【诗篇欣赏】未选择的路

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简介：《未选择的路》是美国诗人罗伯特·弗罗斯特创作的文学作品。这首深邃的哲理诗展现了现实生话中人们处在十字路口时难以抉择的心情。在诗中，诗人选择了一条人迹稀少、布满荆棘的道路，正如诗人在现实生话中选择了不会带来丰富物质的写诗生活。诗人在作出抉择后，同时又遗憾“鱼和熊掌不可兼得”，只能选择一条路，并坚定地走下去，只有在多年以后的回忆中轻叹遗憾。这首诗朴实无华而清新隽永、寓意深刻。

The Road Not Taken 

-ROBERT FROST

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 kept 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.

注释：

1. diverged：分叉。

2. bent：弯曲。

3. undergrowth：矮树丛，灌木丛。

4. as just as fair：既合适也平坦。

5. claim：此处意指“理由”。

6. grassy：多草的，草深的，草茂盛的。

7. wanted wear：踩踏的较少，want在这里作lack解。

8. worn：wear的过去分词。

9. equally：相等地，平等地。

10. trodden：tread的过去分词。

11. sigh：叹息声，叹息。

12. ages：很长一段时间，许多年

13. hence：从此后，从今后。

未选择的路

-弗罗斯特

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。

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，

虽然在这两条小路上，

都很少留下旅人的足迹，

虽然那天清晨落叶满地，

两条路都未经脚印污染。

呵，留下一条路等改日再见！

但我知道路径延绵无尽头，

恐怕我难以再回返。

也许多少年后在某个地方，

我将轻声叹息把往事回顾，

一片树林里分出两条路，

而我选了人迹更少的一条，

从此决定了我一生的道路。