观书有感

【宋】朱熹

半亩方塘一鉴开，天光云影共徘徊。

问渠那得清如许？为有源头活水来。

朱熹（1130～1200），字元晦，号晦庵。祖籍徽州府婺源县（今江西省婺源）。宋朝著名的理学家、思想家、哲学家、教育家、诗人。著有《四书章句集注》《太极图说解》等。

ZHU Xi (1130-1200), styled Meta-Obscurity, and Obscure Hut by literary name. His ancestral home was in Wuyuan County at Huizhou Mansion (present-day Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province). The poet was a renowned Neo-Confucianist, thinker, philosopher, educator and poet. His works include Annotations for Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books,and Explanation on Diagram of the Universe.

Reflection on Reading (No. 1)

By ZHU Xi

Tr. ZHAO Yanchun

The half-mu pond does mirror-like appear;

There move shades of clouds and light of the sun.

I would ask the ditch: why are you so clear?

Because the water there does lively run.

译者简介：

赵彦春，博士生导师，上海大学中国文化翻译研究中心主任，国际学术期刊Translating China 主编，国际汉学与教育研究会会长、传统文化翻译与国际传播专业委员会会长、中国先秦史学会国学双语研究会执行会长，中国语言教育研究会副会长。

Biosketch of the Translator:

ZHAO Yanchun: Professor of English at Shanghai University, Director of Center for Translation of Chinese Culture, Editor of Translating China, President of International Sinology and Education Society, President of Chinese Culture Translation and International Promotion Committee, Executive President of Chinese Classics Bilinguals’ Association, Vice President of China Language Education Association, a proponent of the principle of translating poesie into poesie and classic into classic. His translations have been widely reported.