勿谓山园瘠,能令菜本肥。
相虽无肉食,谷免病年饥。
看此鲑三九,何时腰十围。
试评能自照,孰愈莫胜衣。
勿谓山园瘠,能令菜本肥。
相虽无肉食,谷免病年饥。
看此鲑三九,何时腰十围。
试评能自照,孰愈莫胜衣。
不要说山园土地贫瘠,
它能让菜根长得肥壮。
虽然饮食没有肉食,外表显得清苦,
但谷物能免去灾荒之年的饥馑。
看着这简单的几样菜蔬,
何时我的腰围才能粗壮到十围?
试来评断:是能够清楚地看清自己更好,
还是穿着过于宽大、不合身的衣服更胜一筹?
Do not say the mountain garden is lean and bare;
It can make the vegetable roots grow plump and fair.
Though my meals lack meat, appearances are deceiving,
The grains will spare us from the hunger of a failing year.
Look at these three or nine kinds of humble fare,
When will my waist grow stout, ten arm-spans in girth?
Let's judge: which is better, to see oneself clear,
Or to wear clothes too large, unmatched to one's worth?
瘠土肥菜蕴含资源转化的治理智慧。
以山园瘠土却能肥菜为喻,表达对朴素田园生活的满足与自得。
本诗为五言律诗,押平声韵。
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