DF203翻譯對比：石壕吏（杜甫）

DF203翻譯對比：石壕吏（杜甫/Du Fu）

a. Officer at Shi Hao

b. The Officer at Stone Moat

a. translated by alexcwlin/edited by Adam Lam

b. translated by哈佛大學的宇文所安教授（Prof. Stephen Owen）

暮投石壕村，

a. By sundown, I checked into Shi Hao Village for the night.

b. At dusk I put up at Stone Moat village,

有吏夜捉人。

a. An officer came to seize people in the evening.

b. a clerk was catching people by night.

老翁踰牆走，

a. An old man climbed over the wall to escape,

b. An old man went over the wall and ran off,

老婦出門看。

a. and an old woman came out to answer the door.

b. his wife came out the gate to watch.

吏呼一何怒，

a. The officer barked in rage.

b. How angrily the clerk shouted,

婦啼一何苦。

a. The woman wailed in sorrow.

b. and how bitterly the woman wept!

聽婦前致詞，

a. I heard what she said as she walked up,

b. I listened as the woman pleaded with him:

三男鄴城戍。

a. that her three sons joined the garrison in Ye City.

b. 「My three sons were serving at Ye,

一男附書至，

a. A letter brought back for one of the boys just came,

b. from one son a letter just arrived,

二男新戰死。

a. that the two other boys were recently killed in battle.

b. the other two just died in battle.

存者且偷生，

a. The survived one was living on borrowed time.

b. The survivor has managed to get by with his life awhile,

死者長已矣。

a. The dead ones were gone for good.

b. the dead ones are gone forever.

室中更無人，

a. There was no one else in house,

b. There is no one else in the house,

惟有乳下孫。

a. except a grandchild who was still in nursing.

b. just a grandson who still is nursing.

有孫母未去，

a. The child』s mother had not left,

b. With this baby his mother has not left,

出入無完裙。

a. Her everyday clothes were frayed to rags.

b. she goes around with a tattered skirt.

老嫗力雖衰，

a. Even though the old woman was frail,

b. Though as an old woman my strength is failing,

請從吏夜歸。

a. she asked the officer to come back later that night.

b. please let me go off with you tonight.

急應河陽役，

a. She would quickly respond to the drafting for Heyang,

b. For the Heyang conscription to answer the crisis,

猶得備晨炊。

a. and could still assist cooking in morning.

b. I can still prepare their morning meals.」

夜久語聲絕，

a. Voices faded away as the night wore on,

b. As the night drew on, the sound of talking stopped

如聞泣幽咽。

a. and seemingly I heard sobbing was being held back.

b. and I seemed to hear sobbing choked back.

天明登前途，

a. At dawn I hit the road

b. At daybreak I set out on the road ahead

獨與老翁別。

a. after I bid farewell to the lone old man.

b. and took leave of the old man alone.

白話譯文

日暮時投宿石壕村，

夜裡有差役來強徵兵。

老翁越牆逃走，

老婦出門應付。

差役喊叫得是那樣兇狠，

老婦人啼哭得是那樣悲傷。

我聽到老婦上前說：

「我的三個兒子去參加鄴城之戰。

其中一個兒子捎信回來，

說另外兩個兒子剛剛戰死。

活著的人姑且活一天算一天，

死去的人就永遠不會復生了！

老婦我家裡再也沒有其他的人了，

只有個正在吃奶的小孫子。

因為有小孫子在，他母親還沒有離去，

但進進出出連一件完好的衣裳都沒有。

老婦雖然年老力衰，

但請允許我跟從你連夜趕回營去。

趕快到河陽去應徵，

還能夠為部隊準備早餐。」

夜深了，說話的聲音逐漸消失，

隱隱約約聽到低微斷續的哭泣聲。

天亮後我繼續趕路，

只能與返回家中的那個老翁告別。

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