Reply to Bai Juyi Whom I Met for the First Time at a Banquet in Yangzhou

酬乐天扬州席上初逢见赠

[唐] 刘禹锡（许渊冲译）

O Western Mountains and Southern Streams desolate,

Where I, an exile, lived for twenty years and three!

To mourn for my departed friends I come too late;

In native land I look but like human debris.

A thousand sails pass by the side of sunken ship;

Ten thousand flowers bloom ahead of injured tree.

Today I hear you chant the praises of friendship

I wish this cup of wine might well inspirit me.

巴山楚水凄凉地，

二十三年弃置身。

怀旧空吟闻笛赋，

到乡翻似烂柯人。

沉舟侧畔千帆过，

病树前头万木春。

今日听君歌一曲，

暂凭杯酒长精神。

[词汇] debris

n. 残骸，碎片的​

Survivors clung to pieces of floating debris.

生还者紧紧抱住一块块漂浮在水面上的残骸。