In the Autumn Night
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Her little silk fan is for fireflies….文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/14119.html
She lies watching her staircase cold in the moon,文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/14119.html
And two stars parted by the River of Heaven.文章源自英文巴士-https://www.en84.com/14119.html
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Tu Mu
Silver autumn candlelight chills the painted screen,
A little fan of light silk flaps the streaming fireflies.
Cool as water, the night sheen of the steps into the sky.
She lies and watches the Weaver Girl meet the Herdboy Star.
- Graham 译）
Autumn Evening
Tu Mu
Silver lantern autumn light chills her painted screen
she swats at passing fireflies with her small silk fan
at night the streets of Heaven look as cool as water
lying down she gazes at the Weaving Maid and Herdboy stars
（Red Pine 译）
Autumn Night
Du Mu
The autumn light and the sliver candle
are cool on the painted screen;
She hits at the swirling fireflies with
a small light silken fan.
In the night sky the Heavenly Steps
appear clear and cold, like water;
She sits and looks at the stars
of the Cowherd and the Weaver.
（Peter Harris 译）
Mid-Autumn Night
Du Mu
A silver candle in autumn lights the cold painted screen;
a light silk fan beats, fireflies flow around it.
In my courtyard, the night sky is clear as water;
I sit and watch Herdboy and Weaver Girl meet.
（Geoffrey R. Waters 译）
Autumn Evening
Du Mu
Red candle make
an autumn light
the painted screen feels chilly
catching the last fireflies
with a delicate
silk fan
sitting on the steps
under the starlight
cool as water
to watch the Weaver and Cowherd
keeping their annual tryst
in the Milky Way.
（David Young and Jiann I. Lin 译）
The Autumn Evening
Du Mu
The autumn silver candlelight is
cold on the painted screen.
On it, a lady chased the fireflies
with a little silk fan.
The Milky Way and the night were as
cool as water
as one gazed on the stars
of the Celestial Cowherd and
his Weaving Lady.
（Claire Wang-Lee 译）
Autumn Evening
Tu Mu
Autumn silver-moon candlelight chills painted screens,
gauze bed-curtains. Out fans buffet streaming fireflies.
On steps of sky the color of silken robes cold as water,
we sit watching Star River’s Weaver-Girl and Ox-Herd.
（David Hinton 译）
An Autumn Night
Du Mu
The silver candles light up the chill painted screens,
With a silk fan the palace maid flaps the fireflies.
Then on the stone steps washed by the autumn moon streams.
She lies to watch Altair and Vega in the skies! *
* It goes in the Chinese folklore that the lord of heaven’s granddaughter punished her to become a weaving girl as she fell in love with a worldly herd-boy and married him in private. They worked on either side of the Silver River (Milky Way) and could meet only once a year on the seventh morning before dawn of the seventh lunar month. On this very morning, magpies formed a Magpie Bridge for the weaving girl to come across the Silver River. Since then they are the Herd-boy Star (Altair) and Weaving-girl Star (Vega). In this poem, it means the palace maid yearns for love in the lonely forbidden palace.
（吴钧陶 译）
Autumn Evening
Du Mu
’Tis autumn, cold is the ink-brushed panel in the pale candlelight;
My maids in silk, little fans in hand, frolic with fireflies in flight.
Night falls, these royal palace grounds, chilled like in water be;
O here I lie to eye the Stars – of the Herder, the Weaver unite.
（黃宏發 译）
