为你读诗——《庄子·逍遥游》

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逍遥游（节选）

A Happy Excursion

背景音乐：笛呆子囚牛,昼夜 - 大鱼海棠

作者/庄子

译/林语堂

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北冥有鱼，其名曰鲲。鲲之大，不知其几千里也。化而为鸟，其名而鹏，鹏之背，不知其几千里也；怒而飞，其翼若垂天之云。

In the northern ocean there is a fish, called the k’un, I do not know how many thousand li in size. This k’un changes into a bird, called the p’eng. Its back is I do not know how many thousand li in breadth. When it is moved, it flies, its wings obscuring the sky like clouds.

是鸟也，海运则将徙於南冥；南冥者，天池也。《齐谐》者，志怪者也。《谐》之言曰：“鹏之徙於南冥也，水击三千里，抟扶摇而上者九万里，去以六月息者也。”

When on a voyage, this bird prepares to start for the Southern Ocean, the Celestial Lake. And in the Records of Marvels we read that when the peng flies southwards, the water is smitten for a space of three thousand li around, while the bird itself mounts upon a great wind to a height of ninety thousand li, for a flight of six months' duration.

野马也，尘埃也，生物之以息相吹也。天之苍苍，其正色邪？其远而无所至极邪？其视下也，亦若是则已矣。

There mounting aloft, the bird saw the moving white mists of spring, the dust-clouds, and the living things blowing their breaths among them. It wondered whether the blue of the sky was its real color, or only the result of distance without end, and saw that the things on earth appeared the same to it.

且夫水之积也不厚，则其负大舟也无力；覆杯水於坳堂之上，则芥为之舟，置杯焉则胶，水浅而舟大也。

If there is not sufficient depth, water will not float large ships. Upset a cupful into a hole in the yard, and a mustard-seed will be your boat. Try to float the cup, and it will be grounded, due to the disproportion between water and vessel.

风之积也不厚，则其负大翼也无力；故九万里，则风斯在下矣，而后乃今培风；背负青天，而莫之夭阏者，而后乃今将图南。

So with air. If there is not sufficient a depth, it cannot support large wings. And for this bird, a depth of ninety thousand li is necessary to bear it up. Then, gliding upon the wind, with nothing save the clear sky above, and no obstacles in the way, it starts upon its journey to the south.

作者

庄子，姓庄，名周，战国时期宋国蒙人。战国中期道家学派代表人物，思想家、哲学家、文学家，庄学的创立者，与老子并称“老庄”。

庄子因崇尚自由而不应楚威王之聘，仅担任过宋国地方的漆园吏，史称“漆园傲吏”，被誉为地方官吏之楷模。最早提出的“内圣外王”思想对儒家影响深远。洞悉易理，指出“《易》以道阴阳”，其“三籁”思想与《易经》三才之道相合。其文想象丰富奇特，语言运用自如，灵活多变，能把微妙难言的哲理说得引人入胜，被称为“文学的哲学，哲学的文学”。其作品收录于《庄子》一书，代表作有《逍遥游》《齐物论》《养生主》等。

据传庄子尝隐居南华山，卒葬南华山，故唐玄宗天宝初，被诏封为南华真人，《庄子》一书被奉为《南华真经》。

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