2013筆譯考試翻譯：鵲橋仙
鵲橋仙
纖云弄巧，
飛星傳恨，
銀漢迢迢暗渡。
金風(fēng)玉露一相逢，
便勝卻人間無數(shù)。
柔情似水，
佳期如夢，
忍顧鵲橋歸路。
兩情若是久長時，
又豈在朝朝暮暮。
Immortals at the Magpie Bridge
Clouds float like works of art,
Stars shoot with grief at heart.
Across the Milky Way the Cowherd meets the Maid.
When Autumn’s Golden Wind embraces Dew of Jade,
All the love scenes on earth, however many, fade.
Their tender love flows like a stream;
Their happy date seems but a dream.
How can they bear a separate homeward way?
If love between both sides can last for aye,
Why need they stay together night and day?
(許淵沖 譯)
Immortals on the Magpie Bridge1
Her love into th’ clouds the Maid subtly weaves,
And th’ shooting stars display how th’ Cowherd grieves.
When dew falls the Milky Way sees their meeting rare.
However, no secular love can e’er compare
With the holy sentiments they for a time share.
Their tender feeling is like a long stream;
Their rendezvous’s like a transient dream.
They may not bear to part at th’ Magpie Bridge! But nay,
So long as undying their affections will stay,
Whereat should they be bound up every night and day?
1. This tune name derives from the myth of the sincere love between the Cowboy(Niulang) andthe Weaver (Zhinu), who are separated by the Heavenly Queen with the Milky Way and allowed tomeet only once in a year at the bridge built by the magpies which sympathize with them.
鵲橋仙
纖云弄巧，
飛星傳恨，
銀漢迢迢暗渡。
金風(fēng)玉露一相逢，
便勝卻人間無數(shù)。
柔情似水，
佳期如夢，
忍顧鵲橋歸路。
兩情若是久長時，
又豈在朝朝暮暮。
Immortals at the Magpie Bridge
Clouds float like works of art,
Stars shoot with grief at heart.
Across the Milky Way the Cowherd meets the Maid.
When Autumn’s Golden Wind embraces Dew of Jade,
All the love scenes on earth, however many, fade.
Their tender love flows like a stream;
Their happy date seems but a dream.
How can they bear a separate homeward way?
If love between both sides can last for aye,
Why need they stay together night and day?
(許淵沖 譯)
Immortals on the Magpie Bridge1
Her love into th’ clouds the Maid subtly weaves,
And th’ shooting stars display how th’ Cowherd grieves.
When dew falls the Milky Way sees their meeting rare.
However, no secular love can e’er compare
With the holy sentiments they for a time share.
Their tender feeling is like a long stream;
Their rendezvous’s like a transient dream.
They may not bear to part at th’ Magpie Bridge! But nay,
So long as undying their affections will stay,
Whereat should they be bound up every night and day?
1. This tune name derives from the myth of the sincere love between the Cowboy(Niulang) andthe Weaver (Zhinu), who are separated by the Heavenly Queen with the Milky Way and allowed tomeet only once in a year at the bridge built by the magpies which sympathize with them.