那天我们读的文章是 Robert Fulghum 的 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - 那些人生中最重要的道理我在幼儿园里都学过。
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1986年,Robert Fulghum (富刚) 出版了一本名叫《那些人生中最重要的道理我在幼儿园里都学过》(All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)的书。这本书畅销全球,第一篇 “Credo”(信条) 非常经典。 富刚说:“我一生该知道的处世为人的道理和生活准则都是在幼儿园学的。智慧不是从研究院尖端的山顶而来,而是在幼儿园的沙堆里面。“
All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten - Robert Fulghum
简译: yue
Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be,
I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain,
but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
Share everything. 与人分享
Play Fair. 做事公平
Don’t hit people. 不要打人
Put things back where you found them. 物归原处
Clean up your own mess. 收拾好自己制造的脏乱
Don’t take things that aren’t yours. 不拿不属于自己的东西
Say you’re sorry when you hurt someone. 伤害了别人时 赔礼道歉
Wash your hands before you eat. 吃东西前洗手
Flush. 如厕后冲水
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. 热饼乾和冰牛奶对身体有益
Live a balanced life. – Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
生活均衡 – 学习,思考,画画,唱歌,跳舞,玩乐,以及工作, 每天每样都做一点。
Take a nap every afternoon. 每天下午小睡片刻
When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
出门在外,注意交通安全,手牵手,不分开。
Be aware of wonder. 体会世界奇妙。
Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we all like that.
记得杯中的小种子吗? 它向下生根,向上发芽。没人真正明白如何或为何,但我们人也是类似的。
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup; they all die, so do we.
金鱼,仓鼠和小白鼠甚至杯中的小种子,他们会死,我们也会。
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK.
还要记得迪克和简的小人书, 以及你学到的第一个字,那个最大的字:“看”。
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere - The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
你需要知道的一切都在某处有待发现 -- 推己及人的同理心(黄金规则,己所不欲勿施于人)、爱、卫生,生态、政治、平等, 以及明智生活。
Think what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world – had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.
Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes.
设想一下,如果我们- 全世界的人们 - 都在下午3点喝牛奶吃饼干,盖上毯子躺下来小睡片刻。
或者,如果所有的政府都遵从一个基本原则 - 物归原处,收拾好自己制造的脏乱 - 这世界就会变得更美好!
And it is still true, no matter how old you are – when you go out into the world,
it is best to hold hands and stick together.
还有,这依然是真理事实 - 无论年龄大小,
出门在外都要团结一致,与人携手共进。