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寻隐者不遇

【唐】贾岛

松下问童子，言师采药去。

只在此山中，云深不知处。

Seek but without seeing the Hermit

tr Qiu Zishu

I ask the lad beneath a pine，
"The master's collecting herbs in the mount high,"
Says he, "Cloud is thick and deep,
I don't know where him you can meet."秋子树)

附：林语堂和许渊冲译本：

林语堂译本：

Failing to meet a Hermit

I asked the boy beneath the pines,

He said, “The master’s gone alone,

Herb-picking somewhere on the mount,

Cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown.”

许渊冲译本：

For an Absent Recluse

I ask your lad’ neath the pine tree.

“My master’s gone for herbs,” says he.

You hide amid the mountains proud

I know not where deep in the cloud.