碑林﹣唐詩後著

《碑林﹣唐詩後著》的翻譯實例：

整個《碑林﹣唐詩後著》藝術工程為五十塊石碑。每塊石碑以一首原唐詩為翻譯起點。唐詩的選擇又以流行普及的唐詩為主。然後從我選出的五十首唐詩找出對應的英語唐詩。我選擇的唐詩英譯本的唐詩三百首是在全美各地大學東亞系所採用的由著名的美國記者 Witter Bynner 的譯本 《寶石山》(The Jade Mountain)。

以「音譯」的方式將英譯本的唐詩譯回到漢語，此一過程是極為複雜而沉長的。以下是四個基本的翻譯程序：

首先，尋找出漢字其發音接近于英語的聲音。這些漢字稱為「模擬英語發音的漢字」。一般情況下，模擬英語發音，會出現許多同聲漢字。

其次根據特定內容需要而選擇同聲漢字中的一個字。

然後這一選出的英語音的模擬漢字又必須和上一個和下一個英語音的模擬漢字組成一個詞。

最後這個詞又將與下幾個英語音的模擬漢字組成的詞構成一句子。從而以這些英語聲音的模擬漢字構成了「後唐詩」。

例一：漢語句「月光」的字面翻譯是「moon light」。「moon light」的英語音譯成為漢語是「moon = 虻，ligh = 癩，t = 忒」。「虻癩忒」的漢語拼音是 mang lai te，意為「虻虫痲風的錯」。

例二：「晨露」，將這一漢語詞意譯成英語為「morning dew」。現在把「morning dew」按照讀音相近的音譯原則譯回漢語是為「mo = 摸，er = 耳，ning = 寧，dew =肚」。這個從英語句子重新音譯回漢語的果卻成了「摸耳寧肚」，即「摸摸耳朵平靜肚子」。

例三_漢語句子"風竹林"意譯成英語為bamboo forest in wind。但是當這個bamboo forest in wind再以英語的音譯方式譯回到漢語，此句子便成了「bam = 辦，boo = 不， fo = 法，re = 蚋，s = 死，te = 特，in = 淫，win = 吻，d = 蒂」，即「辦不法蚋死特淫吻蒂」意義為「把不法的小虫子置于死地，並特別過度地親吻果實的莖蒂」。

例四：下面是三首唐詩的完整譯文之一：

晚作詩來得拜睿寺,客目迎斯頗令嘆。
婦樂形昂猶，受似攬得菩蘭妾色。
太闊泓岸啊！暮賦而福邁賽珂。
愛思啊，心波翱浮，謳舞而樂福。

(Retranslated to English by Wenda Gu)

Come to Bairui Temple for poetry reading at dusk,
welcomed and appreciated guest,
gleeful lady, high spirited feeling,
like having orchid and sensual concubine.
Vast heaven oh!
deep shore,
poetising at dusk is a higher blessing than jade,
oh! love,
floating and soaring waves of the heart,
sing and dance my happiness.

唐詩的完整譯文之二：

搜捕癩禿，餓割狸羚，昂澤府的阿婦賣敗德。
哭的賊兒，還服病蛾，婦裸肆打惹弟。
樂夫亭霾塞埠，路客哀坊德，咂大窪是夢淚涕。
性可淫，拜客惡感，愛燒殺，蹬驪傲婦紅。

(Retranslated to English by Wenda Gu)

Tracking down its catch, leprosy, cuts the fox and gazelle hungrily, as a woman sells bad morals in Ang Pond Mansion, her crying baby cunningly eats an illed moth, the woman wantonly beat the child, who asked for it. Vails of haze over the Happy Man Pagoda, a walker sucks the muddy water tears in her dreams, he who comes along this road is sad in FangDe, burning with the desire to slaughter, the loose, haughty red lady rides on her horse to visit a friend.

李商隱 《夜雨寄北》
君問歸期未有期，
巴山夜雨漲秋池。
何當共剪西窗燭，
卻話巴山夜雨時。

"A Note on a Rainy Night to a Friend in the North" by Li Shangyin, Tang Dynasty:
You ask me when I am coming. I do not know.
I dream of your mountains and autumn pools brimming all night
with the rain.
Oh, when shall we be trimming wicks again, together in your
western window?
When shall I be hearing your voice again, all night in the rain?

(以 Witter Bynner 的唐詩英譯本 Jade mountain 之英語讀音的同聲漢字譯回成中文)

誘鰲時刻迷魂，隘門空明。
靄渡鬧踢駑，癌菌磨蝮藥。
虻騰煽毒燈，剖獅捕狸命。
鰲吶吐胃，逝者然。
哦！
混血兒妣娶螟，尾蝌麝肝，酡虼日飲。
喲！
歪寺痛蚊抖，蚊笑鮞愛，婢害鯪。
鷂服蜴四更，哪聽得嚷。

(Retranslated to English by Wenda Gu)

The soul is bewildered when the huge, legendary turtle is induced. Grinding pit viper with cancer fungus, an inferior horse kicks at the misty harbour. Rip open a lion to rescue the fox. The legendary turtle screams and throws up its stomach , then dies without pain. Oh! An interracialbaby is born with a tadpole tail and musk deer liver of the marriage between a slave girl and a snout moth's larva. The flea is flushed down with a day's drink. Oh! In a leaning temple a wounded mosquito shakes and another laughs at a loving fish. A dead mother kills a pangolin. No scream is heard when a hawk eats the lizard before dawn.