《黃鶴樓》 唐·崔顥
昔人已乘黃鶴去，此地空餘黃鶴樓。
黃鶴一去不復返，白雲千載空悠悠。
晴川歷歷漢陽樹，芳草萋萋鸚鵡洲。
日暮鄉關何處是，煙波江上使人愁。

English Translation：作者佚名
CUI Hao – The Tower of Yellow Crane

Once upon a time an immortal flew away on the back of a yellow crane,
--- 按豌博標準，此行乃典型的添油加醋型，比俺嚴重啊。哈哈

What remains of the tale here is a tower bearing its name.
--- 嗯，這句好。因為避免了“黃鶴樓”這叄字的重複。of the tale 也屬於醋。

The heavenly creature once gone has never returned,
--- heavenly creature 有生造之嫌

For thousands of years white clouds have in the skies drifted in vain.
--- in the skies 也比較“麻煩”

Before me runs the clear river water, vivid in the distance are trees of Hanyang,
--- Before me runs the clear river water 來譯“晴川歷歷”，若細究則“晴”未譯出。漢陽樹直接用 trees of Hanyang，但全句沒緊扣原文，“晴川”和“漢陽樹”的關係，一個是地點，一個是樹，即河邊長樹也。下句的“芳草萋萋鸚鵡洲”亦然，洲中長草也。否則如何對仗？

And the so-called Parrot Isle is a lush, verdant place.
--- 俺居然不認識這個lush，哈哈。這句很精練。

I look towards the direction of my hometown as twilight starts to fade,
--- 確，詩意也好。客居之日觀景常常引起思鄉之緒，小崔原作感人也在於此。

A haze begins to mist over the river engulfing me in a homesick state.
--- 介句... 腫麼說涅，只能說“煙波江上使人愁”主要玩的是意境和氛圍，烘托那種可意會不可言傳的“愁”，全句抽象，不太好翻譯。

這首詩的翻譯水平應屬上乘，達意流暢，但英文雅尚欠缺火候，應是以中文為母語的人翻譯的。掉過來若是鬼子翻譯的，則英文字面上占上風，但對原文的理解有時會錯。