0731翻譯：未選擇的路（羅伯特·弗羅斯特）

0731翻譯：未選擇的路（羅伯特·弗羅斯特）

Translation: The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)

(assembled by: alexcwlin; reviewed by: Adam Lam)

黃色的樹林里分出兩條路，

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

可惜我不能同時去涉足，

And sorry I could not travel both

我在那路口久久佇立，

And be one traveler, long I stood

我向著一條路極目望去，

And looked down one as far as I could

直到它消失在叢林深處。

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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但我選了另外一條路，

Then took the other, as just as fair,

它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂，

And having perhaps the better claim

顯得更誘人，更美麗；

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

雖然在這條小路上，

Though as for that the passing there

很少留下旅人的足跡。

Had worn them really about the same,

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那天清晨落葉滿地，

And both that morning equally lay

兩條路都未經腳印污染。

In leaves no step had trodden black.

啊，留下一條路等改日再見！

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

但我知道路徑延綿無盡頭，

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

恐怕我難以再回返。

I doubted if I should ever come back.

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也許多少年後在某個地方，

I shall be telling this with a sigh

我將輕聲嘆息將往事回顧：

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

一片樹林里分出兩條路——

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

而我選擇了人跡更少的一條，

I took the one less traveled by,

從此決定了我一生的道路。

And that has made all the difference.

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附註：

(1) 英文從網上找來應該是原著。