李白與杜甫
Li Bai and Du Fu
Level 4 · Historical Anecdotes · 历史轶事 · 53 vocabulary words
Source: 《旧唐书·文苑传》 · Old Book of Tang, 'Biographies of Men of Letters'
李白和杜甫是唐朝最伟大的两位诗人，他们还是好朋友。
Li Bai and Du Fu were the two greatest poets of the Tang — and they were friends.
李白比杜甫大十一岁。他们一起游山玩水，一起写诗。
Li Bai was eleven years older. Together they roamed mountains and rivers and wrote poems.
李白浪漫，他的诗像天上的云；杜甫深沉，他的诗记录着时代。
Li Bai the romantic — his poems like clouds in the sky; Du Fu the profound — his poems a record of the age.
人们说：李白的诗，是天才的诗；杜甫的诗，是人民的诗。
People say: Li Bai's poems are the poems of genius; Du Fu's, the poems of the people.
一千多年过去了，他们的诗还在被一代一代人朗读。
A thousand years on, their poems are still read aloud, generation after generation.