You Are Not Beautiful! (Translated From A Poem)
I try to translate a poem with the title "You are not beautiful!" composed by Dang Huan. I don't know about rules of English poems, so it's just in meaning.
Em ơi em chẳng đẹp đâu! / Hi, girl, you are not beautiful, really!
Không tin cứ lấy gương tầu mà soi. / Don’t believe it? Let look at a mirror.
Ừ thì có thắm làn môi./ Uhm, your lips just look rosy.
Ừ thì có lúm má cười đã sao? / Uhm, you have dimpled cheeks, but does it represent beauty?
Thông minh, trán tất nhiên cao. / With intelligence, your forehead is high of course.
Đã là con gái mắt nào chẳng xanh. / Being a girl, your eyes are like many girls’ blue ones.
Kể chi suối tóc mát lành. / Don’t be proud of your smooth long hair.
Cứ lười không cắt tóc anh cũng dài. / If I were too lazy to have my hair cut, it would be also as long as your hair.
Bảo em son phấn là sai. / Saying that you have made up is wrong.
Nhưng trời nắng đẹp má ai chẳng hồng. But your cheeks look ruddy, just because the beautiful sunshine makes them turn in red.
Chưa già tất phải trẻ trung. / Not getting old, you are certainly young.
Chị anh hồi sắp lấy chồng chả thua. My older sister when preparing getting married was also young.
Sao lại cười, rõ lạ chưa? Why do you smile? Does it sound weird?
Hay là em ngỡ anh đùa trêu nhau? Do you think I joke you?
Thật đấy mà, chẳng đẹp đâu! I’m not kidding, you are really not beautiful!
Can you correct my writing, please? Thank you very much.
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