英语名言父母

英语名言父母

1. 英语中关于父母的格言

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003 The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003 Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003 Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. Bern Williams The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin (1935 - ) My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. Cathy Ladman By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. Charles Wadsworth The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938) If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. Dick Cavett (1936 - ) A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003 The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003 The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. Ellen Goodman (1941 - ) T he gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people. H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003 This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets. Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 11-15-05 For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003 The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972) Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986 My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003 My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Peter De Vries Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. Rita Rudner Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. Rita Rudner The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980) What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply. Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003 It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2。

2. 有关父母的英文谚语

只有健康的、建立在无条件爱的基础上的家长同孩子的相互关系，才能消除一切生活上的危机。

——罗斯·坎贝尔 我们有谁看到从别人处所受的恩惠有比子女从父母处所受的恩惠更多呢？——色诺芬 人生最美的东西之一就是母爱，这是无私的爱，道德与之相形见绌。——小路实笃 母亲在家事事顺。

——阿尔科特 全世界的母亲多么相像！她们的心始终一样。——瓦普察洛夫 一个高尚的人，如果有一个像他自己一样的儿子，其乐一定不亚于他自己生命的延续。

——斯梯尔 父母的美德是一笔巨大的财富。——贺拉斯 母爱乃世界上最伟大的势力。

——阿瑟·米 母亲，我祝福您，因为您知道怎样把您的儿子培养成一个真正的人。他将在人生的战斗中获得胜利。

——阿斯杜里亚斯 谁拒绝父母对自己的训导，谁就首先失去了做人的机会。——哈吉·阿布巴卡·伊芒 在孩子的嘴上和心中，母亲就是上帝。

——（英）萨克雷 在这个世界上，我们永远需要报答最美好的人，这就是母亲。——（前苏联）奥斯特洛夫斯基 就是在我们母亲的膝上，我们获得了我们的最高尚、最真诚和最远大的理想，但是里面很少有任何金钱。

——（美）马克·吐温 共产主义不仅表现在田地里和汗水横流的工厂，它也表现在家庭里、饭桌旁，在亲戚之间，在相互的关系上。 ——（前苏联） 马雅可夫斯基 丑恶的海怪也比不上忘恩的儿女那样可怕。

——（英国）莎士比亚 仁爱和打人都先自家中开始。——鲍蒙特和弗莱彻 慈善行及至亲，但不应仅此为止。

——富勒 作为一个人，对父母要尊敬，对子女要慈爱，对穷亲戚要慷慨，对一切人要有礼貌。——（美国）罗素 Only healthy, built on the basis of non-conditional love parents of children with the relationship between eliminate all life, to the crisis. -- rose Campbell We have who see the goodness of the place from others by than children from their parents by the grace of the place more? - makes One of the most beautiful things in life is love, which is selfless love, morality with shame. - path real tuk Mother at home all smoothly. -- al kete The mother of the world how much alike! Their heart always the same. -- tile pugh anatoly ezer A noble man, if have one like his own son, the same as his own music must be the continuation of life. - darfur, ladder Parents' virtue is a huge wealth. - HeLaSi Maternal love is the greatest power in the world. - Arthur m Mother, I'm wishing you, because you know how to put your son training to become a real person. He will be in life's victory in battle. -- gil du elias Parents who refuse to about their discipline, who first lost personhood opportunities. - ABuBaKa hagi, Iraq, grass In the child's mouth and mind, mother is god. SaKeLei -- (English) In this world, we always need to repay the best people, this is the mother. AoSiTeLuoFuSiJi -- (Soviet) It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them. - (beauty) Mark Twain Communism not only displayed in the fields and sweat cross-flow factory, it also manifests in the family, the table, with relatives in the mutual relationship between. - (Soviet) mayan can greaves base Ugly sea monster that can compare with ungrateful children scary. -- (English) Shakespeare Love and hit his first start in all. - bobby monte and Fletcher Charity line and relative, but should not only so far. - fulham As a person, to respect for parents to their children, to love, to be generous to poor relatives, all person be polite. - (USA) Russell。

