雙語詩歌翻譯|趙嘏-《送別》

趙嘏，字承佑，楚州山陽（今江蘇省淮安市淮安區(qū)）人，唐代詩人。約生于憲宗元和元年(806).年輕時四處游歷，大和七年預(yù)省試進(jìn)士下第，留寓長安多年，出入豪門以干功名，其間似曾遠(yuǎn)去嶺表當(dāng)了幾年幕府。后回江東,家于潤州(今鎮(zhèn)江).會昌四年進(jìn)士及第,一年后東歸。會昌末或大中初復(fù)往長安，入仕為渭南尉。約宣宗大中六、七年(852、853)卒于任上。

《送別》 趙嘏

去日家無儋石儲，汝須勤若事樵漁。
古人盡向塵中遠(yuǎn)，白日耕田夜讀書。

Farewell Speech
Zhao Gu
Now you leave home, we have but a few litres of grain,
You can earn a fisher’s wages or follow a woodman’s way.
Young people of yore, when going out to learn, would fain
Burn the midnight oil and till the fields in the day.