詩歌欣賞： The Road Not Taken 未選擇的路

The Road Not Taken

未選擇的路

Robert Frost

羅伯特·弗羅斯特

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

黃色的樹林里分出兩條路，

可惜我不能同時去涉足，

我在那路口久久佇立，

我向著一條路極目望去，

直到它消失在叢林深處。
 

diverge /da?'v?: d?/ v. 分歧;偏離;分叉

undergrowth /'?nd?gr??θ/ n. 大樹下的灌木

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

但我卻選了另外一條路，

它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂，

顯得更誘人，更美麗;

雖然在這條小路上，

很少留下旅人的足跡。

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

那天清晨落葉滿地，

兩條路都未經(jīng)腳印污染。

啊，留下一條路等改天再見!

但我知道路徑延綿無盡頭，

恐怕我難以再回返。
 

trodden /'tr?dn/ v. 踐踏;行走(tread的過去分詞)

doubt /da?t/ v. 懷疑;不信

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

也許多少年后在某個地方，

我將輕聲嘆息將往事回顧：

一片樹林里分出兩條路——

而我選擇了人跡更少的一條，

從此決定了我一生的道路。
 

sigh /sa?/ n. 嘆息，嘆氣

hence /hens/ adv. 因此;今后