Starting for the Front

凉 州 词

[唐] 王翰（许渊冲译）

With wine of grapes the cups of jade would glow at night;

Drinking to pipa songs, we are summoned to fight.

Don’t laugh if we lay drunken on the battleground!

How many warriors ever came back safe and sound.

葡萄美酒夜光杯，

欲饮琵琶马上催。

醉卧沙场君莫笑，

古来征战几人回？

[词汇] summon

v. 召唤；召集（会议）；传唤，传讯（出庭）；迫切地要求（帮助）；鼓起（勇气），振作（精神）

She was trying to summon up the courage to leave him.

当时她试图鼓起勇气离开他。