秦大川英译:曹植《七步诗》(版本一)
煮豆燃豆萁,
豆在釜中泣。
本是同根生,
相煎何太急?
Written
While Taking Seven Paces
(One of the Two Versions)
By
Cao Zhi
Tr. Qin Dachuan
Th'
stalk is burned to cook soya stew,
In the boiling pot weeps the bean:
We're in origin from th' same root,
Why's the mutual-torture so keen?

