儿童的一百种语言:
The child has a hundred languages
孩子有一百种语言
a hundred hands
一百双巧手
a hundred thoughts
一百个想法
a hundred ways of thinking
一百思考方式
of playing
一百种游戏方式
of speaking
一百种说话方式
always a hundred ways of listening
总有一百种倾听方式
of marveling
一百种惊奇
of loving
一仔雀百种热爱
a hundred joys for singing and understanding
一百种歌唱与领悟的喜悦
a hundred worlds to discover
有一百种世界要去发现
a hundred worlds to invent
有一百种世界要去创造
a hundred worlds to dream_
有一百种世界要去梦想
the child has a hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
孩子有一百种语言(一百一百再一百)
but they steal ninety-nine
但他们偷走九十九中
the school and the culture separate the head from the body.
学校与文化,将孩子身心分离
They tell the child to think
他们告诉孩子
without hands
不用双手去思考
to do without head
不动脑筋去做事
to listen and not speak
只倾听不说话
to understand without joy
不必带着喜悦去领悟
to love and marvel
爱与惊奇
only at Easter and Christmas.
只属于复活节与圣诞节
They tell the child
他们告诉孩子
to discover the world already there
去发现已知的世界
and of the hundred
在一百种当中
hey steal ninety-nine.
他们偷走九十九种
They tell the child that
他仍告诉孩子
work and play
工作与游戏
reality and fantasy
真实与幻想
science and imagination
理性与想象
sky and earth
天空与大地
reason and dream
理智与梦想
are things that do not belong together.
全都水启毕火不容
And thus they tell the child
因此他告诉孩子
that the hundred is not there.
一念旁早百并不存在
The child says
但是孩子说
No way. The hundred is there!
不,真的有一百!