杨炎正·《水调歌头》英译

把酒对斜日，无语问西风。胭脂何事，都做颜色染芙蓉。放眼暮江前顷，中有离愁万斛，无处落征鸿。天在阑干角，人倚醉醒中。<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

千万里，江南北，浙西东。吾生如寄，尚想三径菊花丛。谁是中州豪杰，借我五湖舟楫，去作钓鱼翁。故国且回首，此意莫匆匆。

Prelude to Water Melody

Yang Yanzheng

Wine cup in hand, I face the slanting sun;

Silent, I ask what the western wind has done.

Why should the rouge redden lotus in dye?

I stretch my eye

To see the evening river far and wide,

Brimming with parting grief

Beyond belief,

Where no message-bearing wild geese can alight.

Beyond the balustrade extends the sky.

I lean on it, halfdrunk and halfwake.

For miles and more

Over the north and south

Of the river mouth,

And east and west of the river shore,

I roam like a parasite.

Thinking of the chrysanthemums along the pathways,

Who is so generous in those days

To lend me a boat to float on the lake

Or fish by riverside?

Turning my head to gaze on the lost land,