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登总持阁[1]
岑参
高阁逼[2]诸天[3]，
登临近日边。
晴开[4]万井[5]树，
愁看五陵[6]烟。
槛[7]外低秦岭[8]，
窗中小渭川[9]。
早知清净理[10]，
常愿奉[11]金仙[12]。
注释：
[1] 这是一首写景说理诗。第一联写天日，第二联写生死，第三联论高低大小，第四联则明佛家清净自由之理，可以看到佛教对唐代知识分子的影响。总持阁，应为总持寺阁，在终南山山腰之上。
[2] 逼：靠近。
[3] 诸天：佛教认为天上分为多层，最上诸层为神佛所居。
[4] 开：呈现。
[5] 万井：指无边的平原田地。井，井田。
[6] 五陵：指长安。
[7] 槛：栏杆。
[8] 低秦岭：感觉秦岭很低矮。
[9] 小渭川：感觉渭水很细窄。
[10] 清净理：指清心寡欲、远离罪恶的佛理。
[11] 奉：侍奉。
[12] 金仙：指佛祖。
The Mountainside Bower
Cen Shen
High bower scrapes celestial sphere,
When I climb, the sun seems near.
The sunlit trees appear in bloom;
The mist-veiled royal tombs in gloom.
Far-off high mountains low would seem;
Windows belittle flowing stream.
To freedom had I known the way,
I would worship Buddha for age.
这首诗，穷极笔力，描写总持阁的雄伟高峻。诗里的高阁是总持寺里的建筑，因为它实在是太高了，所以被岑参写在了诗里。诗的逻辑依然是先写景色然后在结尾处加上个人感谓。一、二句以夸张手法来表现总持寺阁高耸入云的势态，中间四句写在阁上远眺的所见。全诗很好理解，就是写一座高阁，只是在最后点出了这座高阁的作用，是出家人用来修行的佛家建筑。这个结尾内涵还是很多的，不但说明了总持阁的作用，地理位置，还概括了它的环境特点，即清净高远。
This poem is an exhaustive description of the majestic and high height of the Chief Master’s Pavilion. The high pavilion in the poem is a building in the Chief Master’s Temple, which was written in the poem by Cen Shen because it is so high. The logic of the poem is still to write about the scenery first and then add a personal comment at the end. The first and second stanzas exaggerate the towering position of the pavilion in the temple, and the middle four stanzas are about the view from the pavilion. The whole poem is easy to understand, it is about a high pavilion, but at the end it points out the function of this pavilion, which is a Buddhist building for monks to practice. This ending has a lot of connotations, not only explaining the role and location of the pavilion, but also summarizing the characteristics of its environment, i.e., pure and distant.
