今天晚上21:34分，将迎来一个特别的节气，清明。清明兼具着自然与人文两大内涵，既是代表季节变迁的特定节令，也是中华民族传统的祭祖节日。《岁时百问》中说：“万物生长此时，皆清洁而明净。故谓之清明。” 清，朖也。明，照也。（（汉）许慎《说文解字》）

从古至今，文人墨客也留下动人诗篇，让“清明”更富内涵，而翻译大家们的巧思，更令人赞叹。
清明
【唐】杜牧
 
清明时节雨纷纷，
路上行人欲断魂。
借问酒家何处有？
牧童遥指杏花村。

许渊冲 译
A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day;
The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.
Where can a wineshop be found to drown his sad hours?
A cowherd points to a cot 'mid apricot flowers.

杨宪益、戴乃迭 译
It drizzles endless during the rainy season in spring,
Travelers along the road look gloomy and miserable.
When I ask a shepherd boy where I can find a tavern,
He points at a distant hamlet nestling amidst apricot blossoms.

风入松·听风听雨过清明
【宋】吴文英

听风听雨过清明，愁草瘗花铭。
楼前绿暗分携路，
一丝柳，一寸柔情。
料峭春寒中酒，交加晓梦啼莺。
 
西园日日扫林亭，依旧赏新晴。
黄蜂频扑秋千索，
有当时、纤手香凝。
惆怅双鸳不到，幽阶一夜苔生。

许渊冲 译
Hearing the wind and rain while mourning for the dead,
Sadly I draft an elegy on flowers.
Over dark green lane hang willow twigs like thread,
We parted before the bowers.
Each twig revealing
Our tender feeling.
I drown my grief in wine in chilly spring;
Drowsy, I wake again when orioles sing.
 
In West Garden I sweep the pathway
From day to day
Enjoying the fine view
Still without you.
On the ropes of the swing the wasps often alight
For fragrance spread by fingers fair.
I'm grieved not to see your foot traces, all night
The mossy steps are left untrodden there.

清明
  【宋】王禹偁
无花无酒过清明，
兴味萧然似野僧。
昨日邻家乞新火，
晓窗分与读书灯。

The Mourning Day
  Wang Yucheng
许渊冲 译
With nor flowers nor Wine I passed the Mourning Day,
As drear as a friar begging all the way.
I asked my neighbor for new-made fire last night,
Lighting my lamp at dawn,
 I may read by its light.

淡荡春光寒食天，玉炉沉水袅残烟。梦回山枕隐花钿。
海燕未来人斗草，江梅已过柳生绵。黄昏疏雨湿秋千。
——— 李清照《浣溪沙.淡荡春光》

仲春与暮春之交，又是一年清明时节，春雨纷纷清风润，折柳行清怀旧人，祭奠祖先，安放哀思。

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