罗伯特·弗罗斯特：《未选择的路》（上）

《The Road Not Taken》

Robert Forest

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;

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,

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.

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.

《未选择的路》

罗伯特·弗罗斯特

金色森林里分出两条路，

遗憾的是我不能同时涉足，

作为旅者，我在那儿仁立良久，

我极尽双目望着其中一条路，

直到它蜿蜒消失于丛林深处。

于是我选择了另外一条，它似乎更美丽，

也可能更诱人，芳草萋萋，人迹罕至；

虽然，这两条路上的足迹别无二致；

那个清晨，落叶满地，

两条路都未被脚印污染。

哦，留下第一条路他日再去吧！

尽管深知这条路绵延无尽，

对于能否再返此路我心存疑虑。

多年之后的某个地方，

我会叹息着回顾此事：

森林中分开两条岔路,

而我选择的路人迹罕至，

人生的改变就此开始。

（贾开吉 译）

diverge

v. to separate and go in different directions

-Cambridge English Dictionary

Eg.We went through school and college together, but then our paths diverged.

我们从小学到大学一直在一起，但后来就分道扬镳了。

undergrowth

n.a mass of bushes and plants that grow close together under trees in woods and forests

--Cambridge English Dictionary

Eg.I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.

我只依稀看见一个高个的模糊身影穿过了矮树丛。

grassy

adj.covered with grass

--Cambridge English Dictionary

Eg.The castle was built on top of a natural grassy mound.

这座城堡建在一个天然的绿草如茵的小丘上。

trodden

n.Trodden is the past participle of tread

--Cambridge English Dictionary

Eg.The cattle had trodden a path to the pond.

牛群踏出了一条通往池塘的小径。

bent

n.If an object is bent, it is damaged and no longer has its correct shape.

--Cambridge English Dictionary

Eg. The trees were all bent and twisted from the wind.

树全被风吹弯折断了。