《论语》记录了孔子一生的精辟言论及见解,发人深省。我们上学时都曾经熟读并且背诵过一些《论语》中的句子。今天我们来看看翻译成英文版的孔子语录是什么样子的,非常值得收藏!
- 性相近也,习相远也。 By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- 过而不改,是谓过矣。 Not to mend the fault one has made is to err indeed.
- 己所不欲,勿施于人。 What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- 言必信,行必果。 Keep what you say and carry out what you do.
- 君子以文会友,以友辅仁。 The superior man on grounds of culture meets with his friends, and by their friendship helps his virtue.
- 三军可夺师也,匹夫不可夺志也。 The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
- 后生可畏,焉知来者之不如今也? A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
- 有朋自远方来,不亦乐乎? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
- 人不知而不愠,不亦君子乎? Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?
- 不患人之不己知,患不知人也。 I will not be afflicted at men's not knowing me; I will be afflicted that I do not know men.
- 诗三百,一言以蔽之,曰:思无邪。 In the Book of Poetry are three hundred pieces, but the design of them all may be embraced in one sentence-- "Having no depraved thoughts."
- 关睢乐而不淫,哀而不伤。 The Kwan Tsu is expressive of enjoyment without being licentious, and of grief without being hurtfully excessive.
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