李白·《山中问答》英译

问余何意栖碧山， 笑而不答心自闲。

桃花流水杳然去， 别有天地非人间。

Question and Answer Among the Mountains

Li Bai

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountains;

I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care.

As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown,

I have a world apart that is not among men.

（《企鹅丛书·中国诗词》）

In the Mountains: A Reply to the Vulgar

Li Po

They ask me where’s the scene

on jasper mountains?

I laugh and don’t reply,

in heart’s own quiet:

Peach petals float their streams

away in secret

To other skies and earths

than those of mortals.

（Arthur Cooper 译）

Question and Answer in the Hills

Li Pai

A man asked me why I lived

in amongst the green hills

and I just smiled;

with my heart completely at rest

I see the peach blossom

growing wild, petals falling

into the water then floating

away; yes, here by these hills

I live, like no other

place on earth.

（Rewi Alley 译）

Mountain Dialogue

Li Po

You ask why I’ve settled in these emerald mountains,

and so I smile, mind at ease of itself, and say nothing.

Peach blossoms drift streamwater away deep in mystery:

it’s another heaven and earth, nowhere among people.

（David Hinton 译）

A Dialogue in the Mountain

Li Bai

I dwell among green hills and someone asks me why,

My mind carefree, I smile and give him no reply.

Peach blossoms fallen on running water pass by,

This is an earthly paradise beneath the sky.

（许渊冲 译）