Listen to this article一半儿
题情
王和卿
（一）
书来和泪怕开缄，
又不归来空再三。
这样病儿谁惯耽[1]!
越恁瘦岩岩[2]，
一半儿增添一半儿减[3]。
注释：
[1]谁惯耽：谁能长久地忍受。
[2]痩岩岩：瘦弱的样子。
[3]一半儿增添一半儿减：增添了愁苦，减少了体重，而曲中并不说破，含蓄婉转。
Tune: Half and Half
· Parting Grief
Wang Heqing
（I）
When I receive his letter, my tears rain;
I am afraid to open it, for again and again
He said he’d come back, but in vain.
How could I not grow thin and my grief be appeased?
When one half has decreased, the other has increased.
（二）
将来书信手拈着[1]，
灯下恣恣观觑[2]了。
两三行字真带草，
提起来越心焦，
一半儿丝挦一半儿烧[3]。
注释：
[1]手拈着：紧握在手中。
[2]观觑：偷偷地看。
[3]一半儿丝挦一半儿烧：一边思量着，一边赶紧把信烧掉。丝：思。
（II）
I take his letter near at hand,
And read it by lamplight carefully.
He wrote carelessly these two lines or three,
Which I am anxious to understand.
Half of his letter is torn apart,
Another half burns my heart.
（三）
别来宽褪缕金衣，
粉悴烟憔[1]减玉肌。
泪点儿只除衫袖知。
盼佳期，
一半儿才干一半儿湿。
注释：
[1]粉悴烟憔：指面容憔悴。
（III）
My golden robe turns loose since my love from me parted;
My powdered face and jadelike skin look broken-hearted.
Tears dripping drop by drop only known to my sleeves, I
Wait for him with a sigh,
My sleeves are half wet and half dry.
《一半儿·题情》是中国伟大戏曲家关汉卿创作的组曲，由四首小令组成。这四支曲子用同一曲调，调各一韵，描绘一对青年男女一见钟情、别后相思的爱情发展变化的过程。这组曲子写得大胆泼辣，略无顾忌，有审美情感浓烈的一面，而无审美情感隐秘的一面，体现了关曲雅俗共赏、本色当行的特色。
“Tune: Half and Half · Parting Grief–” is a suite composed by the great Chinese opera singer Guan Hanqing, consisting of four small orders. The four pieces are written in the same tune, each in a single rhyme, and depict the development of love between a young man and a young woman who fall in love at first sight and miss each other after parting. The group is written in a bold and spirited manner, without any scruples, with a strong side of aesthetic emotion, but without a hidden side of aesthetic emotion, reflecting the characteristics of Guan’s elegant and vulgar songs, and the original color of the line.
