重温<<落花生>>

2007-10-20 22:55:12

中文: 落花生许地山

我们家的后园有半亩空地，母亲说：「让它荒怪可惜的，你们那麼爱吃花生，就开辟出来种花生吧。」我们姐弟几个都很高兴，买种，翻地，播种，浇水，没过几个月，居然收获了。
母亲说：「今晚我们过一个收获节，请你们父亲也来尝尝我们的新花生，好不好？」我们都说好。母亲把花生做成了好几样食品，还吩咐就在后园的茅亭裏过这个节。
b&j%@[^?$eMSk0晚上天色不太好，可是父亲也来了，实在很难得。
)^!I"fU2s9L0父亲说：「你们爱吃花生麼？」
我们争答应：「爱！」
+m7V&t"SI3l0「谁能把花生的好处说出来？」
姐姐说：「花生的味美。」
哥哥说：「花生可以榨油。」
{-x(`*}1Auds0我说：「花生的价钱便宜，谁都可以买来吃，都喜欢吃。这就是它的好处。」
父亲说：「花生的好处很多，有一样最可贵：它的果实埋在地裏，不像桃子、石榴、苹果那样，把鲜红嫩绿的果实高高地挂在枝头上，使人一见就生爱慕之心。你们看它矮矮地长在地上，等到成熟了，也不能立刻分辨出来它有没有果实，必须挖出来才知道。」
+RgRVFrl2o0我们都说是，母亲也点点头。
父亲接下去说：「所以你们要像花生，它虽然不好看，可是很有用，不是外表好看而没有实用的东西。」
我说：「那麼，人要做有用的人，不要做只讲体面，而对别人没有好处的人了。」
父亲说：「对。这是我对你们的希望。」
;y Uw1@ Q+C*^n0我们谈到夜深才散。花生做的食品都吃完了，父亲的话却深深地印在我的心上。

英文: Peanuts

Behind our house there lay half a mu of cacant land. Mother said,"It's a pity to let it lie waste. Since you all like to eat peanuts so much,why not have them planted here." That exhilarated us children and our servant girls as well,and soon we started buying seeds, ploughing the land and watering the plans. we gathered in a good harvest just after a couple of months!

Mother said,"How about giving a party this evening to celebrate the harvest and invite your Daddy to have a taste of our newly-harvest peanuts?'We alll agreed.Mother made quite a few varieties of goodies out of peanuts,and told us that the party would be held in that thatched pavillion on the peanut plot.

It looked like rain that evening,yet, to our great joy,father came nevertheless."Do you like peanuts?"asked father.

"yes,we do!"we vied in giving the answer.

"which of you could name the good things in peanuts?",'

"peanuts taste good," said my elder sister.

"penuts produce edible oil,'said my elder brother.

"peanuts are cheap,"said I,'that anyone can afford to eat them.Peanuts are everyone's favourite. That's why we call peanuts good.'

"It;s true that peanuts have many uses,'said Father,"but they're most beloved in one respect.Unlike nice-looking apples,peached and pomegranates, which hang their fruit on branches and win people's instant admiration with their brilliant colours,tiny little peanuts bury themselves underground and remain unearthed until they're ripe. when you come upon a peanut p;ant lying curled up on the ground,you can never immediately teel whether or not it bears any nuts until you touch them."

"That;s true,"we said in unison. Mother also nodded.'so you must take after peanuts,"father continued,"because they're useful though not great and nice-looking."

"They you mean one should be useful rather than great and nice-looking ,"i said.

"That's what i expect of you,"Father concluded.

we kept chatting until the party broke up late at night.Today ,though nothing is left of the goodies made of peanuts, Father's words remain engraves in my mind.

Today i reread this article and its translation. Thinking its excellence and beautiful , i excerpt from book to enjoy everyone. May it can bring help to those who are interestd in translating.

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