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中文原文﹕

玄宗回馬楊妃死，
雲雨難忘日月新。
終是聖明天子事，
景陽宮井又何人。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

By the time Emperor Xuanzong returned via Mawei, Lady Yang had bit the dust,
Though many a sunrise and new moon had gone by, unforgettable was their love.
Yet he was a Son of Heaven stately and resolute after all,
Unlike an emperor in history who with his concubines hid in the Jingyang palace well.

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中文原文﹕

碧闌干外繡簾垂，
猩色屏風畫折枝。
八尺龍鬚方錦褥，
已涼天氣未寒時。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Embroidered screens hang low on the outside of green balustrades,
Yet still in place inside is a blind of crimson brightly painted only with sprays and sprigs.
On the bed padded with a eight-foot long rattan mat lays a folded duvet,
The weather has cooled but coldness hasn't yet set in.

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中文原文﹕

江雨霏霏江草齊，
六朝如夢鳥空啼。
無情最是臺城柳，
依舊煙籠十里堤。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

On the river, torrential spring rain falls levelling grass by the shores,
The history of six short-lived dynasties seems a dream that saddens even twittering birds.
Most apathetic of this raised stronghold appear to be the weeping willows,
As always, they bow and sway to veil the three-mile long banks flanking the river.

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中文原文﹕

誓掃匈奴不顧身，
五千貂錦喪胡塵。
可憐無定河邊骨，
猶是深閨夢裡人。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

They vowed to give it all to all Hun invaders expel,
All five thousand officers and soldiers perished, in a foreign desert they fell.
Let there be mercy on their forsaken remains by the Wandering River,
Whose wives in their boudoirs still dream of a return of their men.

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中文原文﹕

雲母屏風燭影深，
長河漸落曉星沈。
嫦娥應悔偷靈藥，
碧海青天夜夜心。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

A screen made of mica reflects shadows and shades in candlelight,
The Milky Way slides low and stars dim as approaches daylight.
Maybe the Moon Goddess regrets ever having stolen the elixir of life,
As night after night she must over azure seas hover and in the blue resides.

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中文原文﹕

宣室求賢訪逐臣，
賈生才調更無倫。
可憐夜半虛前席，
不問蒼生問鬼神。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

In the Grand Hall, Han Emperor Wen received exiled officers in search of sages,
Of them young Officer Jia's scholarship and wisdom was unparalleled.
Emperor Wen with modesty gave a night audience to the learned gentleman,
Yet the emperor asked not about his people but the supernatural.

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中文原文﹕

為有雲屏無限嬌，
鳳城寒盡怕春宵。
無端嫁得金龜婿，
辜負香衾事早朝。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Even though a screen painted with colourful clouds looks ever so exquisite,
In the capital, once winter turns to spring nighttime is shortened against her wish.
Inadvertently she is married to a gentleman of high office,
Who must rise early and turn his back on their bedchamber to attend morning assembly.

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中文原文﹕

乘興南遊不戒嚴，
九重誰省諫書函。
春風舉國裁宮錦，
半作障泥半作帆。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

Impulse drove the Sui Emperor to tour the south and national welfare disdain,
He would not hear of what his Court had to remonstrate against.
Brocades made by women of the empire in spring breezes flutter,
Half of them as saddle cloth for imperial horses and the other half as sails.

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中文原文﹕

瑤池阿母綺窗開，
黃竹歌聲動地哀。
八駿日行三萬里，
穆王何事不重來。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

By the Marble Pond, wide open are the silk-screened windows of the Heaven Empress,
Audible on earth is the sound of nature singing the Yellow Bamboo verses.
Tales tell of eight steeds in historic Zhou that could ten thousand leagues gallop in a day,
Where is their master, the longevity pursuing Emperor Mu, who has never returned?

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中文原文﹕

多情卻似總無情，
唯覺尊前笑不成。
蠟燭有心還惜別，
替人垂淚到天明。

英文翻譯 / English Translation﹕

However wholehearted I am, my heart would seem cold come parting time,
Fronted with a farewell drink I cannot even put on a smile.
Candles seem to sympathise with my reluctance to leave,
Whose wax drips my tears for me till dawn arrives.

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