3. 关于母亲的名言名句英语

关于母爱的名言世界上的一切光荣和骄傲，都来自母亲。

（高尔基）母爱是一种巨大的火焰。（罗曼·罗兰）世界上有一种最美丽的声音，那便是母亲的呼唤。

（但丁）慈母的胳膊是慈爱构成的，孩子睡在里面怎能不甜？（雨果）人的嘴唇所能发出的最甜美的字眼，就是母亲，最美好的呼唤，就是“妈妈”。（纪伯伦）母爱是世间最伟大的力量。

（米尔）成功的时候，谁都是朋友。但只有母亲———她是失败时的伴侣。

（郑振铎）母爱是多么强烈、自私、狂热地占据我们整个心灵的感情。（邓肯）全世界的母亲多么的相像！他们的心始终一样。

每一个母亲都有一颗极为纯真的赤子之心。（惠特曼）世界上的一切光荣和骄傲，都来自母亲。

（高尔基）人生最美的东西之一就是母爱，这是无私的爱，道德与之相形见拙。（日本）妈妈你在哪儿，哪儿就是最快乐的地方（英国）世界上一切其他都是假的，空的，唯有母亲才是真的，永恒的，不灭的。

（印度）记忆中的母亲啊！最心爱的恋人啊，您是我所有的欢乐，所有的情谊。（法国）母爱是多么强烈、自私、狂热地占据我们整个心灵的感情（邓肯）在孩子的嘴上和心中，母亲就是上帝。

（英国）母爱是人类情绪中最美丽的，因为这种情绪没有利禄之心掺杂其间（法国）女人固然是脆弱的，母亲却是坚强的（法国）没有无私的，自我牺牲的母爱的帮助，孩子的心灵将是一片荒漠。（英国）本文转自名人故事吧 ，转载请注明出处。

You'renevertooheavyforyourmothertobear.Buttry,asyougetolder,toswaprolesonceinawhile.**Taketheword'family'.Strikeoutthe'm'formotherandthe'y'foryouth--andallyouhaveleftis'fail'.**Amanloveshissweetheartthemost,hiswifethebest,buthismotherthelongest.**Amother'sloveislikeacircle.Ithasnobeginingandnoending.**Amotherunderstandswhatachilddoesnotsay.**Realmothersknowthatachild'sgrowthisnotmeasuredbyheightoryearsorgrads.ItismarkedbytheprogressionofMamatoMummytoMother.**Amotherisshewhocantaketheplaceofallothersbutwhoseplacenooneelsecantake.**Ofallthethingsthatcomeinnumbers--plentyofrainbows,starsinthesky,brothers,sisters,aunts,uncles,cousins--youhavebutonemother.**AllthatIamoreverhopetobe,IowetomyangelMother.Iremembermymother'sprayersandtheyhavealwaysfollowedme.Theyhaveclungtomeallmylife.--AbrahamLincoln**Agoodmotherisworthahundredschoolmaster.--GeorgeHerbert**Thememoryofmymotherandherteachingswere,afterall,theonlycapitalIhadtostartlifewith,andonthatcapitalIhavemademyway.--AndrewJackson**Theheartofamotherisadeepabyssatthebottomofwhichyouwillalwaysfindforgiveness.--Balzac**Themostimportantthingafathercandoforhischildrenistolovetheirmother.**ItseemstomethatmymotherwasthemostsplendidwomanIeverknew。Ihavemetalotofpeopleknockingaroundtheworldsince,butIhavenevermetamorethoroughlyrefinedwomanthanmymother.IfIhaveamountedtoanything,itwillbeduetoher.--CharlesChaplin。

4. 关于母亲的名言英语

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.—Abraham Lincoln 1809—1865 无论我现在怎么样，还是希望以后会怎么样，都应当归功于我天使一般的母亲。

我记得母亲的那些祷告，它们一直伴随着我，而且已经陪伴了我一生。 ——亚伯拉罕· 林肯 My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.—George Washington 1732—1799 我的母亲是我见过的最漂亮的女人。

我所有的一切都归功于我的母亲。我一生中所有的成就都归功于我从她那儿得到的德、智、体的教育。

——乔治·华盛顿 There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness。 The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.—Andrew Jackson 从来没有一个女人像她那样。

