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它被世人所期待、所仰慕、所赞誉，是由于它的美。它美得秀韵多姿，美得雍容华贵，美得绚丽娇艳，美得惊世骇俗。它的美是早已被世人所确定、所公认了的。它的美不惧怕争议和挑战。

有多少人没有欣赏过牡丹呢?却偏偏要坐上汽车火车飞机轮船，千里万里爬山涉水，天南海北不约而同，揣着焦渴与翘盼的心，滔滔黄河般地涌进洛阳城。

欧阳修曾有诗云：洛阳地脉花最宜，牡丹尤为天下奇。

传说中的牡丹，是被武则天一怒之下逐出京城，贬去洛阳的。却不料洛阳的水土最适合牡丹的生长。于是洛阳人种牡丹蔚然成风，渐盛于唐，极盛于宋。每年阳历四月中旬春色融融的日子，街巷园林千株万株牡丹竞放，花团锦簇香云缭绕——好一座五彩缤纷的牡丹城。

所以看牡丹是一定要到洛阳去看的。没有看过洛阳的牡丹就不算看过牡丹。况且洛阳牡丹还有那么点来历，它因被贬而增值而名声大噪，是否因此勾起人的好奇也未可知。

这一年已是洛阳的第九届牡丹花会。这一年的春却来得迟迟。

连日浓云阴雨，四月的洛阳城冷风飕飕。

街上挤满了从很远很远的地方赶来的看花人。看花人踩着年年应准的花期。

明明是梧桐发叶，柳枝滴翠，桃花梨花姹紫嫣红，海棠更已落英纷纷——可洛阳人说春尚不曾到来；看花人说，牡丹城好安静。

一个又冷又静的洛阳，让你觉得有什么地方不对劲。你悄悄闭上眼睛不忍寻觅。你深呼吸掩藏好了最后的侥幸，姗姗步入王城公园。你相信牡丹生性喜欢热闹，你知道牡丹不像幽兰习惯寂寞，你甚至怀着自私的企图，愿牡丹接受这提前的参拜和瞻仰。

优秀译文

People long for, admire and extol the peony for her beauty, a beauty that is so elegantly charming, gracefully dignified, delicately spectacular and even astoundingly striking that it has long been acknowledged and recognized by the world and defies disputes or challenges.

How many people, indeed, have not already appreciated the grace of these charming flowers? Yet people from every corner of the country spontaneously, with burning expectations, still travel for thousands upon thousands of miles to the City of Luoyang, reputed to be the Capital of Peonies, by bus, train, airplane and boat, in a steady and gushing stream that resembles the surging and roaring Yellow River.

Ouyang Xiu, a famous poet of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) once remarked in his poem: Flowers flourishing in Luoyang, with its ideal geographical position, where grow the finest peonies of the nation.

Legend has it that peonies were originally banished by Wu Zetian, the first female emperor in the history of China out of anger from the capital city Chang’an (today’s Xi’an in Shannxi province of China) to Luoyang. However, what was unexpected was that Luoyang turned out to be an ideal place for the growth of peonies. Therefore, growing peonies soon became enormously popular in Luoyang, which came into being and developed in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and peaked during the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Every year, in the middle April on the solar calendar, tens of thousands of peonies burst into bloom in streets, lanes and gardens with the fragrance of the flower drifting everywhere, literally turning Luoyang into a city of peonies.

Therefore, Luoyang is nowhere but the sole and must-visit place for appreciating the beauty of peonies. Those who fail to have a glimpse of the peonies of Luoyang cannot be deemed as having sensed their real beauty. What’s more, whether peonies, as the legend puts it, will arouse our curiosity for the considerable fame they gain from their exile or not, remain unclear.

This year marks the Ninth Luoyang Peony Fair. The spring of this year, however, seems to be late in arriving.

After days of cold rain in April, Luoyang, under a sky of thick clouds, is unseasonably chilly with fierce winds.

The streets of the city are all thronged with people traveling from afar at the accurate flowering season annually to appreciate the grace of Luoyang peonies.

While in Luoyang, the Chinese parasols are sprouting, the willows are already verdant with leaves, the peach and pear flowers are blooming, and the petals of malus spctabilis are already falling in riotous profusion, Natives in Luoyang still claim that spring is yet to arrive. Those who come here to enjoy the beauty of peonies all remark that Luoyang, the peony city, turns out to be so tranquil.

A chilly and quiescent Luoyang reminds you that something is not right. Reluctant to continue with your fruitless search for those charming flowers, you close your eyes wordlessly. Then you take a deep breath and with subdued expectations for a streak of good luck, stroll leisurely to the Wangcheng Park, which is literally the center of the peony city. You believe that peonies inherently enjoy jollification, you know that peonies, unlike orchids, are alien to loneliness or solitude, and you even harbor a rather selfish hope that here in the Wangcheng Park, you will finally come across peonies that will condescendingly accept your prematurely untimely tribute.

——西南政法大学 谈耀文

（该译文获得笔译汉译英组二等奖）

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