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

　　DuMu

　　Autumnhas chilled the painted screen in silver moonlight;

　　Asilken fan is used to catch flitting firefly.

　　Thesteps seem steeped in water when cold grows the night.

　　Shelies to watch two stars in love meet in the sky.

　　(许渊冲、许明 译)

　　An autumn night

　　DuMu

　　Onthe pictured screen, a candle throws its light.

　　Onesense the chill of autumn, though it be slight.

　　Alassie, holding in her hand, a light silken fan,

　　Goesabout swatting fireflies as many as she can.

　　Scarcelyvisible, as twilight is near,

　　Coldas water, the stone pavements appear.

　　Shelies down, as evening scenes into nocturne pass,

　　Watchingthe legendary stars “Cowherd and his lass”.

　　(徐忠杰 译)

　　Autumn Evening

　　DuMu

　　Autumnlight

　　Froma white candle

　　Ona cold moonlit screen.

　　Asilk fan

　　Catchingglow-worms

　　Onthe fly.

　　Longinto the dark evening

　　Shesits on the palace steps,

　　Forgettingcool night

　　Asshe watches the Cowherd Star

　　Meetinghis Weaver Girl, high in the sky.

　　(丁祖鑫 译)

　　An Autumn Evening

　　DuMu

　　Inthe flickering autumn candlelight, the painted screen grows cold.

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

　　Aschill waters of the night envelop the palace steps,

　　Shesits to watch the Herdsman and Weaver Maid**.

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

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

　　(张廷琛、Bruce M.Wilson 译)

　　AutumnNight*

　　Du Mu

　　Silver candle, autumn light and cold picturescreen,

　　Small fan of light silk swatting streakingglow-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. Inancient China, once a girl was chosen to be a maid in the imperial palace, shebecame 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 andpermitted to see each other only once a year on the 7th day of Julywhen the magpies form a bridge where the star-crossed lovers meet at thehalfway point.

　　(任治稷、余正 译)

　　Evening in August

　　DuMu

　　whitecandles are burning

　　autumnis in the air

　　peopleare cold

　　andthe room panels are cold

　　sheswipes at fireflies with a little fan

　　afan delicate and made of silk

　　sheis sitting by the staircase

　　atthe front of the house

　　theautumn wind

　　chillyas a mountain stream

　　shewatches the one star and the other

　　Altairand Vega

　　thecowherd and the woman at the loom

　　fromthe old story

　　(王守义、约翰·诺弗尔 译)