The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost (1874－1963)

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


尤克強譯

黃樹林裡岔開兩條路
很遺憾我不能都涉足
我孤單地站立良久
向其中一條極目望去
看它彎沒在林蔭的深處

然後走另一條 同樣清幽
也許還多些魅力：
那綠草茵茵似乎更盼望人跡
但其實這兩條路的過況
也沒有那麽大的差異

那個早晨兩條路躺在前面
落葉都還沒有遭污跡踏踐
啊！第一條改天再走吧！
只是來路遙遙地相接
我恐怕無法再回到原點

多年後的某時某地
我回憶此刻將輕聲嘆息：
樹林裏岔開兩條路 而我——
我走了人跡較少的那一條
因此有了完全不同的人生