晏殊踏莎行·小径红稀英译
YAN Shu – Lyrics to the Melody of Walking on Grass
Along the path flowers are thinning, the countryside is fields of green, Next to raised buildings becoming thick is the foliage dense with leaves. Vernal breezes know not how to catkins restrain, Allowing them to scatter on faces of passers-by like misty mizzle.
Behind verdant leaves orioles hide, swallows rest outside crimson screens, Over the incense burner curls of smoke one another quietly seek. After I have slept off intoxication in a melancholy dream, The private court has come well under sunset's gleams.
晏殊简介
晏殊(991-1055)字同叔,北宋政治家、文学家。抚州临川(今属江西)人。七岁能文,十四岁以神童召试,赐同进士出身。在真、仁两朝从秘书省正字到知制诰,礼部、刑部、工部尚书,同中书门下平章事、集贤殿大学士兼枢密使。谥元献。平生爱荐举贤才,范仲淹、韩琦、欧阳修等名臣皆出其门下。他一生富贵优游,所作多吟成于舞榭歌台、花前月下,而笔调闲婉,理致深蕴,音律谐适,词语雅丽,为当时词坛耆宿,在北宋文坛上享有很高的地位。诗、文、词兼擅。《宋史》本传说他「文章赡丽,应用不穷。尤工诗,闲雅有情思」。词作受冯延已的影响较深,与欧阳修并称「晏欧」。题材比较狭窄,对南唐词因袭成分较大。由于一生显贵,词作主要反映富贵闲适的生活,以及在这种生活环境中产生的感触和闲愁。《浣溪沙(无可奈何花落去)》是其代表作,其中「无可奈何花落去,似曾相识燕归来」为传诵之名句。间或流露出旷达的情怀,概括出对人们有启迪的人生哲理。艺术风格和婉明丽,清新含蓄。所作皆为小令,善于即景抒情,以鲜明生动的形象,构成形神兼备的意境,写景重其精神,前人评为「更自神到」。语言精炼浑成。这是他的词作内容虽一般却能万口流传的主要原因。在小令的写作技巧上,晏殊有所发展,且使之日臻纯熟。原有集,已散佚,仅存《珠玉词》130多首及清人所辑《晏元献遗文》。又编有类书《类要》,今存残本。