未选之路

林中两路分，可惜难兼行。  TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both。

游子久伫立，极目望一径。  And be one traveler, long I stood，And looked down one as far as I could

蜿蜒复曲折，隐于丛林中。 To where it bent in the undergrowth;

我选另一途，合理亦公正。 Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,

草密人迹罕，正待人通行。  Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing there

足迹踏过处，两路皆相同。 Had worn them really about the same,

两路林中伸，落叶无人踪。 And both that morning equally lay，In leaves no step had trodden black.

我选一路走，深知路无穷。 Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

我疑从今后，能否转回程。 I doubted if I should ever come back.

数十年之后，谈起常叹息。I shall be telling this with a sigh，Somewhere ages and ages hence:

林中两路分，一路人迹稀。Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—，I took the one less traveled by

我独选此路，境遇乃相异。And that has made all the difference. 

                    ——罗伯特·弗罗斯特（1916）