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写情
李益
水纹[1]珍簟[2]思悠悠，
千里佳期[3]一夕休。
从此无心爱良夜，
任他明月下西楼。
注释：
[1] 水纹：席子上的花纹像水的波纹，因此称水纹。
[2] 珍簟（diàn）：贵重的竹席。
[3] 佳期：与情人的约会。
A Date
Li Yi
On bamboo mat I long for you without a break,
Coming from afar, you don’t keep the date you make.
From now on, I won’t care for any lovely night;
In vain on the west tower may the moon shine bright.
The poet describes a woman waiting for her lover who has not kept his promise.
《写情》是唐代诗人李益创作的一首诗。此诗描写主人公与喜欢的女子约会不至而感到失望、无奈，甚至绝望不已的心情。诗中主人公望穿秋水，苦苦等待，奈何伊人爽约，于是失望之极，形象地表现了失恋的痛苦。全诗语言简练，以美景烘托和渲染愁情，用虚拟手法突出人物形象，诗境含蓄深邃，在唐代众多描写男女情事的小诗中别具一格，历来为世人所传诵。
“A Date” is a poem written by Li Yi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. The poem depicts the feelings of disappointment, helplessness and even despair when the main character does not arrive at his date with the woman he likes. In the poem, the protagonist looks through the autumn water and waits hard, but the woman is disappointed, so he is extremely disappointed, which graphically expresses the pain of lost love. The poem’s language is simple and concise, using beautiful scenery to set off and render the sorrowful feelings, using virtual techniques to highlight the characters, and the poem is subtle and profound, which is unique among the many small poems describing the love affairs of men and women in the Tang Dynasty, and has been recited by the world.
