[原文]
5.3 故论其典诰则如彼，语其夸诞则如此。固知《楚辞》者，体[慢]宪于三代，而风[雅]杂于战国，乃《雅》《颂》之博徒，而词赋之英杰也。观其骨骾所树，肌肤所附，虽取熔经意，亦自铸伟辞。故《骚经》《九章》，朗丽以哀志;《九歌》《九辩》，绮靡以伤情;《远游》《天向》，瑰诡而[惠]慧巧;《招魂》[《招隐》]《大招》，耀艳而深华;《卜居》标放言之致，《渔父》寄独往之才。故能气往轹古，辞来切今，惊采绝艳，难与并能矣。
[今译]
所以讲到它的合于经书的便像那样，说到它的浮夸荒诞的便像这样。这就确切地知道《楚辞》在内容上效法三代的《书》《诗》，但又夹杂着战国的风气，比起《雅》《颂》来显得低微，是辞赋的杰作。看它用来建立骨骼的主旨，作为附着骨骼的肌肤的文辞，虽然熔化经书的含意，也独自创制卓越的辞采。所以《离骚》《九章》，明朗艳丽来抒写悲哀的心意;《九歌》《九辩〉，绮丽细致来抒写哀伤的感情;《远游》《天问》，瑰丽诡异而文思巧慧;《招魂》《大招》，光彩照耀而含蕴深沉;《ト居》显出不羁的意旨，《渔父》寄托特立独行的才干。所以能够才气压倒古人，文辞超越今人，文采惊人，美艳绝顶，难以和它比美了。
5.3 These elements are different from the classics. Therefore, the Songs of the South resembles the classics in those ways; it is bizarre and byperbolic in these ways. Thus it is known that essentially modeled on the classics, it contains features of the Warring States period. It ranks below the Book of Poetry, but above rhyme-prose. The structures and linguistic textures show that although many themes are borrowed from the classics, these songs have their own lofty style. "Encountering Sorrow" and "Nine Declarations" are lucid, beautiful, and sorrowful. "Nine Songs" and "Nine Arguments" are elaborate and melancholy. "Journey Afar" and "Questioning Heaven" are gorgeous, exotic, and resourceful. "Summoning of the Soul" and "Great Summons" are dazzling and full of inner beauty. "Divination" expresses the ideal of unrestrained freedom and "The Fisherman" embodies the proud spirit of a self-exiled genius. That is why the Songs of the South surpasses past and contemporary works in spirit or excellence of language. Its brilliance and exquisite beauty are insurmountable.
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