桃花源记晋太元中，武陵人捕鱼为业。
缘溪行，忘路之远近。
忽逢桃花林，夹（jiā）岸数百步，中无杂树，芳草鲜美，落英缤纷。
渔人甚异之。
复前行，欲穷其林。
林尽水源，便得一山，山有小口，仿佛若有光。
便舍（shě）船，从口入。
初极狭，才通人。
复行数十步，豁（huò）然开朗。
土地平旷，屋舍（shè）俨（yǎn）然，有良田美池桑竹之属。
阡（qiān）陌（mò）交通，鸡犬相闻。
其中往来种（zhòng）作，男女衣着（zhuó），悉如外人。
黄发垂髫（tiáo），并怡然自乐。
见渔人，乃大惊，问所从来。
具答之。
便要（yāo）还家，设酒杀鸡作食。
村中闻有此人，咸（xián）来问讯。
自云先世避秦时乱，率妻子邑（yì）人来此绝境，不复出焉，遂与外人间隔。
问今是何世，乃不知有汉，无论魏晋。
此人一一为具言所闻，皆叹惋。
余人各复延至其家，皆出酒食。
停数日，辞去。
此中人语（yù）云：“不足为外人道也。
”既出，得其船，便扶向路，处处志之。
及郡下，诣（yì）太守，说如此。
太守即遣人随其往，寻向所志，遂迷，不复得路。
南阳刘子骥（jì），高尚士也，闻之，欣然规往。
未果，寻病终。
后遂无问津者。
字词详解太元：东晋孝武帝司马曜（yào)的年号（376～396）。
世外桃源：指一种空想的脱离现实斗争的美好世界。
世外桃源是一个人间生活理想境界的代名词，相当于西方的极乐世界或者天堂。
千百年来，完美主义者无不苦苦追寻、刻意营造自己想象中的“世外桃源”。
（作者的这一社会理想是对当时黑暗社会的批判，在客观上也反映了人民摆脱压迫、摆脱剥削的要求。
具有一定的积极意义；但它又有一定程度的复古倾向，在阶级社会中也只能是一种幻想，是不可能实现的。
）比喻不受外面影响的生活安乐、环境幽静的美好地方。
一般作主语、宾语、定语。
武陵：古代郡名。
今湖南常德一带。
为业：以……为生。
为：作为。
缘：沿着。
行：前行，这里指划船。
远近：偏义复词，这里指远。
忽逢：忽然遇到。
夹岸：两岸。
杂：别的，其它的。
芳：指花。
鲜美：鲜艳美丽。
落英：落花。
一说，初开的花。
缤纷：繁多而纷乱的样子。
甚：很，非常。
异：对···感到奇怪。
欲：想要。
便：于是，就。
穷：穷尽。
这里是“走到……的尽头”的意思。
词类活用，形容词作动词。
林尽水源：林尽（于）水源。
桃林在溪水发源的地方就到头了。
得：看到。
仿佛：隐隐约约，形容看的不真切的样子。
若：好像。
舍：离开。
初：开始。
才：副词，仅仅，刚刚。
才通人：仅容一人通过。
通：通过。
豁然开朗：豁然：形容开阔敞亮的意思；开朗：地方开阔；光线充足、明亮。
指一下子出现了开阔明亮的境界。
现在形容一下子明白了某种道理；心情十分舒畅。
（总意）形容由狭窄幽暗突然变得开阔明亮的样子。
也形容对某一问题从长期思索不解而后忽然领悟。
一般作谓语、宾语、定语。
舍：房屋。
平：平坦。
旷：宽阔。
俨（yǎn）然：整齐的样子。
之：这。
属：类。
阡陌交通：田间小路交错相通。
阡陌，田间小路，南北走向的叫阡，东西走向的叫陌。
交通，交错相通鸡犬相闻：（村落间）鸡鸣狗叫的声音，彼此都可以听得见。
相闻，可以互相听到。
其：那。
种作：耕田劳作。
着：穿着。
悉：都。
外人：桃花源以外的世人。
黄发垂髫（tiáo）：指老人和小孩。
垂髫，垂下来的头发，这里指小孩子。
黄发，旧指长寿的特征，这指老人。
并：表承接（顺接），而且。
怡然：愉快的样子。
乃(乃大惊的乃)：副词，竟，竟然。
大：很，非常。
从来：从……地方来。
具：详细、详尽。
之：代词，指代桃源人所问问题。
要（yāo）：通“邀”，邀请。
咸：副词，都，全问讯：询问消息。
语：（yù）向.........人说，告诉云：说。
先世：祖先。
妻子：指妻子、儿女。
邑人：同乡的人。
绝境：与人世隔绝的地方。
复：再，又。
焉：兼语词，从这里。
相当于“于之”，“于此”。
间隔：断绝来往。
今：现在。
乃(乃不知有汉的乃)：竟然。
无论：更不用说，（更）不必说。
叹惋：感叹，惋惜。
延至：邀请到。
延，邀请。
为：无义。
具言：详细地说。
（所+动词构成名词性结构）具：详细。
停：待。
辞去：辞别离开。
语：对……说。
不足：不必，不值得。
为：向、对。
道：说。
既：已经；······之后。
得：找到。
便扶向路：就顺着原来的路回去。
扶：沿、顺着。
向：从前的，旧的。
处处志之：处处都做了记号。
志：动词，作标记。
及：到了。
郡下：指武陵郡城下。
诣：到，拜访。
特指到尊长那里去。
说如此：说明了像这种情况。
如此，判断句，像这样即：立即。
遣：派遣。
寻向所志：寻找以前所做的标记。
所志，所做的标记。
志:做的标记。
（名词性）所单独可不翻译。
遂：竟然。
复：又，再。
得：取得，获得，文中是找到的意思。
南阳：郡名，治所在现在河南南阳。
刘子骥：即刘驎之，字子骥，东晋南阳（今河南南阳）人。
《晋书·隐逸传》里说他“好游山泽”。
高尚：品德高尚。
欣然：高兴的样子。
规：计划，打算。
寻：随即，不久。
未果：没有结果，意思是没有实现。
果：实现。
问津：本指打听渡口，这里是访求寻找的意思。
津，渡口。
译文东晋太元年间，有个武陵人靠捕鱼为生。
（一次渔人）沿着小溪划船，往前行，忘记了路程多远。
忽然遇到一片桃花林，溪水两岸几百步以内，中间没有别的树木，花和草鲜嫩美丽，地上的落花繁多。
渔人对此感到非常惊异。
(渔人)又向前划去，想走到那片林子的尽头。
桃花林在溪水发源的地方没有了，（在那里）便看到一座山，山边有个小洞，隐隐约约好像有光亮。
渔人就舍弃船上岸，从小洞口进入。
起初洞口很狭窄，仅能容一个人通过。
渔人又向前走了几十步，一下子变得开阔敞亮了。
只见土地平坦宽阔，房屋整整齐齐，有肥沃的土地，美好的池塘，桑树竹林之类。
田间小路交错相通，（村落间）能互相听到鸡鸣狗叫的声音。
村里面，来来往往的行人，耕种劳作的人，男男女女的衣着装束完全像桃花源外的世人，老人和小孩都高高兴兴，自得其乐。
（桃花源的人）一见渔人，竟然大为惊奇，问他是从哪里儿来的。
（渔人）细致详尽地回答了他们，人们就把渔人请到自己家里，摆酒杀鸡做饭款待他。
村里人听说来了这么一个客人，都来打听消息。
（他们）自己说他们的祖先（为了）躲避秦时的战乱，率领妻子儿女和同乡人来到这个与外界隔绝的地方，不再出去了，于是就同外界的人隔绝了。
他们问（渔人）现在是什么朝代，（他们）竟然不知道有汉朝，更不必说魏朝和晋朝了。
这个渔人一一的给（桃花源中的人）详细地诉说他知道的事情，（他们）听了都很惊叹惋惜。
其余的人又各自邀请渔人到他们家里，都拿出酒菜饭食来款待他。
渔人居住了几天，告辞离开。
这里面的人告诉他说：“（这里的情况）不值得对外界的人说啊！”（渔人）出来后，找到了他的船，就沿着先前的路回去，（一路上）处处标上记号。
