【中国诗文外译】第五期《小窗幽记》（五十则之二）

编者语：中国诗文外译第四期中， 孟祥春 老师的《小窗幽记》（五十则之一）凭借对原作的精准诠释，简洁凝练的译语以及自成一家的明快文风给读者留下了深刻印象。英文经典素以 “ 思想为灵魂，世事为躯体，情怀为风骨，简洁为格调 ” ，英文译文欲达此至境，译者既要有 “ 打破藩篱，知己知彼，吐纳融通，采撷胜处 ” 的深厚学养，还需有 “ 纵自我，任自然 ” 的才情与格局，方成佳译。 在《作英文之法》一文中， 孟 老师认为 英文需从 “ 四炼 ” ，循 “ 四自 ” ，求 “ 四有 ” ，去 “ 四忌 ” 。其中 “ 四炼 ” 为 : 炼意贵切、炼事贵实、炼情贵真、炼字贵白； “ 四自 ” 为：自觉生周全、自持生定力、自得生味道，自然生精神；善始终，合法度，妙剪裁，文已半成谓之 “ 四有 ” ；以古铄今、以中裁洋、以我度人、奉西圭臬，乃作英文之 “ 四忌 ”。 这段文字虽为作英文之“法” , 实则蕴含译艺之“道”。本期诗文外译栏目，我们有幸分享 孟祥春 老师的《小窗幽记》（五十则之二），再次体会其游刃于中文的玲珑凝重与英文的简洁晓畅之间的译功，品味其 “ 吐纳顺畅，气韵悠然 ”的 绝妙译境。伴随张明彬老师的朗诵,我们将再次踏上诗意之旅,感悟生命灵性。





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张明彬副教授朗诵







《小窗幽记》（五十则之二）
Notes of the Quiet Window （Excerpts）
[明]陈继儒 孟祥春
Chen Jiru Tr. Meng Xiangchun

· 喜时之言多失信，怒时之言多失礼。
Words spoken in joy are often not to be honored, and words spoken in anger often come as a social blunder.


· 能脱俗便是奇，不合污便是清。
Freedom from vulgarity is a rarity, and refusal to collude is already purity.


· 情最难久，故多情人必至寡情。性自有常，故任性人终不失性。
Since affection does not last long, an amorous soul will be reduced to a stone-hearted dandy.Sinceself-nature is eternal, a man, however willful, will never lose his self-nature.


· 交友须带三分侠气，做人要存一点素心。
Be a chivalrous friend; be a simple soul.

· 上马横槊，下马作赋，自是英雄本色；熟读《离骚》，痛饮浊酒，果然名士风流。
Being able to fight holding a long spear on horseback, or to compose prose in the study, one can be called a true hero. Well versed in poetry and drinking wine to one’s heart’s content, one can be viewed as a romantic scholar.






· 了心自了事，犹根拔而草不生；逃世不逃名，似膻存而蚋还集。
To calm your mind is to uproot your weedy worldly concerns; to escape from the world but not from fame is to retain an odor that still attracts blackflies.


· 人生待足何时足；未老得闲始是闲。
Since perfection in life never comes, the idleness you have before old age is real idleness.


· 无端妖冶，终成泉下骷髅；有分功名，自是梦中蝴蝶。
All is vanity: beauties will end up a heap of bones in the nether world, and power and fame are but a fleeting dream.


· 富贵之家，常有穷亲戚往来，便是忠厚。
If a rich family welcomes and visits poor relatives, it has sincere generosity.


· 喜传语者，不可与语；好议事者，不可图事。
Never confide in a gossip. Never work with a talkative cynic.






· 人只把不如我者较量，则自知足。
One will feel contented if one compares wisely.


· 隐逸林中无荣辱，道义路上无炎凉。
A life of seclusion is free from glory or disgrace, and a life of social commitment immune to worldly fickleness.


· 闭门即是深山，读书随处净土。
Close your door and you will repose literally in the stillness of a mountain; open your book and you can have a pure land of your own.


· 修净土者，自净其心，方寸居然莲界；学禅坐者，达禅之理，大地尽作蒲团。
By purifying the heart, the Pure Land seeker can transform his narrow mind into a Buddhist realm. Enlightened to chan, the chan quester (practicing in the lotus position) will find the earth to be a rush cushion as well.


· 片时清畅，即享片时；半景幽雅，即娱半景；不必更起姑待之心。
Don’t wait for tomorrow. Just enjoy even the briefest moment of idle pleasure and even the most cursory glimpse of the view, if possible.




