​Ascending Xinping Tower

登 新 平 楼

[唐] 李白（许渊冲译）

Leaving the capital, I climb this tower.

Can I return home like late autumn flower?

The sky is vast, the setting sun is far;

The water clear, the waves much colder are.

Clouds rise above the western-mountain trees;

O’er river dunes fly south-going wild geese,

The boundless land outspread’ neath gloomy skies.

How gloomy I feel while I stretch my eyes!

去国登兹楼，

怀归伤暮秋。

天长落日远，

水净寒波流。

秦云起岭树，

胡燕飞沙洲。

苍苍几万里，

目极令人愁。

[词汇] dune

n. （由风吹积而成的）沙丘

Large dunes make access to the beach difficult in places.

在有些地方大沙丘使得靠近海滩很难。