"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

"The Road Not Taken" By Robert Frost

翻译人员: Xu Xingruo 校对人员: Cynthia Li

《未选择的路》作者：罗伯特·弗罗斯特 （注：在此采用顾子欣先生的译本）

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

黄色的树林里分出两条路，

And sorry I could not travel both

可惜我不能同时去涉足，

And be one traveler,

long I stood and looked down one as far as I could

我在那路口久久伫立，

向着一条路极目望去，

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

直到它消失在丛林深处。

Then took the other, as just as fair,

但我却选择了另外一条路。

它荒草萋萋，十分幽寂， 显得更诱人、更美丽；

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,

虽然在这两条小路上， 都很少留下旅人的足迹；

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.

虽然那天清晨落叶满地， 两条路都未经脚印污染。

Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

呵，留下一条路等改日再见！ 但我知道路径绵延无尽头，

I doubted if I should ever come back.

恐怕我难以再回返。

I shall be telling this with a sigh

也许多少年后在某个地方，

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

我将轻声叹息将往事回顾： 一片树林里分出两条路——

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

而我选了人迹更少的一条， 从此决定了我一生的道路。