杜牧·《秋夕》（双语）

　　秋夕

　　杜牧

　　银烛秋光冷画屏，轻罗小扇扑流萤。

　　天阶夜色凉如水，坐看牵牛织女星。

　　注：全诗最后一句，有版本又作：卧看牵牛织女星。

　　The Double Seventh Night

　　Du Mu

　　Autumn has chilled the painted screen in silver moonlight;

　　A silken fan is used to catch flitting firefly.

　　The steps seem steeped in water when cold grows the night.

　　She lies to watch two stars in love meet in the sky.

　　（许渊冲、许明 译）

　　An autumn night

　　Du Mu

　　On the pictured screen, a candle throws its light.

　　One sense the chill of autumn, though it be slight.

　　A lassie, holding in her hand, a light silken fan,

　　Goes about swatting fireflies as many as she can.

　　Scarcely visible, as twilight is near,

　　Cold as water, the stone pavements appear.

　　She lies down, as evening scenes into nocturne pass,

　　Watching the legendary stars “Cowherd and his lass”.

　　（徐忠杰 译）

　　Autumn Evening

　　Du Mu

　　Autumn light

　　From a white candle

　　On a cold moonlit screen.

　　A silk fan

　　Catching glow-worms

　　On the fly.

　　Long into the dark evening

　　She sits on the palace steps,

　　Forgetting cool night

　　As she watches the Cowherd Star

　　Meeting his Weaver Girl, high in the sky.

　　（丁祖鑫 译）

　　An Autumn Evening

　　Du Mu

　　In the flickering autumn candlelight, the painted screen grows cold.

　　With a small fan of silk gauze*, she scatters the drifting fireflies.

　　As chill waters of the night envelop the palace steps,

　　She sits to watch the Herdsman and Weaver Maid**.

　　* The poem portrays an imperial concubine fallen from favor. Her situation is thus analogous to that of the “small fan of silk gauze” discarded at summer’s end.

　　** Herdsman…Weaver Maid: Stars positioned south and north of the Milky Way. In popular legend, they were lovers who meet only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month, when magpies build a bridge for them to cross the “River of Heaven”.

　　（张廷琛、Bruce M. Wilson 译）

　　Autumn Night*

　　Du Mu

　　Silver candle, autumn light and cold picture screen,

　　Small fan of light silk swatting streaking glow-worms.

　　Palace steps at night cold as water,

　　Where she sits watching Cowherd and Weaving Girl**.

　　* The subject of this poem is a palace maid. In ancient China, once a girl was chosen to be a maid in the imperial palace, she became a virtual prisoner for life, no freedom to move around, nor to marry.

　　** Cowherd and Weaving Girl are lovers in Chinese mythology, identified with stars Altair and Vega. They are separated by the Milky Way and permitted to see each other only once a year on the 7thday of July when the magpies form a bridge where the star-crossed lovers meet at the halfway point.

　　（任治稷、余正 译）

　　Evening in August

　　Du Mu

　　white candles are burning

　　autumn is in the air

　　people are cold

　　and the room panels are cold

　　she swipes at fireflies with a little fan

　　a fan delicate and made of silk

　　she is sitting by the staircase

　　at the front of the house

　　the autumn wind

　　chilly as a mountain stream

　　she watches the one star and the other

　　Altair and Vega

　　the cowherd and the woman at the loom

　　from the old story

　　（王守义、约翰·诺弗尔 译）

　　An Autumn Night

　　Du Mu

　　The autumn’s silver candlelight shows off the chilly screen;

　　Patting the fireflies with a silken fan a maiden’s seen.

　　In night’s dim light, the marble steps look like a coldish bay;

　　She sits to watch two longing stars* there by the Milky Way.

　　* Two longing stars: They refer to the Weaver and the Cowherd who were commonly believed to be two stars very much in love with each other but separated by the Milky Way.

　　（王大濂 译）

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