白居易詩《兩朱閣》英譯賞析
兩朱閣－刺佛寺浸多也
兩朱閣，南北相對起。
借問何人家，貞元雙帝子。
帝子吹簫雙得仙，五雲飄颻飛上天。
第宅亭臺不將去，化為佛寺在人間。
妝閣伎樓何寂靜，柳似舞腰池似鏡。
花落黃昏悄悄時，不聞歌吹聞鐘磬。
寺門敕榜金字書，尼院佛庭寬有餘。
青苔明月多閒地，比屋疲人無處居。
憶昨平陽宅初置，吞併平人幾家地。
仙去雙雙作梵宮，漸恐人間盡為寺。
Arthur Waley阿瑟韋利的英文翻譯：
THE TWO RED TOWERS
(A Satire against Clericalism)
The Two Red Towers
North and south rise facing each other.
兩朱閣，南北相對起。
I beg to ask, to whom do they belong?
To the two Princes of the period Chēng Yüan.[69]
借問何人家，貞元雙帝子。
The two Princes blew on their flutes and drew down fairies from the sky,
Who carried them off through the Five Clouds, soaring away to Heaven.
帝子吹簫雙得仙，五雲飄颻飛上天。
Their halls and houses, that they could not take with them,
Were turned into Temples planted in the Dust of the World.
第宅亭臺不將去，化為佛寺在人間。
In the tiring-rooms and dancers』 towers all is silent and still;
Only the willows like dancers』 arms, and the pond like a mirror.
妝閣伎樓何寂靜，柳似舞腰池似鏡。
When the flowers are falling at yellow twilight, when things are sad and hushed,
One does not hear songs and flutes, but only chimes and bells.
花落黃昏悄悄時，不聞歌吹聞鐘磬。
The Imperial Patent on the Temple doors is written in letters of gold;
For nuns』 quarters and monks』 cells ample space is allowed.
寺門敕榜金字書，尼院佛庭寬有餘。
For green moss and bright moonlight—plenty of room provided;
In a hovel opposite is a sick man who has hardly room to lie down.
青苔明月多閒地，比屋疲人無處居。
I remember once when at P』ing-yang they were building a great man’s house
How it swallowed up the housing space of thousands of ordinary men.
憶昨平陽宅初置，吞併平人幾家地。
The Immortals are leaving us, two by two, and their houses are turned into Temples;
I begin to fear that the whole world will become a vast convent.
仙去雙雙作梵宮，漸恐人間盡為寺。