１、東山客：指東晉謝寧，曾隱居東山。
２、采薇：指殷末伯夷、叔齊采薇西山。
３、遠：這里指不能入金馬門。
４、寒食：節(jié)令名，清明前一天或兩天。
【韻譯】：
政治清明時代絕無隱者存在，
為朝政服務有才者紛紛出來。
連你這個象謝安的山林隱者，
也不再效法伯夷叔齊去采薇。
你應試落弟不能待詔金馬門，
那是命運不濟誰說吾道不對？
去年寒食時節(jié)你正經過江淮，
滯留京洛又縫春衣已過一載。
我們又在長安城外設酒餞別，
同心知己如今又要與我分開。
你行將駕駛著小船南下歸去，
不幾天就可把自家柴門扣開。
遠山的樹木把你的身影遮蓋，
夕陽余輝映得孤城艷麗多彩。
你暫不被錄用純屬偶然的事，
別以為知音稀少而徒自感慨！
【評析】：
??這是一首勸慰友人落第的詩。
??落第還鄉(xiāng)之人，心情自然懊喪。作為摯友，多方給予慰籍，使其覺得知音有人是
極為重要的。全詩著意在這個主旨上加以烘染，有敘事、有寫景、有抒情，有感慨，
有勉勵。寫景清新，抒情柔蜜，感慨由衷，勉勵摯敬，吟來令人振奮。
--引自"超純齋詩詞"bookbest.163.net 翻譯、評析：劉建勛
to qiwu qian bound home
after failing in an examination
in a happy reign there should be no hermits;
the wise and able should consult together....
so you, a man of the eastern mountains,
gave up your life of picking herbs
and came all the way to the gate of gold --
but you found your devotion unavailing.
...to spend the day of no fire on one of the southern rivers,
you have mended your spring clothes here in these northern cities.
i pour you the farewell wine as you set out from the capital --
soon i shall be left behind here by my bosomfriend.
in your sail-boat of sweet cinnamon-wood
you will float again toward your own thatch door,
led along by distant trees
to a sunset shining on a far-away town.
...what though your purpose happened to fail,
doubt not that some of us can hear high music.