大林寺桃花
作者：白居易 (唐)

人间四月芳菲尽，山寺桃花始盛开。
长恨春归无觅处，不知转入此中来。

Great Forest Temple of Peach
Author: Bai Juyi (Tang Dynasty)
Translator: David Wei

In the earthly April, the flowers faded.
And mountains - Temple peach is just.
O long to hate spring return to where,
And originally she spins into the forest.

Translator's Note: The main phonemes of peach blossom (桃) are similar to escape (逃); thus, can spring be eternal? In Chinese, the forest (林) is similar to the soul (灵).

魏国平/大卫牛 2018,05,23

查理·卓别林向奥娜·奥尼尔求婚时，他 53 岁，她 18 岁。

伟大的艺术家说：“嫁给我，我教你生，你教我死。”她回答说：“不，查理，我要嫁给你，这样你就可以教我如何长大，我教你如何保持年轻。”

他们一起生活了 34 年，育有 8 个孩子。

When Charlie Chaplin proposed to Ooana O'Neil, he was 53 years old and she was 18 years old.

The great artist said, "Marry me, so I can teach you how to live and you teach me how to die." She replied, "No, Charlie, I'm going to marry you so you can teach me how to grow up and I teach you how to stay young."

They lived together for 34 years and had 8 children.

The Last Leaf 

最后的一片叶

I saw him once before, as he passed by the door

他曾从门前经过，我在一旁观望

And again, the pavement stones resound

如今，石板路又哒哒作响

As he totters o'er the ground with his cane

他蹒跚走来，手里拄着拐杖

They say that in his prime

人们说他当时年轻力壮

Ere the pruning-knife of time cut him down

时光的剪刀虽有锐利锋芒，尚未削去他的青春模样

Not a better man was found

周围的人们有口皆碑

By the Crier on his round through the town

满城数他最为善良

But now he walks the streets

如今，他却在街头流浪

And he looks at all he meets sad and wan

看着别人的面孔，憔悴忧伤

And he shakes his feeble head

虚弱的脑袋，不断摇晃

That it seems as if he said, "They are gone!"

似乎在说：“他们已不在世上”？

The mossy marbles rest on the lips that he has prest in their bloom

他曾热吻过的姑娘，就在这墓中安葬

And the names he loved to hear have been carved for many a year on the tomb

一块生苔的石碑，立在墓旁，刻着他所爱慕的芳名，岁月悠长

My grandmamma has said-- poor old lady, she is dead, long ago--

我年迈的祖母久已过世，话音还在耳边回荡

That he had a Roman nose

说他长着高高的鼻梁

And his cheek was like a rose in the snow

说他的面颊像一朵玫瑰，在雪中绽放

But now his nose is thin, and it rests upon his chin like a staff

可是现在，他的鼻子干瘪瘦长，贴近下巴像纤细的棍棒

And a crook is in his back, and a melancholy crack in his laugh

弯腰驼背，沙哑的笑声带着不尽的凄凉

I know it is a sin for me to sit and grin at him here

坐着笑看他的模样，一种负罪的感觉在我心底隐藏

But the old three-cornered hat

可那破旧的尖顶小帽

And the breeches, and all that

还有马裤，所有的

Are so queer
实在是奇形怪状！

And if I should live to be

假如我的生命十分久长

The last leaf upon the tree in the spring

能够成为最后的叶片挂在春天的树上

Let them smile, as I do now

让人们冲着我悬挂的残枝发笑吧

At the old forsaken bough where I cling

就像我现在这样那残枝久已被人们淡忘#老公出轨该及时挽回还是果断分开##五行##微提醒#