【中譯英】

1、無邊落木蕭蕭下，不盡長江滾滾來。

The boundless forest sheds its leaves shower by shower;

The endless river rolls its waves hour after hour.

——卞之琳+許淵沖 譯

2、尋尋覓覓，冷冷清清，凄凄慘慘戚戚。

So dim, so dark,

So dense, so dull,

So damp, so dank,

So dead!

——林語堂 譯

3、吃一塹，長一智。

A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.

——錢鍾書 譯

4、銀燭秋光冷畫屏，輕羅小扇撲流螢。

The painted screen is chilled in silver candlelight, she uses silken fan to catch passing fireflies.

——許淵沖 譯

5、清明時節(jié)雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂。借問酒家何處有？牧童遙指杏花村。

A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day;

The mourner’s heart is going to break on his way.

Where can a wine shop be found to drown his sad hours?

A cowherd points to a cot’mid a picot flowers.

——許淵沖 譯

6、關(guān)關(guān)雎鳩，在河之洲。窈窕淑女，君子好逑。

By riverside a pair

Of turtledoves are cooing；

There's a good maiden fair

Whom a young man is wooing.

——許淵沖 譯

【英譯中】

1. Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

生如夏花之絢爛，死如秋葉之靜美。

——鄭振鐸 譯

2. Able was I ere I saw Elba.

落敗孤島孤敗落。

——馬紅軍 譯

3. A government of the people, by the people, for the people.

民有，民享，民治之政府。

——孫中山 譯

4. In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

心有猛虎，細嗅薔薇。

——余光中 譯

5. I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.

我就恨你們這類人；像我這樣，人家明明想講講自己，你卻喋喋不休地拼命講你的事。

——巴金 譯

6. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

讀書使人充實，討論使人機制，筆記使人準確。

——王佐良 譯

7. Some fishing boats were becalmed lust in front of us. Their shadows slept，or almostslept,  upon the water， a gentle quivering alone showing that it was not complete sleep， or ifsleep， that it was sleep with dreams.

眼前不遠，漁舟三五，凝滯不前，檣影斜映水上，仿佛睡去，偶爾微見顫動，似又未曾熟睡，恍若驚夢。

——高健 譯