一、因为中国古代的诗文在翻译的时候有很大的难度，也很难把意境翻译到位，所以《木兰诗》的英文版本各不相同，有关这一首诗歌的英文版举例如下：

One sigh after another,

Mulan sat opposite the door weaving;

But no

sound of the shuttle was heard,

Except the sighs of the girll

When

asked what she was pondering over,

When asked what she had called to

mind,

Nothing special the girl was pondering over,

Nothing special the

girl had called to mind.

Last night I saw the draft dispatch,

The Khan

is mustering a mighty army;

The rosther consists of many muster

rolls,

And every roll has Father's name on it.

Father has no grown

son,

Nor Mulan an elder brother;

I want to buy a saddle and a

horse,

And from now on fight in place of my father.

In the eastern

market she bought a fine steed,

In the western market a saddle and a

pad,

In the southern market a bridle,

In the norhtern market a long

whip.

At daybreak she bid farewell to her parents,

At sunset she

bivouacked by the Yellow River;

What met her ear was no longer her parents'

call,

But the gurgles and splashes of the rushing waters.

At daybreak

she left the Yellow River,

At sunset she arrived at the top of the Black

Hill;

What met her ear was no longer her parents' call,

But the Hu

horses neighing in the Yanshan Mountains.

On the expedition of thousands of

miles to the war,

She dashed across mountains and passes as if in

flight;

In the chilly northern air night watches clanged,

In the

frosty moonlight armour glishened.

Generals laid down their lives in a

hundred battles,

And valiant soldiers returned after ten years'

service.

When she returned to an audience with the Son of Heaven,

The

Son of Heaven st in the Hall of Brightness.

A promotion of many ranks was

granted her for her merits,

With a reward that amounted to thousands of

strings of cash.

The Khan asked Mulan what she desired to do,

I don't

need any high official position,

Please lend me a sturdy camel that is

fleet of foot,

And send me bank to my hometown.

When her parents heard

their daughter was coming,

They walked out of the town, each helping the

other;

When her elder sister heard the younger sister was coming,

She

decked herself out in her best by the door;

When her younger brother heard

his elder sister was coming,

He whetted a knife and aimed it at a pig and a

sheep.

I opened the door of my east chamber,

And then sat down on the

bed in my west chamber;

Taking off the armour worn in wartime,

I

attired myself in my apparel of former times;

By the window I combed and

coiffed my cloudy hair,

Before the mirror I adorned my forehead with a

yellow pattern.

When she came out to meet her battle companions,

They

were all astounded and thrown into bewilderment.

Together they had been in

the army for a dozen years or so,

Yet none had ever known that Mulan was

actually a girl.

The male rabbit kicks its fluffy feet as it

scampers,

The eyes of female rabbit are blurred by fluffy tufts of

hair,

But when they run side by side in the field,

You can hardly tell

the doe from the buck!

、二、补充介绍这首诗的原文：

木兰诗

作者：郭茂倩 (宋代)

唧唧复唧唧，木兰当户织。

不闻机杼声，惟闻女叹息。

问女何所思，问女何所忆。

女亦无所思，女亦无所忆。

昨夜见军帖，可汗大点兵，军书十二卷，卷卷有爷名。

阿爷无大儿，木兰无长兄，愿为市鞍马，从此替爷征。

东市买骏马，西市买鞍鞯，南市买辔头，北市买长鞭。

旦辞爷娘去，暮宿黄河边，不闻爷娘唤女声，但闻黄河流水鸣溅溅。

旦辞黄河去，暮至黑山头，不闻爷娘唤女声，但闻燕山胡骑鸣啾啾。

万里赴戎机，关山度若飞。

朔气传金柝，寒光照铁衣。

将军百战死，壮士十年归。

归来见天子，天子坐明堂。

策勋十二转，赏赐百千强。

可汗问所欲，木兰不用尚书郎，

愿驰千里足，送儿还故乡。

爷娘闻女来，出郭相扶将；

阿姊闻妹来，当户理红妆；小弟闻姊来，磨刀霍霍向猪羊。

开我东阁门，坐我西阁床，脱我战时袍，著我旧时裳。

当窗理云鬓，对镜帖花黄。

出门看火伴，火伴皆惊忙：

同行十二年，不知木兰是女郎。

雄兔脚扑朔，雌兔眼迷离；

双兔傍地走，安能辨我是雄雌？