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中文原文﹕

一路經行處，
莓苔見履痕。
白雲依靜渚，
春草閉閑門。
過雨看松色，
隨山到水源。
溪花與禪意，
相對亦忘言。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Along where I've been,
There leave my footprints on moss and lichen.
White clouds hang low over the sandbar along the shore,
Amid thickets of spring verdure, closed is his door to the outside.
I admire the sight of pines after the rain,
I follow the waters further into the mountains and at its source arrive.
There are flowers by the brook and there springs spirituality,
Words fail me as I a moment of enlightenment find.

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中文原文﹕

鄉心新歲切，
天畔獨潸然。
老至居人下，
春歸在客先。
嶺猿同旦暮，
江柳共風煙。
已似長沙傅，
從今又幾年？

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

A nostalgic heart grows even more so come New Year,
Alone at the edge of the world I cry lonely tears.
I am still bending my back for others even at my old age,
Before I could home return, come again has spring.
Gibbons in the mountains are my company at dawn and at dusk,
The river and the willows are there with me to brave the misty wind.
I am very much like Jia Yi in exile in Changsha,
How many years still before my homecoming?

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中文原文﹕

上國隨緣住，
來途若夢行。
浮天滄海遠，
去世法舟輕。
水月通禪寂，
魚龍聽梵聲。
惟憐一燈影，
萬里眼中明。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Karma brought you to China,
On your way here it was like wayfaring a dream.
You arrived from far overseas as if you flew over skies,
Now you're setting off with the teachings of Buddha, as if to the worldly take leave.
The waters shall the moon reflect while you in quietude spirituality contemplate,
Even fish and sea monsters would come near to Buddhist chanting take heed.
No doubt you would hold dear the beacon of bodhi,
Bringing light to the eyes of those at the other end of the ten thousand leagues.

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中文原文﹕

泉壑帶茅茨，
雲霞生薜帷。
竹憐新雨后，
山愛夕陽時。
閒鷺棲常早，
秋花落更遲。
家童掃蘿徑，
昨與故人期。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

By a creek in a ravine lies my thatched cottage,
Through climbing vines of fig trees glisten glowing clouds.
Bamboos more elegant seem after the rain,
Mountains more comely look in twilight hours.
Egrets from earlier on remain perched at leisure,
Here autumn arrives late and late wilt flowers.
The path where old man's beard decorated trees is being swept by my lackey,
As yesterday I invited a friend to come this way out.

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中文原文﹕

木落雁南渡，
北風江上寒。
我家襄水曲，
遙隔楚雲端。
鄉淚客中盡，
孤帆天際看。
迷津欲有問，
平海夕漫漫。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Trees shed their leaves as wild geese southwards migrate,
The northerlies across the river blow and chills send.
My hometown lies on a bend on River Han,
My gaze towards my distant native soil could only on clouds over the land of Chu rest.
I have cried enough homesick tears over my wayfaring years,
Alone on a skiff I raise my head to the sky stare.
I have lost my way and seek to someone ask, but there is not a soul
On these waters that stretch on endlessly in the glow of sunset.

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中文原文﹕

古臺搖落後，
秋日望鄉心。
野寺人來少，
雲峰水隔深。
夕陽依舊壘，
寒磬滿空林。
惆悵南朝事，
長江獨至今！

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

I've come to visit the terrace that has fallen into a desolate state,
On this autumn day, homesick I feel as I into the distance gaze.
Few come this way to this forlorn temple see,
For it is shielded by clouds, mountain peaks and a deep waterway.
The ancient fortress still glows in the setting sun,
In the hollowing woods tolling of bells echoes in the cold and resonates.
I'm reminded of the regretful history of the short-lived southern dynasties,
Still gushing through to this day is the Yangtze in full spate!

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中文原文﹕

流落征南將，
曾驅十萬師。
罷歸無舊業，
老去戀明時。
獨立三邊靜，
輕生一劍知。
茫茫江漢上，
日暮復何之？

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

A stranded general you are, who once lead a long march to the south,
A commander of an army of a hundred thousand strong.
Now dismissed from office and with no vocation to return to,
Despite your age, reluctant to leave the court of a capable emperor your heart lingers on.
When you were in charge, calm and at peace were our borders,
Your sword knows well that in order to the nation server you would give your life and all.
Such languors on River Han pervade,
There you are brooding in the sunset – where to from here on?

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中文原文﹕

山暝聽猿愁，
滄江急夜流。
風鳴兩岸葉，
月照一孤舟。
建德非吾土，
維揚憶舊遊。
還將兩行淚，
遙寄海西頭。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Howls of gibbons from darkness-obscured mountains grieves me,
As the cold and gloomy river gushes away in the night.
The wind rustles leaves on shores,
The moon on one lone boat shines.
The land of Jiande is not my native soil,
Old friends from Weiyang are the ones on my mind.
I should perhaps gather these tears rolling down my cheeks,
And send them to my friends at the head of Haisi, the watery shire.

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中文原文﹕

寂寂竟何待？
朝朝空自歸。
欲尋芳草去，
惜與故人違。
當路誰相假？
知音世所稀。
祗應守索寞，
還掩故園扉。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Quietly and quietly I await, but for what?
Day after day I return empty-handed and lean.
I intend to look for greener pastures,
Though saddened I am by having to of you take leave.
Who in power is willing to lend a hand?
In this world, friends as close as one's second self are few and far between.
I should known how to keep my solitude company,
I shall go home and stay within my humble retreat.

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中文原文﹕

北闕休上書，
南山歸敝廬。
不才明主棄，
多病故人疏。
白發催年老，
青陽逼歲除。
永懷愁不寐，
松月夜窗虛。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

I shall make no more submissions to the Palace in the north,
I should return south to the Zhongnan Mountains to my humble retreat.
Forsaken by our wise emperor is my mediocrity,
My sickliness has acquaintances their distance keep.
My greying hair hastens the onset of old age,
Just as spring comes along to edge away the wintry remains of a year.
Forever holding a regret makes a good night's sleep hard to acquire,
Moonshine filters through pines and windows dispersing feeble gleams.

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