她非常温柔，就像一只鸽子；她也很勇敢，像一头母狮……毕竟，对母亲的记忆和她的教诲是我人生起步的惟一资本，并奠定了我的人生之路。 ——安德鲁·杰克逊 A good mother is worth a hundred schoolmaster. —George Herbert(1593—1633) 一位好母亲抵得上一百个教师。

——乔治·赫伯特 Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all.—Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809—1894 青春会逝去；爱情会枯萎；友谊的绿叶也会凋零。而一个母亲内心的希望比它们都要长久。

——奥利弗·温戴尔·荷马 God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. —Jewish proverb 上帝不能无处不在，因此他创造了母亲。 ——犹太谚语 The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find orgiveness.—Balzac 1799—1850 母亲的心是一个深渊，在它的最深处你总会得到宽恕。

——巴尔扎克 The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.—Author Unknown 父亲能够为孩子所做的最重要的事就是爱他们的母亲。 ——无名氏 In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.—Booker T. Washington 1881—1915 在我努力学习阅读的过程中，母亲一直分享着我的抱负、充分理解我，尽她所能帮助我。

如果我一生中做了什么值得人们注意的事情，那一定是因为我继承了她的气质。 ——布克·T·华盛顿 It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew。

I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.—Charles Chaplin 1889—1977 对我而言，我的母亲似乎是我认识的最了不起的女人……我遇见太多太多的世人，可是从未遇上像我母亲那般优雅的女人。如果我有所成就的话，这要归功于她。

——查尔斯·卓别林。

5. 父爱母爱的英语名言

人的嘴唇所能发出的最甜美的字眼，就是母亲，最美好的呼唤，就是“妈妈”。

（纪伯伦） 母爱是世间最伟大的力量。（米尔） 成功的时候，谁都是朋友。

但只有母亲———她是失败时的伴侣。（郑振铎） 母爱是多么强烈、自私、狂热地占据我们整个心灵的感情。

（邓肯） 全世界的母亲多么的相像！他们的心始终一样。每一个母亲都有一颗极为纯真的赤子之心。

（惠特曼） 世界上的一切光荣和骄傲，都来自母亲。（高尔基） 人生最美的东西之一就是母爱，这是无私的爱，道德与之相形见拙。

（日本） 妈妈你在哪儿，哪儿就是最快乐的地方（英国） 母爱是世间最伟大的力量 （米尔） 世界上一切其他都是假的，空的，唯有母亲才是真的，永恒的，不灭的。（印度） 记忆中的母亲啊！最心爱的恋人啊，您是我所有的欢乐，所有的情谊。

（法国） 母爱是多么强烈、自私、狂热地占据我们整个心灵的感情（邓肯） 在孩子的嘴上和心中，母亲就是上帝。（英国） 母爱是人类情绪中最美丽的，因为这种情绪没有利禄之心掺杂其间（法国） 女人固然是脆弱的，母亲却是坚强的（法国） 没有无私的，自我牺牲的母爱的帮助，孩子的心灵将是一片荒漠。

（英国） Human lips can be issued by the sweet words, that is, mother, best call is the "mother." (Kahlil Gibran) Motherly love are the world's greatest power. (Mir) When successful, who are friends. But only the mother --- she was a partner at the time of failure. (Zheng Zhenduo) Motherly love is so strong, selfish and feverishly to occupy our whole heart's feelings. (Duncan) Mothers all over the world like how! Their hearts, like always. Every mother has a very pure赤子之心. （Whitman） Everything in the world of glory and pride from his mother. (Golgi) One of the most beautiful things in life is love, which is selfless love, morality pales beside them. (Japan) Where are you mother, Where is the happiest place (UK) Motherly love are the world's greatest strength (Mir) The world, all other are false, empty, only the mother is the true, eternal, not quenched. (India) Memory of mother ah! The most beloved lover, ah, you are all my joy, all the feelings. (France) Motherly love is so strong, selfish and feverishly to occupy our minds the feelings of the whole (Duncan) In the child's lips and hearts, the mother is God. (English) Motherly love are the most beautiful of human emotions, because such a sentiment is not doped during the heart of Cyril (France) While women are fragile, the mother is strong (France) Not selfless, motherly self-sacrifice to help the child's soul will be a desert. (English)。