· 花开花落春不管，拂意事休对人言；水暖水寒鱼自知，会心处还期独赏。
Spring does not care about the blooming or fading of the flowers, and fish know whether the water is warm or cold. So here is nature’s instruction: keep your grievances to yourself, and enjoy your delightful enlightenment in solitude.

· 形骸非亲，何况形骸外之长物；大地亦幻，何况大地内之微尘。
The body is transient, as are worldly possessions; the world illusive, as are its particles.


· 兴来醉倒落花前，天地即为衾枕；机息忘怀磐石上，古今尽属蜉蝣。
Cheerfully drunk, I lie prostrate before the flowers with the vault as my quilt and the earth my pillow; craftiness and desires purged, sitting on the rock, I wake up to the ephemerality of eternity.


· 闲看庭前花开花落，静观漫天云卷云舒。
Living a detached, idle life, why not watch the front yard flowers bloom and wither, or clouds in the sky gather and unfold?


· 人生一世有三乐：开卷读书，闭门修禅，一语济世。士君子贫不能济物，遇人迷障处，出一言点化之，亦为济世济人。
There are three pleasures in life: reading books, practicing chan, and doing good to the world even by a chance remark. A poor scholar’s charity may not consist in almsgiving, but in his lifting others out of bewilderment with words.





· 瘦竹如幽人，幽花如处女。
Thin bamboos are like lean hermits, and flowers in seclusion quiet virgins.


· 春光浓似酒，花故醉人；夜色澄如水，月来洗俗。
The vernal splendor being as mellow as wine, its flowers intoxicate. The shades of dusk being as clear as water, its moon rises to cleanse one’s vulgarities.


· 云烟影里见真身，始悟形骸为桎梏；禽鸟声中闻自性，方知情识是戈矛。
Seeing the unrestrained form of cloud or smoke, one realizes that the body is mere shackles. Knowing one’s self-nature in birds’ warbling, one is enlightened to the destructiveness of human senses.


· 佳思忽来，书能下酒；侠情一往，云可赠人。
A poetic fleeting thought may assist in drinking. Clouds can be given away as gifts when there is an urge of romantic chivalry.

· 江山风月，本无常主，闲者便是主人。
Natural landscape knows no permanent owner, and can be possessed by anyone who has leisure.







关于作者


陈继儒（1558-1639），字仲醇，号眉公，又号麋公，松江华亭人。诸生，隐居昆山之阳，后筑室东佘山，杜门著述。工诗能文，书法苏米，兼能绘事，名重一时。屡奉诏征用，皆以疾辞。其所作“或刺取琐言僻事，诠次成书，远近竞相购写”。今存著，除《小窗幽记》外，尚有《见闻录》、《六合同春》、《陈眉公诗余》、《虎荟》、《眉公杂著》等。

关于译者



孟祥春 ， 苏州大学外国语学院副院长，博士，博士后（合作导师汪榕培教授），翻译系主任，硕士生导师，东吴智库执事，江苏省翻译协会理事，比较文学与跨文化研究会副秘书长，研究兴趣为翻译理论与实践、中国文化与哲学英译与研究、中国文学外译研究以及文艺理论与批评；曾先后赴意大利（2008）、美国（2010,2013）、加拿大（2012,2015-2016）等多个国家进修或访学；发表成果90余项，包括 CLCWeb:Comparative Literature and Culture(A&H CI)、Neohelicon (A&H CI)、《外国语》、《中国翻译》等国内外期刊发表学术论文近30篇，报纸翻译与文化专栏评论45篇；出版文学、文化与文论译著9部（其中“鲁迅文学奖”获奖作品《陶渊明的幽灵》英文版 The Ecological Era and Classical Chinese Naturalism 由Springer出版，John Cob Jr., Scott Slovic, Mary Evelyn Tucker等国际知名学者撰写了序言或推介，《文汇读书周报》、《光明日报》、《大河报》、作家网等多家媒体有报道）；发表散文若干；主持省部级项目多项；担任《文艺理论研究》与《苏州大学学报》等多家核心期刊的英文编辑；承担重要国际会议首席口译一百余场（包括Barry Sharpless以及Michael Kosterlitz等数位诺贝尔奖得主的特邀译员），为美国福尔曼大学、波特兰州立大学、新加坡国立大学等国外大学举办中国文化与哲学英文讲座70余场。

关于朗诵者

张明彬，山东财经大学外国语学院副教授。中国译协会员，译著有《英语专业晨读美文》、《读报刊学英文》（经济学人及新闻周刊时文选译系列）、《我的爱，我的自由——邓肯自传》、《生活之路》(托尔斯泰临终前绝笔)、《马克吐温自传》等。研究兴趣：文学翻译、中国诗词歌赋、经济类时文翻译等；计算机辅助翻译及翻译技术。