张养浩·《朱履曲·无题》英译

弄世界机关识破，
叩天门意气消磨，
人潦倒青山慢嵯峨。
前面有千古远，
后头有万年多，
量半炊时成得甚么。

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to the tune of Embroidered Red Shoes

Life experiences help me see through the worldly affair,
Aspiring to an imperial favor I am frustrated into despair,
A loser and poor man, I compare not myself to a high mountain green.
Behind there is distance of a thousand years foreseen,
Ahead there are ten thousand years to come for man,
What a mere trifle is this life's short span!

（辜正坤 译）