辛弃疾·《鹧鸪天·壮岁旌旗拥万夫》英译

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锦檐突骑渡江初。

燕兵夜娖银胡簶，

汉箭朝飞金仆姑。

追往事，叹今吾，

春风不染白髭须。

却将万字平戎策，

换得东家种树书。

Partridges in the Sky

Xin Qiji

While young, beneath my flag I had ten thousand knights;

With these outfitted cavaliers I crossed the river.

The foe prepared their silver shafts during the nights;

During the days we shot arrows from golden quiver.

I can’t call those days back

But sigh over my plight;

The vernal wind can’t change my hair from white to black.

Since thwarted in my plan to recover the lost land,

I’d learn from neighbors how to plat fruit trees by hand.

（许渊冲、许明 译）

Tune: “Partridge Sky”

Xin Qiji

Under flying flags, at least ten-thousand strong

I had led, in those my days robust and young;

And think of the shock-cavalry in bright brocade

With whom I had first crossed the Yangtse in a raid;

The Yans had grabbed their silver quivers oft at night.

Reminiscences make me but for the present rue:

Spring breezes ne’er spray white beards to a darker hue.

I’ll swap my multi-thousand-word “Quell the Tartans!” strategy

For books on horticulture from my eastern neighbour’s library.

（王知还 译）