（古詩英譯）論詩三十首（二十三）金 – 元好問

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曲学虚荒小说欺，俳谐怒骂岂诗宜？

今人合笑古人拙，除却雅言都不知。

 

A Quatrain by Yuan Hao-wen (Jin Dynasty)

 

How could the verse be: “shoddy, shabby, sham,”

In which derision, absurd jests do cram?

But our bards now laugh at the stiff ancients  —

“Ah, none but grace that everywhere did jam.”

 

Tr. Ziyuzile

15/08/2025

(To be revised)