'陸游歲晚喜東歸 translation: Joyful to Return Home at the End of the Year, by Lu You'

East Asia Student
2013年1月11日

This is a translation and annotation of the poem 歲晚喜東歸 (Suì Wǎn Xǐ Dōng Guī) by the Chinese Song dynasty poet 陸游 (Lù Yóu).

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歲晚喜東歸， Suì wǎn xǐ dōng guī, [year] [late] [joy] [east] [return] Late in the year, one is joyful to return home;

掃盡市朝陳跡。 sǎo jǐn shì cháo chénjì. [sweep] [completely] [city] [dynasty] [display] [trace] one completely sweeps away all traces of the times.

揀得亂山環處， Jiǎn dé luàn shān huán chù, [pick] [get] [disorder] [mountain] [encircle] [position] One chooses a place surrounded by jumbled mountains,

釣一潭澄碧。 diào yī tán chéngbì. [to fish] [one] [pool] [clear] [jade] and fishes from a clear jade pool.

賣魚沽酒醉還醒， Mài yú gū jiǔ zuì hái xǐng, [sell] [fish] [buy] [wine] [drunk] [return] [wake up] One sells the fish, buys wine, gets drunk, is sober again;

心事付橫笛。 xīnshì fù héngdí. [heart] [matter] [hand over] [horizontal] [flute] matters of the heart are for the flute.

家在萬里雲外， Jiā zài wànlǐ yún wài, [family] [at] [ten thousand] [mile] [cloud] [outside] One's family are under the clouds of a ten thousand mile distance;

有沙鷗相識。 yǒu shā'ōu xiāngshí. [have] [sand] [gull] [each other] [know] sand gulls become acquainted.

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