原著：杜甫
英文翻译：Prof. Stephen Owen (Harvard University)
From The Poetry of Du Fu, re-posted under the CCA-NCND 3.0 license.
| 花飞有底急，老去愿春迟。 How come flowers are in such a hurry to fall? — getting older, I want spring to slow down. |
| 可惜欢娱地，都非少壮时。 Too bad that spots of pleasure and joy are not at all as they were when I was young and strong. |
| 宽心应是酒，遣兴莫过诗。 To ease the mind there’s only ale, nothing excels poems for expressing my mood. |
| 此意陶潜解，吾生后汝期。 Tao Qian understood what I have in mind, but I was born after him. |
学习笔记：
1. 可惜: too bad. 这是我最喜欢的译文。要是直译的话，很容易会译成是“pitiful”。
两者最大的区别是，“pitiful”的中心是客观的事或境况 ，说某事很“pitiful”像是一个观察者在作客观评论；
而“too bad”的着重点是说话的人，要表达的是说话人的心境。说某事是“too bad”时，意思是就一“可惜”的境况，语者的态度是: well，虽可惜，但也是没办法的事。亦即对“可惜欢娱地，都非少壮时”的叹息了。
2. 愿春迟: I want spring to slow down.
3. 宽心：作动作译，to ease the mind
4. 遣兴莫过诗: nothing excels poems for expressing my mood.
Excels poems: excel 可以做及物动词用，“胜过~”的意思。
遣兴: expressing my mood. 为什么英译时要加“my”呢？因为中文是以人为中心的语言，所言之物与言者的有默认的所属关系。英文则不然，必须明确表明两者的关系，如常见的“I had my breakfast”(我吃早餐了)，中文无需明说吃的是我的早餐，英文则必须如此。
5. 此意陶潜解: Tao Qian understood what I had in mind. 不是人人都知道“陶潜”是个人名啊
Curated with study notes by:
Sue雪
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