杜甫·《前出塞·其二》英译

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骨肉恩岂断，男儿死无时。

走马脱辔头，手中挑青丝。

捷下万仞冈，俯身试搴旗。

On the Border

(first series, nine poems)

Du Fu

Far in the past, that day we left home;

we’ve outgrown the gibes of fellow recruits.

Not that loved ones are forgotten, our flesh and blood,

but a man never knows when he must die.

We race our horses, slipping the bit from their mouths,

green reins slack in our hands;

galloping down ten-thousand-yard slopes,

hunched in the saddle, we practice how to seize the enemy flags.　

（Burton Watson 译）