。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

My old friend bade farewell to the Tower of Yellow Cranes in the west,
And headed downstream to Yangzhou amid March's blooming scenes.
My eyes followed his lone sail into the distance to the verge of the blue sky,
Till the Yangtze gushing towards the horizon was all that could be seen.

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中文原文﹕

葡萄美酒夜光杯，
欲飲琵琶馬上催。
醉臥沙場君莫笑，
古來征戰幾人回？

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Fine red wine glitters in a jade chalice that glows in the night,
Before I could drink it come lyre notes giving orders to mount the horse.
Laugh not, I pray you, at my tipsiness that may see me fall drunk on the battlefield,
For how many have been able to return in the history of war?

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中文原文﹕

昨夜風開露井桃，
未央前殿月輪高。
平陽歌舞新承寵，
簾外春寒賜錦袍。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Last night's spring breeze sent abloom the peach trees by the Dewy Well,
Above the antechamber of the Weiyang Palace hovered a full moon at its zenith.
Princess Pingyang's court dancer was graced to the emperor's bedchamber enter,
The emperor also bestowed upon her a silk gown to shield from spring inclemency.

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中文原文﹕

閨中少婦不知愁，
春日凝妝上翠樓。
忽見陌頭楊柳色，
悔教夫婿覓封侯。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

There was a young woman in her bedchamber who had not a thing to worry,
On a spring day she dressed up to visit a fine edifice.
A sudden glance of fresh willowy banks on the wayside
Made her regret ever urging her husband to pursue high office.

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中文原文﹕

寒雨連江夜入吳，
平明送客楚山孤。
洛陽親友如相問，
一片冰心在玉壺。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

You arrived in the Wu region when icy rain rendered the river full,
Now at dawn I'm seeing you off to cross the isolated mountains of Chu.
If my family and friends in Luoyang asked about my situation,
You could say that my heart is crystal clear and kept jadeite pure.

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中文原文﹕

獨在異鄉為異客，
每逢佳節倍思親。
遙知兄弟登高處，
徧插茱萸少一人。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

I am an outsider at a foreign place alone,
Every occasion of festivity finds me missing my family manifold.
In the distance my brothers must be making a climb into the highlands,
They would have evodia attached to their sleeves and my absence noted.

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中文原文﹕

隱隱飛橋隔野煙，
石磯西畔問漁船；
桃花盡日隨流水，
洞在清溪何處邊？

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

An indistinct flying bridge stands behind smoke of the wild,
To the west of a boulder in the water rests a fishing boat, and I ask:
Peach blossoms fall and drift in the creek day and night,
Where lies the cavern that leads to the utopian Shangri-la?

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中文原文﹕

少小離家老大回，
鄉音無改鬢毛催；
兒童相見不相識，
笑問客從何處來。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

I left home a youngster and returned a senior,
Though greyed my temple hair has, changed my accent has not.
Village children came to greet me but knew me not,
They cheerfully took me for a visitor and enquired where I'd come from.

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