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杜甫: 阁夜/ Du Fu: NIGHT IN THE WATCH-TOWER

阁夜

杜甫

岁暮阴阳催短景, 天涯霜雪霁寒霄。

五更鼓角声悲壮, 三峡星河影动摇。

野哭千家闻战伐, 夷歌数处起渔樵。

卧龙跃马终黄土, 人事音书漫寂寥。

 

NIGHT IN THE WATCH-TOWER

Du Fu

While winter daylight shortens in the elemental scale

And snow and frost whiten the cold-circling night,

Stark sounds the fifth-watch with a challenge of drum and bugle.

...The stars and the River of Heaven pulse over the three mountains;

I hear women in the distance, wailing after the battle;

I see barbarian fishermen and woodcutters in the dawn.

...Sleeping-Dragon, Plunging-Horse, are no generals now, they are dust --

Hush for a moment, O tumult of the world.