英语美文 西施咏(经典古诗英译)

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　　这是一首来自大诗人王维的诗，这是一首借咏西施，以喻为人的诗。《西施咏》取材于历史人物，借古讽今。
　　艳色天下重，西施宁久微。
　　朝为越溪女，暮作吴宫妃。
　　贱日岂殊众，贵来方悟稀。
　　邀人傅脂粉，不自著罗衣。
　　君宠益娇态，君怜无是非。
　　当时浣纱伴，莫得同车归。
　　持谢邻家子，效颦安可希。
　　
www.350xue.com        Since beauty is honoured all over the Empire,        How could Xi Shi remain humbly at home?        Washing clothes at dawn by a southern lake       And that evening a great lady in a palace of the north:       Lowly one day, no different from the others,       The next day exalted, everyone praising her.       No more would her own hands powder her face       Or arrange on her shoulders a silken robe.       And the more the King loved her, the lovelier she looked,       Blinding him away from wisdom.       Girls who had once washed silk beside her       Were kept at a distance from her chariot.       And none of the girls in her neighbours' houses       By pursing their brows could copy her beauty.

英语美文 西施咏(经典古诗英译)