夏的歌颂
文/庐隐
出汗不见得是很坏的生活吧，全身感到一种特别的轻松。尤其是出了汗去洗澡，更有无穷的舒畅，仅仅为了这一点1，我也要歌颂夏天。
其久被压迫，而要挣扎过，——而且要很坦然的过去2，这也不是毫无意义的生活吧，——春天是使人柔困，四肢瘫软，好像受了酒精的毒，再无法振作；秋天呢，又太高爽，轻松使人忘记了世界上有骆驼——说到骆驼谁也忘不了它那高峰凹谷之间的重载，和那慢腾腾，不尤不怨的往前走的姿势吧！冬天虽然是风雪严厉，但头脑尚不受压榨。只有夏天，它是无隙不入的压迫你，你每一个毛孔，每一根神经，都受着重大的压扎；同时还有臭虫蚊子苍蝇助虐的四面夹攻，这种极度紧张的夏日生活，正是训练人类变成更坚强而有力量的生物。因此我又不得不歌颂夏天！
20世纪的人类，正度着夏天的生活——纵然有少数阶级。他们是超越天然，而过着四季如春享乐的生活，但这太暂时了，时代的轮子，不久就要把这特殊的阶级碎为齑粉，——夏天的生活是极度紧张而严重，人类必要努力的挣扎过，尤其是我们中国不论士农工商军，哪一个不是喘着气，出着汗，与紧张压迫的生活拼命呢？3脆弱的人群中，也许有诅咒，但我却以为只有虔敬地承受，我们尽量的出汗，我们尽量的发泄我们生命之力，最后我们的汗液，便是甘霖的源泉，这炎威逼人的夏天，将被这无尽的甘霖所毁灭，世界变成清明爽朗。
夏天是人类生活中，最雄伟壮烈的一个阶段，因此，我永远的歌颂它。
Ode to Summer
译/李运兴
It is not a bad experience to perspire profusely. You feel relaxed and relieved, especially when you have washed off the sweat by taking a bath. Even if there were no other reason, this alone would be enough for me to sing the praises of the summer season.
Under prolonged oppression, struggling hard, but facing it with composure and confidence. Does this not give our lives great significance? Spring makes us drowsy and lethargic, weakens our arms and legs. As if numbed with alcohol, we have no way to arouse ourselves. Autumn brings us a clear sky and crisp air, yet makes us too carefree to remember the toiling camels that also live in this world—the heavy loads wedged between their humps, and the leisurely pace at which they trudge determinedly onward. Winter besieges us with wind and snow, but our minds are not repressed. It is only in summer that we are oppressed in all possible ways: every pore, every nerve in our body is subject to oppression, while bedbugs, mosquitoes and flies come from all around to harass us. Life in summer, with its extreme tension, trains man to become a much more capable and powerful species. So, I will offer more words of praise to the season of summer.
Men in the 20th century are living a life like that which we experience every summer. Although a few social classes can, regardless of the seasonal changes, enjoy an easy life, as if to them all seasons were spring, this is only temporary. The wheels of history will soon crush this privileged class into pieces. Since life in summer is laden with tension and harshness, men have to devote themselves to bitter struggle. Look at the broad masses of the Chinese people, including intellectuals, farmers, workers, merchants and army soldiers. Is there anyone of them who is not struggling desperately against oppression and exploitation, panting and sweating? Curses may be heard from among the weak-kneed. But, I believe, only by earnestly taking on the burden, sweating as much as we can, and exerting to the limit the burgeoning strength of our lives can we transform our sweat into a timely rain, which will in turn drive off the stifling heat of summer and bring about a new world, bright and clear.
Summer is the most magnificent part of human life; I will never cease in singing its praises.
注释：
1. 这里的译文加了一个条件从句，既为强化语气，也为上下文连贯。
2. 这一部分译为一个由非谓语动词组成的句子，无主无谓，只突出了动作信息，文学语篇中可见。
3. 这一部分先译作一个祈使句，然后设问。这有利于英语行文中信息的重新铺排和上下文气的连贯，以及保持原文设问的力度。