陸游（1125—1210），字務觀，號放翁。漢族，越州山陰（今浙江紹興）人，南宋著名詩人。少時受家庭愛國思想熏陶，高宗時應禮部試，為秦檜所黜。孝宗時賜進士出身。中年入蜀，投身軍旅生活，官至寶章閣待制。晚年退居家鄉。其一生筆耕不輟，今存九千多首，內容極為豐富。與王安石、蘇軾、黃庭堅并稱"宋代四大詩人"，又與楊萬里、范成大、尤袤合稱"南宋四大家"。著有《劍南詩稿》、《渭南文集》、《南唐書》、《老學庵筆記》等。

陸游·《估客樂》

長江浩浩蛟龍淵，浪花正白蹴半天。

軻峨大艑望如豆，駭視未定已至前。

帆席云垂大堤外，纜索雷響高城邊。

牛車轔轔載寶貨，磊落照市人爭傳。

倡樓呼盧擲百萬，旗亭買酒價十千。

公卿姓氏不曾問，安知孰秉中書權。

儒生辛苦望一飽，趑趄光范祈哀憐；

齒搖發脫竟莫顧，詩書滿腹身蕭然。

自看賦命如紙薄，始知估客人間樂。

The Merchant's Joy

Lu Yu

The wide wide Yangtze, dragons in deep pools;

wave blossoms, purest white, leap to the sky.

The great ship, tall-towered, far off no bigger than a bean;

my wondering eyes have not come to rest when it's here before me.

Matted sails: clouds that hang beyond the embankment;

lines and hawsers: their thunder echoes from high town walls.

Rumble rumble of oxcarts to haul the priceless cargo;

heaps, hordes to dazzle the market—men race with the news.

In singing-girl towers to play at dice, a million on one throw;

by flag-flown pavilions calling for wine, ten thousand a cask;

the Mayor? the Governor? we don't even know their names;

what's it to us who wields power in the palace?

Confucian scholar, hard up, dreaming of one square meal;

a limp, a stumble, prayers for pity at His Excellency's gate;

teeth rot, hair falls out—no one looks your way;

belly crammed with classical texts, body lean with care—

See what Heaven gives me—luck thin as paper!

Now I know that merchants are the happiest of men.

（Burton Watson 譯）

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