今晚來譯一首美國非官方桂冠詩人Robert Frost的詩，雖然目前中文世界里已有幾個譯本，但在我看來，韻腳的處理皆非最佳，且添枝加葉似乎過猶不及。人生的道路正如詩中的岔路，大多數人都傾向于選擇“走的人多了也便成了路”的路，可或許那條“人跡罕至的、未被選擇的路”才是風景更絢爛的路，來吧，試譯如下：
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
在一片黃色的樹林里有兩條岔路，
遺憾的是，我不能同時踏入，
人在旅途，我久久靜矗，
循著其中一條極目遠顧，
直到它蜿蜒進入一處灌木。
于是我選擇了另一條路，
這看上去正當如初，
或許還有更順溜的理數，
因它草色青青，急待涉足，
雖過客無數，卻蹤跡鮮無。
清晨，兩條小路靜靜躺著，
其上覆蓋著未被踩踏的樹葉之屬，
噢，我把另一條留待了他日，
我明知，條條道路通向坦途，
卻疑慮自己是否還能踏上歸途。
我應垂嘆嗚呼，
多年之后，發出如此的感觸：
樹林里有兩條岔路，
我選擇了那一條人跡罕至的路，
它讓我的人生不再如故。
