Boy Reaping by Ai Qing ~ 艾青 《刈草的孩子》 with English Translations

作品原文

艾青 《刈草的孩子》
夕阳把草原燃成通红了。
刈草的孩子无声地刈草，
低着头，弯曲着身子，忙乱着手，
从这一边慢慢地移到那一边……

草已遮没他小小的身子了——
在草丛里我们只看见：
一只盛草的竹篓，几堆草，
和在夕阳里闪着金光的镰刀……

英文译文

Boy Reaping
Ai Qing

The evening sun burns the entire plain scarlet.
The boy reaper reaps the grass in silence.
Head bent, body curled, bands quick with work;
From one side he slowly moves on to the other.

Grass buries his tiny body—
We see only, in the dense clumps of grass,
One bamboo basket, a few mounds of grass,
And in the evening sun, gold flashes off the sickle.