The Weeping Willow

垂 柳

[唐] 唐彦谦（许渊冲译）

Flirting with vernal breeze, the willow sways to tender.

Who in the world can vie with it but the waist slender?

It is planted at random by the riverside.

How many maids fond of its leaves of hunger died?

绊惹春风别有情，

世间谁敢斗轻盈。

楚王江畔无端种，

饿损纤腰学不成。

[词汇] waist

n. 腰，腰围；（衣服的）腰部，腰身；船腰，飞机机身中部，（提琴、沙漏等的）中间细部，（黄蜂等的）细腰；<美>女衬衫​

Her hair hung down to her waist.

她的长发垂及腰际。