6. 谁能提供一些赞美父亲或母亲的英文名句呢

Thank you ,Mom and Father.You are great parents,I think.It is because you ,we four sisters and brothers have happy lives;It is because you,I had the chance to continue to go on my courses in high school,I never forget those days that you stood such a terrible condition,with little money,poor family income,poor health and much heavy housework,especially for mother\'s weak body,working hard all the time ,without a lot of sleeping.Thanks to my dear parents ,I have learned lots of good qualities and kind character from them,so today I have become an English teacher.Thanks to my great father, I got the first place in the exam into the city school among about one hundred and eight teachers six years ago .That is because the spirit affected me deeply.Thank you daddy and mummy! I will work hard all the time。

7. 有关父母的爱的英语格言,请各位帮帮忙

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003 The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003 Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003 Sooner or later we all quote our mothers. Bern Williams The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin (1935 - ) My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. Cathy Ladman By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. Charles Wadsworth The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938) If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. Dick Cavett (1936 - ) A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003 The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003 The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. Ellen Goodman (1941 - ) The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people. H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003 This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets. Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 11-15-05 For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003 The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972) Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986 My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same. Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003 My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. Peter De Vries Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. Rita Rudner Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. Rita Rudner The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980) What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply. Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003 It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2。

8. 英语关于母亲的名言

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

—Jewish proverb

上帝不能无处不在，因此他创造了母亲。 ——犹太谚语 The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find orgiveness.

—Balzac 1799—1850

母亲的心是一个深渊，在它的最深处你总会得到宽恕。 ——巴尔扎克

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

—Author Unknown

父亲能够为孩子所做的最重要的事就是爱他们的母亲。 ——无名氏

In all my efforts to learn to read, my mother shared fully my ambition and sympathized with me and aided me in every way she could. If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

—Booker T. Washington 1881—1915

在我努力学习阅读的过程中，母亲一直分享着我的抱负、充分理解我，尽她所能帮助我。如果我一生中做了什么值得人们注意的事情，那一定是因为我继承了她的气质。 ——布克·T·华盛顿

It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew。 I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.

—Charles Chaplin 1889—1977

对我而言，我的母亲似乎是我认识的最了不起的女人……我遇见太多太多的世人，可是从未遇上像我母亲那般优雅的女人。如果我有所成就的话，这要归功于她。 ——查尔斯·卓别林

中国经典名句的英语翻译中的韵律美

四书 The Four Books

《大学》 The Great Learning

《中庸》 The Doctrine of the Mean

《论语》 The Confucian Analects

《孟子》 The Works of Mencius

《论语》The Confucian Analects

学而时习之，不亦说乎？

It is indeed a pleasure to acquire knowledge and, as you go on acquiring, to put into practice what you have acquired.

有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎?

A greater pleasure still it is when friends of congenial minds come from afar to seek you because of your attainments.

温故而知新，可以为师矣。

If a man will constantly go over what he has acquired and keep continually adding to it new acquirements, he may become a teacher of men.

学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。

Study without thinking is labor lost. Thinking without study is perilous.

君子周而不比，小人比而不周。

A wise man is impartial, not neutral. A fool is neutral but not impartial.

知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也。

To know what it is that you know, and to know what it is that you do not know, —that is understanding.辜鸿铭 译

《孟子》The Works of Mencius

故天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨、饿其体肤，空乏其身，行拂乱其所为，所以动心忍性，曾益其所不能。

Thus when Heaven is going to give a great responsibility to someone, it first makes his mind endure suffering. It makes his sinews and bones experience toil, and his body to suffer hunger. It inflicts him with poverty and knocks down everything he tries to build. In this way Heaven stimulates his mind, stabilizes his temper and develops his weak points.

爱人者，人恒爱之；敬人者，人恒敬之。

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.理雅各 译

五经 The Five Classics

《诗经》 The Book of Songs/The Book of Odes

《书经》（《尚书》） The Book of History

《易经》（《周易》） The Book of Changes

《礼记》 The Book of Rites

《春秋》 The Spring-Autumn Annals

《诗经》The Book of Songs

《关睢》节选 GUAN JU

关关雎鸠，在河之洲。

窈宨淑女，君子好逑。

Guan-guan go the ospreys,

On the islet in the river.

The modest, retiring, virtuous, young lady :

–For our prince a good mate she.

