将进酒

      (唐朝）李白

君不见，黄河之水天上来，奔流到海不复回。

君不见，高堂明镜悲白发，朝如青丝暮成雪。

人生得意须尽欢，莫使金樽空对月。

天生我材必有用，千金散尽还复来。

烹羊宰牛且为乐，会须一饮三百杯。

岑夫子，丹丘生，将进酒，君莫停。

与君歌一曲，请君为我侧耳听。

钟鼓馔玉不足贵，但愿长醉不复醒。

古来圣贤皆寂寞，惟有饮者留其名。

陈王昔时宴平乐，斗酒十千恣欢谑。

主人何为言少钱，径须沽取对君酌。

五花马，千金裘，

呼儿将出换美酒，与尔同销万古愁。

英译 by 沐岚：

Don’t ye see?  

The water comes from the sky  roaring,

It is (that) the Yellow River runs in torrents  toward the sea and never returns.

Don’t ye see?

The aged parents look into the mirror sorrowing,

For their  hair black in the morning yet white in the evening?

Let's  enjoy the pleasure of life passionately, 

Never raise your golden goblets to the Moon empty. 

We're natural-born to achive great things,

For the gold that is gone we'll make it back again.

Butcher cattle, stew lambs,

To enjoy the beautiful feast, 

Shall we drink three hundred  cups.

Master Chen, Master Danqiu,

Keep drinking, no stopping,

And lend your ear to hear me singing:

Sumptuous banquet with bells and drums,

Cate as fancy as  gem and jade,

These are  nothing much to us,

Would that we could be drunken to death.

Sages and saints,  

They'd been forgotten and forsaken into oblivion, 

Only the great drinkers remained their name in tales:

Prince Chen feasted men  for revelry once, 

In his Peace-Joy Palace,

A keg of wine was worth ten thousand coins.

Why  our host complain of short of  coins?

Wouldn't thou just  purchase more cups so we could sip with thee,  

Here're a precious pinto and a furred-coat,

Worth a thousand of golden coins, 

Just call thy serving boy, to trade them for the best luscious wine, 

Let's drink to dispel the sadness of  ten thousand years.