许渊冲先生走了，让我们用那些经典翻译怀念他

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如今，那位“我的名字比名片还响”的许渊冲先生走了，我们用那一段段译文纪念他。

离别家乡岁月多，近来人事半销磨。

惟有门前镜湖水，春风不改旧时波。

Since I left my homeland so many years have passed;

So much has faded away and so little can last.

Only in Mirror Lake before my oldened door

The vernal wind still ripples water as before.

海内存知己，天涯若比邻

if you have friends who know your heart, distance cannot keep you apart.

曾经沧海难为水，除却巫山不是云

No water’s wide enough when you have crossed the sea; No cloud is beautiful but that which crowns the peak.

千山鸟飞绝，万径人踪灭。

孤舟蓑笠翁，独钓寒江雪。

From hill to hill no bird in flight;

From path to path no man in sight.

A lonely fisherman afloat,

Is fishing snow in lonely boat.

床前明月光，疑是地上霜。

举头望明月，低头思故乡。

A tranguil night a bed, I see a silver light;

I wonder if it's frost around.

Looking up, I find the moon bright;

Bowing, in homesickness I’m drowned.

葡萄美酒夜光杯，欲饮琵琶马上催。

With wine of grapes the cups of jade would glow at night，

Drinking to pipa songs, we are summoned to fight.

寻寻觅觅，冷冷清清，凄凄惨惨戚戚。

I look for what I miss, I know not what it is,

I feel so sad, so drear, so lonely, without cheer.

天高云淡，望断南飞雁。

The sky is high, the clouds are light,

The wild geese flying south out of sight.

无边落木萧萧下，

不尽长江滚滚来。

The boundless forest sheds its leaves shower by shower;

The endless river rolls its waves hour after hour.

白日依山尽，黄河入海流。

欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。

The sun along the mountain bows;

The Yellow River seawards flows

If you’ll enjoy a grander sight,

You’d climb up to a greater height.

大漠孤烟直，长河落日圆。

In boundless desert lonely smokes rise straight;

Over endless river the sun sinks round.

会当凌绝顶，

一览众山小。

Try to ascend the mountain’s crest:

It dwarfs all peaks under our feet.

此情可待成追忆？

只是当时已惘然。

Such feeling cannot be recalled again;

It seemed lost even when it was felt then.

横看成岭侧成峰，远近高低各不同。

不识庐山真面目，只缘身在此山中。

It’s a range viewed in face and peaks viewed from the side,

Assuming different shapes viewed from far and wide.

Of Mountain Lu we cannot make out the true face,

For we are lost in the heart of the very place.

如今读起这些翻译，神乎其技罢，热泪盈眶，能把翻译做成“诗意”，那不仅仅是学术的能力，更需要文化的深层积淀，一起祈祷，许渊冲先生一路走好！