（古詞英譯）減字木蘭花 - 李清照

減字木蘭花  - 李清照

 

賣花擔上，

買得一枝春欲放。

淚染輕勻，

猶帶彤霞曉露痕。

 

怕郎猜道，

奴麵不如花麵好。

雲鬢斜簪，

徒要教郎比並看。

 

A Spring Sprig by Li Qing-zao

 

From a peddler’s tray of bamboo,

I pick up a spring sprig, in budding rosy hue...

Moist with a faint teary trace,

Aglow with a dawn’s dewy lace...

 

Afeard my lord mote chance to view -

The flower seems much fairer than I do ...

The sprig, slanting in my hair, I place,

For him to compare, who holds more grace...

 

Tr. Ziyuzile

18/03/2025