渔人到了武陵郡，便去拜见太守，把这些情况作了禀报。
太守立即派人随同他前往，寻找先前所做的记号，结果迷了路，再也找不到通向桃花源的路了。
南阳有个刘子骥，是位清高的隐士，听到这个消息，兴致勃勃地打算前往桃花源。
没有实现，不久就病死了。
以后就不再有探访的人了。
The Peach ColonyTr. by Lin Yutang 林语堂（An Idyllic Land at the End of the Peach Grove）During the reign of Taiyuan of Chin, there was a fisherman of Wuling. One day he was walking along a bank. After having gone a certain distance, he suddenly came upon a peach grove which extended along the bank for about a hundred yards. He noticed with surprise that the grove had a magic effect, so singularly free from the usual mingling of brushwood, while the beautiful grassy ground was covered with its rose petals. He went further to explore, and when he came to the end of the grove, he saw a spring which came from a cave in the hill. Having noticed that there seemed to be a weak light in the cave, he tied up his boat and decided to go in and explore. At first the opening was very narrow, barely wide enough for one person to go in. After a dozen steps, it opened into a flood of light. He saw before his eyes a wide, level valley, with houses and fields and farms. There were bamboos and mulberries; farmers were working and dogs and chickens were running about. The dresses of the men and women were like those of the outside world, and the old men and children appeared very happy and contented.They were greatly astonished to see the fisherman and asked him where he had come from. The fisherman told them and was invited to their homes, where wine was served and chicken waskilled for dinner to entertain him. The villagers hearing of his coming all came to see him and to talk. They said that their ancestors had come here as refugees to escape from the tyranny of Tsin Shih-huang (builder of Great Wall) some six hundred years ago, and they had never left it. They were thus completely cut off from the world, and asked what was the ruling dynasty now. They had not even heard of the Han Dynasty (two centuries before to two centuries after Christ), not to speak of the Wei (third century A.D.) and the Chin (third and fourth centuries). The fisherman told them, which they heard with great amazement. Many of the other villagers then began to invite him to their homes by turn and feed him dinner and wine. After a few days, he took leave of them and left. The villagers begged him not to tell the people outside about their colony.The man found his boat and came back, marking with signs the route he had followed. He went to the magistrate's office and told the magistrate about it. The latter sent someone to go with him and find the place. They looked for the signs but got lost and could never find it again.Liu Tsechi of Nanyang was a great idealist. He heard of this story, and planned to go and find it, but was taken ill and died before he could fulfill his wish. Since then, no one has gone in search of this place.The Peach Blossom SpringTr. by James