英语学习网站长太息以掩涕兮，哀民生之多艰。余虽好修姱以鞿羁兮，謇朝谇而夕替。
（止不住的叹息擦不干的泪水啊，可怜人生道路多么艰难不顺利。
我虽然爱好高洁又严于律己啊，但早上进献忠言晚上就被废弃。）
Long did I sigh and wipe away my tears,
To see my people bowed by griefs and fears.
Though I my gifts enhanced and curbed my pride,
At morn they’d mock me, would at eve deride;
既替余以蕙纕兮，又申之以揽茝。亦余心之所善兮，虽九死其犹未悔。
（既然因为我佩戴美蕙而遭斥退啊，但我还要加上芳香的白芷。
爱慕芳草是我内心的信念啊，虽九死也绝不悔恨停止。）
First cause that I angelica should wear,
Then cause me for my melilotus fair.
But since my heart did love such purity,
I’d not regret a thousand deaths to die.
怨灵修之浩荡兮，终不察夫民心。众女嫉余之蛾眉兮，谣诼谓余以善淫。
（ 怨只怨君王是这般放荡糊涂啊，始终不理解人家的心意。
众美女嫉妒我的娇容丰姿啊，说我善淫大肆散布流言飞语。）
I marvel at the folly of the king,
So heedless of his people’s suffering.
They envied me my mothlike eyebrows fine,
And so my name his damsels did malign.
固时俗之工巧兮，偭规矩而改错。背绳墨以追曲兮，竞周容以为度。
（ 本来时俗之人就善于取巧啊，违背法度把政令改变抛弃。
他们背弃正道而追求邪曲啊，争相把苟合求容当做法则规律。）
Truly to craft alone their praise they paid,
The square in measuring they disobeyed;
The use of common rules they held debased;
With confidence their crooked lines they traced.
忳郁邑余侘傺兮，吾独穷困乎此时也！宁溘死以流亡兮，余不忍为此态也！
（忧愁、抑郁、烦恼我是这样失意啊，只有我被困厄在这不幸的世纪。
宁愿立即死去变成游魂孤鬼啊，我也不忍心以媚态立足人世。）
In sadness plunged and sunk in deepest gloom,
Alone I drove on to my dreary doom.
In exile rather would I meet my end,
Than to the baseness of their ways descend.
鸷鸟之不群兮，自前世而固然。何方圜之能周兮，夫孰异道而相安？
（凶猛的鹰隼不与众鸟同群啊，自古以来就是如此。
方和圆怎能互相配合啊，不同道的人怎能相安相处？）
Remote the eagle spurns the common range,
Nor deigns since time began its way to change;
A circle fits not with a square design;
Their different ways could not be merged with mine.
屈心而抑志兮，忍尤而攘诟。伏清白以死直兮，固前圣之所厚。
（暂且委屈压抑一下自己的情怀啊，忍受承担起那耻辱和编造的罪过。
怀抱清白之志为正义而死啊，本来就是前代圣贤所嘉许的。）
Yet still my heart I checked and curbed my pride,
Their blame endured and their reproach beside.
To die for righteousness alone I sought,
For this was what the ancient sages taught.
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