6.1 早读 | 你的儿女，其实不是你的儿女。他们是生命对于自身渴望而诞生的孩子

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听前想一想：用英语怎么说？

1. 对XX的渴望/思念

2. 渴望团聚

3. 对纯真的童年时光的怀念

4. 属于XX

6.1 早读原文

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

英音讲解02:20，美音讲解05:45，词汇讲解07:25

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音标符号来自权威词典| Longman Dictionary

今日发音练习重点

1. 区分child/tʃaɪld/ 和 children/ˈtʃɪldrən/ 的发音；

2. longing 词内包含后鼻音和元音的连读；

3. They come through you but not from you 句中 through 和 from 对比重读；

4. though they are with you yet they belong not to you 句中 with 和 to 对比重读。

言之有物

1. 词链儿：longing for XX

对XX的渴望/思念/憧憬

Life's longing for itself

生命对自身的憧憬

词汇：longing 句中为名词的用法

① n. （对…的）渴望，热望

a longingfor home

对故乡的思念

② adj. 渴望的；热望的

He gave a longing look at the ice cream.

他看了看那冰淇淋，显出很想吃的样子。

③ long 的现在分词形式

点击跳转回顾【long for reunion 渴望团聚】

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oCbUPc9MKACA0N75_LCDIw

In all the good times I find myself longing for change.

时光纵然美好，可我却在渴求改变。

图片源自《一个明星的诞生》

I was overwhelmed with longing for those innocent days of early childhood.

我内心充满着对纯真的童年时光的怀念。

原声例句：Eating the cakes under the moon symbolizes our longing for distant relatives and friends.

月下品尝月饼还寄托着我们对远方亲友的思念。

原声例句：You can also plan a trip to the city or somewhere you are longing for, which will help to broaden your view and knowledge.

也可以计划去一个城市或某个你一直向往的地方, 这将有助于扩大你的视野和知识面。

拓展词链儿：longing to do XX 热切希望XX

She was filled with longing to hear his voice again.

她热切希望再听到他的声音。

2. They come through you but not from you

他们借助你来到这世界，却非自你而来

· come through you 通过你而来（到这个世界上）

· come from you 来自于你

3. 词链儿：belong to XX 属于XX

点击跳转回顾【泪洒天堂I don't belong here in heaven.】

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TM9ousqMaaZyZ6frE3gh9g

点击跳转回顾【为你读诗——致孩子】

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mxOR0r97KxpRxeM8eM90ew

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On Children

Kahlil Gibran - 1883-1931

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.

And he said:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

致孩子

纪伯伦

你的儿女，其实不是你的儿女。

他们是生命对于自身渴望而诞生的孩子。

他们借助你来到这世界，却非因你而来，

他们在你身旁，却并不属于你。

你可以给予他们的是你的爱，却不是你的想法，

因为他们有自己的思想。

你可以庇护的是他们的身体，却不是他们的灵魂，

因为他们的灵魂属于明天，属于你做梦也无法到达的明天，

你可以拼尽全力，变得像他们一样，

却不要让他们变得和你一样，

因为生命不会后退，也不在过去停留。

你是弓，儿女是从你那里射出的箭。

弓箭手望着未来之路上的箭靶，

他用尽力气将你拉开，使他的箭射得又快又远。

怀着快乐的心情，在弓箭手的手中弯曲吧，

因为他爱一路飞翔的箭，也爱无比稳定的弓。

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