Robert HightowerDuring the Tai-yuan period of the China dynasty a fisherman of Wu-ling once rowed upstream, unmindful of the distance he had gone, when he suddenly came to a grove of peach trees in bloom. For several hundred paces on both banks of the stream there was no other kind of tree. The wild flowers growing under them were fresh and lovely, and fallen petals covered the ground—it made a great impression on the fisher-man. He went on far away with the idea of finding out how far the grove extended.It came to an end at the foot of a mountain whence issued the spring that supplied the streams. There was a small opening in the mountain and it seemed as though light was coming through it. The fisherman left his boat and entered the cave, which at first was extremely narrow, barely admitting his body, after a few dozen steps it suddenly opened out onto a broad and level plain where well-built houses were surrounded by rich fields and pretty ponds. Mulberry, bamboo and other trees and plants grew there, and criss-cross paths skirted the fields. The sounds of cocks crowing and dogs barking could be heard from one courtyard to the next. Men and women were coming and going about their work in the fields. The clothes they wore were like those of ordinary people. Old men and boys were carefree and happy.When they caught sight of the fisherman, they asked in surprise how he had got there. The fisherman told the whole story, and was invited to go to their house, where he was served wine while they killed a chicken for a feast. When the other villagers heard about the fisherman’s arrival, they all came to pay him a visit. They told him that their ancestors had fled the disorders of Ch'in times and, having taken refugee here with their wives and children and neighbours, had never ventured out again. Consequently they had lost all contact with the outside world. Theyasked what the present ruling dynasty was, for they had never heard of Han, let alone Wei and Jin. They sighed unhappily as the fisherman enumerated the dynasties one by one and recounted the vicissitudes of each.The visitors all asked him to come to their houses in turn, and at every house he had wine and food. He stayed several days. As he was about to go away, the p eople said, "There’s' no need to mention our existence to outsiders.” After the fisherman had gone out and recovered his boat, he carefully marked the route. On reaching the city, he reported what he had found to the magistrate, who at once sent a man to follow him back to the place. They proceeded according to the marks he had made, but went astray and were unable to find the cave again.A high-minded gentleman of Nan-yang named LiuTzu-chi heard the story and happily made preparations to go there, but before he could leave he fell sick and died. Since then, there has been no one interested in trying to find such a place.。