唐诗300首（中英文对照）五言古诗西施咏

唐诗300首（中英文对照）五言古诗西施咏

王维

西施咏 

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？  

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Five-character-quatrain 

Wang Wei 

THE BEAUTIFUL XI SHI 

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.