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杜牧: 遣怀/ Du Mu: A CONFESSION

遣怀

杜牧

落魄江湖载酒行, 楚腰纤细掌中轻。

十年一觉扬州梦, 赢得青楼薄幸名。

 

A CONFESSION

Du Mu

With my wine-bottle, watching by river and lake

For a lady so tiny as to dance on my palm,

I awake, after dreaming ten years in Yangzhou,

Known as fickle, even in the Street of Blue Houses.