人教版英语选修第三册 unit 5 Reading and Writing

EXPLORING POETRY IN CHINA

探索中国诗歌

Poetry plays with sounds, words, and grammar.

诗歌讲究音律、遣词和语法。

That makes poetry difficult to write but very interesting to read.

这使得诗歌创作不易，读起来却妙趣横生。

Poetry uses colours, feelings, experiences, and images to paint a picture in your mind.

诗歌运用色彩、情感、经历和意象，在你的脑海中勾勒画面。

In Chinese classical poetry, the form is very important: the correct number of lines and the number of characters in each line.

在中国古典诗歌中，形式十分重要：行数以及每行的字数都有严格规范。

Poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm and rhyme.

诗歌通常遵循特定的节奏与押韵格式。

However, modern poets began to reject traditional forms and structures for poetry in the 20th century.

然而，20世纪的现代诗人开始摒弃诗歌的传统形式与结构。

As a result, most poetry today is written in free verse, with lines of varying length.

因此，如今大多数诗歌都是自由诗，诗行长短不一。

During the Tang Dynasty, a high point of classical Chinese poetry, poems by Li Bai, Du Fu, and Wang Wei became very popular.

唐朝是中国古典诗歌的鼎盛时期，李白、杜甫和王维的诗作广为流传。

Widely known as a genius and often called the “Immortal Poet”, Li Bai (701‑762) wrote with a romantic style and his poems celebrated things such as friendship, nature, and wine.

李白（701‑762）才华横溢，世称“诗仙”，诗作风格浪漫，歌颂友谊、自然、美酒等事物。

Du Fu (712‑770) is also known as one of the greatest Chinese poets.

杜甫（712‑770）同样是中国最伟大的诗人之一。

He has been called the “Poet‑Historian” and the “Poet‑Sage” by Chinese critics, and his poems cover a range of topics, with his most famous poems reflecting on the effects of war on the people.

中国评论家称他为“诗史”、“诗圣”，他的诗歌题材广泛，代表作大多反映战争带给百姓的苦难。

Wang Wei (701‑761) was a painter, musician, and poet, and he was well known for his love of nature in his paintings and poetry.

王维（701‑761）集画家、乐师、诗人于一身，他的画作与诗歌都以热爱自然著称。

Outside of Asia, the study of Chinese language introduced the West to Chinese poetry.

在亚洲以外，对汉语的研究让西方了解到中国诗歌。

Americans were first introduced to classical Chinese poetry by American poet Ezra Pound (1885‑1973).

美国诗人埃兹拉·庞德（1885‑1973）最先把中国古典诗歌介绍给美国。

He translated 18 classical Chinese poems, mainly by Li Bai, into English, based on the notes of the American art historian Ernest Fenollosa (1853‑1908).

他依据美国艺术史学家欧内斯特·费诺罗萨（1853‑1908）留下的笔记，翻译了18首中国古诗，大部分为李白的作品。

At about the same time, Chinese writers started reading more foreign poetry.

大约同一时期，中国作家开始阅读更多外国诗歌。

From around 1910 onwards, European literature came to China when some famous writers began to translate both poetry and novels into Chinese.

自1910年前后起，一些知名作家开始把诗歌和小说翻译成中文，欧洲文学由此传入中国。

Just like readers in the West, Chinese readers admire Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope and many others for their fine English poetry.

和西方读者一样，中国读者欣赏莎士比亚、约翰·弥尔顿、亚历山大·蒲柏等人优美的英文诗歌。

English Romantic poets are greatly loved in China.

英国浪漫主义诗人在中国深受喜爱。

The nature poems by William Wordsworth, Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron’s Isles of Greece, and long poems by John Keats have long been favourites.

威廉·华兹华斯的自然诗、珀西·比希·雪莱的《西风颂》、乔治·戈登·拜伦的《希腊群岛》以及约翰·济慈的长篇诗作一直备受喜爱。

The style and the atmosphere in their poems have often led to comparisons with poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai.

他们诗歌的风格与意境，常常被拿来和李白、杜甫等中国诗人对比。

Among modern poetry, the American poet Robert Frost and his poems might be the best known.

现代诗歌当中，美国诗人罗伯特·弗罗斯特及其诗作或许最为家喻户晓。

Today, many Chinese people are becoming more interested in reading poems, no matter in what language they are written.

如今许多中国人越来越喜爱读诗，无论诗歌是用何种语言写成。

Translations can be good, but being able to read in the original language is best.

译本固然很好，但能够阅读原作才是最佳选择。

No matter how well a poem is translated, something of the spirit of the original work is lost.

一首诗无论翻译得多出色，原作的部分神韵都会有所流失。

Besides, poems and literature can be bridges between East and West.

此外，诗歌与文学能够成为东西方之间的桥梁。

They can help us to understand each other better, or as the poet Mu Dan wrote:

它们帮助我们更好地理解彼此，正如诗人穆旦所写：

Quietly, we embrace

我们静静地相拥

In a world lit up by words.

在文字照亮的世界之中。

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