它本身不用说，已经是望帝的化身了。
The mere mention of this bird will arouse in our hearts a great deal of poetic feeling.
有时又被认为薄命的佳 人，忧国的志士；声是满腹乡思，血是遍山踯躅；可怜，哀惋，纯 洁，至诚在人们的心目中成为了爱的象征。
To begin with, she is the incarnation of the legendary king of ancient Sichuan named Wang Di.
这爱的象征似乎已经 成为了民族的感情。
She has come to be known sometimes as an ill fated beauty and sometimes as patriot concerned over the fate of the nation.
而且，这种感情还超越了民族的范围，东方诸国大都受到了感 染。
Her call is full of longings for home; she loiters about the mountains crying and spitting up blood\*.
例如日本，杜鹃在文学上所占的地位，并不亚于中国。
She is pathetic, sad, pure and sincere\...
然而，这实在是名实不符的一个最大的例证。
She is in the eyes of all a symbol of love, which seems to have become a national feeling.
杜鹃是一种灰黑色的鸟，毛羽并不美，它的习性专横而残忍。
And this feeling has gone beyond the national boundary to affect most of the easter countries.
杜鹃是不营巢的，也不孵卵哺维。
In Japan, for example, the cuckoo is holding a position in literature by no means lower than in China.
到了生殖季节，产卵在茑巢中， 让茑替它孵卵哺维。
Nevertheless, all that is a typical instance of undeserved reputation.
雏鹃比维莺大，到将长成时，甚且比母茑还大。
The cuckoo is a grayish-brown bird with none too beautiful feathers.
鹃雏孵化出来之后，每将莺雏挤出巢外，任它啼饥号寒而死，它自己 独霸着母莺的哺育。
She is characteristically domineering and cruel.
莺受鹃欺而不自知，辛辛苦苦地哺育着比自己 还大的鹃雏：真是一件令人不平、令人流泪的情景。
She doesn't build her own nest, nor does she hatch or feed her young.
發 想到了这些实际，便觉得杜鹃这种鸟大可以作为欺世盗名者的标 本了。
During the breeding season, she deposits her eggs in the nests of orioles for them to hatch and rear.
然而，杜鹃不能任其咎。
A baby cuckoo is bigger in size than a baby oriol, and, when full grown, bigger even than the mother oriol.
杜鹃就只是杜鹃，它并不曾要求人把 它认为佳人、志士。
After she is hatched. she often pushes the baby oriol out of the nest, leaving the poor chick to cry and die of hunger and cold so that she may have the mother 中 .o9 to According to Chinese folklore, the cuckoo keeps crying cuckoo plaintively until it spits up blood. 77 oriol's care all to herself.
人的智慧和营也相差不远，全凭主观意象而不顾实际，这样的 例证多的是。
The mother bird, however, being treated unfairly without her knowledge, continues laboriously to feed the baby cuckoo who is bigger than herself.
因此，过去和现在都有无数的人面杜鹃被人哺育着。
The tragic spectacle is such as to arouse great indignation and draw tears of sympathy!
将来会怎 样呢？
Hence I believe that the cuckoo can best serve as a model of those who win popularity by dishonest means.
茑虽然不能解答这个问题，人是应该解答而且能够解答的。
But the cuckoo is not to blame.