诗歌欣赏： The Road Not Taken 未选择的路

The Road Not Taken

未选择的路

Robert Frost

罗伯特·弗罗斯特

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;

黄色的树林里分出两条路，

可惜我不能同时去涉足，

我在那路口久久伫立，

我向着一条路极目望去，

直到它消失在丛林深处。
 

diverge /daɪ'vɜ: dʒ/ v. 分歧;偏离;分叉

undergrowth /'ʌndəgrəʊθ/ n. 大树下的灌木

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,

但我却选了另外一条路，

它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂，

显得更诱人，更美丽;

虽然在这条小路上，

很少留下旅人的足迹。

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.

那天清晨落叶满地，

两条路都未经脚印污染。

啊，留下一条路等改天再见!

但我知道路径延绵无尽头，

恐怕我难以再回返。
 

trodden /'trɒdn/ v. 践踏;行走(tread的过去分词)

doubt /daʊt/ v. 怀疑;不信

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.

也许多少年后在某个地方，

我将轻声叹息将往事回顾：

一片树林里分出两条路——

而我选择了人迹更少的一条，

从此决定了我一生的道路。
 

sigh /saɪ/ n. 叹息，叹气

hence /hens/ adv. 因此;今后