《子衿》ZI JIN

青青子衿，悠悠我心。

纵我不往，子宁不嗣音。

青青子佩，悠悠我思。

纵我不往，子宁不来。

挑兮达兮，在城阙兮。

一日不见，如三月兮。

O you , with the blue collar,

Prolonged is the anxiety of my heart.

Although I do not go [to you],

Why do you not continue your messages [to me]?

O you with the blue [strings to your] girdle-gems,Long , long do I think of you.

Although I do not go [to you],

Why do you not come [to me]?

How volatile are you and dissipated,

By the look-out tower on the wall!

One day without the sight of you,

Is like three months.

《击鼓》节选 JI GU

死生契阔，与子成说。

执子之手，与子偕老。

For life or for death, however separated,

To our wives we pledged our word.

We held their hands;

—We were to grow old together with them.

理雅各 译

典籍名著 Ancient Books

《史记》 Records of the Historian

《山海经》 The Classic of Mountains and Rivers

《本草纲目》 Compendium of Materia Medica

《资治通鉴》 History Retold as a Mirror for Rulers

《西厢记》The Romance of West Chamber

《三国演义》 Romance of the Three Kingdoms

《水浒传》 Outlaws of the Marsh

《西游记》 Journey to the West

《红楼梦》 A Dream of Red Mansions

《聊斋志异》Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

《史记》Records of the Historian

桃李不言下自成蹊。《史记•李将军传》

The peach and the plum do not speak, yet a path is born beneath them.

燕雀安知鸿鹄之志哉! 《史记•陈涉世家》

Can a sparrow know a wild swan’s ambition?杨宪益 译

《红楼梦》A Dream of Red Mansions

泪光点点，娇喘微微。

闲静时如姣花照水，

行动处似弱柳扶风。

Her eyes sparkled with tears,

her breath was soft and faint.

In repose she was like a lovely flower mirrored in the water;

in motion, pliant willow swaying in the wind.

杨宪益、戴乃迭 译

《西厢记》The Romance of West Chamber

霎时间杯盘狼藉，车儿投东，马儿向西

They remove in a moment dish and cupThe cab goes down, the horse goes up.

晓来谁染霜林醉? 总是离人泪。

Why like wine-flushed face is frosted forest red? It 's dyed in tears the parting lovers shed.许渊冲 译

《弟子规》Standard for Students

弟子规 圣人训 首孝悌 次谨信

These standards for students are guidelines,

handed down to us by Ancient Stages.

First, obey and care for your parents,

and then practice true brotherhood.

泛爱众 而亲仁 有余力 则学文

Learn to be careful and honest,

and cherish all living beings.

Draw near to good-hearted people,

and study whenever you can.

父母呼 应勿缓 父母命 行勿懒

When mother and father are calling,

answer them right away.

When they give you instructions,

obey them without hesitation.

父母教 须敬听 父母责 须顺承

When your parents need to instruct you,

respectfully do as you’re told.

Whenever your parents must scold you,

acknowledge your errors and faults.

冬则温 夏则凊 晨则省 昏则定

In the winter make sure they are warm,

in the summer make sure they are cool.

Each morning cheerfully greet them,

at night see their rest is secure.

佚名 译

《三字经》Three-character Scripture

人之初，性本善。性相近，习相远。

Man on earth, good at birth.

The same nature, varies on nurture.

苟不教，性乃迁。教之道，贵以专。

With no education, there'd be aberration.

To teach well, you deeply dwell.

昔孟母，择邻处，子不学，断机杼。

Then Mencius' mother, chose her neighbor.

At Mencius sloth, she cut th' cloth.

养不教，父之过。教不严，师之惰。

What's a father? A good teacher.

What's a teacher? A strict preacher.

玉不琢，不成器。人不学，不知义。

No jade crude, shows craft good.

Unless you learn, brute you'll turn.

为人子，方少时，亲师友，习礼仪。

Son of man, mature you can.

Teacher or peer, hold them dear.

融四岁，能让梨。弟于长，宜先知。

Aged four years, Rong proffered pears.

Bear in mind, fraternally be kind.

头悬梁，锥刺股。彼不教，自勤苦。

Head hung high!

Needled his thigh! Not pushed,

they kept working away.

赵彦春 译

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