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英语背诵名篇68 The Road Not Taken
日期:2009-05-15
The Road Not Taken (未选择的路)

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 marked 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

The Road Not Taken

罗伯特.弗罗斯特(1874一1963)是在马萨诸塞州劳伦斯上的中学,也在达特第斯学院和哈佛大学读过一段时间。获得诗名之前,弗罗斯特时而务农,时而到中学教希腊语和拉丁语。他的第一部诗集出版于1913年。1916年后,他一直在著名学府任职,通常的身份是“住校诗人”。弗罗斯特的诗歌备受喜爱,原因之一是未受过多少学校教育的人都看得懂。当许多诗人热衷于搞诗歌试验时,他却坚持使用日常语言,描写自己观察入微的日常事件。弗罗斯特的许多诗歌反映了他与大自然的贴近。他通过自然来表达一种象征意义,而不是什么田园式的思乡情调。《未选择的路》是弗罗斯特的一首名诗,作于1915年。

黄叶林中出条岔路,

无奈一人难于兼顾,

顺着一条婉蜒小路,

久久伫立极目远眺,

只见小径拐进灌木。

接着选择了另一条,

同样清楚似乎更好,

引人踩踏铺满茂草,

踏在其间难分彼此,

尽管真有两条道。

清晨里躺着两条路,

一样叶被无人踏脏,

愿将第一条来日补,

但知条条相连远途,

怀疑日后怎能回返。

在很久以后某一地,

我将叹息诉说于人,

两路岔开在树林里,

我选的那条足迹稀,

而一切差别由此起