【汉英双语】36、《倩影》

无心剑

倩影
Beautiful Image
西苑偶相逢，
倩影魂梦中。
借问林间风，
何处觅芳踪？
In the west garden I came across her,
My dream gets haunted by her grace.
I beg the breeze in the trees to answer,
Where could I find her fragrant trace?
译于2008年11月26日。
采纳黄新渠老师意见，改译如下：
A chance encounter in the West Garden,
Your graceful image lingers in my dream.
Let me ask the breeze through the trees,
Where could I find your fragrant beam?
译于2010年6月15日。
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黄新渠2010-06-15 10:03:33 [举报]
A nice poem indeed. May I suggest to polish it in this way: A
chance encounter in the West Garden, Her graceful image stays  
in my dream. (huant often goes with th ghosts or spirits!)
博主回复：2010-06-15 10:15:01
Mr. Huang, thanks for your kind advice. Yeah, "haunt" often goes with ghosts and spirits, but this word has another meaning "return to the mind repeatedly", such as "a haunting melody/face" (from Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English), so I use "the dream is haunted by the face".

Louisa

修改版好。读来更顺。

无心剑

谢谢Louisa点评。
   

童天鉴日

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