古文英譯: 陋室銘（唐）劉禹錫

山不在高，有仙則名。水不在深，有龍則靈。斯是陋室，惟吾德馨。苔痕上階綠，草色入廉青。談笑有鴻儒，往來無白丁。可以調素琴，閱金經。無絲竹之亂耳，無案牘之勞形。南陽諸葛廬，西蜀子雲亭。孔子云：「何陋之有？」

Eulogy on My Humble Abode
by Liu Yuxin of Tang Dynasty

Known will hills be if fairies dwell, no matter high or low; and charmed will waters be if dragons lurk, no matter deep or shallow. [It matters not how high the hill is, if deities dwell, it is well-known; it matters not how deep the water is, if dragons lurk, it is worshiped.] A humble abode though this is, my virtues make it smell sweet.  Verdant are the stone steps overgrown with moss, and green seems the screen as the grass seen through it.  I chat and laugh only with great scholars and have no intercourse with the ignorant.  I can play zither and read my sutras; no unpleasant music to grate on my ears and no red-tape to weary my mortal form.  Zhuge's residence in Nanyang and Ziyun's inhabitance in Xishu are both like what Confucius quoth, "How canth it be humble?"