【简析】:
以咏西施为题,比喻一个人纵然有才也还需要机遇,也反映出世态的炎凉。结尾两句,可以解作姿色是天生的,并没有用,有什么必要效颦?
【注解】:
1、持谢:奉告。
2、安可希:怎能希望别人的赏识。
【韵译】:
艳丽的姿色向来为天下器重,
美丽的西施怎么能久处低微?
原先她是越溪的一个浣纱女,
后来却成了吴王宫里的爱妃。
平贱时难道有什么与众不同?
显贵了才惊悟她丽质天下稀。
曾有多少宫女为她搽脂敷粉,
她从来也不用自己穿著罗衣。
君王宠幸她的姿态更加娇媚,
君王怜爱从不计较她的是非。
昔日一起在越溪浣纱的女伴,
再不能与她同车去来同车归。
奉告那盲目效颦的邻人东施,
光学皱眉而想取宠并非容易!
【评析】:
这是一首借咏西施,以喻为人的诗。“朝为越溪女,暮作吴宫妃”写出了人生浮
沉,全凭际遇的炎凉世态。
诗开首四句,写西施有艳丽的姿色,终不能久微。次六句写西施一旦得到君王宠
爱,就身价百倍。末了四句写姿色太差者,想效颦西施是不自量力。语虽浅显,寓意
深刻。
沈德潜在《唐诗别裁集》中说:“写尽炎凉人眼界,不为题缚,乃臻斯诣。”此
言颇是。
--引自"超纯斋诗词" 翻译、评析:刘建勋
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.
全唐诗:卷125_70,唐诗三百首