‘今年的成绩真好呢，竟养大了十只’”译为 “We’ve done quite well this year, with ten
chicks growing fast, ” beamed my wife，其中beamed my wife（妻微笑地或欣喜的说）是添加成分，原文虽无其词却有其意。
白 发
郭沫若
许久储蓄在心里的诗料(1)，今晨在理发店里又浮上了心来了。——
你年青的，年青的，远隔河山的(2)姑娘哟，你的名姓我不曾知道，你恕我只能这
样叫你了。
那回是春天的晚上吧？你替我剪了发，替我刮了面，替我盥洗了(3)，又替我涂了
香膏。
你最后替我分头的时候，我在镜中看见你替我拔去了一根白发(4)。
啊，你年青的，年青的远隔河山的姑娘哟，漂泊者自从那回离开你后又漂泊了三
年，但是你的慧心(5)替我把青春留住了。
The White Hair
Guo Moruo
My long pent-up poetic emotion emerged again this morning at a hairdresser’s
O young lady, you young lady of the distant land! Excuse me for addressing you as
“young lady”, for your name is still unknown to me.
It was probably on a spring evening. You cut my hair, shaved my face, gave me a
shampoo and applied some vanishing cream.
Finally, in the mirror I saw you plucking out a white hair from my head while parting
my hair.
O young lady, you young lady of the distant land, I have been leading a wandering
life for another three years since I saw you last, but it is your feeling heart that has been the
cause of my sustained youth.
注释：
《白发》是郭沫若的早期小品，热情奔放，玲珑而富有诗意，是一首优美的散文诗。
(1)“许久储蓄在心里的诗料”译为My long pent-up poetic emotion。“储蓄在心里”意即“被
抑制的”，故译为pent-up。“诗料”即“诗情”，故译为poetic emotion。
(2)“远隔河山的”不必按字面直译，现按“遥远的”意思译为of the distant (或remote) land。 (3)“替我盥洗了”在此指“替我洗了头”，故译为gave me a shampoo。
(4)“拔去了一根白发”译为plucking out a white hair from my head，其中hair作可数名词用。
(5)“慧心”在这里可按“温柔体贴”、“富有同情的心”等含义译为feeling heart或tender heart。
水墨画(1)
郭沫若
天空一片灰暗，没有丝毫的日光。
海水的蓝色浓得惊人(2)，舐岸的微波吐出群鱼喋噏的声韵。
这是暴风雨欲来时的先兆(3)。海中的岛屿和乌木的雕刻一样静凝着了。我携着中
食的饭匣向沙岸上走来，在一只泊系着的渔舟里面坐着。
一种淡白而无味的凄凉的情趣——我把饭匣打开，又闭上了(4)。
回头望见松原里的一座孤寂的火葬场(5)。红砖砌成的高耸的烟囱口上，冒出了一
笔灰白色的飘忽的轻烟……
An Inkwash Painting
Guo Moruo
The sky was a sheet of murky grey, completely devoid of sunlight.
The sea was a ghastly dark blue. The gentle waves licking at the shore gave forth a
humming sound like that of fish in shoals.
All that foreboded a storm.
Some isles in the sea stood quiet and still like ebony sculptures.
I walked towards the sandy beach carrying my lunch-box and then sat inside a fishing
boat moored at the seashore.
What an insipid and dreary scene! I opened the lunch-box only to have it covered up
again.
Looking back, I caught sight of a lonely crematorium looming out of a pine wood. Its
towering red-brick chimney was giving off wisps of grayish smoke.
注释：
(1)“水墨画”除译An Inkwash Painting外，也可译为An Ink-and-Wash Painting。
(2)“海水的蓝色浓得惊人”译为The sea was a ghastly dark blue，其中ghastly的意思是“可
怕的”，但兼有“不正常”的含义。
(3)“这是暴风雨欲来时的先兆”译为All that foreboded a storm。“先兆”也可译为foretold，
但不如foreboded确切，因后者一般都针对不好的事物。
(4)“又闭上了”译为only to have it covered up again，其中only（用在不定式前）往往作“结
果却”或“却又”解。
(5)“望见松原里的一座孤寂的火葬场”译为caught sight of a lonely crematorium looming out of
a pine wood，其中用looming代替standing等能较好地表达“赫然耸现”的含义。
(6)“冒出了……轻烟”译为giving off…smoke，其中to give off是成语，意同to send out, to emit
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墓
郭沫若
昨朝我一个人在松林里徘徊，在一株老松树下戏筑了一座砂丘(1)。
我说，这便是我自己的坟墓了(2)。
我便拣了一块白石来写上了我自己的名字，把来做了墓碑。
我在墓的两旁还移种了两株稚松(3)把它伴守。
我今朝回想起来，又一人走来凭吊(4)。
但我已经走遍了这莽莽的松原，我的坟墓究竟往那儿去了呢？
啊，死了的我昨日的尸骸哟(5)，哭墓的是你自己的灵魂，我的坟墓究竟往那儿去
了呢？
The Grave
Guo Moruo
Yesterday morning, while wandering about alone in a pine forest, I amused myself by
piling up a small sand-hill under an old pine tree.
“Let this be my own grave,” said I.
Picking up a piece of white stone, I scribbled my name on it and said, “Let this be my
own gravestone.”
On either side of the grave, I transplanted a pine sapling to keep it company..
This morning, recalling the grave, I went to pay a visit to it.
But the grave was nowhere to be found though I searched every nook and corner of
the dense forest. Where was it gone to?
O ye remains of my yesterday’s dead self, it was your own soul that had come to
mourn at the grave! Where was my grave gone to?
注释：
(1)“戏筑了一座砂丘”的意思是“堆起一座砂丘以自娱”，现译为I amused myself by piling
up a small sand-hill，也可译为I piled up for fun a small sandhill。“筑”在这里作“堆积”解，故译为piling up，不宜按字面译为buil