煮豆燃豆萁，豆在釜中泣。
本是同根生，相煎何太急？
Written on seven paces by Demand tr. By S L Kong (1953)
Beans weep boiling in pot
Being cooked fired by its own stalk
Growing up we stemmed from the same root
Providence allows no haste we each other boot
tr by Robert Li (1959) and Philip Lee (1960)
From the pot of frying beans on a beanstalk fire;
Came weeping from the beans in the pot of dire;
Since the beans and stalk were derived from the same root of distinction;
Why the urgency in a rush for mutual destruction.
Seven-Pace Song tr. By Father John Turner, S.J. (WYCHK 1946-47; 1949-61)
Beans in flame that bean stalks feed
Out from the pan cry
Sprung from the same stalk, what need
Each the other fry
曹植“七步成詩”的廣為流傳：「煮豆燃豆萁，豆在釜中泣。本是同根生，相煎何太急？」（见于《三国演义》），然而這首詩不見於陳壽的《三國志》，最早見於南朝 劉義慶的《世說新語·文學》，《世说新语》记载着魏文帝曹丕妒忌曹植的才学，命曹植在七步之内作出一首诗，否则将被处死，曹植在不到七步之内便吟出：「煮豆持作羹，漉菽以为汁。萁在釜下燃，豆在釜中泣。本自同根生，相煎何太急？」但此詩是否為曹植所著作，至現今仍有爭議。 维基百科 __ YK Chan